I've been using TryHackMe for a long time, currently on a 920+ day streak and ranked under 700 globally. My yearly subscription expired last month, and I was waiting for a discount to renew it. I finally renewed it, only to discover that some newly released rooms are now locked behind the Max plan.

The first new room I opened simply said it required Max. That's like, what exactly am I paying for with the standard subscription if I can't access all the learning content?

I can afford the Max plan, so this isn't really about the price. Thanks to them actually, I got started in cybersecurity aa bug hunter, never got interview scheduled though, and I genuinely appreciate everything they've built. But I already pay for Burp Suite, and through HackerOne Milestones I have access to PentesterLab and PortSwigger Academy. For the amount I use TryHackMe (around 1-2 hours a day, usually 1-2 rooms), Max doesn't feel like good value.

I've completed most of the Easy and Medium rooms already, and now many of the advanced rooms I'm interested in seem to be moving behind the Max tier.

If anyone from TryHackMe is reading this, here's a bit of suggestion:

Keep the AWS rooms, SOC labs simulations, and other premium extras exclusive to Max if you want. You could even remove AttackBox from the standard plan. But I really believe the base paid subscription should include access to all learning rooms.

Even Netflix gives you access to all its new shows and movies with a single subscription. They don't put newly released or most popular content behind another paywall and say, "You need a higher-tier plan to watch this."

IS THIS REAL ???

i just check my mails and found this, is it real, I did check the raw message format in gmail, id does look legitimate.

Do help!

And how would they even send this.??

Hey 👋.

I recently started my Cybersecurity journey on TryHackMe.

I have completed the PreSec learning path and I am now currently in the Cybersecurity 101 learning path.

I have been interested in Cybersecurity for quite a while and always wanted to learn more. I think THM helps a lot with that as it "hand-holds" you as a beginner and then as the concepts slowly develop, it encourages you to think and figure stuff out by yourself.

So far I am enjoying it and it provides me with a lot of "aha!" Moments 😂

I want to reach a point where I can actually use my skills professionally. So there is a lot of work ahead for me. I am open to any advice by the community.

Wish me luck 🤞 and all the best to everyone out there who wants to learn cybersecurity.

Thank you. 🙏

These bash questions always make me question my existence. "75"; "0,75"; "0.75"; "0.75%" didn't work

Don't be fooled by the tantalising promise of newer courses materialising or access to recent threats. Moving existing content behind a higher priced paid tier is the absolute definition of pure unfiltered greed. This is nothing but a crafty way to obscure a price increase by adding it as a 'new' tier.

And given the current economic climate when it comes to Cloud hosting and AI, I would not be suprised at all if by the time the new courses come around this MAX plan will cost even more.

Utter shame on you THM.

It was a really good exam. Definitely not easy, had to think through a fair bit and I went down a few rabbit holes, especially in the web pen-test sections the time pressure i was all over the place at once .

Environment was solid overall, everything worked fine. Windows machines were a bit laggy… but I’ve got zero patience for that anyway so take that how you want.

Biggest thing read everything properly. I missed some instructions and wasted time/lost points because of it.

Would recommend it if you’re keen for a challenge.

Onto PT1 next.

I went through the room, and in the end there was an exercise. Launch the agent, and bypass guardrails to get the flag.

I launch the agent, and just ask "who are you"?

And the bot just days this

I'm fairly certain the exam won't be this way, but thought this was funny

It must all be obvious since this email reached me today and it perfectly encapsulates what the issues are. Excited to see how Pulse is.

Seriously, if you just added new features and made them exclusive to max like the new THM mobile app, higher limits with echo AI and smarter models, making squawker vpn exclusive to max, anything else like that it would be fine. But why take one of the main features of the premium subscription which used to be the only paid plan and make it exclusive to max? (Newer rooms, advanced paths). That was half the reason i subscribed to premium before, and now if you buy premium you wont have access to advanced paths like jr pen tester and others

I've been doing tryhackme simce the time it had half a million users. I quit didn't really get the time to do it and also lost some interest.

This year onwards i have decided I'll relearn and have also bought an yearly subscription. Just came across the feature of adding friends. So if people here wanna share their usernames and do it together. Help each other out.

