[Android] Memrise became useless 4 months ago and it still is

Are you able to read, or at least FIND the arabic text in this screenshot?
NO?
Really?
Who tested your dumb UI/UX?
Please return my money. NOW!

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I can see it, but it is really hard to read, that pale grey up in the right-hand corner.

That must be frustrating.

I know that other people have had this trouble with Japanese, too, but I had hoped it had been remedied.

@GabrieleCramer-Knebe: are the Japanese words also still difficult to read, or even see?

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The sheer idiocy of the memrise team: make a static button so vivid and the actual item you have to focus on so hard to see!

I have already complained about this immediately ater the change was introduced. NO REACTION.

I will NEVER EVER recommend this product to anyone and certainly I will never again support it with my money.

UX? Horrible.
The customer support? Non-existent.
I wish this sorry excuse for an app be erased from existence.

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Whoa there!

You are carrying around a lot of anger!

I am sorry that you are disappointed with the experience you have had with the app, but calling people ā€˜dumbā€™ and so on is not the best way to achieve your goals.

Just sayinā€™.

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Brush up on your reading comprehension. I called the UI dumb.

And I unquestionably demonstrated the idiocy of the teamā€™s actions.

Iā€™m sorry, but after MONTHS of this, the euphemisms are out of place in this matter. I have seen no effect of polite argumentation so far.

This crapp and the greedy halfwits who made it cannot be defended.

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I donā€™t like the new design either, but I donā€™t think that being rude is going to be any more affective than being polite.

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Iā€™m only responding in kind.

Taking my money than almost immediately turning what I paid for into useless crap, ignoring community and my input and formal complaints is a lot worse than just ā€œrudeā€.

Iā€™m sure that you can find an old version of the app somewhere online.

Iā€™m sure it should not be my problem. I paid for a usable app. I want my money back or appropriate service.

And that suggestion you wrote, although dressed up as polite, is plainly impudent.

I paid for a usable app. I want my money back or appropriate service.

I understand that very well. But Iā€™ve downloaded many older app versions and it has helped me avoid many problems. I did not mean to be offensive at all. Perhaps I should reword it to something like the following:
Iā€™ve avoided problems like this by downloading older versions of apps and this has helped me a lot. If you havenā€™t already considered this, I think that you should.

I may have overreacted to a suggestion from a fellow customer, but stillā€¦ The very idea of making a customer look for a solution like this is offensive.

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I agree, the colours blend into the background and itā€™s hard to see. Iā€™ve tweaked the colour so its a bit more visible.

Hopefully it will be in the next release or the one after.

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This looks clearer, but in my opinion the item to learn should be standing out.

Why is the immutable ā€œcontinueā€ button so much more vivid than the memorized item?

Seriously, this is not rocket science. This is common sense!

@Joshua, thank you for the color change. It now makes the kanjis way better to read.

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Sorry for interfering, but what course is it? At first glance it looks like an English course for Arabic-speakers, in which case it is the English word that should be standing out (and it is), not the arabic.

I had used a much older version of the Memrise Android app: v2.9_3947

I was quite satisified when I occassionally learned NEW words for my Portuguese (Brazil) on an Android emulator (KOPlayer, Bluestacks, Nox, Memu,ā€¦).

Pretty stable.

Never have used it for classic reviews as I am using the Memrise web portal and several activated Tampermonkey userscripts.

ā€¦(ā€¦)ā€¦

If everything fails, follow the suggestions to search for an (much) older Android app version on archive sites, download the APK file and locally install it (either emu or Android device).

Never tried any other language than Portuguese, sorry.

Hereā€™s how it would look like

Grey ColourBlue Colour

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No itā€™s Arabic for English speakers. I canā€™t fathom how youā€™ve arrived at the opposite supposition.

Thanks for the instructions. However, I am a paying customer and I will not suffer this kind of hurdles.

You used the phrase ā€œthe sheer idiocy of the memrise teamā€. Calling people idiots is the same as calling them dumb.

Thereā€™s nothing wrong with my reading comprehension at all.

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