I am not sure if “bug” is the correct place for this comment but was trying to find a suggestions category but it is incredibly hard to navigate the forums (the de facto standard for forums works pretty well so just go with that setup?). My suggestion is on the forum signup/login. When I came to log a bug about the german course I was surprised to see that you have to essentially signup again for the forum. Given that we are in 2018 and your site seems to have alot of traffic/premium members using a third party forum software (which is pretty bad anyway - see above) and not directly hooking it into current authentication seems unprofessional.
no, it does not. Memrise and discourse -the host of the fora - are two separate things, and I don’t see why discourse should know erything about memrise users and viceversa
this being said, memrise used to have its own fora, each course had a direct link on the review/learn page to the own separate thread… until one year and 2 months ago
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Hi @charliekeene225, as long as you don’t close your browser (eg shut down your computer) the Forum will remember your log-in for ever (usually).
@Hydroptere - Emm what? Discourse shouldn’t, clearly and they shouldn’t even have a database with memrise user. Memrise already has a database of users and an authentication system for login these users in. You should either plugin an existing forum solution to your site and integrate your current authentication system with this (so that the login is called via memrise’s main system). Or you should build your own forum software.
@DW7 - the problem is not with the effort of double login. It is with poorly designed software. If you have a database of users, you have it in one place where it can be managed, updated etc securely. Having multiple different login systems within a site means multiple databases, multiple places for security issues to occur. This type of system mostly happens when you have a very small often single person creating a site, who hasn’t got time to write their own forum software or to hook existing forum software into their authentication system.