Videos are not marking as completed after watching them.

For clarity, greater than 50% of a video must be watched in order it to be marked as complete. And the 50% does not have to be in one chunk, nor must it occur in the same sitting. You can watch the first and last 15 seconds of a 1-minute long video and it will (should) be marked as completed.

Hey Lewis! Apologies that you're still experiencing issues with this. We do get occasional reports of this being an issue which is usually the result of our video tracking service going flaky for a bit. We do monitor that service and continue to make it more robust. Do you find that this issue is happening often for you?

Regarding Lynda, are you saying they have a button or link where you can just mark the video as watched? I'll definitely take that idea to our product team!

You can completely go through a course or track and not watch a single video and still pass all the quizzes and code challenges and receive the badge for that course. The only thing you'll be missing is the few points you would have received for watching the videos (each video is worth 1 point).

Lastly, we don't promote any products at Treehouse for money. Our only revenue stream is subscriptions from paying students like yourself. If we "promote" or talk about any products, it's because we think they're just cool (i.e. things discussed on the Treehouse Show) or we believe they may be helpful to you as a student (workshops on different frameworks or tools, etc.).

Hope that helps!

Thanks Sean Gaffney

I tend to divert any down-time at work and home between marketing, training and other tasks. Usually I'll come to Treehouse 2-3 times a week for a few hours, and after about 40 minutes the problem kicks in until the next hour.

Obviously not knowing the code base I am doing the typical annoying user thing of poking at the worst possible scenarios to try to get them resolved

I'd be very grateful of the video's having a watched button, and I'm glad to hear treehouse is not getting paid for some of the horrific products being pushed. In the case it's not part of a revenue stream, why push products that promote proprietary unnecessary nonsense like MAMPPro, rather than open-source, and more importantly professional solutions like Vagrant, Docker, etc. There are of course some solutions that deserve to be pushed like Photoshop, like Illustrator, Git, the runtimes and libraries themselves; but the IDE you use; the software you develop and stage on does not have to be a constant battle to promote XYZ proprietary solution; it's directly at odds with learning to be a professional X.

Have a great weekend

Hi Lewis Cowles. Just to confirm what Sean Gaffney said: we don't promote commercial products in return for any fees. When we do present a solution that has a commercial component -- MAMP is free, but MAMP Pro is not -- we do so with our students in mind. We've mentioned MAMP in our courses, because it's a very, very, simple way for a beginner to get set up with PHP, MySQL and Apache. In other words it's a fast on-ramp to getting to the really good stuff like programming PHP and database-driven web sites. While there are other, completely free, open source solutions, like the ones you've mentioned, we've found many students get tripped up on installation details, and give up out of frustration. Cheers!