Udemy

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2015–2023), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Udemy, 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 7 complaints

Logged-in price jumps to much higher amount than advertised, unclear why2023-04-29
Fake discounts push buyers into courses they think are reduced, based on misleading pricing2023-04-28
Hard to find specific concepts in videos; no text search, awkward pausing and pacing2021-03-05
Hard to tell good courses from many bad ones, ratings unreliable2020-02-20
Finding a decent course is hard; many courses are poor quality2018-12-04
Autoplaying video competes with other page content people want to interact with2017-04-21
Can't rewind or search video lessons; rewinding buffers and freezes, and content can't be Ctrl+F'd2015-03-30