I can’t download a deck because I use an old Samsung tablet (Memrise requires latest versions of Android). So I use the online version with my tablet in landscape, and change the keyboard to be split (a built-in function that also makes it smaller sized). It is kind of klugey cuz I finger zoom and adjust a lot to make the letter selection icons bigger (Thai letters are so small). But it is doable and more relaxed than sitting at a computer.
So for me the web version works okay, but creating Mems is a lot more of a pain.
Google’s own development tools show Memrise hasn’t optimised for mobile browsing on their main website (let alone the yet to be launched or tested “Decks” website).
Kevin, please can you confirm there will be an option to disable the timer on the new mobile website, as many users, myself included prefer an un-timed option.
i cannot create mems on a tablet, i need a laptop to do that. I need to search for stuff (is this translation right or wrong, I need a picture or not), easily on a puter than a tablet. Also, with time passing, the house got full with various laptops - some aruond 1 kg and with extraordinary image resolution, and big screens - so I enjoy learning on laptops… Tablets (and light laptops) are ok for travelling around, when one has to wait for something/someone (and WiFi is present , luckily for the moment I live in a country with very good WiFi coverage), etc - which waiting is such big chunck of one’s life.
1． Therefore I do hope that they thinker a bit with the web design of Decks, before leaving us all alone with it. More like the lean design of 2013? maybe… well, other users surely do have other opinions. Now that you separate the app, maybe you do admit that pushing that app design on the web was not in the favour of the web version users.
２. please consider granting creator rights for those curators who took over orphaned courses. It is extremely annoying to be unable to increase the font, or to add a synonyms column, or similar stuff. And, with this poor communication skills from the part of the memrise team - poor communication for the last 5 years!- many creators left memrise. Some of them left good courses behind.
3 be honest about closing down decks as well, when the time will come. Give everybody plenty of time to adjust - see the shitstorm now…
4.(@ismail) what do you tell me this? I know that, but I cannot help, I am trying to get along with what is left of memrise…
Creating courses is not a daily task so I don’t mind not being able to create them on the app although being able to do it would be welcomed.But reviewing is and I don’t want to spend hours on my laptop to review the words.
Lastly is not just about me and you it’s about a respectable number of people who need an offline mode.
I’d be in favour of this, too! As a course contributor, I can do quite a few things with the courses I curate, but it’s limited.
And, the access to delete and edit mems would be great, too.
There were various wrong entries on one of “my” courses (mistranscribed from the original database), which I have since put right. The mems, however, on these words are for the original entries, so it’s a bit annoying.
So, this is it, the death of Memrise. Or #Memrexit which some people call it. It’s a shame this happened, I’ll be staying though. But where shall I expect to see the users leaving? Duolingo? Babbel? Wherever you go. I wish you the best of luck! And hope that Memrise will be revived.
Unfortunately there is no better alternative out there IMO. There are alternatives out there that will do more or less what Decks will do.
Still, this change is very concerning. I have cancelled my subscription (which currently lasts until 2020) to show my support for the community created courses. They need to know how important those are, to us and to them.
The official courses are of very high quality. I prefer them when they’re available. The problem is they only go so far and they only cover a small number of languages. Beyond that it is necessary to use unofficial community created courses.
I don’t think this very moment marks the death of Memrise, but what they do from this point onwards will determine the future of this platform. Whether they continue to support Decks and possibly make an app down the line if they can monetise it somehow, and whether they are able to pump out a sufficient number of new official courses.
This is a crucial moment, but the months following the release of Decks will be even more crucial.
@amanda-norrsken
Just to get it right…
Right now, if you don’t want to have any special features, you have free community-based courses, right? So there is no plus, that it will become free, because it is and was always free (apart from offline mode, which won’t be offered with decks what everyone here knows + no app anymore). So only losses.
So you are happy, that it didn’t end up in worst case scenario yet…?
because of tha mentality you see greedy companies removing more and more features but you are free to accept it.Just don’t expect other people who are affected negativly to do the same.
Hi @kevin5284, thank you for taking the time to answer questions.
In addition to @alanh, questions (and forgive me if this what the second question is asking, or has appeared below his post - I’ve struggled to read so many comments) my question is based on the fact that I have created some 40 plus courses and support and have improved some 200 other courses (many by users no longer here, where I think of myself as a Curator or Custodian).
Qu : When courses are transferred to Decks, will ‘Contributors’ AUTOMATICALLY have the same editing (and maintenance) rights?
@deco1546 yes we are looking into either removing the timer or allowing users to turn it off on Decks. I can come back to you in the next few weeks when I have more clarity on this
, luckily for the moment I live in a country with very good WiFi coverage), etc - which waiting is such big chunck of one’s life.
. More like the lean design of 2013? maybe… well, other users surely do have other opinions. Now that you separate the app, maybe you do admit that pushing that app design on the web was not in the favour of the web version users.
