Another annoying thing is the trend to make "how to" videos of everything instead of just telling people. For example when the 12V battery started going on my S, I searched around for a how to on how to get the frunk apart to get to the battery and did a sigh of frustration when it became apparent the only how tos out there were videos, and 90% of them were pre-refresh cars which are very different. I finally found one video on how to take part a refresh S, and the only link to the YouTube video I could find was from a post on this forum. YouTube's search engine couldn't find it!
IMO the best how tos are a series of photographs with annotations and explanations. It makes it far, far quicker to scan the page and see if the information is relevant and refer back to exactly what you need at each step. There are some things where old fashioned methods are better than the new thang.
^ This. So. Much. This. 1000x this.
There are some how-to things that can benefit from a video visual... but the majority of the time when I need one that ends up only being a video, I have to basically just take notes and work from there... which is pretty annoying.
I actually support a few Youtube channels on Patreon and directly (anonymously) sponsor a couple of others that are informative, unique, or otherwise have a place that seems to make sense and that people benefit from. OT a bit, but one of my favorites is this guy:
Technology Connections ... nothing extraordinarily spectacular there, but it's a cool channel and he makes videos about essentially obsolete tech, and some newer stuff, in detail in a quirky fashion that's entertaining and informative. Then there's Thunderf00t and the Retro Game Mechanics guy, both of which hit some niches that I like.
I never felt like Rich's videos ever really fit into a category where Patreon would make sense... (he doesn't use it correctly anyway since his feed is completely patron-only, yet the bulk of that content is on Youtube publicly... might get someone to pay that $2, but I digress). But, this is a community where, let's be honest, people tend to have some spare cash for nonsense and he's well aware.
Shouldn't have quit his job. He is just not good enough.
I used to subscribe and watch Rich's videos, read the posts here, etc... but it's just not something I can really support going forward as it's just diverged too much from the original premise into not-really-useful-anymore territory. So, unfortunately, I have to agree... this doesn't seem like something doable long term for him. Could be wrong, but who knows.
