Show HN: Find a Study Buddy for your MOOC

Hi. I am currently taking David Silver's Reinforcement Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning Course from Berkeley. I would be very much interested in joining you for reading research papers and possibly working on projects too.

Latest firefox, created account, logged in, went to '_build_ my profile', received what looks like my profile screen, clicked on 'search' for courses, a gray overlay is put in front of the window, then nothing happens. unfocus and refocus window, gray is gone, but comes back when I hit 'search'. unfocus and refocus, grey is gone, selected 'Interested', tried 'search', same gray overlay. Same thing happens with 'search' from the 'Home' page. Result: cannot 'search', not usable in FF.

Same issue in FF incognito mode.

Same issue in Safari.

Same issue in Chrome.

How is this working for anyone?

Oh, wait a minute. The screen goes gray, but the search bar still works. Can I add that this is a bizarre user experience? Had I not been convinced that there might actually be something worthwhile behind this weird gray screen, I would've left and never thought about this again. A simple message 'Use the search bar above to search for courses to add to your profile' would have been more effective for me.

I'm having trouble understanding how this would work. I've got a course in my profile, pinged someone else who was interested, and now we're connected and I can send messages to them and I assume vice-versa. Now what?

How does one 'study' with others over the internet? I'd love to see a 2-player Anki or something like that, but that doesn't seem to be the purpose of this site. This just connects people, which is great, but then... The usefulness of the site seems to 'end' precisely where the work of studying begins. If I can already find a 'study buddy' for some MOOC using the discussion boards on the site, then what is this for?

and yeah, how does one _study_ with others using the internet? Maybe that's the more pertinent question. If I knew the answer to that, maybe the other questions would be obvious.

Congratulations Johnny! I enjoyed speaking with you earlier this year, and think the adjustment to “find a study buddy” is a great move. I’m excited to see you moving this forward.

The gray overlay is supposed to highlight the search bar. It's supposed to make everything on the site gray except for the search bar. Is that not the case for you? Is the search bar also graying out? If so, that's a bug I need to fix. So far I haven't been able to reproduce it on my end, but doesn't mean there isn't a bug.

Stacks isn't promising the ability to study over the Internet necessarily; however, you could if you wanted. For example, you could ask questions via chat. On the other hand, you could meet on Stacks and then move to Skype to study. Or even more, you could potentially meet up in person if you have gotten to know your buddy well enough.

Think of it like how you might think of Tinder. Tinder is called online dating, but you wouldn't necessarily have a date on Tinder.

The feedback here is good! It is appreciated!

Any chances of adding Fast.ai courses?