MFS - Lesson 1 (Introducing IPFS) - very text-heavy!

[Frijol]

URL of the lesson that's confusing: https://proto.school/#/mutable-file-system/01

What's confusing about this lesson?

This is very dense! Between the technical terms (file system, P2P, IPFS, CID) and the tombstone text, it is really hard to not just scroll down the page after the first sentence or two and click to see what's next.

What additional context could we provide to help you succeed?

Is there any way you can share this information in non-text (and ideally interactive) forms? Otherwise I think you're going to get very few people actually reading this!

Ideas for breaking up the text/ getting people to engage:

• Communicating in images (webcomics? Bet you could find somebody on Twitter who'd be into work like this e.g. daiyitastic maybe)
• In books, when there's something like this to get across, authors will sometimes tell a fable/story where the situation comes up, or concoct a dialogue–  this is cheesy but way less dry/helps people connect with the material in a more human way
• Little multiple-choice quizzes? Could be kind of neat if you had a "Do I need to read this section? Take this quiz to find out! IPFS is a ___ a) b) c)..."
• Even simpler tricks like bold for main points

But maybe the difficulty with this page runs deeper than that. The first two sections are mostly there as review from other tutorials, right? You have to have your readers understand them before they can understand MFS. But you could just list other tutorials as prereqs.

Overall there's so much dense information on this page that I'm not sure what I'm supposed to learn from it.

What other feedback would you like to share about ProtoSchool?

[Frijol]

The "Mutable File System" section is actually very clear by itself– are the other two sections needed?