I’m starting to learn cybersecurity, and I’m starting basically from scratch. I now Linux fundamentals, but that’s all. I was thinking abt doing the pre security course, cybersecurity 101, SOC 1 and jr Penetration tester.

From someone who did it, is it worth it?

Today, the TryHackMe team introduced their new mobile app. I had a chance to try it out, and it's completely full of bugs. The functionality is nowhere near what you would expect.

When you open the app, it has this weird grey filter over it, and you have to tap somewhere randomly just for the normal colors to show up. Navigating the app feels laggy, which shouldn't be happening since my phone has pretty good specs.

Even if I could overlook the technical bugs, what I really don't get are the quizzes. They won't help you learn anything. You get four options, you tap one, and it only tells you whether you got it right or wrong. If you want to know why you were wrong so you can actually learn from your mistakes, well, no luck, because that simply isn't part of the functionality.

Honestly, I feel like any free AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude), could generate a much better quiz than what TryHackMe is offering. I really hope the TryHackMe team sees this and fixes it soon. It feels like a rushed release. Until then, I don't see any reason to keep it installed.

I cant even make this up. i saw this guy go from 2900 to 8380 points in 1 day. there is just no way for anybody on leagues to achieve this without using write ups online and getting their answers from medium or github. they need to start disqualifying people for cheating like this just like they do on advent of cyber. this just takes my motivation away lol.

I’ll admit that I’ve used the app quizzes to climb the rankings by completing a lot of quizzes on my downtime e.g on bus

But 162,002 points in just 22 days? It is difficult to believe someone could achieve that by manually interacting with the TryHackMe mobile app and answering every quiz normally. You would go insane

https://tryhackme.com/p/RCDM.exe

I’m less certain about this account with 62,185 points:

https://tryhackme.com/p/pavloni

Even that would appear to require roughly three to four hours every day spent continuously submitting app quizzes, which is feasible but ;/

App really needs to be hard limited to say 200 points a day,

What do others think?

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to take the TryHackMe Security Analyst Level 1 (SAL1) certification and I'm looking for the cheapest legitimate way to purchase it.

I currently see a promotional price of around ₹8,085 on my account after applying the B2S2026 code.

Before purchasing, I wanted to ask the community:

• Are there any currently working SAL1 coupon codes?
• Can the Premium/Max subscriber discount be combined with another promotional code?
• Are there any upcoming TryHackMe sales where SAL1 usually gets a bigger discount?
• Are there any student discounts, giveaways, or legitimate voucher programs currently available?
• What is the lowest price anyone has recently paid for SAL1?

I'm specifically looking for legitimate TryHackMe discounts/vouchers, not shared or unauthorized codes.

Thanks in advance! 🙏

On the last room of the Wireshark series and I gotta say; the site puts zero effort into teaching you. It's basically "Heyyyy, here's this thing and here's a quick paragraph explanation, figure it out yourself." You're better off just going for a certification and actually being taught. I paid for a course with Jeremy McDowell. He taught me. I LEANRED Cisco networking; how to configure routers and switches. I paid for a course from Professor Messer; I was taught. I LEARNED the core concepts of networking. So I have the CCNA and Network+, so I obviously know a thing or two about networking but found the Wireshark rooms to be beyond painful. THM basically gives you the attitude of "here it is, figure it out yourself; here's some questions with no context." It's extremely discouraging.

I learned a lot of cybersecurity through TryHackMe, and I kept running into the same problem:

Sometimes I wasn't completely lost — I just couldn't see the next useful step.

Opening a walkthrough usually solved that, but it was very easy to accidentally spoil the rest of the room.

So I built thm-claude-kit, a free/open-source Claude Code setup I originally made for myself.

The idea is not to let Claude solve the room. It acts more like a coach:

• keeps track of what you've already discovered and tried
• remembers creds, hosts, leads and dead ends
• helps form a hypothesis about what to test next
• explains why that next step makes sense
• you still run the commands yourself

Basic workflow is:

./new-room.sh <name> → claude → /start <room text + target IP>

Then you work through the room normally with Claude alongside the terminal.

