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@MrHJ yes, I suppose positive energy is nice. I should try it sometime.

Great news hope this gain us better experience and reach

Is there going to be changes in site and app??

It was a nice meeting, and I appreciate the transparency. From my perspective, the most interesting topic is income. It would be great to see a positive turnaround instead of a continued decline, and perhaps less aggressive promotion of the personal plan.

When students try to purchase a course, it can actually be difficult to notice that the course is available for sale and it feels like the person plan is being forced upon students. In addition, some paying students are becoming frustrated with ads. I see endless complaints about this on reddit. Maybe ads are beneficial overall, and I understand there is a starter plan and other subscription options. For example, if a student purchased a course but is not part of the personal plan, would they still see ads? If I understand correctly ads are still experimental?

The most important question, however, is whether instructor income will increase. I believe this is a shared interest between Udemy and instructors and I'm sure Udemy is doing everything they can to help instructors make more money. Creating and maintaining courses requires a lot of work, and at some point it may no longer be economically viable to continue producing new courses if earnings keep declining.

The main question for me is what incentive is there for me to produce more courses. Previoulsly I would see an increase in revenue and that was the incentive to keep producing but at the moment, the way income is declining month on month I may put in all that effort just to see a bit less of a decline. It's not really a viable use of our time.

Also, it sounds like there may be some changes coming in both course creation tools and teaching methods. Some of my courses are 9 hours long. I am wary of producing a course at the moment if there may be better tools coming which would make my course outdated in the coming months.

Both of the above mean I won't be creating any more courses any time soon which is a shame. I remember the days when it was my 100% focus.