r/Udemy

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 This has been helpful for me for filtering out outdated courses.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.

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.

is it only me or is udemy down for everyone?

UPDATE:

finally after around 30-40 mins Udemy has acknowledged on their status site that the site is down

(yes i reposted this because reddit removed it for having udemy status link)

is it only me or is udemy down for everyone?

Is Udemy down right now? showing "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."

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

upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: overflow

I keep reloading the website and it says "no healthy upstream"

UDEMY HELP

same as title

pleaseee

today on 5 may 2026 just now it suddenly became very slow (talking about the site).

it is showing :
A FULL BLACK SCREEN WITH JUST A MESSAGE :

upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: overflow

what to do now ??

• and as per my experience this has happened to me many times that the site became laggy did not open sometimes , so its better to grab a crack course and save it offline.
• any recommendations to download a course of udemy for free , any site ??
• currently looking to download course: Python Data Structures & Algorithms + LEETCODE Exercises (by Scott)

I am currently trying to sign up with courses on the site, but every link I click on shows an error. Is this normal for them ?

It's been 3 days now and I still cannot login to my Udemy account. What's going on?

Hey
I don’t want to subscribe and then find out that the courses are not relevant for me.
Or the only option have have is to subscribe for 1 month and then cancel ?
Thanks

i get a

no healthy upstream 

error when trying to acces the udemy website. is it the same for everyone? udemy status page says no problems but on my side everything seems to work fine except for udemy

Now there's ads for every video you watch? Seriously?

I just received an email from McAfee alerting me that my information has been leaked on dark web.

Breach Details
Reported On: April 28, 2026

>In April 2026, data reported to belong to Udemy, Inc., headquartered in the United States, was exfiltrated from the company's Salesforce instance. The stolen data includes cryptocurrency addresses, job titles, full names, birth dates, IP addresses, usernames, company names, physical addresses, credit card information, email addresses, phone numbers, bank information, tax IDs and may contain other compromised user details. This breach is being publicly shared on a cybercriminal data leak site.

What Actions To Take

• Change Udemy password and enable MFA/2FA (if not yet enabled).
• Check for email and password 'reuse'.
• Be cautious of emails you receive that may contain phishing links.
• Monitor bank records, especially if you stored payment info or used Udemy as an instructor.

Is there issue with udemy website or just I'm facing issue

The site is down, is this frequent incident ? If so i'm reconsidering my bucks on this site

What's wrong with udemy support now days. They don't respond to my email, they don't verify my profile, they don't approve my course that I want to publish.

if they have this policy wouldn't that mean you can finish he course then refund or do they have something agianst this

What's the plan? Revenue is down. Big data breach. What are our plans for where we will release new courses?