I know, right

>> "What serious subject has only video tutorials and no text/diagrams?"

This sets us up to be at odds because now I feel like I have to mind-read what you consider serious to not have you dismiss any example I offer. Do you consider Minecraft serious? It's Ground Zero for this kind of thing.

>> "I also don't understand your argument about traffic to text at all, we're on a high-traffic mostly-text site right now with plenty of how-to style content."

"nearly"

Have you ever looked at the new link page? Few things get traction. And HN's patience with self-promotion would falter fast if I linked off to a Patreon/Ko-fi/whatever any time I gave good advice. I've only ever had one person wander in through the link in my profile and support my Patreon. I appreciate people who can afford to spend their time going deep here while developing the skills and having the experiences that backstop that advice, but most people are far from that rarified position. I can't do the kind of zero-BS how-to stuff I want to do, get traction in the modern media environment (meaning audio and/or video), and not get some kind of compensation for it.

There are a lot of thing's an author would need to be deliberate about communicating in order to relay the same message and context as an audio message. In other words, I would not say an audio-only conversation can be said to be movable to any other medium successfully.

I wish there were better tools for converting audio into other formats you can digest and still obtain all the nuance. It takes a certain kind of energy to communicate verbally, and I can assure you that most people would rather type than speak if the nuances of speech arent relevant to the conversation they are trying to have. ("most" of the newer generations, at least)