edX

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2017–2021), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with edX, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Forced into 'class starts today' flow and repeatedly pushed to buy certificates2021-06-30
UI focused on tracking and scores, not learning; pushes users to work at pace2021-06-29
Courses are chopped into tiny chunks with constant quizzes, and everything requires clicking through2021-06-29
So many courses it becomes confusing and exhausting to find something2020-07-03
Free students get no feedback on hidden test cases, only an input file and answer box2018-09-23
Page jumps and scrolls automatically, and the reply textbox shrinks back when refocused2017-01-12