Okay, sounds good 
I don’t have any user scripts activated. I don’t know what you mean by “let QA know”, I’ve never had any bug reported through the old bug reporting mechanism even so much as acknowledged.
I’ve only definitely noticed it when you get an answer wrong and are prompted to type out the correct answer - it automatically accepts the initial parenthetical word and doesn’t let you type the rest.
Have you abandoned your Chinese courses in the wake of these “comma changes” or will they be updated eventually? I’m not super far into the HSK 6 course, but the comma changes are causing me a lot of grief in my review sessions and I’m reluctant to continue.
I just want to know if I should keep on trucking or quit it and move on to a more current course. I do appreciate all the effort you’ve put into the site, and it’s been truly helpful. Just would like some solid confirmation.
Edit: No response in nearly a month. Quite disappointing.
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Yes I’m also wanting these courses to be fixed! : (
So from what I understand the changes were reverted and then added again as an intentional feature? And the official way to get the old behaviour back is through a userscript? Why not just give us the option? I don’t understand what this breaks. I don’t have the ability to edit the course I’m using and I have no idea if the creator of it is still active to fix it. Can we at least have an explanation for this that actually makes sense?
And, again, is there a good replacement for Memrise? I’m trying Anki at the moment.
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@whizzer0
There is no official way to get the old behaviour back. But you can use a userscript.
The reason that they removed commas:
btw, if I look at Ben’s explanation: if they have “tens of millions” of app-users, I would expect a much bigger team of devs…
btw, here an article of a prof musing about the usefulness of memrise for learning Latin: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/the-impact-of-using-memrise-on-student-perceptions-of-learning-latin-vocabulary-and-on-long-term-memory-of-words/B8F58571C6C7EDA40453FA9274D7CF9D
I wonder - now that the best Latin courses in here are simply broken - was [what?] would she say about the same topic today
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Bleh, Comma, Hyphen issue comes up again. This time in the Country Mapping Course by @azrael42
Specifically so far it won’t accept U.S. Virgin Islands as an answer, nor will it accept Cape of the North. Instead I have to hack it by typing in ‘American Virgin’ and ‘Nordkalotten’ Not sure if azrael42 is even active to fix this issue.
I’m having trouble with the userscript. As far as I know I’ve added it exactly the way I’m supposed to, but I’m not finding a difference in the behaviour of commas. Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
Hi @kotodama Cc @azrael42
Not sure if azrael42 is even active
As his name does not appear as a link above, the answer is not at the moment.
It is a great course which I have studied. You could just ignore the one or two offending entries.
However, there are other mapping courses, several of which I support.
Yup, ignoring has been something I’ve been doing more and more. Any particular recommendations for Mapping courses in a similar vein?
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@whizzer0, as far as I know, the userscript is for course creators and course contributors to use to fix their courses, not to change the behaviour for the course users. Which course is this an issue for?
This one: http://www.memrise.com/course/32805/ocr-gcse-latin-vocabulary-higher-tier-unit-a402/
I don’t believe the creator is currently active, which is why this change is so frustrating. I have no power to correct the course myself.
Okay. Well, you can always message Lien, or start a new topic and tag her, and ask her to add you as a course contributor, which would allow you to fix the issues.
I added a couple of alternatives which should resolve the issue, I hope?
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is this issue still going on?
Thanks, will see when they come around for review again.
It appears that the issue is still going on.
Please add a regression test for this already.
@ApolloNexus and @TL-Hertzy, Memrise has said that this is the intended new behavior and users need to modify their courses to convert the commas to semicolons. One of their devs has provided a userscript that highlights words with commas to help you make changes yourself more easily, and there is another, user-written, userscript that performs the changes automatically when you run it.
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