Yes, possibly you are correct and there is no algorithm in the app.
The application syncs constantly the progress with the server: if you are offline, then it pushes collected data back to server when the connection is available, and (regularly!) retrieves lists of cards to repeat or learn.
Anyway, it looks rather unlikely, since the only option for them to monetize Decks in this model is ads. And ads and API just don’t work together.
In one of the FAQs about Decks, it says the Memrise app and site will still work. If so, what does Decks really mean for users?
The Memrise site and app will contain only official courses. All community ones will be moved to Decks.
Is there any way to tell which courses are official and which are community just by looking at them?
@rebeccamerrick yes if the course author is ‘Memrise’ then that’s an official course. These are the official ones
So after moving community courses the only thing that will be on Memrise are those few language courses? What?
I won’t donate for changes I never asked for.They could made a poll to see if people is with or against it but no they though consumers will accept forced bad changes like big website are doing(youtube,facebook).
I suspect that Memrise had grand ambitions for its company and hired too many employees too fast, forgetting that it was the simplicity of the platform and wide user base that made it valuable. Now, with profits stagnating, it has realized that it will either need to expand into new markets, or painfully downsize.
Sad but very true. Anyone can make a business out a site like this but with retards at the helm this demise was very much inevitable. Most of us saw it coming (not this particular move but the platform’s general death), I reckon. (After all, IMHO the new versions of the official courses are worse than their predecessors, a change rolled out not so long ago.) Memrise got a bit too big for it’s boots and with a nice, inflated sense of worth bigged itself up, hired way too many people for their needs and started ‘fixing’ what wasn’t broke until death was assured… As @Waffletoaster said, there are easier ways for a company to commit corporate suicide – guess they just wanted it painful and messy.
Yes, sad about Memrise, had a nice community creating free courses and this is how they then support that. I doubt they will survive after this, but good luck.
Well, they should ask for a subscription fee for the end user courses as well and get the revenue to support the apps…
Plus, if you’re asking for donations to keep afloat, you’re not much of a business, no? That’s not how it’s meant to work.
You remind me of the fallout 1 perk - bloody mess
Slimy, slimy, slimy.
