I am Nadia Rowan, and I edit TutsTake. Checking the steps before a page goes up is the job.
That is the whole description. The rest of this page is the method, which you can check yourself by opening any guide and reading the top of it.
Every page names what it was checked against
Each guide carries two fields at the top, verified_against and verified_on, and the first one takes one of four values. device: followed by an app name and version means I had that build open. vendor-docs means the steps come from the company’s own help pages and nothing else. vendor-docs+community and vendor-docs+thirdparty mean the documentation ran out partway, and the body marks the point where it did.
Most pages here say vendor-docs, which is a weaker claim than a walkthrough shot in the app. The field exists to stop a page implying someone held the phone when nobody did.
A changed interface means a rewrite, not a new date
Apps move menu items and rename them. When that happens the text gets rewritten, and the date moves afterwards. The date never moves on its own.
A page stamped this month whose steps describe last year’s menu is the failure I work hardest to avoid, because you have no way to spot it: a refreshed date looks the same as refreshed instructions. One example of what the checking catches: playlist privacy on Spotify has three states rather than the two most guides describe, and the menu item is now called Make private. Guides that only touch their timestamp still print Make Secret.
Numbers come from primary sources
A forum post is not a source. Where a page gives a limit, a price, or a time window, it comes from the company’s own documentation, and every guide ends with a Sources block naming the publisher and the document, so you can go and read the same page I read.
Where a number could not be confirmed, the page says so instead of rounding a guess into something that reads like a fact.
Corrections
Wrong information here is worth reporting: hello@tutstake.com. Corrections get made on the page itself and the change is stated, because a silent edit leaves you unsure whether you misread the old version.
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