I don’t know if it’s related, but now when you try to add words, the search in the database does not work. Yesterday, for instance, if I tried to add a word that was already in the database I was given the option to add it again by just compiling one of the boxes, now the search no longer works.
there is a proof here:
I just hope it’s not a new fantastic amazing feature that helps you add the same word multiple times, while ignoring the common and yours databaseVery disappointing I hope the fix this issue soon
This is the same for Chinese courses. Separate definitions for a single character would be separated by a semi-colon and you could type each definition and have it correct. This has made my courses unusable.
Bumpidy bump. Tests are currently not accepting answers which are separated by the comma or semi-colon notation.
Yep, seems most language courses are affected. Bummer, here we go again collecting errors.
Japanese language is also affected with commas, forward slash, and parenthesis,
Please fix the problem of strict typing fast.
Why hasn’t anyone from memrise explained how this giant mess happened? Until a bit over a month ago, memrise non-strict typing worked the same way for literally YEARS. Suddenly it has been broken and stayed broken in a variety of new and ridiculously different ways for the past ~5 weeks, utterly destroying a large number of courses. What point is there to memrise at all when the courses just plain don’t work??
Hi @Joshua,
No doubt you and your dev colleagues are working to fix this bug, which is affecting everyone’s learning records and generating increasing levels of irritation. A progress report would be very welcome.
Hi everyone,
We’ll be looking into several issues which have been raised, slowly but surely.
The good news is that we are currently working on them.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Well, I thought I was something the creator of the course I was taking (Advanced English (B2, C1, C2). Spanish Speakers) had done wrong: I have to write some words with the phonetic transcription in order to be marked as correct… So I wrote on the course wall here in the community, I was writing an email to the course creator and now I read this and it seems it is a problem with the slash… Or it seems to be a problem with the dash, because this moring I took French for Spanish Speakers made by Duolingo and no problem with accents, periods and anything…
Let’s wait to see what happens… And hopefully we won’t have to leave our courses.
Thanks, @Joshua. I’m sure you’ll crack it soon.
It’s not just the “inconvenience”, though. Each time we are marked wrong when giving a correct answer, our learning stats and review periods are being skewed!
This should be considered a priority 1 bug of the sort where some of the staff cease ALL other work and treat this as their urgent full time focus. Enough staff to get it fixed, ASAP. I’m really disturbed at a) how long it took to acknowledge, and b) the tone of casualness about it. Memrise is basically broken and unusable for a large number of courses currently.
I’m so embarassed that I just gave out the URL for my fish course, just two days ago, to a large group of people I went on a dive trip with. If any of them try it now, they’ll think it’s terrible, and they’d be right. There isn’t even a banner up on the web site explaining that there’s a serious bug, so people who try courses and get marked erroneously wrong will just think the course is terrible and not come back, and it will reflect on me. Ugh.
that space for the travelling sun could be used instead for short announcements from the team, for ex of the following type: “the site is currently experiencing /having / causing / etc trouble regarding this and that…”.
I’ve only been running into issues with comma-separated lists needing to be inputted strictly for the past several days–somehow, in the course of fixing things, the developers created a set of entirely new problems? As others mentioned above, this makes a large number of my courses exceedingly frustrating to use, and I’m presently considering dropping Memrise entirely and searching for other alternatives.
If you are playing around with new features, that is the sort of thing to develop in a separate beta website that does not affect current users until all the bugs have been smoothed out.
My experience with the Memrise team’s developments has not been entirely a happy one: in the past two or three years, I’ve found the website has only become worse and worse. First minor annoyances like the course icons on the dashboard being much larger and requiring lengthy scrolling/page loading rather than the previous much more convenient layout, then new much-more-egregious issues like deleting all the old forums. (What was the logic of removing a discussion area accessible for each course from each course page? And then deleting all the comments I made in those forums? And then requiring a separate login/website for the forums rather than a unified site?) But now, with these bugs, you have actually impeded your website’s principal function. Bear in mind that people are here not because of all the new features/“improvements” you’ve been adding, but because they wish to study, and your principal job is to facilitate that process.
Please, hurry up fix this annoying bug. Thanks.
use the iPhone app (without updating it!) or the function speed review from the website. That way you can keep your streak without damaging your stats too much
Thanks for those ‘workrounds’, @yuu999.
I don’t keep streaks. But I do keep my own records of my percentage accuracy on tests. It’s those that are being affected, and the frequency of review.
Let’s hope the devs get it fixed soon.
are people still experiencing this? it went away for me ages ago…
really? how many “ages”?
edit: two days now, since typing courses got unusable…
Any ETA on when this will be fixed? This is ridiculous.
I had to disable Typing Tests for the English column of my course (The Ultimate Kanji Course). This is far from ideal, because it’s way easier to answer a multiple choice than it is to remember the word by yourself.
Someone please look into this and fix it ASAP.
