tutorial

[monkeytypegeorge]

[frogfrogfrogfrogfrog]

@ThatOneCalculator this guy is a bot... so everything he says is automated.

Also we need a tutorial on how to use the site. Like some people ask "we need certain symbols for coding!" when you can enable punctuation or do it on quote mode. In which a tutorial would be very nice to tell you about the obscure things on the website that people don't know exist.

I do wonder... Why do people hate on this issue so much?

[Miodec]

Yeah there are many people asking super basic questions in the discord server all the time, like asking how to type quotes, or type more than 30 seconds.

[frogfrogfrogfrogfrog]

@Miodec how would you go about in making a tutorial?

Would it be one of those where there's a text box near a feature explaining it? Or a really long document with pictures and diagrams. Perhaps a giant flow chart?

I figure it'd have to be a tutorial that's good at explaining things while also being flexible (it can be changed or added to easily) plus since there's so much in Monkeytype you'd have to make really specific things in the tutorial easy to find.

[Miodec]

The floating text box kind. It highlights different features and explains what they do.

Big documents and charts are boring and people will not want to read them.

[RealCyGuy]

maybe something like the one on https://typing.works

[frogfrogfrogfrogfrog]

Since this issue isn't gaining much traction I would like to propose an idea. As I've been scrolling through Monkeytype I've realized that Monkeytype itself is kind of a tutorial as basically everything explains itself. Instead of a tutorial box thingy how about creating a Q&A that lists basic questions that get answered that people can look at before asking on Discord or Github.

[DavidPotvin-jpg]

Hi @TheeKevin this is a great idea and it is a feature I would like to work on !

[unrealapex]

We could have something like VS Code's user interface overview:

I'm thinking something along the lines of a transparent overlay or a help page with GIFs.

[jacksonwalker0]

Can I make a pop-up screen that displays an embedded video?

[Miodec]

Unassigning due to inactivity

[anikaitprasar]

Hello guys I am new to open source contribution and this site, Monkeytype is the one i have been typing on for years. So I found this issue and I think the idea proposed before, a floating box containing all the stuff would be a better idea. I'd love to work on it.