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Andrew Lim
8,004 Pointswhy is advanced Sass course a pro only content?
Just wondering why Advanced Sass is pro only content.
3 Answers
David Kanwisher
9,751 PointsI'm a HUGE fan of treehouse and have had referral discounts off and on, it was also the first step in my path to becoming an employed developer. I still reference it to this day. With that said, I have to agree with the poster. With all the online subscription services in your life, $25 a month is already a sacrifice. CodeSchool, Lynda, PluralSight, Udemy are all competing for the cents in my wallet. Doubling the price of the monthly subscription for sparse "bonus" content doesn't encourage me to upgrade, it just makes me feel like I'm being shorted on what is available in the Library. Seems like you're just asking people to try pro for a month only to rip all of your content, right before canceling all together.
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10,440 PointsAlthough, I like interactivity, some of the animated and visual explanations, which of course requires some preparation to be put in, I still think that even basic subscription plan of $25 is expensive. Even then, there is PRO content for an extra price. I understand and accept that if someone does not like it or does not want to pay, then the simplest thing would to be to go to a different platform. But, the reason why people pay is not only because of the coverage of the programming languages and techniques, you also expect some support from the teachers at least in the forums. For me, community is dead. In this case, it is quite ironic, that someone was bothered to explain why Treehouse charges you more, in 6 lines of text, but when it comes to some teaching, then good if you get at least 3 words written by a teacher, otherwise the questions is hanging forever unanswered. TH is a good platform to start learning or polishing some of the skills in parallel to something else, but it is not worth even $25.
Jordan Stokes
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 27,292 PointsFirst off, I concede the pricing could be better formatted to create incentive to upgrade.
But come on. You have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a good CS college degree, yet an alternative $25 a month subscription is too much? To pay a college or even a coding boot camp for what I have learned here would be a fortune more in comparison. I have no student loans, no debt, no nada, and about poised to land myself a good job.
God bless this site, the free market, the internet that Iām not drenched in the student loans and post-college misery the rest of millennials face. What a sign of such an affluent, pandered culture that people would whine about such quality, accessibility, and affordability of education. One that would have been considered but utopian and far-fetched just decades ago.
Jay Padzensky
4,731 PointsHi Andrew,
Treehouse went through a process about a year ago of adding tiers to our content (Basic, Pro). Part of the reasoning was to differentiate and separate some of the more advanced content so beginning students would be overwhelmed by what to study and when to study it. For example, if users are new to HTML and CSS, worrying about Advanced SASS could be a waste of time and resources. Thank you we appreciate your understanding. Please feel free to let us know any other feedback or suggestions here or emailing us help@teamtreehouse.com
Kristian Woods
23,414 PointsDuuuuude, c'mon. That was the most round-about-way of saying 'we wanted to charge people more money'. Treehouse is one of the best resources there is today to learn about code. But, c'mon, man. All the classes have prerequisites that students should take before diving into a new, advanced subject. We don't need a gold membership.
Andrew Lim
8,004 PointsThank you. I understand this. However, in regards to the Basic Sass path. Guil directly says to view the Advanced section. When I look at it - you get 30 seconds (with no detail). I believe if it is referenced by the basic course then it should be fully available without having to increase the membership fee. I do like Treehouse and its courses and delivery method (and have recommended it to others) but am rather disappointed by this. I have viewed the course material and for me moving to a higher membership is not worth the price, and if removing/excluding relevant courses from the basic package is a continuing trend then I would most likely move elsewhere.
Abraham Juliot
47,353 PointsSince there's not a lot of new pro content in comparison to new basic content, a simple solution -- as a consumer -- is to pay for pro just 1 month each year, and then go back to basic the rest of the year. At an extra $24 once a year, that's just $2 more a month.
There really needs to be new monthly pro content amounting to 2x the value of the monthly basic content in order to justify a monthly subscription at $49, and the conferences dating back to 2013-2015 should be expired as outdated content -- many tech conferences each year are fully archived on conf host sites or youtube and they are free.
I would pay $50 monthly if Treehouse adopted a test code challenge system using https://www.qualified.io/pricing, and provided an official Treehouse transcript of courses+ test code challenges completed -- something I could share with my employer and link as certification to linkedin. The $200 plus tech degree is not worth $170 more a month in my opinion.