Well, well, well - what I predicted earlier today, has actually already happened:
Memrise as a community platform is being declared dead, by @BenWhately, here. Our user-created courses, which we poured so much of our time and love into, are permanently broken, and on purpose. Memrise doesn’t care, and made the choice to break them, deliberately, and never bothered to even tell us. And now they intend not to fix them.
Years ago, and again more recently on this forum, several of us asked for a setting on database columns, to choose whether commas mark alternatives or not. Memrise ignored us, repeatedly. Now, they pretend that the only way to make their own courses work, is to kill the comma feature, and hundreds of our courses with it. If they had added this setting, it would’ve been easy to accommodate both kinds of courses, but obviously that’s not the sort of thing they consider worth their time.
Yes, Memrise’s actions over the past two years prove that. They view their old, formerly loyal user community with utter contempt. They have shown, time and time again, that they hate us.
We keep using their software because there’s nothing else out there that does this, and because we’ve spent such a huge amount of our own personal time and effort building this site and learning things here. But make no mistake, their hatred and contempt for us has been very clear for a long time. Do not expect even a shred of respect from them, whatever they say; their actions speak for themselves.
