[sker]

I never understood why HN likes slideshows so much. Am I the only one who finds them completely, 100% useless without the audio of the presentation?

[geoelectric]

Depends. Sometimes people write slideshows for internet sharing, in which case they're crappy presentations but text-heavy enough to be effective. Netflix's classic "Culture Deck" is a decent example there.

But the ones that are good for presentations--that is to say, visual interest hooks, not the info being repeated--yeah, not great unless they include an audio track or something.

Edit: this one's somewhere in the middle.

[bshimmin]

You really aren't. I have never made it through more than about 10 or 15 slides in a deck, and this was no exception.

The text version of a talk, however, can be a wondrous thing, and here's a great example: http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm

[wil421]

I didnt even realize it was a slideshow. No arrows or icons you can click to go to the next/previous slide and nothing on the website saying its a slideshow.

Thanks for your comment. After I read it I went back and clicked an arrow key and the cubeshow started.

[cgag]

Arrow keys just scroll around for me, I can't see any slides but the first.

Thanks javascript.

[brlewis]

This one was maybe 15% useless. Most slides made sense without the audio.

Slide-size chunks of information can be a really good format.

[mcintyre1994]

It's literally unreadable on my Nexus 7. For some reason a bunch of slides render empty, the ones that do render load really slowly and often stop part way through rendering leaving partial text that is occasionally readable.

[s_dev]

Depends on the slides really - you're right though some of them need their context to be meaningful. Doesn't have to be audio a scrollable transcript could suffice.

[gweinberg]

I agree. Transcript without the slides, almost as good as both. Just slides withouyt transcript or audio, shit sandwich.

[iamthepieman]

nope. Even worse are ones that don't indicate visually what they are and I stare at the screen for 20 seconds waiting for it to finish loading and wondering why my scroll wheel isn't working.