My mistake.I mean website.
It seems like a risky bet to do that be because the app tries to sync with the server and you could potentially lose all your progress of weeks (months, years?) should your local app inyour phone stop or suffet any issue.
hmmm? I imported my courses from Memriae including the audio with no problem. What steps did you follow to import the courses inti Anki?
This is sad, I developed a mobile app myself to push new words into my courses in memrise in a convenient way. I’ve lost many hours of my free time…
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all of the course creators over the past many years have lost hundreds of hours to this. Good job Memrise
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reposting my other thread here.
Make Pro required to learn with the mobile app
Create two sections of the app and two different sections of the Memrise servers. The first section works for user-created courses. The second works for official courses. The sections work independently.
Many of us pay for Pro and study community courses on the mobile app. We keep our mobile app, you keep your revenue, you gain the ability to move faster with your official courses.
additional discussion: http://community.memrise.com/t/a-common-sense-proposal/34518
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The only way to generate revenue with a free website is ads:
So basically by destroying the user experience, they can monetise “Decks”, as it is becoming apparent this mobile “friendly” website is where the community courses are being sent to die. The website will be not be promoted, the user experience will be poor (due to “lack of resources”), user numbers will fall, then the plug will be pulled.
I would love to see a costing from Memrise for forking the app. Renaming one fork “Decks” and freezing development and making it a freemium (suggest a certain number of free minutes a day like “Drops”) or subscription only app with offline access.
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I’m working on the assumption that the user experience on the “Decks” mobile website will be poor and that it will be switched off entirely eventually.
UPDATE:
Note this quote from a recent job posting from Memrise (you can find by searching Communication Design Manager Memrise):
“We have just completed an in-depth rebrand project and now have clear direction on how we can best manifest our character through our products and communications. Now is time to bring that identity to life!”
No. Most users are people who barely use the app and probably don’t know community courses or Decks exist. So Memrise will not suffer that huge of a loss in the end, but they’ll still be affected.
Yes if their new target are ‘New year’s promise to learn a language and forget it a month later’ audience then decks and custom classes is not in their interest.
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Just did a search for Spanish on the Google Play store, there are 14 rows of 9 apps (i.e. 126 apps) listed before Memrise. The casual language learning market is very competitive.
Personally I’d target all the casual learners AND the intermediate learners AND those who want to go all the way to proficiency. Casual learners don’t pay for multi-year subscriptions.
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Looks like the only ones who don’t understand this simple fact are the Memrise team.
@Ryan_Murdock17, that explanation helped. I had severe problems with the first one. But now I can successfully download my memrise courses.
This is a very intriguing question how many users Memrise has on each platform. According to SimilarWeb they have about 9 million users per month on desktop and mobile web.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/memrise.com#overview
Given the latest tendency to use smartphones more than desktops this number for the app should be more or less the same. Also, many users going to desktop version only to subscribe for courses/create them.
P.S. With this tool you can see how many positive and negative reviews Memrise get in the last days. 
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I’m working on the assumption that the user experience on the “Decks” mobile website will be poor and that it will be switched off entirely eventually.
UPDATE:
Note this quote from a recent job posting from Memrise (you can find by searching Communication Design Manager Memrise):
“ We have just completed an in-depth rebrand project and now have clear direction on how we can best manifest our character through our products and communications. Now is time to bring that identity to life!” - hence “Decks” where community courses are sent to die.
It’s not hard to find ways to care for your customers. And the simplest way to do it is to make your product work in the way your customers want it to.
WE WANT AN APP AND WE WANT AN OFFLINE MODE.
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What is it that blocks to use the site if there were ads? Is it a school policy? Or more a convenience/usability thing?
I think that appropriate ads could be way to pay for the site, as long as they are not in our face and moderate in amount.
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Check out also this:
And indeed, as others said, Quizlet comes to my mind first; I shortlisted it with Memrise in the past and Memrise won.
I’ve used Anki with the memrise plug in to make backup for my courses once. Worked really nice, as also the audio files were downloaded (which I had recorded with just Memrise, so audio was not uploaded TO memrise).
This is all speculation; we have no way of knowing what will happen next. Nobody saw this split with the memrise app and the Decks website coming, did they? So it is pointless to speculate, really.
For my own part, I am going to - perhaps naively and misguidedly - stay optimistic, just to give my brain less to worry about in life 
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