And courses originally created by a user no longer involved?
I administer (with the help of others) a Modern Greek course that was abandoned by the creator years ago. I am deeply concerned about this issue. The course is rather large, has a large following and we have been trying to get the ownership changed for years, but all of our requests have fallen on deaf ears.
Thanks 
Real disappointment. I use it for Latvian and there is no original memrise course but just community made ones (nevertheless I got pro in order to support you guys n that seems to be worthless now). I use the app and find it so much more friendly than any site can ever be.
What I really donât get is this switch to a website instead of an app. You donât even have to develop a new one but can simply duplicate the existing memrise one and rebrand it into something along the line of âDecks by Memriseâ if the goal is to separate your original courses from the community ones. How hard can it be fgs?
How is the performance of the online version? (speed of response time and testing interface compared to the Memrise app)
For the mobile website version, how frequently are words loaded in (would it be 10 words per time before the page is refreshed like on the app, 1 word per time, etc.)
Is there an app in development for decks? If so, when is it expected to come out?
Will the difficult words feature be free in decks (without a Memrise pro membership)? If yes, have you done any existing customer research on existing Pro members on how many will continue to be after the split?
I am quite disappointed. I spent entire days for years uploading phrases, audios an polishing my courses. I was just thinking about going pro but now I am not sure anymore. In fact now I am sure I wonât. I will stay just to see how bad it will be and I will start looking for another platform. I opted to memorise Vs Anki because of the easiness of the course editor but I am afraid I will have to leaveâŠ
This is so disappointing. I pay to use the premium service because I use my own and other user-created courses offline on the app during my subway commute here in NYC. There is no internet service while youâre on the train. This change will make Memrise pretty useless for me. I will be cancelling my membership and looking for another service.
How do I download a course with Memrise on Steroids? I canât find an option to do that.
Go in the options-tools-collector. Then youâll see all your courses on the left. Click on all the ones you want to download, let them load on the 2nd column, you should see all their levels appear there. Do that for all the courses, then click start on the top. Itâll start downloading them level by level and once all the levels are done for a specific course you can download the .csv on the far right.
Then you could import that .csv into excel through Data-Get External Data-From Text. After selecting the .csv file, set the file origin to UTF-8, and thatâs pretty much everything.
As with everyone else here, I am incredibly disappointed by this move. I am learning Spanish, and have completed all the official courses. For the past 6 months or so, I have been using community created courses to move into more advanced learning. I learn exclusively through the app, and for the past 2 years have paid for a pro membership to be able to learn offline when I donât have a data connection.
This is a terrible, ill thought out plan, and I wonât be resubscribing when my year is up. This membership costs upwards of ÂŁ45 (~$60 US). If everyone in this thread is a subscriber and cancels, youâve instantly lost yourself $18000 a year. And these are just the people who have already seen the news, and have bothered to leave a comment here.
Please Memrise, rethink this error.
I only paid to use the difficult words feature on user created courses. I wonât leave, in fact I will continue using Deck as long as it exists. I wonât pay though since I donât need memrise official courses xD In a way it benefits me. Just hope their decision wonât cause the company to stop existing so weâll end up without memrise and deck 
Thank you!
Exactly! I have no reason to use Memrise if I cannot learn my own courses offline.
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Ironically for me, Iâve just finished writing an academic paper called âWhat Do The Founders of Online Communities Owe to Their Users?â Itâs about Bait and Switch, the exploitation of core users to achieve whatever it is that such startups want, before pulling the rug from under their feet. There are some fabulous examples.
The reason we have been looking at this is because we are setting up an online community for CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) which we want to be more ethically based than they usually are. Itâs a university project which will be free, open source and - importantly - will be easy for users to control at their end, owning and controlling everything themselves. For anybody interested in following up on this - weâd love to have core (ex?) Memrise users as beta testers both as content users and content developers, please email [email protected] and go on our list.
Well, thatâs a bummer. I loved this app for 5 years. Iâm a pro user since I wanted to use my own courses offline and now what? I have a 1 year subscription that ends in December so after next month this app will become useless to me.
Why? Because Decks wonât have an app, no offline mode etc.
Really sad, because I was always saying to my students that memrise is a great app and they should use it, some of them even bought the pro version like me. Now I will have to take my words back, because the best thing about MEMRISE will be gone now.
Hope theyâll reconsider or move the courses to DECKS after it has full mobile support, an app and benefits that would come from being an memrise member.
If not then they should give subscribers an option to refund, because I will lose a reason to use this site :<
It is being peer reviewed at the moment. It was intended to be an extended version of a presentation given late last year in Leiden at an EU workshop about ethics in CALL and crowdsourcing. The link to the presentations can be found here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/callector/XKM0-yhHOxA
The first discusses what we see the problems as being and in the second presentation, how we are hoping to ethically solve them.
Ridiculous decision. I already cancelled my subscription and will inform myself how to get a refund. This is not what I paid for. I exclusively use user-created courses (the language I learn, Ucranian, is not even available as official course) so no point in subscribing. The plan to not offer an app (and thus, no offline mode) also has to be one of the worst and most customer-unfriendly business decisions ever. I cannot even imagine how I would feel, had I created courses myself. You are killing the app, that is for sure.
That may be true, but I did not read even ONE positive post.