Hi, I noticed it was gone about two or three years ago - I don’t know what happened, and I’m guessing it was removed by accident.
I’m making some courses right now that have some overlap, so some users would likely benefit from having the feature re-activated.
There’s a feature in official courses only - if an item is duplicated in these 7 courses, it will be automatically marked as learned in the latter course. Is it a different feature?
Hi, @Hombre_sin_nombre cc @JBorrego, @ale_c no that’s not that feature I’m talking about.
The thing I’m talking about it is the user-selected “ignore” function that applies to a specific course and, when user selected, automatically ignores out all duplicates of previously learned items from other courses.
The ignored items are automatically turned very light grey, visible when viewing the top page for each level (and looking the same as if the user had manually gone through each level to manually ignore out selected items).
The switch for this feature has disappeared from course home pages - see example snapshot below:
Hi,
I’ve joined Memrise three years ago and can’t remember ever seeing this feature. We do have the option to ignore items within each level though as I’m sure you’re aware 
If the feature you’re referring to disappeared 3+ years ago and was never reintroduced, it would sound like it was removed for a specific reason.
Sorry if I can’t go into further details about this.
Best,
A.
Hi Alessio @ale_c, please could you consider reintroducing the feature?
I think it would be particularly useful for users working through a current official course who have previously learned a major portion of that official course vocabulary by completing discontinued official courses and/or community courses.
I suspect that removing the feature was accidental, and could easily be added back?
Hi @ian_mn,
Is it this?
If it is, the links in the posts by johnastsang and Arete_Hime (both May 2016) lead you to the history.
Hi @alan,
Thanks, I’m pretty sure that auto-ignore is the correct name for what I’m referring to.
If I remember correctly, the feature suddenly disappeared around a time when Memrise’s major technical focus was the introduction of the space-alien theme, which has since been discontinued.
It would be great if auto-ignore could be re-activated (but not the space alien theme). Re-activation could be commercially advantageous to Memrise, as more people would probably be inclined to purchase Pro membership because of the improved functionality.
It disappeared before I’ve joined Memrise. Though I agree with you - this feature is very useful - I doubt they’ll bring it back. It takes a lot of resources to parse courses and, most of all, community courses and community features are not their priority.
Hi all,
I did some digging and was able to find more information on this topic. It looks like this feature was removed because it used a lot of resources for us to continue supporting it, considering that only a few learners actively used it. As @alanh advised, you can read more in the forum archives above.
Sadly, there are no plans to reintroduce it as of now. 
Best,
A.
Hi Alessio @ale_c
I remember the feature operating perfectly and being completely stable, so I can’t imagine it taking much (if any) ongoing maintenance effort from Memrise developers. So its sudden removal still doesn’t make any obvious sense to me.
Thank you for investigating this and replying to my query. Memrise’s response to user questions has improved a lot since you’ve got involved in these discussion boards, which is much appreciated.
@ale_c, @JBorrego, @MemriseSupport: Here’s a couple of problems that I’ve come across over the last few versions:
Any chance you guys fix these issues soon …?
Hey Olaf, sorry about this. Sadly I wasn’t able to reproduce these problems.
A few notes:
To solve the ‘application hang’ issue, could you please reinstall the app and confirm if it still happens? Please also confirm your device(s) model, OS and app version. I seem to recall that you’ve already posted these details in some other threads, but I can’t find them quickly again now, so if you could post them here as well, it’d be appreciated
Finally, please note that the link between courses has been removed between our old courses, such as the ones in the picture below with the faded out pics. The reason behind this is that these courses are now unlisted and we encourage our learners to start our new courses instead, which do have these buttons.
Best,
Alessio
application hang - can’t tell if Olaf is talking about the same problem, but I saw it a few times recently, though maybe in different circumstances.
scroll problem - I’m doing only learning and review sessions for some courses, and each time I have to start learning sessions from the first level.
sync problem - not all courses, but some of them are appearing in different order on my PC in comparison to phone app. Right now I see at least two such courses.
By all appearances, new learning modes are about to emerge, but should this board look like a swiss cheese with diminutive buttons?
