Show HN: Find a Study Buddy for your MOOC
Latest firefox, created account, logged in, went to &#x27;_build_ my profile&#x27;, received what looks like my profile screen, clicked on &#x27;search&#x27; 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 &#x27;search&#x27;.  unfocus and refocus, grey is gone, selected &#x27;Interested&#x27;, tried &#x27;search&#x27;, same gray overlay.  Same thing happens with &#x27;search&#x27; from the &#x27;Home&#x27; page.  Result: cannot &#x27;search&#x27;, not usable in FF.<p>Same issue in FF incognito mode.<p>Same issue in Safari.<p>Same issue in Chrome.<p>How is this working for anyone?<p>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&#x27;ve left and never thought about this again.  A simple message &#x27;Use the search bar above to search for courses to add to your profile&#x27; would have been more effective for me.<p>I&#x27;m having trouble understanding how this would work.  I&#x27;ve got a course in my profile, pinged someone else who was interested, and now we&#x27;re connected and I can send messages to them and I assume vice-versa.  Now what?<p>How does one &#x27;study&#x27; with others over the internet?  I&#x27;d love to see a 2-player Anki or something like that, but that doesn&#x27;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 &#x27;end&#x27; precisely where the work of studying begins.  If I can already find a &#x27;study buddy&#x27; for some MOOC using the discussion boards on the site, then what is this for?<p>and yeah, how does one _study_ with others using the internet?  Maybe that&#x27;s the more pertinent question.  If I knew the answer to that, maybe the other questions would be obvious.