I’ve paid for the premium to get all the features in Memrise language courses. However, community courses are also important part of the service. Is it possible to cancel and get refund for my yearly subscription as content is getting removed?
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It’s important to me that you understand the impact that this change will have, so I’ve just canceled my pro subscription. I would be pleased to resubscribe if I can continue to use this very valuable service.
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Hello!
If I can’t have all of my learning in the same place anymore I will cancel my paid subscription for Memrise and find another service where I can. This is really bad for the users. Please tell me why I should continue using, or even paying for, Memrise after this change?
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now I regret that I bought a year’s subscritption. this is so unfair
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Community courses are why I keep using and be a pro user.
Learning with the webpage is extremely inconvenience.
You’re ruining a great app, then your business.
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Sorry, Memrise. I will be harsh.
TL;DR. I see this as a sort of betrayal and definitely will not renew my subscription (account on memrise doesn’t match the forum one - for historical reasons). Not being able to use community courses offline for me is a deal breaker.
While your courses are good, the community variety was the main reason why I have got a subscription. And the ability to use it offline on the go, while commuting. Mobile-friendly websites and so on could be a great hipster fad but it just do not work. If I have a good connection I can use platforms with richer content, sorry.
Your own courses… they do not have grammar exercises (at least for my languages), they miss good “memes” to learn words. When one had finished your course he was able to find advanced topics and vocabulary blocks - no more.
What I see here, in fact, that community courses just competed with your ones and with the paid subscriptions. If one could get a good community course, why he should pay for your course that is behind a paywall?
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I enjoyed studying through the application for all the courses, isn’t the course made by the community able to complete the course on the application? There are a lot of language courses made by the community not being owned by the official course, isn’t that a good thing? I only hope 1. It would be better if it “deck” became an application than a website 2. I will able to learn through the application even if it made course through sister site 3. Memrise can subtract its official course (add the languages even to the unpopular languages and make a more useful course) 4. The course makers can continue to work because you guys have been very helpful to many people and you are wonderful.
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I just canceled my subscription.
I’ve learnt around 10 000 words using Memrise and have created several courses. I’m going to delete those courses as well since if I won’t be studying them; I will not have the time to maintain them.
I’ve recommended Memrise to many but will start recommending against Memrise since you really don’t seem to care about your paying users.
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You are murdering the app by killing the main functionality why older users are paying for the subscription. Bold move. I will have to cancel my subscription then.
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Half of the language courses I use are not by Memrise. As most of Memrise’s own courses for the languanges I was interested in (pt-PT, da, but also other languages if you omit the few “hot” ones) are anglocentric, some community courses were the essential motivation for my subscription. If the change to drop those courses goes through, using these courses on the phone, on the tram etc. will become virtually impossible. (Mobile-friendly of course means: a lot less reliable than the app, no locally saved courses, using loads of paid data volume.) Then Memrise is of not enough use to me any more, so I am going to cancel my subscription then.
(The tone of today’s message suggests that everything has been decided anyway, which is quite sad, as I liked Memrise.)
Cheers.
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yes, deleting the courses is a proper response here.
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Oh no.
Please reconsider 
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Well I’m disappointed.
I know you want to give spotlight to your courses. And i’m sure if I started using memrise right now I’d love them, but at this point they’re not at the level I’m interested in, I’m sure I’d try if I were to start another language.
Thing is… you could’ve made separate section on memrise website. Official, Community.
Give icon or some info on the list to distinguish one for another.
Instead you decide to remove all what made you so popular to another site with less support.
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I just checked my account. Most of the courses i use are communiuty created or my own. And there are only European and some Asian languges by Memrise. Hundreds of different languages are in community created courses.
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You just don’t understand. Money is the reason - it is hard to compete with the free community courses. What they want to have is a paywalled course, where to study in any way you should have a paid subscription. No subscription - no courses at all. And these community courses, they are just a nuisanse, they are as good as “official” ones. Why bother with the paid membership?
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Well, THIS is a good decision, seriously. Offload and then delete - if company don’t listen for community, well…
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Only flashcards? Does that mean that there won’t be the option to build the sentences and test my writing? I have no memrise app for Finnish and flashcards are the same as writing words down in my notebook. It takes your learning only that far. I love Memrise because its the only place I can learn properly Finnish. And now you will take it away.
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@Abadaar, @Boris_Nazaroff39, the thing is, you’ll be hurting learners of those courses a lot more…
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Oh dear, I recommend Memrise to everyone I meet, including tertiary classes I tutor or attend, and I didn’t even realise there were official courses on memrise, I thought they were all community created. I even had a subscription for several years. The important part of memrise for me was the ability to create courses that fit into various niches, such as minority languages or vocab for certain books, which were hosted as part of a proper professional site. I doubt there are any good alternatives, but without an app or full support, decks doesn’t sound like a good alternative either. I’m so disappointed! I really loved having my courses as part of memrise since beta, with hundreds (thousands?) of beginner te reo Maori learners coming here to this great site and community, especially since Maori has otherwise been unavailable on other international platforms (until this week). Big changes, a lot to think about. The end of a 7 year era for me anyway!
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Not sure what courses you uploaded, but I would beg you to not delete your courses at least until the changes officially go through. Some of us are frantically trying to complete our courses before the shit storm. Haha
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