ah @zaloast what did you use for synonyms? Is it comma?
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@hung-phan
my normal set up was:
for everything but verbs
xxx, yyy
for verbs
to xxx, to yyy
then also add alts without the “to”
doing it this way i could expected to be able to type a wide arrange of answers and all being correct.
so in short, yes i have been using commas
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the first course is
http://www.memrise.com/course/241849/chinese-meow/
ex
question：可亲
answer：admirable, nice
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ah @zaloast, I don’t think your course will be affected. Just do 1 level of your course, I have no problem with the comma.
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To clarify, if the comma is in the second column, it wouldn’t affect your courses. For example, “paddle, row, sweep”.
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Hi Hung,
How about the use of ； ? This is frequently used in 98673/the-new-practical-chinese-reader-1
Example below. My answer was deemed wrong:
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i just checked that course and you are correct it has not been affected.
today i started studying my other course and when i ran into the problem i assumed it was like that for both courses (last time this happened it was)
try this course
(Japanese meow) - by zaloast陈俊杰 - Memrise
(test the third level)
i make three levels for each word, so a different column is tested.
basicly changing the test direction each time (i like to learn the word thoroughly)
here is a specific example of a word that has the problem
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@d003r, sorry it is a bug, and we are fixing it. If you follow the discussion, you will see a screen I post about what we will support.
@zaloast, the words are in the first column. We have to discontinue the usage of comma as separator for the first column. You can follow the discussion, there is a screenshot for that.
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when you say this is a temporary solution, do you mean that no matter what we do, at some point we will have to completely change all the courses from “,” to “;” ?
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Hi @BenWhately
Here are the courses I am using on a daily basis (like you can see, I suppose, on my record).
There are 6 of them, I hope you can see all links!
It has helped me a lot with my Arabic studies and I still need them and I do make new items very often.
Is it true that “/” or “;” will work from now on?
Regards,
Zwanetta
PS I made also Hebrew courses in the past but I dont use them any more.
2606 words in:
http://www.memrise.com/course/711558/arabisch-voor-beginners-ii/
5000 words in: (by the way, I am not the initiator of this course):
1015 words in:
http://www.memrise.com/course/783548/-3212/
902 words in:
http://www.memrise.com/course/458645/al-kitaab-ii-2/
666 words in:
http://www.memrise.com/course/341351/words-al-kitaab-i-from-16/
1081 words in:
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ah @d003r, let me correct myself. you will see the screen where it specifies the behavior to tapping test. In your case, I think you have to select both.
@zaloast, sorry. I can only answer the technical questions.
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Thanks for explaining it to us.
We hope you will feel the 10% long-time users who have created or are supporting other courses (often that MemRise has not created) with a lot of our time (as well as offering support to users and creators in this Forum) are still valuable supporters.
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It would be slightly easier to put up with this ridiculous sudden change in comma behavior if the semicolons were working. They aren’t. Can we please get the semicolon function back?
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I don’t know if you are aware but there is this Memrise Announcements Section on the Forums that is almost totally unused. Maybe a quick heads up there before any major changes might be nice. Even a short couple of sentences is better than complete silence.
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@WildSage you are totally right, of course. I will make sure this does happen in future.
@DW7 yes, the long term community if hugely important to us, not least jus ton a personal level that we have shared so much with you all over the last 6 years and have benefitted so much from your help and enthusiasm. That is why it is my intention that as we expand the team we can put more resources into making the site for user generated courses better and better. But in order to get there we need to solidify and grow the business as fast as we can. In the short term that is happening through our own courses and through the apps. That is the pragmatic reason for the short term focus, but it doesn’t change our long term commitment to people like you who have helped so many people over the years through the courses you create and maintain on Memrise.
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@Zwanetta I will take a look at these later today, probably this evening if that’s ok.
@zaloast yes, at some point all commas still need to change to semi colons to be used as separators.
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Thanks for the explanation. Apart from my personal preference for the website version over the app, I needed to get a feel for how much of my time I should give in future to maintaining and/or expanding my image-based courses (or creating new ones) as these work best on the website and tablet due to screen size.
Course creation is also dependent on a fully functional website, of course, but if Memrise is moving away from encouraging and supporting user course-creation, it will be a big disappointment.*
*Edit - Posted before seeing @BenWhately’s reply 3 posts above.
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@d003r in tapping tests you need to put all answers, but in any order. In typing tests you can type only one of the answers.
@pdao thank you for your support, it is deeply appreciated. We certainly don’t always get it right when we make changes - particularly in our communication. But we are pouring all our life’s work and energy into making Memrise as good as it possibly can be, and support like yours (and many others on this thread) means a great deal.
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