Actually Kevin (@kevin5284) is a member of Memrise team and he answered some questions here.
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The company isn’t interested in the free model anyway. But they at least know if they completely remove the user content the riot they will have on their hands won’t be salvageable at all, in comparison with what they think will happen now.
yeah i know - i meant more that “everything will be the same” answer …
he answered some random offtopic questions here. (Corrected the typo ;))
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Kevn won’t provide any information outside what he has been briefed with. For anyone who works in the business industry you will know he has been likely given the short straw and tasked with ‘responding to decks queries’ with (probably) a select set of answers and are pre-approved.
We should appreciate his efforts however we are going to need Memrise to respond to us in proper with some kind of rationale if they want us to re-consider us keeping our paid subscrtipons and continuing to support and drive this product.
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Okay, I try again. Do you know the alternatives to Memrise? Without Anki. Or is it the only platform?
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On Decks this highlighted opinion will be misleaded, because no offline mode for community-created courses… : (
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Yes, me for example… I really want and use the off-line mode a lot, a lot, if not only. In the subway and many rural areas in the world, the internet is still flaky and it is really frustrating to get an error message when you want to review 10 words…
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How did you request a refund?
Okay, I try again. Do you know the alternatives to Memrise? (without Anki)
I think DuoLingo is up there however it does not have any of the features Memrise users currently want. It depends on your language also. I am a student of Korean and there are some alternatives: LingoDeer is quite good for grammar. Tinycards is OK. Rosetta stone I guess… or just reverting to physical paper and making your own SRS. There will be more apps out there but something really works when you get a large user base and there is a ‘consensus’ amoung users that it is a ‘goto’ app. Memrise was, but I guess it won’t continue. 
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I’ve just updated my review in the Play Store. If people wanted Duolingo they would download Duolingo, not Memrise.
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Boris, you’re correct. It’s about £££
It seems that for us that have paid out for a subscription and convenience, we’ll be paying twice over for a worse service.
If Memrise are going to press on with this change, for those of us that don’t use the official courses they could at least organise partial refunds on the subscriptions from when the course transfer over to Decks. It is such a major change of usage it’ll be worth discussing with whoever we pay our subscriptions through, or even Trading Standards in the UK
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If you need the most desired features (Android/iOS app + offline mode + user created courses + user friendly interface), then most likely there is none. I have tested several more or less similar apps yesterday, but in my opinion they are no-good. Try to google “alternatives to Memrise” to see the full list.
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Yes, I wonder if Apple or Google could help, if one is out of his 30-days period…
Or create a copy of the Memrise app, call it ‘Decks’ and have it pointing to the Decks internet server, rather than the memrise one…
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Yes, they will be. Mems are part of the new functionality I just read in the FAQ.
@ What features are available in Decks?
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I welcome the changes, if it’s handled well. Are there plans to make the API more open in Decks for users and/or open sourcing some parts as well in the future? I would love to contribute to such a project.
This is awful news and it will kill Memrise in the long run.
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Please don’t use only the website, but also an app. I mostly use memrise offline and that is the reason why i paid for lifelong membership. I almost finished the official courses in the relevant languages. I don’t have mobile internet, so I can’t use your app anymore if you stop the service I paid for.
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