And the new separator is

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

I repeat my question here, because the “commas thread” got too long.

Would the creators/contributors have to edit their courses, after you/memrise “solve” the latest comma bug, or we can still use those courses as we used to?

many thanks

[Arete_Hime (Ultra-Sadist Delinquent)]

Has there been a change in the way memrise treats commas?

Hi everyone, and my apologies for the confusion over this and the annoyance it has caused.

Memrise has changed dramatically over the last two years. After four years of steady growth, we shifted focus away form user-created courses on the website, and moved towards courses that we create ourselves, which are mainly learned on mobile. This led to explosive growth, taking us from a couple of million to tens of millions of users. A problem that comes alongside this growth is that we are now constantly balancing the needs of the 90%+ of our users who have joined in the last 2 years, and are learning on the Memrise-created courses, and the smaller numbers - often long term users - who are learning on flashcard decks created by themselves and the community. These are really two different products that we are supporting on the same technical infrastructure. Problems arise when the needs of the two groups collide - as they have done here.

On the Memrise courses we’re working on a lot of improvements in content and in new test types for testing from words used in the context of sentences. Where sentences have commas in them - as they often do - these tests get broken if commas are also used to divide up correct answers. Since there are multiple other ways to divide up correct answers, we’re discontinuing the use of commas as separators of answers. I do fully realise how annoying this is if you have a course that uses commas as separators already, and are faced with manually changing all the commas to semi colons. I am doing it for the HSK courses I made at the moment, so I do know exactly what is involved.

We certainly should have communicated this clearly and in advance, and we will now make sure we communicate the expected behaviour clearly. My apologies for all of this annoyance.

Ben

Has there been a change in the way memrise treats commas?

@Xander5E-XLgaming_in could you send me a link to your biggest courses?

@sandslane “;” and “/” are the separators that should work at the moment and will permanently.

Has there been a change in the way memrise treats commas?

You can post the links of your courses here, and we will plan for it. In the meantime, if you need any help, you can tag me to the conversation to let me understand the situation. I will try the best I can to help

The comma is gone. Ben and hung-phan have offered to look at (and edit?) individual courses.

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

well, that suppose to mean one has to change/edit all the typing courses in which now synonyms are given in the front line. I don’t expect Ben and Hung-phan to have time for so many courses

GREAT! (sarcasm off)

[cos]

As a course creator and maintainer, what motivation do I have to “fix” my courses by converting all the comma lists into alts? By the time I finish - which would be months from now - Memrise will have undoubtedly found some other creative way to break everything. Without any faith that they want to keep things working, why would I want to pour yet more time into making or maintaining courses?

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

jeezie creeezie

is the new separator “/” or the “;”???

does anybody know for sure?

[Zsolt_Papp98]

1. I dont care about your insider problems, if you dont wanna support some courses delete them. Dont fool your users.

2. I came in the last 3 months and it looks like i only use user-created courses. You should be happy that these people are creating users for you at all.

[xvg11]

@Zsolt_Papp98

1. I dont care about your insider problems, if you dont wanna support some courses delete them. Dont fool your users.

2. I came in the last 3 months and it looks like i only use user-created courses. You should be happy that these people are creating users for you at all.

@Zsolt_Papp98 Based on what you wrote above, you seem to have the mistaken idea that @Arete_Hime works for Memrise, or is one of the owners, but that’s not the case.

Arete_Hime was only trying to be helpful to Hydroptere, by copying that explanation about the sudden changes, from Memrise’s boss, BenWhately.

[Zsolt_Papp98]

Absolutely.true, thanks!

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

ok, coz I did not understand what’s happening

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

question to user @msycz: how come your Chinese character courses are all with the new separator? did you made them like this from the beginning, or did you use now some script? (Given that the Whately course you’re contributing is unusable because of the commas?)

many thanks

[msycz]

They fixed it. I have not problems anymore. My courses have been around for a few years now.

[Hydroptere (Overlord Hydroptère)]

they fixed it? lol, special treatment, congrats! i’ll take your course then, coz the others are broken (probably they will stay that way…)

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