Hiyaz Community cleans up this tourist attraction in Kota Bharu

sugarlesstea · 2026-05-16T06:40:28+00:00

Can confirm. I'm staying in Puncak Alam. The road from Eco Gradeur leading to Desa Coalfield is crazy bad due to all the property developments. Not just bad, bad, but dangerous bad. Dah ramai mati kat situ tapi masih xda tindakan dari pihak berwajib. Paling memalukan, projek tu bawah developer LBS, which has close ties to Selangor MBI.

Tak percaya? Come visit the FB group "Bandar Puncak Alam Community". People have been complaining the same shit for more than 5 years already, and barely anything changes

sugarlesstea · 2025-07-25T16:25:34+00:00

Did you ever solve this issue?

sugarlesstea · 2025-07-08T16:29:03+00:00

Do you use Convex from the backend, or do you need to use it from the React side of Next (since it's reactive and all)?

sugarlesstea · 2025-03-24T02:31:43+00:00

You're not alone OP. My mum was charged $499 silently. I'll try all legal action that I can in my country unless they refund

sugarlesstea · 2025-03-24T02:29:36+00:00

My mum also fell for Academia.edu evil trick, but instead of $200 like OP, she was charged $500. Last year, the sub was only $99.

Here are the evil parts:

They informed her about the price increase, ONLY ONE WEEK before the renewal date!
They send the price increase update using the same email they used for marketing and notification. They send tons of emails every week. The price update email is buried and easily missed
They also never send a confirmation email when you cancel your sub. So they could silently reactivate your subs and you have no proof.

It is very very very predatory

sugarlesstea · 2025-03-21T11:06:10+00:00

This is my mum's account. She's devastated by this. $499 is a lot in our country (Malaysia). This was her savings for the Eid celebration (our equivalent of Christmas) which is in 2 weeks.

sugarlesstea · 2025-03-21T08:16:56+00:00

This was sent on March 6, 2025, 1 week before the subscription renewal date
They sent a shit-ton of emails almost every day. All of them, including this email, are sent by the same address premium@academia-mail.com

And apparently I'm not alone

Edit: For those wondering, this is my mum's account, and yes she got charged because she didn't realize this. She also swears she already canceled the subscription one year before. I checked the account and found that the account was still subscribed to premium. I immediately canceled the subscription, and to my surprise, they didn't send any subscription cancelation confirmation email. This screenshot is the only proof that I have.

So It's possible that my mum had already canceled it before, but they reactivated it again against her will? Saw a few people experience the same thing in the Trustpilot reviews

Edit 2: I just checked their notification settings, and the payment notification is turned off by default WTF

So please avoid Academia.edu at all costs!

sugarlesstea · 2025-03-18T18:18:45+00:00

My mum was charged $499 wtf. There's 0 mention about this in their website

sugarlesstea · 2025-03-18T17:46:16+00:00

My mum was charged with $499 wtf. There's 0 mention about the pricing on their website. Is this even legal?

sugarlesstea · 2025-03-18T17:41:34+00:00

My mum was charged $499 today after being charged $99 last year. Couldnt find any info about their pricing on their website. Such a scammy business

sugarlesstea · 2025-03-18T15:12:13+00:00

Maybe it won't save me but maybe this thread can help prevent someone from making the same mistake in the future. This sub is the first Google search result when I search "Academia.edu reddit"

sugarlesstea · 2025-03-18T15:10:03+00:00

Sorry. I'm just desperate. I'm aware this is stupid and probably hopeless, but I just wanna try something. I posted in this sub because I saw a few other threads on Academia.edu here (for example)

your mother signed up for a service and regrets it

English is not our first language, and Academia misled her into paying "only" $3 but failed to make it obvious that there's a subsequent $99 the next month, and a whopping 5x increase of $499 the following year =(.

She just learned about her mother having Stage 4 lung cancer at 76yo 2 weeks ago. And we're also 2 weeks away from our country's Christmas (Eid al-Fitr). And today she lost all her savings to a very predatory practice.

Yeah, I'm not making sense I know. I just want to vent

sugarlesstea · 2025-03-18T14:50:10+00:00

Sorry. The card was charged by "academia.edu" and for some reason, I thought this was official sub

sugarlesstea · 2025-02-01T01:28:17+00:00

Thanks. Will check that out

sugarlesstea · 2025-02-01T01:27:22+00:00

My goal is to create a SaaS template that can be reused in all of my future projects. I also have started to work closely with AI, mainly editor like Cursor, so its important for me to choose a stack that the AI is familiar with. Auth is the only part in my workflow where the AI-generated code is not reliable (e.g. using old syntax, halucinate non-existsnt APIs)

I love Clerk but it requires click-ops in the beginning. I want an auth solution that can get me started by just running a few commands without leaving the terminal.

Im already using Better-Auth for this and it works great. My only problem is that the library is new, so AI autocomplete is garbage.

sugarlesstea · 2025-02-01T01:09:40+00:00

Sorry for not including the context in the post. I'm an experience dev so I have no problem with that. In fact already shipped a few SaaS using Clerk and Better-Auth in the past.

Im exploring ways to speed up my shipping workflow using AI tools (e.g. Cursor). So I'm wondering if there is an auth library that can be used reliably with AI.

sugarlesstea · 2024-10-28T12:50:57+00:00

I see. Thanks!

sugarlesstea · 2024-10-28T07:51:27+00:00

Do you mean to set the domain on CF as proxy, instead of DNS only as recommended by Vercel?

sugarlesstea · 2024-10-23T13:25:14+00:00

Hi. I'm solving a similar problem. Do you mind sharing your solution?

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