I was actually very hopeful when I read about the Decks split originally because I thought it might mean Memrise was going to go back to supporting and valuing the community and community-contributed courses, but when I checked back here more recently (waiting a while after the Decks split so I could see how things turned out), all I saw was a different URL with a slightly different color theme, but nothing fixed, nothing improved, and no attention from Memrise. It was indeed confusing why the two were split when they just seemed like different URLs to access the same stuff.
However, now you’re actually directly saying that you might be considering supporting and valuing the community again! But you’re saying it very vaguely. Can you tell us a bit more so we know whether to believe what you say? Memrise spent a few years really shitting on course creators and the community courses, driving many of us away, and seeming to be happy with that. Is that really changing? What are you planning to do? What are the issues you see, and do they have any overlap with the actual problems community course contributors experienced before you drove us off the site? How will you take feedback in a structured and transparent way? Please tell us more concretely if this is something you actually care about again.
As confirmed, by speaking to some of you we’ve already gathered a lot of useful feedback on areas that need fixes and improvements. We are also still collecting all your suggestions and complaints, which we’ll analyse and prioritise accordingly - these still need to be further discussed internally, which is why we can’t give you more details at this time.
We do believe that by bringing back community-created courses in the main product, and by addressing the feedback we’ve received, your experience as valued course creators and learners will be improved - we can’t wait to share more updates about this!
@2.0please Yes, since community created courses will come back in the Memrise app, we can confirm that you will still be able to use offline mode.
Great to hear Memrise. But I think I speak for a lot of us here when I say I prefer the Decks color scheme. And could the forum area be easier seen when looking on a community course? Decks never really launched properly. Which is a shame, but it’s great to here I don’t have to use 2 apps/sites.
then i wish we’ll be able to use features like Speed Review or Difficult words on community courses without payment like how we are able to do in decks
I really salute the management and developers of memrise who have worked hard to make Decks work but realize that it didn’t serve the memrise community well. Being a developer myself I understand the incredible amount of work it must have taken to try to achieve that split. Kudos and thanks for listening to your users. That’s a rare thing these days and I thank you for it
I am delighted with this decision. Community-created courses are fantastic, and it’s one of the main reasons I switched from Duolingo years ago! I look at Memrise as an overall learning app, not just a language learning app, although it does that very well. Community-created courses allow us to practice spaced repetition with topics that we may have never considered as a topic of interest before. I am interested to see what developments/innovations are coming up. Thank you for making this decision!
Thank god! The Decks announcement was really annoying for people like me who used mostly community-created non-language content.
I hope that in the future you can make the mobile app less language focused. There is already Duolingo for languages, but there isn’t really anything for everything else (e.g. geography, history etc.). I have been using Duolingo, Memrise and Brilliant everyday for quite a while now as a paying customer of all 3 and would like to see Memrise become better in everything that Duolingo and Brilliant isn’t good at.
I find a lot of good courses by spying on others, glad I’m not the only one doing it!
I set up a twitter account to review French courses, I’m hoping it will bring new people to Memrise and help those who are already here to find the right courses for their level.
I was so happy about the merging of community courses back to memrise and the real memrise mobile app (100% of the courses I take are community created) so I finally renewed my yearly subscription again as thanks and for supporting Memrise.
Good to hear!
I just hope you guys will communicate better with your users in the future though (did not get an email about this new decision and many members don’t check the forum).
Would like to give some other feedback I’d like to see in the app:
-option to edit/create courses through the app itself instead of through the website.
-fix the toggle issues in the app. Whenever I’ve looked at a course, it goes either to the first sub-course or a random one. Really annoying having to scroll up and down the whole time, especially in long courses.
-introduce some kind of messaging system so users can alert course creators of any mistakes easily. Or, alternatively enable people to edit courses without this affecting the “main course”(so this would create a copy of the course for every user).
Please don’t pay-wall user-created courses. Peope have spent a lot of time and energy on making them, so suddenly not having access to them will really not be appreciated.
Have been with you guys for a long time (despite everything) and would hate to move to Anki because my courses have gotten pay-walled!
