Hey language learning fam! After reading many comments from the infamous thread that was closed under the same name, many users believe it was closed to end the complaints about removal of the mems.
Let’s keep talking about it, and figuring out ways we can solve the problem!
And let’s start communicating about this off this forum so we can make sure our conversation isn’t abruptly ended. Which do you prefer- telegram or facebook? Leave a comment and we’ll start a group!
If memrise isn’t interested in bringing back some key features we love, let’s work as a community to crowdfund a new platform. Who knows maybe some of the founding team who feels the same way will want to join, or memrise might determine it would be profitable to bring back the old version for users who are disappointed and willing to pay for a community centered crowdsourced model for language learners again?
Either way, thanks for joining this conversation and looking forward to figuring out some solutions! Blessings to you wherever you are.
I had been out of practice for half of last year and this year, but had been constantly recommending memrise to others & renewing my subscription not realizing there had been many major changes… after reinstallation i discovered the changes and had to revoke my recommendations for memrise bc community made mems & community made lessons were simply the only reason to use memrise against other, quite frankly, much better alternatives out there.
If the community made aspect of memrise were removed entirely like the mems, then it would literally remove the necessity of the site at all.
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Upon discussion with a friend whom I’d recommended Memrise to months ago, who did not end up continuing to use memrise and used Duolingo instead, she said that she didnt find the feature that I’d told her about useful, not realizing that she didnt find the feature at all! (And as it turned out, she also used it through the app because she forgot i told her the community courses needed to be added from the website) So literally, those are the only reasons even new users would stick with memrise over duolingo & other alternatives. Removing access to those was simply a terrible idea even if the new memrise management does not seem to care for long term users opinions over favoring “growth” of new users, because it doesnt even keep new users.
I know im preaching to the choir at this point, but i just wanted to add to the yelling as someone who had been out of touch w memrise news; I’ve never been a forum user but just a longgggg long time paid subscriber because I believed in the original old product. I would be happy to join in a crowdfunded project for a similar alternative, should the greater memrise community jump on a new developers project.
(Duolingo also made a semi recent decision to take out the community led discussions, which led to a great exodus of users who found the community teaching an excellent way to fill in the teaching & learning gaps of the software, so there is certainly a market should an enterprising dev team wish to create a new product in old memrise and old duolingos place.)
Removing Mems was a really disappointing decision that significantly reduced the usefulness of this app. I’m doing the top 10,000 Russian words course and it would be tremendously helpful to add my own mnemonic notes or images to each word card. I’d immediately buy a 1 year membership if that meant I could create Mems or have some kind of customisable note feature.
It’s quite disappointing as Memrise’s co-founder Ed Cooke advocated for the use of mnemonics in his famous memory techniques, but conflictingly there is no way at all of doing this on Memrise.
Will there even be mems in the future version of Memrise or at least some kind of feature I can add my own notes to an existing course? I’ll keep begrudgingly using Memrise while hoping for change as I’ve invested so much time in my courses, but other people did not.
so…
as far as I understand, there’s no way now that pictures appear on the android app, unless they are meant to be answers (and not the definitions, for example)?
I’m uncertain about your question as it doesn’t really pertain to this thread.
But: yes, if there is a picture that, provides (additional) pictures to answers, you won’t see it in the Android app, sadly. An example of a course that also provides pictures for many answers is this one:
Mems are literally the reason I switch from Duolingo ambassador to Memrise ambassador. I am soooo grateful for those who made the mems I have learned. They crack me up sometimes! But also I find them incredibly relatable and useful.
I was thinking that it is really silly to be getting rid of them, and I think that a new platform with mems is something I would endorse.
Why are they not doing the crowdfunding themselves? Never mind, we’ll try to do it ourselves if we have to. This is literally the evolution of Duolingo. We shouldn’t as learner community loose this progress.
I only used mems for putting vocabulary into the context of a sentence. To get around that I am experimenting with adding a column so that the sentence and translation will appear during planting and after making an error. This only works on courses that I create or on which I am an contributor.
I only used mems for putting vocabulary into the context of a sentence. To get around that I am experimenting with adding a column so that the sentence and translation will appear during planting and after making an error. This only works on courses that I create or on which I am an contributor.
I already did that for this course: Common German verb + preposition idioms - by huguesm - Memrise. It works somewhat, but
1 - It does not work nearly as well without the images.
2 - It pollutes the course by imposing my mems to all users. This is especially true since I have a few mems working very well in French, even though from an English to German course they are completely useless for the majority of users.
