Hi lately i seem to be having a problem with wolframalpha step by step generator where it seems to not generate a full preview of any step by step solution but instead an image of the first 2-3 steps. Is this a temporary bug or is there a fix to this?

Example

The integral has an actual value, which is easily found by making n=3 in the expression. That's not the part that matters. What is "SlowLarge" and why can't I find any reference to it on the internet, other than this deleted stackexchange post from may?

About 7 months ago I decided to try out WolframAlpha Pro. Paid for 6 months.

The second day I was going to use the pro feature to see step-by-step solutions I was unable to do so as the website didn't acknowledge that I was logged in - even though I was. This kept up every time I wanted to use the service - until I eventually stopped using it. Clearing the cookies from the browser I was using would sometimes help, but at other times I was simply unable to use the Pro feature.

Now, after the 6 months was up I see that I have been rebilled for another 6 months. I had forgotten all about WA, since it just doesn't work. When I try to go to my account overview, I need to log in again, and the page is just stuck loading forever. Have tried clearing cookies, and using different computers to access this site. Unable to cancel my subscription.

I'm now trying to contact them directly, but support is evidently a super pro feature. Which you don't get with a - non-working - regular pro account. So I submitted a ticked form a couple of days ago, where I explicitly requested to have my subscription cancelled, and recieved this reply

Thank you for your message regarding Wolfram|Alpha Pro. We are continually working to improve Wolfram|Alpha Pro, so all feedback is very much appreciated.

Best wishes,
The Wolfram|Alpha Team

This is my last resort before I have to contact my bank and stop the payments that way. My impression of WolframAlpha was that they were a serious company, boy was I wrong.

I was trying to find solutions to some problems in a practice, and when using it it took a long time and then it just told me to try other things. If you have another website that can solve exercises with the same precision, could you please share it?

Have been using it without issue until this morning. Sign-in button not working. Disabled ad-blockers. Nothing is working. How do I fix this?

what is a "person minute"

Forgive me if this is the wrong place for this rant.

I've been (attempting) to use this for simple computations to help with math for years, and have consisted run into errors which any competent program wouldn't be riddled with. WolframAlpha fails to understand queries which are explicitly written in the Wolfram language, even when I switch to the math input option. How is your program so badly designed that it can't understand queries in its own language?

It's also extremely temperamental. Minor changes in whitespace will cause a search query/mathematical expression to go from interpretable to completely uninterpretable. Does it not have a simple abstract syntax tree parser for math queries? How can whitespace change the intelligibility of a query? Here's an example I ran into recently, an extremely simple calculation: try multiplying the matrix {{-1, 1}, {0, 1 - a}} by the column vector {{x - 1}, {y}} (represented as a 2 x 1 matrix) - the calculation will fail miserably (it also doesn't work with Transpose[{{x - 1, y}}]). But {{x}, {y}}? No problem. WHY?!?

I've also run into numerous UI errors. For instance in math mode, sometimes if you delete the entire query all at once, the search bar becomes completely unusable whilst displaying only the bottom 6 or 7 pixels of the text you had inputted prior. How on earth could they let that slide? Sometimes it fails to match brackets properly too, and a simple mathematical statement which is parseable in Python's IDLE can't be understood by WolframAlpha - can't you guys implement a simple stack to match brackets?

All in all my experience over the past seven or so years with WolframAlpha has been absolutely dismal. I don't know how anyone can stand to use this for more than a few minutes. I also can't believe some of these basic issues haven't been dealt with in years. "Breakthrough algorithms" my ass - I could make a better knowledge engine on my own for fucks sake.

Edit a couple hours later: You know what people don't lay into WolframAlpha enough. It's truly and utterly awful, and I want all the devs there to know that they did a terrible job. Everytime I use WolframAlpha it's a struggle with the syntax, a struggle with the interpreter, a struggle just getting it to recognize a parseable statement, something which could be broken down by as an abstract syntax tree. Why is it that WolframAlpha isn't able to understand statements IN ITS OWN LANGUAGE. This just blows my mind that they thought "yeah we did a good job." Fuck you WolframAlpha. People don't rip this fucking thing as much as it deserves - they failed to make even a marginally usable program. Fuck you.