probably, please propose that to the team (I don’t use the app, so…; I even built my own alternative to memrise, although I don’t yet like it very much - the alternative)
I have no idea, as I said what I said from the perspective of a company (part) owner who’s trying to maintain a certain product.
But I live in Scotland… So close, but still too far for my little legs!
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edit: Willing to travel if can make arrangements. Will keep updated.
I’m going to have to add my voice to the list of users.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t change Memrise!
People come here for the community created decks and rely on the app to study while on the move!
Please make your community created courses more accessible, and teach people how to make their own personal decks. Not hide away the community driven learning!
This is a HUGE mistake!
Interesting that they are having an event. I wonder what could come of it. Unfortunely I live in Japan, so it’s just a little too far for me. Hope some people can make it!
I don’t expect anything to change with the meeting it’s one week before Decks is launched but I respect the people who’s going to meet Memrise representatives.
I’ve set up a poll:
I spent a lot of time creating my own courses and studying courses, created by other members. And now you tell me that I will not able to use memrise app and my purcheased pro version because of these “innovation”? Please, think about it one more time. I really loved your app and I use it everyday.
Link to your poll please. Wanna vote!
This change of splitting the user made courses from the Memrise made courses is frustrating for many reasons. As some background, I have been using Memrise since 2013 and have constantly been sending others to it as I saw it as much better than traditional flashcards and the spaced repetition aspect made it seem more effective than other apps like Quizlet.
I have created vocabulary courses in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English for myself and for friends learning all of those languages. When my sister was moving to South America for over a year, I spent hours and hours making her a Spanish course, so that I could help her learn a language I care dearly about even when I wasn’t with her. Last year as a brand new ESL teacher, I found out my students had been using Duolingo as a suplimental resource for when the children had subs or extra time in class. Upon looking at the courses my students were taking, I realized they were not learning vocabulary useful or relevant to teenagers who had recently immigrated to the US, so once more I spent hours and hours created an English course for them. Many of them had limited or no internet at home, so being able to download this course on their smartphone, using wifi and then being able to practice English whenever they needed to was a huge blessing. I also made courses for friends while living in Brazil, to help them learn English, a skill they desperately wanted to learn but couldn’t afford to the traditional way. They too have limited internet on their phones and often didn’t have wifi at home, which made downloading courses such a god sent.
In my personal language learning endeavors, I used Memrise all through college while majoring in Spanish Translation and Interpretation. In my language classes, I was often complimented by my teachers who wondered how I learned the vocabulary in class so quickly and well, and I would honestly tell them that it was in large part thanks to Memrise and my ability to create personal courses for what I was studying.
I love what this website, app, and community stands for, hell, I even bought a lifetime subscription t because I saw it as good investment of my money. If you have to split the courses made by Memrise from the courses made by users, I understand and respect that, however taking away our ability to download courses is honestly a big fuck you to everyone that has spent their hours and money and given support to Memrise, especially those of us that were here before you made it big and won best app on the Google Play Store and who continue to stick around. Taking away my ability to download courses makes the many hours of my life I spent planning out vocabulary courses for students and friends, typing them up, taking the time to find MP3 recordings of native speakers on Forvo, and requesting whenever a word or phrase wasn’t there a huge waste. You’ve put a lot into developing this language learning platform, and we have put a lot into making it a vast database full of precious information. I guess what I am trying to say is, don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
Amidst my frustration and confusion, I would like to end with a few suggestions for what you should seriously consider if you want to keep the loyalty and business of customers like me and well as future customers through referrals. As an interpreter and translator, I am often asked by friends, acquaintances and family members, what my go to language app is. Up until now I have sent them here, and my honest hope is to keep things that way. That being said, here are some options I think you should consider…
Suggestions:
Finally, I hope you can see how much I love Memrise and I just want the best for you as a company and for us as the people who use your services. I know this is one of many comments on this thread and perhaps you won’t be able to respond to my opinions in their entirety, that being said, I would appreciate some sort of acknowledgement that my feedback has been heard, and my suggestions will at least be brought up among those making this big decision.
I love Memrise and I think the people writing here do it too. However, what made Memrise unique from all the 1000 other Language websites, are the Community created courses. This is why I really have no idea why this was your decision. Memrise will become an App/Website like many others. Sure you may get some “Language Learners” which learn a language in only 5mins per day!!!(Duolingo)But you will probably lose everything which made your website so great.
The site Decks in my vision will be a graveyard for all the Community created courses.No offline mode so everyone which lives in rural areas even in First world countries won’t be available to learn. Which is a complete No-go for a company of your size. Also, people which live in Internet censored countries won’t be available to learn without their computer to use a VPN server. (or only with a super slow connection)
What we need is not a murder of the old Memrise but a big improvement in Custom Course Creation and maybe other learning modes/learning algorithm.
I really hope that Memrise will be successful not only for the money pocket but also for the user size.
Hey pochojoel, I completely agree on everything you said.
The user “wilddom” (also wrote in this thread here) made a script which grabs the vocab and audio and transfers it into an Anki deck
If you have a problem with it head to Reddit r/Memrise or r/Language Learning
Just went through the trouble of activating the accounts for the forums to subscribe to what the vast majority of people have already said: User created courses combined with the functionality of Memrise (especially the app and the offline option for subscribers) are what makes Memrise great.
Since I exclusively use the app and accessing tap-heavy websites via the browser is a pain and just frustrating (or infuriating even) this is goodbye for me. Shame, really.
I have an actual question about Decks. Will user-created courses retain the possibily of staying private, like personal courses are now?
Thanks ^^ I also shared it on twitter and facebook.
Wow! Thanks. 
Happy Memrising 
You’re welcome ^^ Let’s see how many people vote though I’ve already cancelled Memrise Pro and deleted my account. But still, it’d a shame if memrise continues with the idea of splitting up.
If Decks is not profitable it would be the end of community courses.
Yes, it costs money to run a busy web site so this is confusing, too, especially as many of us didn’t mind paying Pro for custom content.
) But look at this poll I made… 
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