Hi Jeffrey and team, I think there is a critical UI bug affecting the lesson pages.
Up until a few minutes ago, I could see the written theoretical material, code blocks, and homework exercises below each video. However, after refreshing the page, that entire section has completely disappeared from every episode and every series on the site.
Now, only the 'Transcript | Comments | Ask AI' tabs are visible. The written content is vital as it contains details and exercises not found in the videos. Is this a bug related to a new update?
Please look into this, as it's affecting the learning experience for all courses.
Thanks for your hard work!"
I replaced the article summaries with formatted transcripts.
Example: https://laracasts.com/series/build-native-apps-with-php/episodes/1
These don't include code blocks, but instead timestamps that take you directly to the relevant portion of the video.
Hi.
So the disappearance of the summary is intentional and long-term?
That would be a shame as the transcripts are nowhere near as useful as said summaries. They can be useful but compared to the concise, nicely formatted and clearly laid out summary they merely constitute an overwhelming wall-of-text.
I liked the summaries more as even a cursory reading gave you a good idea of what the lecture is about within a few seconds. This was especially helpful when you wanted to review certain details of a just watched lesson or even if you need a refresher of an entire topic that is not completely new to you.
It also gave you the option to occasionally switch between video- and text-based learning, just to mix things up. The code snippets, highlighted CLI commands etc. brought you up to speed quickly and then you could decide to dive deeper watching the entire video. I enjoyed that very much.
Personally I consider this a downgrade.
Just my 2 cents though.
Kind regards
So here's the issue. Because we have thousands of videos, it was impossible to manually create the summaries. This means the only option is to reach for AI-generated summaries. But that can be incredibly inaccurate. If the instructor in the video references a bit of code without speaking the lines, AI will do its best to guess what the line was. And it FREQUENTLY got it very wrong.
I decided that I don't feel comfortable with that approach. The transcript, I agree, is somewhat less helpful, but it's 100% accurate to the words the instructor spoke.
I DO have some ideas for how we can create better summaries that use the exact code from the video, but I need to tinker with that for a bit.
Hey there.
Yeah, I am aware that the summaries are AI generated (which makes perfect sense) and this might not be perfectly accurate at times. Personally I felt it was good enough and didn't get me into trouble (at least so far). I get your point and reasoning tho.
Thanks for taking the time to elaborate on that decision.
Kind regards
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