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Allow shapes outline to be inside or outside, not only middle?
Yeah, I wrote about timeline moving. That we got so simple feature after 15 years (my bad - 10, as Storyline is only 10 years old, time doesn't go as fast as sometimes we may think). Not after a half a year after release, when that would be really, really time saving feature. It took 10 years. We can rename states since beginning I guess, that's not a new feature. And as for reorganise them... well, I'd like not to reorganize them and see hundreds less of crashes due to that functionality. Really, ability to change places of drop incorrect and drop correct isn't any game-breaking feature, that's just some addition that could be spared, it's usefulness is near zero. Or, you know, you can spend a few minutes more on that and give a switch to enable drag&dropping the states so they don't crash so often when moving by accident. Also, I did a quick search - I haven't found a single post on these forums stating "I want to drag and drop my states because I'm lost". Situations when you are using more than a few of custom-made states are rarity, But ok, let's not throw this and that is needed at each other, I know that some people find some things useful and I won't (and vice versa).
Seriously, don't get me wrong, but that's enchanting reality. I'm not saying NOTHING is getting better. This is just so slow or crucial things are not addresed, that's a shame. This app is still 32 bit, it has poor ram usage, when you use a more than a 5 or 6 high-res png on one screen it takes ages for it to respond. Adding things like d&d of states is like powdering a dead man and pushing it for a catwalk, when it is clearly decaying.
https://cdn.articulate.com/assets/kb/sl360/en-Storyline-360-Version-History.html - here is version history and new features:
- Replace and missing fonts - gamebreaking, good one.
- Closed captions, also.
- Tables - would be good, but working with them... painful and nothing changed since release.
- Convert text to speech - I guess it's useful, but won't go in any company that seriously treats e-learning process.
- New alignment features and motion paths - that was gamebreaking too, but it still has many flaws.
- People still complains about modern text and are hesitating to use it.
- Media library update was sweet and that's the thing I guess Articulate did the best, I cannot find a problem with it (well, I'd like to import .pdfs so I can pin them to the course, but that may come in some time).
- Adding slide numbers - that improved workflow, I'm not gonna lie. But you could that that by hand earlier.
- Trigger panel also improved workflow, we all can agree that was also a huge and nice change.
- Jumping to cue points on timeline... I personally don't find it too useful. It works with really simple scenarios, and it breaks when you are trying to do something more complicated.
- After only almost 9 years you finally doesn't need to copy portion of your slides to a new scene to watch only X from Y slides.. yay! :)
- Text styles are too not reliable.
- 360 images... with budget that can be nice.
- Some nice months - SVG support, variable preview, LRS function, timeline enhancement. And progressive WCAG implementation.
This is 6 years of Storyline 360. 1100$ per freelaner user annualy to use it. As you can read on the website - all 100 companies of fortune 100 is using Articulate products (1400$ per user). Well I don't even want to shoot a number of cashflow here. But it's huge. Now look at that new features list above :) sooos, so much. That's why monopolies are bad.
That would be it for my yearly rant on Storyline. Nice, stable love-hate relationship ;)
Nice list, however you gloss over the accessibility features that have been added. Accessibility has been big focus of Articulate staff and it should be, I am sure this has meant that some new features have had to be delayed. Renaming states was a new feature this year.
I am always asking for more features, I probably use Storyline 40+ hours a week and it is definitely easier to work with.
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