Forget it, it is a corporate “correct” speech. Like politicians, you know?
@kevin5284 - To maintain any sort of usability, having an app and offline capability it imperative. Is this something that Memrise is considering doing with Decks at all?
I’ve put hours of effort into creating my “community created courses” and I’d like to be able to continue to use them.
Kind regards,
Nicki
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If a ton of people stop using memrise they’ll be forced to reconsider.It’s clear that this decision is pure business but it seem they forgot that offline mode is very important.
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Just cancelled my pro subscription. The Memrise Pro courses are nothing exceptional or different from Duolingo or the million other language learning apps that teach dominant languages. I used Memrise to learn and teach indigenous languages, languages not found on Duolingo, community created content that set Memrise apart from others. Not having a mobile app is a deal breaker. I’m a software engineer, and mobile-friendly site is 100% an inferior product.
Notice to any software engineers out there: If you’re interested a competing product, one that makes money BECAUSE of the community, not in spite of it, shoot me a message!
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Wow this sounds amazing, definitely going to send an email.
It is a nice thought that it will be free for all but I think it is unfair for them who paid.
I also would like to continue to use it on my desktop PC with the webpage.
I don’t have space enough to run it on my phone andf also I can read and type better on my deskto PC
oh you remind me of the fact, that I can’t use other alphabets on my computer. That is again a disadvantage for me personally as I study languages with different alphabets. It is easy using the app, but almost not possible for me on the computer.
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Why don’t you call your new project “Leprosorium by Memrise for language geeks and freaks”? It’s not as dull and stupid as Decks and would cheer us all up a little bit in this gloomy winter day.
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It’s trivial to set up on Windows.
I guess I understand if you’re learning Chinese or something like that, but you can learn to type using, say, Greek or Russian alphabets extremely quickly.
Check out Keyboard Stickers in your target language on Amazon. That will help you get over this problem.
@nphx
I tried many times but it is really inconvenient for me. Of course it is technically possible, but for me personally, it takes so much time. I actually don’t know how it is these days, but back then i only had like a specific amount of time to write the correct word or expression and couldn’t make it because of that.
This is simply retarded because user courses are what keeps the user longer in your website. Once he is done with your shit, he doesn’t need to be subscribed anymore. I pay to track my learning progress and there is no point doing it now as I have finished all official courses for the target lanaguage.
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That is not my main problem, I just want to add that there are more arguments which will stop me using memrise/decks apart from the important facts as offline courses… it is inconvenient for me.
I am studying several languages with different letters (these days Korean and Russian) and I was so happy to be able to use it on the phone. So it is again a step back for me.
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Ok, I’ve requested a refund. As soon as I’m done importing everything, this will be where we part ways. Hope the people over at Memrise realise the amount of frustration we’ve all felt for the past 24 hours. There’s rarely been days when I haven’t learned at least a new word on this site, but I feel today was worth doing so.
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@cazzandra You’ll be able to continue learning on desktop, that won’t change. But if you want to learn on mobile you’ll need to use a mobile browser in future
Oh well…
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after this, how can we trust you that you wont abandon us in the future again? Since it is going to be free what will keep you still funding the hosting of webpages? Commericals, ads? One of the reason I am pro-member is that I felt that it will give you money to keep the things the way they were…
and also I have just cancelled my Pro - subcription and I used to be so proud to be a Pro-member. Sad.
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