Deck is going to create a lot of inconveniences to people who are using both community made courses and the official courses, as we would have to switch between the two apps.
A lot of you guys might have seen this post: Update: Decks mobile app!
However, in his post @kevin5284 doesn’t address a few questions:
- Why is making a whole new app and website necessary just for community offline courses?
- Then what is the point of Decks the website? Can’t the website stay the same, with everything conveniently in one place?
The main purpose of creating Decks seems unnecessary and inconvenient.
Edit: What made Memrise unique from other language platforms was the community-made courses, thoughts?
This wasn’t the original intent of Decks. Memrise would like to push this under the rug, but originally Decks wasn’t supposed to have an app or offline mode at all, it would’ve only been accessible on your PC, where it would’ve most likely died in peace. Luckily enough people voiced their concerns and they agreed to making an app for it.
As far as it being unnecessary and inconvenient, yes it is, but they’re dead-set on making this separation real. The most likely reason is that they want Memrise to only provide official content and disassociate themselves from the community courses which can be a mixed bag.
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They explained it a while ago. In a nutshell, they are creating features for official courses which are incompatible with community courses. Therefore, they decided to separate the two as otherwise they claim it slows down development and creates bugs.
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