Now the only remaining thing to do is revert the Memrise app to the previous design or make a new similar design. Not necessarily space themed, but something similar colour wise.
I just can’t stand the new yellow theme. It’s so disruptive to the learning process that I just had to stop using Memrise altogether. The old space theme was so balanced and well made. Much more relaxing to look at with nice dark colours. The biggest problem by far with the new design is the amount of white space in the course overview. There are only a few small circles in the screen at a time, while most of the screen is just blank space with a solid white background. It’s very jarring to look at, and honestly it looks like an alpha build.
What I don’t get is the message on the dashboard of Memrise about community-created courses returning. These courses never left Memrise, despite the announcements last year.
The message should be placed on Decks, because that is the place that will be closing.
… next week, probably …
edit: they moved the message to Decks and within a day
First of all, Thank You for merging back Decks into Memrise. I am looking very much forward to it.
The NUMBER ONE thing I have been looking for for several years now is to be able to transfer ownership of community-created courses that have been abandoned by the original creator. I am the administrator of a very popular course for Modern Greek, which I have invested hundreds of hours into improving, BUT I do not have complete control and really need it. I’ve asked about this countless times. As a long time developer, especially in databases, I know this could be easily done, but I feel it continually falls on deaf ears. Please help us who’ve taken on these types of courses.
Maybe it’s a fluke, but after all the heartache a year ago the community courses never stopped working in the main Memrise app for me. As long as I’ve added new courses through the web interface they appear immediately in the app. Did this happen to anyone else? I was glad I never cancelled my subscription.
Kudos to the development team for gradually switching to the sea green color and downplaying the awful yellow scheme that had been introduced, it’s been much appreciated.
Minor bug I’ve noticed lately where sometimes in the ‘words and phrases’ section the initial presentation of a brand new item will be skipped, and I’ll be quizzed on the 1/6 step without the pre-quiz introduction. S10 running latest Android update.
Hello
so just to make sure I understood correctly,
Decks is closing - so what happens to the community ability to create new courses? shut down along with it? or migrated back like it’s been before?
Also, where could one send you feedback about the course creation process?
Ha, so I wasn’t out of my mind! I think I’ve seen this like 3-5 times over the last couple of weeks. But this issue rarely comes up so I always thought I might’ve been wrong in thinking I never saw the word before.
Today I noticed Decks would be gone, so I decided to do my curses on Memrise, after done with a review session, I went to review my difficult words, only to find out I need to be subscribed to use that feature on Memrise, but on Decks it was free.
That was my first impression coming back from Decks to Memrise, on Decks I was free to do my curses with no problem but Memrise is gonna keep bothering me to pay or buy the subscription to do simple things that I could already do before on the Decks website, I am probably end up paying because I am already so invested. I like Memrise and Decks but I think this is a bad practice, I always been able to review difficult words before I had to change from Memrise to Decks, on Decks I always been able to review my difficult words, and now I have to come back to Memrise, but a feature that I always used is premium only.
Also, this last part is less important… but there could be themes for us on the settings or something, I noticed a lot of people don’t like this yellow theme, I also like the design on Decks better, since both websites are so similar shouldn’t be too difficult to implement something for that. During the lessons I noticed they use different fonts and formatting is a little different.
I will keep using Decks until I am able to review difficult words on Memrise.
Be me, buy memrise sub since reviewing difficult words sounds like a good feature.
Memrise remove user content to decks, function becomes free…
Yearly subscription runs out without using any of memrise pro features cause you’re using decks.
Memrise decides to take user content back to memrise and difficult words are premium again.
This could be the whole idea of quashing the Decks project. And, in my opinion, it’s only fair to pay for premium features, because Memrise guys also need to eat and web-servers are to be maintained. What I don’t understand, in case that this is true, is why they telling users about listening to their feedback. It’s about listening to something totally different.
I suppose the fact that the Decks-features that were otherwise restricted to paying customers on Memrise were merely on Decks because Memrise had to just start somewhere at bringing over community courses and performing “the great switch”. That said, while I can understand that what used to be a free feature on Decks may now be gone, that’s just how it is. And I’m more than glad about Decks ceasing to exist.
As you wrote, @Hombre_sin_nombre, someone has got to pay the bill and back in the days when Decks was introduced we were all afraid of Decks having a good chance of becoming the community courses’ gate into oblivion as Memrise would have had to provide server space, dev resources and what-not to keep a site and app-suite up and running that not only provides no revenue but instead costs money. You go figure.
And to all those haters and “I want it for free, FOR FREE!!!”-PITAs out there: ask yourself how much you’d like to do for free yourself and/or whether you’d be willing to even spend your own money on stuff you provide for free. Oh, and of course you’ll be doing that while still having some morons shout at you for the stuff you give away because it just ain’t as perfect as they’d like it to be!
I mean, a lifetime license costs $99, that’s probably less than two average nights out. A pretty good investment into something that improves you, if you ask me.
And if you are a pupil, student, whatever, ask your parents - I’m sure they’d be happy to pay for you.
Of course there may be folks who might still not be able to pay $99, but that’s a different story.
I didn’t say I want it for free, I will gladly pay the price, but the fact is on the email it said nothing would change for me and on my first few minutes on Memrise I already got a few pop ups telling me it’s time to pay, giving me the impression the change is actually to promote the paid portion of the site instead of improving usability for it’s users.
If they were trully transparent and said the real differences between both websites it would be fine, if they told me they need money because having 2 websites is unsustainable and that’s why they are doing this, I would pay. I like Memrise, I am just trying to point out that some casual users might see this and decide to uninstall the app without coming to the forums.
EDIT: The idea here was to give constructive feedback to the website, not to hate on it.
I just got a lifetime membership through the mobile app and it was 139.99$ US. Online it’s 199.99$. Even with the price increase I still believe it’s worth it.
Cough Cough, if I didn’t feel screwed over twice I might have kept paying. At this point I’m just glad I’m not gonna need those features soon, at this point I learned a lesson about using web services. I’ll stick to stuff like anki.
