r/Udemy

Does udemy encourage it?

I cannot stop taking courses and I don’t even feel bad about it.

Every time I open Twitter or YouTube it’s just recycled garbage that sounds smart but teaches you nothing. You finish a video and you’re like… what did I actually just learn.

Udemy is different. Real person, did the thing, shows you the thing. That’s it.

Started with one course. Now I have 12 in my queue and I genuinely look forward to sitting down with them more than anything else I do online.

Idk man. Feels like I finally found the good stuff.

Anyone else been on this lately? What courses got you?

I have solved not being able to see videos on everything but Safari desktop. Is there an issue I am unaware of? On the safari desktop, all videos and coursework disappear, and it shows the bottom of the page and nothing else. Anyone else?

I noticed that Udemy’s Summer Sale started on the 18th. However, the main problem still remains: on the desktop version, the subscription option appears above the individual course purchase option.

Because of this, many users may not even notice the individual purchase option shown below. They might assume that subscription is the only available way to access the course and leave without purchasing.

I think the individual purchase option should be made more visible or placed higher on the page so users can clearly see both choices.

Anyone having coupons codes for Udemy courses ? SEO, Google Tag Manager, Marketing etc …

The course and instructor themselves are brilliant, however this is a challenging course for me that a). takes a lot of willpower to sit down b) is quite difficult to find the time to do.

Since I started a couple of weeks ago it's been the most horrible experience I've ever had learning anything online. I've not gone two lectures without having to refresh my browser to get the video to start playing.

I dread having to pause the video to take any notes or think because invariable that will be it for 5-10 minutes as I try gettting the video to play again.

Moving the video back a little to hear a section again is the same story - the playback will just stop and refreshing the entire page and finding my place again is a 50/50 - by the time I've got the damn thing to play again my train of thought, concentration and willpower are SHOT and abstract thinking is RUINED.

On top of this the entire platform has been completely offline for huge chunks of the day over the past few weeks. The Udemy status report history is an absolute lie as most of those days it's had some sort of bigger issue where their website has not even been accesible at all.

I'm going to IMPLORE the creator of this excellent course that I'm doing to host the course on their own website where I will gladly pay 10x the amount to take it over Udemy.

I would also highly recommend anyone who has had their time wasted and schedule disrupted by this incompetent company to leave an honest review of their experience on Trustpilot.

Yesterday one particular video from my course didn't play but today all of them aren't working. What the heck is even udemy doing? I emailed them yesterday to which they did not reply.. I'm assuming it's because of the weekend? But this is so frustrating. I can't believe I have to beg them to let me learn from the course I PAID FOR.

IF YOUR WEBSITE IS GOING TO HAVE SO MANY ISSUES, THEN LET THE STUDENTS DOWNLOAD THE COURSE ON THEIR DEVICES SO THEY CAN LEARN OFFLINE!!!!

I noticed the same drop. Honestly, I’m so glad you replied — I thought I was the only one. It's super frustrating after all the effort we put in. Have you found anything that works for you?

The homepage is just continually loading for the past 30 mins. I don't know when are they going to fix this. This is not a the first time.

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I rarely leave negative reviews, but my experience with  Udemy has been one of the most frustrating online purchasing experiences I’ve had in a long time.

I purchased a subscription only hours before requesting a refund, yet customer service immediately pushed back instead of addressing the actual issues. The platform experience was extremely misleading. The online advertisements and previews made the product appear polished and easy to navigate, but the actual app experience was completely different. Navigation was clunky and poorly designed. Multiple times I became stuck on pages with no obvious way to return to the home screen or search page without backing completely out of the app. For a learning platform, usability should be one of the most basic expectations.

The bass course I tried was equally disappointing. The instructor came across as disinterested and unenthusiastic, which made the lessons feel low-effort and difficult to stay engaged with. Even worse, the camera angles were poorly executed. The lessons often failed to show both hands on the bass guitar at the same time, making it nearly impossible to clearly understand fingering, positioning, and technique. That completely defeats the purpose of instructional music content.

What made the experience even worse was the customer service response afterward. Instead of showing any willingness to resolve the issue fairly, support immediately defaulted to rigid policy responses despite the fact that the purchase had only been made hours earlier. There was little acknowledgment of the deceptive difference between the advertised experience and the actual product experience. The interaction felt dismissive, impersonal, and designed to wear customers down rather than genuinely help them.

Between the misleading presentation, poor app usability, low-quality instruction, and frustrating customer service, this experience destroyed my confidence in the platform very quickly. I expected a professional online learning experience and instead felt like I paid for a product that did not remotely match expectations.

For over a week, I've been checking every day, clearing the cache, and so on. The platform doesn't accept any of the payment methods, even with an alternate account.

Has anyone here considered putting their courses on their own platform outside of Udemy?

It's been a few days since I cannot play the udemy videos. Whenever I press the play button, the blank screen shows and nothing happens. I tried restarting, opening in a private window, trying in a different browser, but nothing has been able to resolve this issue. Have you guys faced a similar problem, if so how did you solve it?

I want the annual subscription for the personal plan, but since days I get this Error Message:

The payment processor is temporarily offline. Please select a different payment method or try again later.

Why is that so and how long can that last? Credit Card is not an option for me

As we know, the merger has now been completed, and Udemy has also been delisted from NASDAQ.

After reading the CEO’s message, I got the impression that we may have around 7–10 months left before the platform changes dramatically.

By “we,” I mean the smaller instructors. The top instructors will probably remain relevant and continue doing well, but I feel like smaller creators could struggle much more after the transition.

The focus now seems to be shifting heavily toward enterprise, AI-driven learning, and large-scale professional content rather than independent instructors.
Post your courses on YouTube as well. Carve out shorter videos from your longer courses and upload them independently.

Trust me, YouTube can become a very good backup. If it clicks, it can even become better than Udemy.

That said, I’m still not losing hope in Udemy though.

A lot of highly rated programming courses on Udemy haven’t actually being updated frequently despite major ecosystem/framework changes over the years.

The old ratings still keep those courses at the top, which makes it hard to know what’s actually up to date. Also, course creation dates aren’t directly shown on the website, so it’s easy for beginners to miss how old some courses really are.

In order to solve this problem for myself, I built a small Chrome extension that displays the course freshness based on the course creation as well as the updation date.

The freshness score is shown directly in the search results, so users don’t have to open and check every course individually. This has been helpful for me for filtering out outdated courses.

If anyone’s interested, I’d be happy to share it, just leave a comment.

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pleaseee

Man, we can’t catch a break... I’m thinking about requesting a refund.

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