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by charlie0 1085 days ago
"Outdated material". This is main reason I go with Udemy courses on subjects I'm really serious about learning. Many, if not all, of the best teachers on there update their courses with new material as needed.

I don't see this on YT as much and there are subjects, mainly front end JS frameworks, that are frequently changing. So much so that I often run into backwards breaking changes and have to resort to the comments section for corrections.

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It would be nice if creators would hide their videos once they start getting outdated, or clearly mark them with version numbers in the titles, but they're not incentivised to do that so I shouldn't blame them.

I sense that youtube is happy with users wasting away looking for the right video tutorial.