There is nothing we can do to stop the making of Decks. The only good part about it, in my mind, is that I can easily find the official Memrise courses, which, of course, will remain on Memrise, and it takes ages to have to search up a language to see if it’s official. Otherwise, I am against it. If Memrise is going to take courses down (ones that we spend so much time on!) the least they can do is add courses of there own onto Memrise (officialized). How are people supposed to learn Romanian, and Greek, if it doesn’t exist? We language learners here rely on the unofficial courses for languages that Memrise hasn’t made yet. These courses will be moved to Decks, though. If Memrise won’t make language courses of there own (like adding Romanian, Greek and Esperanto, as well as many others like Afrikaans, Catalan and Finnish) then the very least they can do is get started on making a Decks app. Memrise isn’t going to stop with this idea. It is probably already underway, and the money won’t return if they stop (it’s all about the money…) Repost if you think this should be done, for Decks is a terrible idea, and the only way to make the rainy day better, is to sport an umbrella and make your way.
As a native Romanian, I can see why they wouldn’t add my language. Keep in mind the high demand for French and Japanese, and then think of how minuscule the numbers would be for Romanian. Even I, who should be excited that someone is learning my language, have to ask myself just…why? There are more useful languages out there.
Now, regarding Greek and Finnish, they have a decent number of passionate learners, so I bet in the future we will see these languages slowly popping up in the official courses section. But that takes a lot of time and resources, they can’t just add everything, so I think they have some fancy algorithm to determine which language they should work on next.
The demand for Romanian is probably a lot higher than you would think. Take the Duolingo Course, which has 472,000 learners. That, and more. Some of them may not be on Memrise, but the amount of people wanting it is enough. And, besides, does it matter whether or not enough people want to learn? Is it not enough to have the joy in being able to see the few people learn the language, than to not at all? Thanks for your reply, LangAddict!
Well, Memrise, unlike Duolingo, is first a business, then a language learning platform. They have to take into account what works and what doesn’t so more people join which will, in turn, bring more revenue. I’d like to see more languages on Memrise as well, but there probably is a lack of resources as a result to some of their more rash decisions (which brought us to this Decks fiasco in the 1st place).
Even on Duolingo, which works more as a non-profit, there are languages in higher demand than Romanian, like the aforementioned Greek, Vietnamese; heck, even Klingon. So you see, Romanian would be a poor investment at the moment.
With that said, I think even the Memrise team said they’ll add more languages when this Decks thing cools down, so we’ll see what will happen.
I don’t think that Duolingo is non-profit oriented. The “low demand” languages that you mentioned are, from what I gathered, community driven (I might be wrong of course). In general, Duolingo heavily relies on volunteers, even for their “official” courses.
Duolingo is not non-profited, by the way. It makes it’s money from the Pro version or whatever it’s called and the streak menders.
@Olaf.Rabbachin , @Chevy_Barnes . My bad, I remember back in the day that Duolingo was completely non-profit and based my assumption that it still is. Even so, the features that it offers are pretty limited, so it feels more like a donation than anything else.
Duolingo does’t have Esperanto courses for polish speaker and memrise have a few created by community - this is big plus… but next week… ehhh maybe Memrise can create official course of it (not in English, but in Polish) 
I guess the solution for not very popular language is to makes some of the high quality community courses official.