As far as I can tell, the content in Early Access Spanish (Mexico) is not remotely the same as the Spanish (Mexico) courses 1-7. It’s a great disservice not to be allowed to complete them!
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Assuming that you’re a Memriese newbie, @k4100: if you stick with Memrise long enough, you’ll see why there’s many people who are beyond frustrated because Memrise used to be a great product, but - for whatever reason - the company behind it has continuously made stunningly bizarre decisions which feels like they’re actively disassembling (sic!) their product, removing loads of great features along the way and all the time.
You’ll find loads of discussions about this here on the forum, here’s → a little teaser.
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Then why don’t all of you just move along to something else (or form a corporation to implement your ideal version of the site), instead of presenting yourselves as supremely entitled and chronically embittered?
What value do any of the complainers add to this site, unless the ultimate goal is to drive it into financial ruin if they don’t comply with your demands?
May I ask if you are even a paying subscriber?
Because there doesn’t seem to be another app that fulfills the required criteria (community driven courses, web + app, etc.). The only one that meets most of the criteria is Anki, but I simply couldn’t get warm with it.
Also, over the almost six years of using Memrise, I have worked through probably well over a hundred courses; There is no easy way to import these along with audio, you’d probably have to start them over, etc.
For obvious reasons: developing something that covers three UI systems plus database architecture, is capable to support all sorts of languages, including left-right, right-left, Chinese and Japanese, etc. is not a trivial task, I’m not even talking about the funding. I’m a developer myself and I’d love to do that, but the stake is just too high and this would really be a full time job for a long time.
It’s probably the hope that discussion might ultimately help convince someone to take care. There seems to be quite a bit of fluctuation at Memrise, people come and go. There was a time when I (and probably many others too) were actually having video sessions with Memrise, discussing current bugs, future developments and approaches to enhance the system. And it’s not that Memrise isn’t listening at all or at least it seems that they are, as probably most companies, constantly re-evaluating what to do next. For instance, a few years ago, they introduced Decks (do a search here on the forum if you want to know more) and, after much discussion here, they revised their decision and dumped the idea and app. This doesn’t mean that the discussion itself was the reason for that, but I’m certain that it helped.
Doing nothing and keeping quiet OTOH doesn’t do anything, right?
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Why not integrate the user created courses to the new platform? Don’t take this personally, but your product is not better than Babble or even Duolingo. What makes Memrise special is the customization and the ability to focus on vocabulary, which is what all other apps lack. You have the market virtually cornered on this, but you’all do everything to distance yourself from your niche rather than promote it. Really is bonkers to me. Is that a British word? Bonkers? Maybe it helps get the point across.
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This description is not quite correct. They wanted to build Decks without an app, users complained about it, and then they changed this decision. If you remember, there were guys who visited Memrise office to convince them about the app. But in the end Decks were closed altogether, for reasons still unknown. James said that in Memrise team they were disagreeing about Decks.
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This is a completed and utter mess! Count me out, and to think that I paid for this shite! Will never use again, and move all my studies to Busuu. Thanks for nothing.
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That must be a tasty boot, the way you’re lickin’ it.
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Well, today my Android app was updated (now 2023.07.12.0) and now I’m being presented with an enormous banner in every selected course that asks me to try out the new Memrise (which I have already done).
I have no objection whatsoever about Memrise’s legitimate need to inform or even attempt to convice possibly reluctant users about the new Memrise, but this banner completely obstructs important information, and I don’t need to see it dozens of times every day. Quite an insolence and very irritating!
Why not show the banner when firing up the app, i. e. once?
And obviously, the link from one official Memrise course to the subsequent one has been dumped in favor of the banner. That gives me another few minutes of scrolling every day, hooray. Cheers!
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Objections, I guess?
The banners also appeared on the website yesterday: a big one on top and small banners for every official course:
Also there are some new statistics in the new version: learnt and practised(?) words, watched videos and completed conversations. And a calendar for activity tracking.
Gee, I should turn on my brain before writing. Cheers. 
Interestingly, the banner on the web seems to be shown only when filtering by language (as opposed to “all courses”, including i. e. non language courses) and/or when there is an official Memrise course for the language.
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Please review Sections 8 and 9 of the Terms of Service:
https://www.memrise.com/terms
May I suggest a course in Remedial Etiquette?
May I ask if you are also a paying subscriber?
Interesting to consider that you also wrote this on another thread: “Yeah, the dripping sarcasm and casual disregard are stunningly unprofessional.”
Will Followers & Following be brought back? I used to have my friends added on Memrise so we could see each other on leaderboards. I even met a couple good people via Memrise.
The community aspect is something that’s valuable.
Yep, paying member, not that it’s your business at all. Hard as it may be for you, try to spot the difference: I am not a Memrise employee, and you are not my paying customer. It’s not part of my job to at least *somewhat *politely listen to you and your concerns about some product you spent your own money on, and in many cases actually bought a literal lifetime subscription for expecting that you were buying the product you bought, not the different product it was forcefully replaced with later.
And if you want to throw around the rule book, maybe consider how you came in here like a bull in a China shop and starting interrogating people about their subscription level (arguably classist), and throwing around your “I do so look forward to your own site that’s just like you like it, please doooooooo keep us posted” unwarranted snark (since no one was talking to you, as presumably you do not work on the development of this app), and disparaging people with names like “complainer.” You are acting as an unpaid hall monitor for a multimillion-dollar company against its user base. It’s pretty lame, gotta say.
Either way, it takes a lot of nerve (and/or a complete lack of self-awareness) for you to fall on your fainting couch and fan yourself with the rule book after the way you’ve behaved. Don’t act like you weren’t being hostile and aggressive with multiple people in this thread, and across this whole forum toward anyone daring to express their opinions (which were, by the way, asked for by the company upon the release of the new product, as is customary).
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I find your response to be both disappointing and revelatory.
And I find your response to my response to not even be a response. 
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Welcome aboard! (Even if only for such a short while.)
Just quoting you for reference.
Bootlicker, the opposite of a dissenter. Another word for dissenter? Complainer. Don’t forget to quote that part too, the one that makes this “I do declare, how dare thee speaketh so” act so hilarious.
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