Hello Reader,

​Explain has had a busy week. Here's what's new.

🤖 Explainers from ChatGPT

🖼️ More pictures. Your ratings told us you want more visuals, so explainers made in ChatGPT now lean towards images and infographics.

🎬 A quick check before cinematic requests. Explain makes narrated, image-based explainers rather than film or 3D animation. If you ask ChatGPT for cinematic footage or a 3D animation, it now checks with you before starting, so you always get the format you expect.

✏️ Making and sharing

🔁 Redo a broken slide in one click. When a slide comes out wrong, say a diagram that would not draw, the player now shows an overlay on that slide with a Redo slide button. One click and Explain tries again, with no need to describe the problem yourself.

🧠 Pick the model for pull request explainers. The GitHub Action that turns pull requests into explainers now takes a model option, so your team can choose which Claude model writes them.

🏢 Teams and more

🟠 A new look for hn.watch. Pictures on hn.watch, our new site which makes Explainers of the Hacker News feed, are now drawn in a hand-drawn ink style with a splash of HN orange, so every story looks like it belongs there.

🏢 Explain for team training. The new Teams page pairs Scrimba's courses with Explain, so companies can build their own training alongside our coding courses.

📚 Docs

Three new pages, in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese:

• ​Pull requests: the ways to turn a pull request into an explainer, including the GitHub Action, its options and how forks are handled.
• ​Vertical explainers: the three frames an explainer can use and what each one changes.
• ​Your own pictures: how to add your own images to an explainer, now collected on one page.

That's all for this week. Got something you've been meaning to understand? Make an explainer and see the new bits for yourself.

Until next week,

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