Re:Please be a viable Blackboard competitor (Score 1)

I logged in for the first time in years to answer your question. I used D2L extensively in my graduate program. I will say that it was a horribly clunky, ugly, slow system. The thing that most got me was that it could not the space character correctly. It continually dropped spaces between words, spaces between sentences, spaces everywhere just >poof went away. It was not a hardware issue, it was completely software related, since no other web page nor application was affected similarly. I never saw the faculty side of it, but my professors complained about it regularly. They kept saying, "We were promised that X was supposed to work, but when we actually got it, it doesn't. Now we complain about it and nothing happens."

I will say, it's been two years since I used it last, and there is certainly a chance that it has been updated since then. I hope it has been fixed, but it left an incredibly sour taste with me.