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Can’t have a civil discussion when OP opens with “stop yapping” and LOLing at people whose livelihoods are being flushed down the toilet.

Stop it. You sound ridiculous. You are speaking about things you don’t even understand. You sound like a 16yo kid who thinks they know everything about the world.

You’re trying to lecture me about 1:1 coaching and asking me why you’d charge $150 for it while not even having the basic understanding that $150 is the minimum we are allowed to charge. LOL.

You also try lecturing me about why people only pay $12 for courses while not understanding that the only reason they sell for $12 is because Udemy, over the years, conditioned people to not pay more than $10. It’s taken several years just to get people to move from $10 to $12. The course prices are $12 because the vast, vast majority of people don’t buy when it’s much higher.

Do some homework and learn your history, mate, before trying to tell folks here how things work.

"stop yapping", "be grateful", "Lol", "LOL" and again "LOL". I think I have an idea why you think Udemy is a great platform …

Stop complaining about people complaining. I have an excellent job at a university, however if I am displeased with something or I feel something can be done better then I might express my opinion. All of my courses are up-to-date, I respond to every single question and every review and I am not incompetent. Perhaps you are speaking from firsthand experience. I am happy to be on Udemy but sales are dropping despite publishing another 8 courses in the past 6 months. I am making almost half as much as I made a year ago with twice the number of courses. This is a fact. I appreciate everyone on Udemy but it doesn't mean everything is perfect. If you don't want to complain then don't complain.

Clearly, you don’t speak for us. This is not only about market changes, it is about how a large company is poorly managing those changes and failing to be transparent with the people involved. As instructors, we are concerned because many of us made a living from this and invested years of work in building a solid income system, which is now suddenly falling apart.

When the axe entered the forest, the trees said: the handle is one of us. :)

I get your point but why the disrespectful and degrading language? It just takes away from your message, and does not make it possible to have a fruitful discussion.

Recent months I see a few instructors yapping about low revenue and blaming Udemy for it.
Market is bad, ChatGPT has impacted heavily. Now people do not buy courses for every tiny thing ChatGPT explains it to them in their customized language.
Also, new instructors are coming; they are also taking away shares along with the subscription model.

Course publishing is not a profitable business anywhere tell me a single website that is successful by selling courses apart from Udemy.
Stop yapping, update your content and knowledge.

Lol some instructors are yapping that they will leave the platform LOL, where will they go?
There is no better platform than Udemy.
You think creating a course is the difficult part? it is the easiest part of teh job.
Create your own platform, then set up payment gateways for each country, then market your course.
Unless you have a huge audience on platforms like YouTube, nobody is gonna give a damn about your course.

Be grateful for Udemy and what they are providing.
Constructive criticism is always great, but blaming your own incompetence on a great platform like Udemy is LOL. Get better and be grateful.

I am excited for 1:1 coaching it will definitely help everyone.
Thanks to all the Udemy staff and moderators.

Yeah, I'm sure the people that won't pay $12 for a 40-hour course are gonna absolutely jump right on the 1:1 coaching for $150 for a half-hour session. lol…. Come on, now.