You’ve moved learning button away from the center of the screen and it’s not easy to reach it now (try to tap it with your big finger). Besides, these numbers are really distracting and identical icons are not helpful. Have you thought about putting some colour on them?
The problem is: it doesn’t. Not like always, but like most of the time. Sometimes it also leaves me at the very last lesson, even though I haven’t completed loads of previous levels.
Will do asap. As for the devices: Huawei MediaPad M3, running Android 7 (that’s the device I use most of the time) and a Samsung Galaxy S10e, running Android 10.
That’s quite annoying, to say the least. I’d never work through all of those courses again, I’d be bored to death! Is there anything like an auto-progress feature for the items already learned?
Also, this is true for all of the Memrise courses I took - surely you haven’t provided new versions for all of them (I could provide a list, if required)!?
FWIW, I don’t see as to why the link between courses should no longer be there anyway, what good would that do?
To repro the hang, you’ll probably have to go through some 20+ courses (and do sessions in like 8-10) and work for at least 60 to 80 minutes, that’s when it happens here.
I’ve raised these issues with the team, however unfortunately I don’t have any timeframe for a fix. Please keep me updated on the status of the problem (e.g if it gets better or worse).
I understand this is annoying especially when you’re learning a lot of courses, however sadly it won’t be changed. This should only happen with our old courses, e.g. French 1&2, German 1&2, etc. Once you move to more advanced courses, such as French 3, the links will be there but they will redirect to our new courses (i.e. clicking on ‘Previous course’ on French 3 will take you to our new French 2 course). Sorry for the confusion around this.
Hi, can you please clarify what these ‘different circumstances’ are? This will help us pinpoint where the issue lies
I’m not reviewing per day as many courses as Olaf, usually it’s about 4-5 courses, maybe up to 6-8 max. Somewhere during summer I’ve noticed that my phone has been getting hot while I’m doing speed reviews, as if I’m playing a videogame which consumes a lot of phone resourses. There was also a laggy response from the app, like a pause of milliseconds after correct answer. It never happened before with this app.
I’ve reinstalled my app and it worked OK for some time, but then it happenned again. Primarily I was blaming incorrect installation of the app, thinking that files had been overwritten incorrectly or something of that kind.
In September and October there were about 3-4 incidents when app asked me to close it because of an error (you see a pop-up message when you could close an app ot restart it). I’m also aware that sometimes my phone is getting hot again, but not as much as in summer, and I’m also noticing a lag from time to time.
Well, now it’s different, my guess is that Memrise app at some moment is starting to consume too many resourses (RAM or whatever), remember that Olaf is going over dozens of courses and I could do my reviews for about an hour, and that’s why we have this problem.
UPD. In summer I’ve also been doing a lot of clean-up - opening up to 30 courses, sometimes all of them, just to keep them in sort of an order. Any tools - though pins is my preferred method - from your team to sort them would be greatly appreciated.
UPD2. I forgot to tell, while phone was getting hot, battery life has been discharging like snow disappears in March.
If this is not related to all your courses, I suppose the link is missing for courses where it shouldn’t.
I’ve already gone through all 7 iterations of most of the official Memrise courses that I have been working on. The lowest one I’m still working on is EN-RU (at the end of 3).
However, I never see the link anywhere in i.e. the courses EN-NL, EN-SV or DE-IT (all 1-7) or DE-ES (1-6).
FWIW, I do have to say that I can not in the least understand as to why you would remove those links and then refuse to bring them back - what on earth are you guys always thinking when removing good features (particularly those that only get removed for certain courses!)? It feels like this has happened a zillion times already
And why do you, instead of working on existing problems, continuously keep introducing new features that consume your dev time and carry no noticeable advantage whatsoever? A recent example is the new button list: I’m really having a hard time of holding back my comments, once more. Nothing problematic with this (apart from its underwhelming design), but it’s just not necessary, at least not unless (or until) you introduce like a dozen new buttons that fill all those gaps.
It’s just so incredible, irritating and very sad to see how you guys seem to be completely wasting your resources and then complain that you haven’t enough of them elsewhere.
