What’s so very much fascinating about this is the fact that Memrise obviously even invests the time to translate this utter nonsense into all app languages!
@edcooke: how about sharing your insights to help us mere mortals understand as to what this might be about? There sure has to be something pretty clever … unless you simply like wasting money & resources!
Hi, On the Apple App store we automatically cycle through a handful of pre-written messages, the one posted above is one of them. Whereas on Android we have a fixed message which you’re familiar with.
Please rest assured we are not spending time writing such things each week.
Thanks for clarifying! May I ask why you don’t simply keep the text to the relevant bits? I don’t see why you would want to do it the way you do. I know that learning is easier when it’s fun, but a bit of sobriety - where appropriate - wouldn’t harm either (just my 2c!).
You spend your time writing them, while making actual release notes would not hurt you. And to be honest, I don’t think these messages are funny in any way.
Sorry I should have been more clear. We wrote 4 messages months ago and they are cycled through automatically. Absolutely nobody is manually putting effort in each week.
More generally, the reason we can’t put detailed release notes up every week is that there is no single release experience. Like most apps we roll out changes gradually, testing them perhaps just on new users, or a single course and then rolling them out to all users. So we struggle to make a comprehensive list of changes that is true for all people. And as Olaf mentioned they also need translating to over 20 languages so it can be a lot of work.
Interesting, how others are doing it? Must have some superpowers. By the way, nobody asked you to translate them into 20 languages. English would be enough.
Since they have official courses of different source languages with the target language being English, it’s reasonable of them to do the translations.