IS THIS SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE? Is this ever going to get fixed?
In the end, is there a solution to the comma problem or are my courses useless now?
They don’t see it as a problem so no they’re not going to put it back - they did it on purpose!
Your options are to update your courses so they’re usable again or to quit them.
20,000+ words is not easy to change given that I’ve been here since the words were plants that needed watering. I’m disgusted with the handling of this situation. Something so obvious and easy from their end and they can’t be bothered to make the effort to fix what they never needed to mess with in the first place.
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Hey guys 
I’ve made a userscript that automates the changing of commas to semicolons. I’ve emailed one of the staff to ask for permission to post a link here to the script and am currently waiting for a reply.
If anyone is considering going in and manually changing the entries in their courses, they may want to wait and use the script instead.
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You can just post it. This is no different than userscripts that do different things?
It would be different if you could use the script to edit random courses you’re not a contributor to.
As of 2:15 pm EST (New York) Dec 4, 2016.
I put together a test course to see for myself how the commas and semicolons work. This is what I found:
For typing tests: There is no difference between how commas and semicolons are treated. In fact, if a comma is asked for one can answer with a semicolon and vice-versa.
String: xxx, yyy
Correct answers: [xxx] [yyy] [xxx yyy]
Wrong answer: [yyy xxx]
The same is true if the string is xxx; yyy.
So answers in different orders are never marked correct. This is very bad.
The matching problems work exactly the same, when xxx and/or yyy are available for choices. Choosing xxx or yyy gives a red box (for wrong), but the sound is of a correct answer and it is credited as a correct answer.
Try it for yourself at http://www.memrise.com/course/1318489/order-test/
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Hmm, that’s definitely not the case in the courses I’m maintaining.
On the other hand the parenthesis bug is still a major issue - I have quite a lot of answers in the target language that start with a word in parenthesis, and it now automatically accepts the answer when you’ve just typed that word (and nothing else).
@RobertKnight8a I tried and doesn’t run into the behavior that you just describe.
@dylan.nicholson.548 can you let the QA know your problem with parenthesis? Before doing that please remove any script that you have for changing tying or tapping behavior? By the way, do you know there is a release fix for it on this one
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You can have typing tests in Anki:
http://ankisrs.net/docs/manual.html#checking-your-answer
And since you are a person and Memrise a machine, you will probably ignore your typos when the answer you intended to type was right, which Memrise cannot do.
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Yes please go ahead and post.
Well, I tested it for a good half hour and it always behaves exactly as I described. I am using the app on iOS, if that makes any difference.
I tried this cours on the website and the comma only works as:
String: xxx, yyy
Correct answers: [xxx yyy]
Wrong answer: [yyy xxx] [xxx] [yyy]
Sorry, it only applies for Web version. Not for mobile yet
Ah, that explains it.
Hi @demaxski,
For that, I think you need to use the ‘/’. https://global.discourse-cdn.com/standard10/uploads/memrise/original/2X/7/78b2679cb33a916ba81ad6fb41e91d303336c52d.png has more inforation.
@hung-phan
If this change only happened on web, would it be possible to add a setting that course creators can toggle to use/not use a comma as separator just like the setting for strict typing?
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