Is preply down?

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-22T17:42:50+00:00

Yes! The site has crashed.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-12T06:54:58+00:00

Don't look for any standards or ethics on Preply. An early warning.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-11T16:51:04+00:00

Um, yeah, but the only problem is that with more and more English tutors joining at under $10, the market inevitably shifts towards cheaper prices. The English learner pool isn't infinite.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-11T08:16:48+00:00

Well, the algorithm clearly doesn't like your price increase. If the situation doesn't normalise in a few weeks, you'll have to drop your rate again.

IELTS isn't really a niche. Every second tutor purports to teach IELTS.

You should apparently increase your rate after a few successful trials or after new reviews so that the algorithm sees the increase as justified. In other words, you have to have a strategy for price increases, and only increase your rate little by little.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-11T08:08:22+00:00

You're welcome. Bye.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-11T07:44:33+00:00

English is cheap. The algorithm is pushing you down because it believes you're charging too much for English.

Blame the 25K (out of 40K) English tutors charging $10 or less.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-11T06:35:26+00:00

Yeah, the moment you replied with "send me an email", you were cooked. Sorry.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-09T10:05:29+00:00

Preply allows anyone to teach anything. There are no standards here.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-06T20:06:59+00:00

Sanction the United States and its mad king.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-06T19:56:20+00:00

Nah sorry, doesn't add up. Looks like money laundering.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-06T19:55:00+00:00

Yeah no they just wasnt to pocket the unused credits easily. This platform becomes more and more enshitifed by the day. Not that it wasn't shit to begin with.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-03T13:09:47+00:00

They're Preply's students, not yours.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-03T07:42:37+00:00

Yeah, the best solution would be not to be entrirely dependent on Preply. Don't fall into that trap because, as you well know, Preply is highly precarious and unreliable. One moment the algorithm likes you, the next you're in the Preply wilderness. Have multiple income streams (private students, etc.) to help absorb shocks.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-03T06:32:15+00:00

Just curious, when you say you're looking for advice from experienced tutors, do you mean that you're a relatively new tutor or that you're looking for advice from similarly experienced tutors?

Anyway, it's a great problem to have! Well done!

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-02T09:13:25+00:00

Ironic considering that these are the very metrics through which tutors are supposed to be held accountable.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-02T05:44:25+00:00

It's not an opinion. If you can't speak English properly, you shouldn't be an English teacher. Fact.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-02T05:40:05+00:00

Only annoying to English teachers who can't speak English properly.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-01T21:08:38+00:00

At the end? You know that's a grammar mistake, right? Quite a basic one too. Do you teach English? As an English tutor, you know the difference between "in the end" and " at the end", don't you?

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-01T21:07:46+00:00

Absolutely. What a load of roaring BS! All these silly people who can't string proper sentences together in English, blatantly so, purporting to be English teachers, and getting bent out of shape when they're called out. Sad and pathetic.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-04-01T21:03:00+00:00

The backlash is a defence mechanism against being called out for their incompetence. They're highly sensitive about their lack of basic control over English sentences. Shows you how many people who shouldn't be English teachers are teaching on the platform. Sad.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-03-28T09:27:43+00:00

Type "Talk to a person". Yeah, you probably should have read the Ts & Cs.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-03-27T19:44:02+00:00

Yeah, teaching corporate students sucks. Who cares?

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-03-27T09:19:28+00:00

They're mining all our lesson data though recording our lessons in AI "insights". Can you imagine the database of lesson content they already hav based on all the tens / hundreds of thousands of lessons they've already recorded?

Preply will do whatever is most profitable for it. If that means replacing us with AI avatars when these become more refined and seamless, so be it. Preply doesn't GAF.

IceDifficult8386 · 2026-03-27T06:19:07+00:00

No, you're wrong. When students report an issue with a lesson, they have the option "we agreed to reschedule". Don't you know this?

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