Video Length Complaints
Users repeatedly complain about the excessive length of videos shared in Hacker News posts, requesting TL;DR summaries, timestamps, or text alternatives instead of watching hours-long content.
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Do you have a TL;DW? I would watch it all if it was a bit shorter or there were timestamps, but 1hr10min is a lot.
"It’s not a short video so make sure you have 50 minutes to watch it "Um, no thanks.Can anyone offer a summary?
It's a 20 minute long video, the information density can almost certainly be denser.
That’s more than two hours long. Is there a specific point in it you are referencing?
This is a 1.5 hour video, you might want to summarize a bit...
That's an hour long video. This detail should be in the post. A few sentences at most.
The Youtube video is only the first hour. The real video is two and a half hours.
So good you can only watch 15 minutes before moving to something else?
I'm not going to watch 38 minutes of video. Say what you have to say in a paragraph.
Do you have a citation for this? It's been 42-44 minutes of content for at least the last 20 years in my experience.