[0xADEADBEE]

A lot of positive comments about Pluralsight here so I thought I'd offer a slightly different perspective:

I had a subscription through work and was excited to jump in and learn as much as I could but I found the talks to be quite information-sparse when compared to say, destoryallsoftware.com [0] videos. As a result, I was apt to watch lessons at 1.5x speed in order to cover ground more quickly, which took a little getting used to.

I looked into why this might be, and discovered (at least back in 2015) that authors are paid in part, per minute of engagement [1], which might account in part for the length of the courses.

Judging from what I've read subsequently, I may just have been unlucky in the courses I selected (I didn't watch any Microsoft ones for example) so if anyone has any recommendations on particularly good courses, I'd be interested to give it a second try.

[0] - https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

[1] - https://www.troyhunt.com/on-being-pluralsight-author/ (germane text under 'Royalties' heading)

[watwut]

I had the same impression. They seem to have mandated structure that has bio, introduction, second introduction, introduction in each part and repeats the same thing over and over. And they make you sleep because they all talk so slow.

It is fine when you know absolutely nothing about the topic, but does not have good intermediate nor advanced topics.

Some (mostly java) videos did not seemed to have audience. For example, video is about setting up server and frontend with spring boot etc. And the video is explaining again and again how to make a class in eclipse. If someone cant make java class, they likely should not be learning spring framework just yet.