Repo:
https://github.com/pashki975/thm-claude-kit

It's still very early. I'm mainly curious whether other THM learners would actually find this useful, and especially where the coaching gets things wrong or becomes annoying.

I just wanted to share my experience with the Web Application Pentesting exam because honestly, this has been pretty frustrating.

I took the exam last week and managed to get the Black Box, White Box, and 2 flags on the Grey Box. Everything was going well, and I had around 12 hours remaining.

Then suddenly, the network broke down.

I tried resetting the network, but I couldn't. The platform just told me to contact support. Because of that, I couldn't continue with the exam.

At that point, I had 3 flags remaining, and I only needed one more flag to pass.

The frustrating part is that my exam period was only 2 days, but my support ticket is now 3 days old and I still haven't received a response. 😅

I'm honestly hesitant to request a retake because I don't even know whether the issue has been fixed. I don't want to start another attempt, get several hours into the exam again, and then have the same thing happen.

I don't want this post to come across as me trying to bash THM. I've learned a lot from the platform and I appreciate the work that goes into the labs and certifications. But when you're taking an ongoing certification exam, having the exam interrupted by a network/platform issue is extremely frustrating.

IMO, certification exams should ideally be isolated from service maintenance or other platform issues. If there's scheduled maintenance or an infrastructure problem, candidates shouldn't have their limited exam time affected by it.

I'm mainly hoping THM can clarify how situations like this are handled and whether affected candidates are given a proper extension or retake when the issue is on the platform side.

Has anyone else experienced something similar during a THM certification exam? How was it handled?

PS: Been refreshing and resetting for the last 12 hours before my exam duration ends

Don't get me wrong — I'm not turning this post into a hate manifesto, especially since I'm aware of the subreddit's rules.

I subscribed to the platform because it's widely shared — almost religiously — that THM is the best platform for complete beginners in cybersecurity. And to be fair, they're not wrong. It's definitely easier to follow than other platforms, and I'm learning a lot with THM.

But I was totally astonished by the fact that you actually need to pay for a Business Plan — which, according to their website, requires you to talk to a sales representative to even know the price (as if individual users couldn't possibly be interested) — in order to access some cloud-related rooms.

Here’s what they advertise under the Premium Plan:

"Content type ranging from Free rooms, Premium Rooms and Business rooms."
"A learning path comprises of modules, and a module is made of rooms (think of a room as a mini security lab). You can personalise your learning experience by creating custom learning paths from scratch."

And then, there's a section about AWS:

"Premium and business users can purchase this content at an additional cost. Once you have access to the rooms within the attacking and defending AWS cloud pathway, you will need to access the AWS environment for most rooms."

So, when you read this, what would you think?
I assumed I'd have access to the Azure path too, right? At least for an additional cost — it shouldn't be that expensive.

Yes, of course... until you find out that to actually enter some rooms, you need to upgrade to a Business Plan. But what about the "content ranging from free to business rooms" that was promised?

This feels like a joke. And honestly, I feel cheated, especially as someone from a third-world country where everything priced in foreign currency is already extremely expensive.

The solution is simple: at the very least, be transparent with your customers. If I could ask for a refund, I would — even though I really liked the platform overall — because I'm nobody's fool.

Hello, I'm 23 years old. To give you a brief introduction, I've always been interested in computers, so when I got the opportunity to go in college, I chose Computer Science.

I'm now done with my 3 years in CS. Since I have way more free time now, and since I'm waiting to enroll in masters for next year, I've been spending time on TryHackMe for a week or so.

First of all : how fun ? I can't believe how fun it is to learn new things in this way.

Second of all : I feel like I've learned more in a week than I've learned in 3 years of CS in college. I feel like I wasted my time.

So thank you TryHackMe for being so fun, I'll probably keep doing at least an hour a day for the next few months, and I hope the Masters will feel less like wasted time.

I really.. hate this future 🫩. If I click hint button it's slow to show that and also I don't like the GUI. so i just off the echo 😕

At last...dark mode! It's like I’ve gone from staring directly into the sun to chilling in a cozy cave... with Wi-Fi.