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.
@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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Thanks for the updates. Nice to hear Memrise is doing well and growing.
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This course: http://www.memrise.com/course/764350/coornhert-latijn-frequentiewoordenlijst-klas-45/
The system that I currently use is:
AAA, BBB
- AAA
- BBB
- AAA, BBB
- BBB,AAA
AAA: BBB
- AAA BBB
- BBB AAA
I am still working on it and I will add new items using ‘;’
And these courses (not made by me, but using the same system I think):
And this one (don’t know the system):
@Xander5E-XLgaming_in What system do you use?
Thanks for your encouraging reply and sharing your vision.
It’s a great ‘tool’ for learning, and many of us want to support it (and the community) and offer non-language or specialist language courses.
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My system is kinda complicated, but I will probably manually change this course this weekend, because my system is inconsistent to some degree. FYI, I’ll PM you my exact system.
@BenWhately can you also please take a look on the “Tab freeze when review particular words” thread - it breaks a lot of courses, so at least some sort of comment on the situation would be nice… thanks!
this thread got already too long, I cannot find the answer to that particular question: will the courses made before this change in the “behaviour of the comma” broken? Will course contributors/creators have to “update” the databases to fit the new “behaviour”?
many thanks
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To borrow a phrase: Don’t make excuses – make good.
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I think so:
@demaxski,
thanks for finding the info for me - horrible work; as the contributors/creators are not paid or something, there is less and less incentive to take care of/create courses on memrise… i am editing my own existing courses now in here and on cerego, because doing anki desks takes the same amount of time. I’ll probably make most of my courses private as well… pity. But, maybe i find a local software that would be easier than anki to manipulate
edit: now i realise I have to withdraw as contributor from a number of courses which became simply unusable for ever (there are there some more than 50000 entries??? wow)
I wouldn’t rely on that offer… This one young man got work for three lives now (I understand his wife is worried 
)
I don’t envy him, so to say. On the other hand, some other solution was probably possible - a solution less costly for those above the beginner levels memrise itself offers, and a solution for the long-term users who rely on an older set of courses for learning
ah @Hydroptere, I think your courses are fine. Can you see the comment I chat with zaloast? and try them yourself.
@BenWhately … I do fully realise how annoying this is if you have a course that uses
commas as separators already, and are faced with manually changing all
the commas to semi colons. I am doing it for the HSK courses I made at
the moment, so I do know exactly what is involved.
I’ve used semicolon as separators in most of my created courses, but it does’t work either! Why not?
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@BenWhately
Could another option be to add a feature that enables us to down/upload a database file of a course? This way every course owner can just let some kind of script auto-replace all commas with something that fits their needs. Also this would make adding words even easier.
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