Same story) Also haven’t visited the forum in some time and was surprised at the new one. Anyway, new and more structured forum was waited long for,so I’m happy to finally see it. Its a pleasure seeing how one of favorite sites develop and grow new features.
New and lost here too. Liking the new forum setup, but wishing more things had been carried over from the previous feedback/idea forum, etc. I enjoyed reading everyone’s ideas. Hopefully in time, this forum will grow to be as rich in user feedback.
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Hi @Fiona, I’m still not completely used to it, but then again I need to spend more time in it! Best wishes!
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I don’t like the new forums. I can’t find all my posts via the way I used to do it.
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@Strasse: how did you find all your postings in the old forum??? in this one is very easy… did you ever click your own avatar?
Hi @Strasse
I can’t find all my posts via the way I used to do it.
If you mean the old Course Forum posts, I’m afraid MemRise has deleted all those and they now point us here.
Are you a creator of a course? Have you seen this thread?
Many creators have set up new threads. Look for “[Course Forum]” (before a course name or Creator/ Contributor) in the appropriate category or search by keywords (tags).
Are you looking for anything in particular - we may be able to say what your options are.
@Hydroptere yeah, I looked there, but I did not see anything.
@DW7 I am of a few, but they are private, so I ain’t worried about it.
I am looking for the Spanish 1-7 and the German ones also that Memrise created.
We have already wondered if MemRise is supporting it’s own courses.
All I can suggest is you first look under those languages and if not present, you create a thread including one of the MemRIse @ names.
I googled it and found the following:
http://www.memrise.com/course/1098043/spanish-1/
http://www.memrise.com/course/1098044/spanish-2/
http://www.memrise.com/course/1098045/spanish-3/
If you follow the above sequence (or else google yourself, you should find the remainder.
I believe the same deal for the German ones, here is the first one:
Best wishes!
@Strasse ,I’m afraid the content of the old-style forums for those courses is no longer available, and the Memrise Team who created these particular courses do not intend to start new topic/threads specific to these courses in the new forum.
In reply to a recent question I asked the forum Admins about this, I was told that they don’t plan to start new forum topics for the Mermrise-created language courses because they feel it may be best if learners who need to report mistakes or make comments/suggestions first check under the relevant language heading whether there is an existing topic for that course. If not, they (the learner) can create a new topic for that course themselves. Their reason for taking this approach is that it should reduce unnecessary clutter on the forum - even though it is not entirely consistent with the guidance previously sent in an email to course creators, which encouraged us to set up replacement forum topics for our courses.
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Thanks for that information @alanh, I see several people have already started threads for MemRise courses with ‘issues’, in line with your comments.
[the MemRise team] feel it may be best if learners who need to report mistakes or make comments/ suggestions first check under the relevant language heading whether there is an existing topic for that course. If not, they (the learner) can create a new topic for that course themselves.
Will the MemRise team see them or should ‘we’ add an @ somebody’s name on the MemRise team?
We wouldn’t know who, specifically, to name as we don’t know who created each course, and I expect that Lien and Joshua would soon get bogged down if they were always named as the ‘go to’ guys for everything.
For example, when the Memrise A1 Spanish course first appeared, one of the Team regularly answered forum questions but, after a while, that person disappeared and it became a bit of a free for all. Some posts got good quality replies from other learners and some didn’t. I asked about that at the time and was told it was a ‘resource’ problem which they hoped would be resolved downstream. I’m guessing that remains the position.
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I would:
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Search the relevant category in the “Language Quarters” area to see if there is already a topic for the course in question (or to see if a similar comment/question to mine has already been raised by another learner under a different topic).
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If there is already a topic for that course, I would post there and then wait to see what response I get (if any).
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If there is not one, I would start a “[Course Forum]” topic for the course in question and post my comment/question in it…and then wait and see what response I get (if any).
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If I didn’t get a response (after a reasonable period of time), I would probably add a post inviting Lien or Joshua (using their “@” username) to ask whichever of their colleagues was the creator of the course in question to respond to my original post.
Does that seem like a plan? 
Of course, while these things are happening, it’s possible that other learners will have joined the discussion - as happened in the old-style course forums.
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@alanh, well, it does look like a plan… there is nothing more one can do
but, well, it is not like in the old forums. Because the old course fora used to be accessible from the learning/reviewing page. There was a direct link.
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We’ll make it work, though, won’t we? Just like all the other changes over the years. I’m already finding my way around quite quickly. I expect you are, too.
For me, the biggest loss is no longer having the “report” button which let us go straight from an individual item page to the course forum. Now, if only we could get that back somehow. Oh well…
I think some of the issues which some people are currently upset about are due to the fact that the new forum is a commercial ‘off the shelf’ platform and
Memrise has limited scope (or the staff resources) to change its features/tools. If you have some spare time, it’s worth a look around the Discourse website and its sandbox. There are examples there of other websites which currently use the Discourse forum.
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well, this is exactly what i’ve said “from the learnig/reviewing page. There was a direct link” - that link is a tremendous loss…
I don’t know really anymore what staff resources memrise has, they deleted those short presentations of the team members, wonder why? I’ve counted just now the people in the team photo - 22? http://www.memrise.com/team/
yes, @alanh, we’re among the “old” ones, we know “our memrise” inside out… however, I’m not sure if the good will and energy of some of us will help this time. I do hope so…
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Thanks for this link [quote=“Hydroptere, post:47, topic:109”]
I’ve counted just now the people in the team photo - 22? http://www.memrise.com/team/
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That’s very bad idea to wipe user’s data. I’m talking about data, that was stored in course’s forums. Memrise just threw it away. That’s very rude. I can’t believe that Memrise could do it. Incredible.
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