[App & Site Feedback] Differences between the WEB version and an APP version

[John_Baite (Baite)]

Thanks for the post. I am happy to contribute. Does Memrise support this list? I.e. has the intention to bring such functionality (back) into the App?

I suppose they have a specification of exactly what the web and what the App does. Or am I missing something?
Reports of bugs help of course, because they might have missed those during testing.

[John_Baite (Baite)]

@Wuxian

This all really stood out to me, because I started using the site in 2012 and the thing that really comforted me was the fact that if you put the time in, and water your plants/review within a couple of hours of when they are ready to be reviewed, you really couldn’t go wrong. They had actually, at least for me, figured out the exact timescale of when planted seeds would get hazy in my memory, prompt review right then, and that would then solidify the memory. It was (and still is on the website), like cheating while learning but without cheating yourself. Instead of kind of winging when new things should be learned and old ones reviewed, it just made everything super efficient. The fact that this, the actual genius of the website as a nearly foolproof way to master how the brain memorized vocab, was less a focus in the app transition than was artwork for handfuls of planets that scroll by nonstop when shifting through levels was a really big red flag.

Triple star! This is for me by far the number one reason to use Memrise over a number of other choices - the review algorithm. As @Wuxian hints, the ‘fill in the blank’ are sometimes to easy on the App (since the options certainly contain the right answer), so I use (if possible) the soft keyboard and try not to look at the options.

It would be great future if the user could choose: soft keyboard only (no suggestions from Memrise), soft keyboard + suggested options, suggestions only.
Anyway, the quality of the spaced learning algorithm is the most significant feature.

[DW7 (Meminence, Rank 15 &)]

Hi John,

I created this thread so that I (and others) would know the differences between the two versions, as I wanted to know how courses I had created (or was looking after) on the web, behaved on the App version.

The only change I have seen is to make the web more like the app version, whereas a lot of us original users would like the web to remain the same as it was and hence different to the app version.

[John_Baite (Baite)]

I (and others) would know the differences between the two versions

Ah, I see. Thanks.

whereas a lot of us original users would like the web to remain the same as it was and hence different to the app version.

That Memrise creates one ‘house style’ I understand, and therefor wants the web to look similar to the app (and perhaps more up-to-date and fashionable that way). At the same time: A computer is very different in operation and interface-possiblities than a hand-held. I think some features fit very well one, others the other. But main functionality and algorithms should be the same, I think.

[Ora9]

An issue I find a little unfair (although not too important for me personally), is that you frequently get more points for doing the same thing in the app (twice more for speed review, for example!), although everything is easier in the app than in the web version.