Important Update: Upcoming changes to Memrise community-created courses

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Who are you replying to here, @jarmanso7?

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These features aren’t being “removed” at all. They were only ever available for the memrise official courses, never for community courses. They will still be available on the memrise app.

They’re not killing off the app; they are removing community courses from the app. The app will live on as the home of the memrise official courses.

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Same thing.

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(Reading too quickly, Ignore this)

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Hi @Arete_Hime although I don’t know how Decks will look in 20 years, it will be maintained by our Web team, who are responsible for both the Decks and Memrise websites.

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How many cancelled subscriptions are there, actually? Have you counted? I’d be curious. By the way, I’m not cancelling mine.

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Hi @flamantrose , yes that’s right, there will be redirects to the new course pages on Decks.

Admins and users will log into Decks using their Memrise credentials and will see their courses in Decks in the same place as in Memrise today (on the dashboard or profile page).

We weren’t planning on emailing the new course links, only the link to Decks. Do you think that would be a problem?

Thanks

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You said that you don’t have that much ressources for Decks so I doubt the maintenance will be good.

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Kevin, may I ask you several questions which were so much discussed in this thread?

  1. What is the profit for Memrise in supporting free platfrom and fending off probably the most loyal users who are willing to pay? What’s the catch?

  2. Why you have decided to stop developing Anroid/iOS apps which are highly demanded on the market nowadays? You said before that your resourses are limited, but as we can see you have enough resourses to build from a zero ground a whole new mobile website. Is it cheaper than to fork existing apps and maintain them?

  3. There are many users who are concerned that the real purpose of this perturbation is to get rid of the user created courses because they are competitors to the official courses by Memrise. Is that so?

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“You said before that your resourses are limited, but as we can see you have enough resourses to build from a zero ground a whole new mobile website.”

Companies usually do so. Instead of developing two versions of apps you develop one version of mobile site and your apps are basicly web browsers that display the mobile version with some extras.

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Need a third option,
“I will make my own Memrise with blackjack and hookers”

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@MarshallLanguages just to confirm what @amanda-norrsken said in case it’s unclear - the Memrise app will continue to exist but it will only work for official courses in future.
And learning modes like Learn with Locals and Pronunciation will continue to exist on Memrise, they aren’t affected.

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@amanda-norrsken yes that feature will be on Decks and it will be the same as today.

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Hi @flamantrose , yes mems will be transferred with their courses.
And the stats on the course card will continue to be there.
The course search functionality on Decks will be the same as current Memrise.
We’ll update the FAQs to make this clearer.
Thanks

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@Hombre_sin_nombre Sure
1 & 2: There’s no catch. Even when you expect to make revenue as a developer from an app, you need to balance that against the cost of building and maintaining it. In this case the cost is really the maintenance, and at the moment we don’t think the economics work unfortunately. The website is cheaper for us, and the majority of community learning happens on the website
3. No if that was the purpose then we wouldn’t be spending time on making Decks. The purpose is having a separate technical system since the two products are diverging

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@kevin5284
Will we be able to disable the timer on the decks site? I use the app 100% of the time so I’m used to not having a timer. The courses I use have long sentences that I have to type out so the timer makes it impossible. If it can be disabled, I might be able to get used to the Decks site if it works well, but otherwise I would have to make the switch to some other app. I’m aware of userscripts to disable it, but not on the iphone where I will be doing all of my reviewing.

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Not really the place here, but since this thread has gotten so very much confusing so that others may have the same problem: on the top right of each posting that refers to someone else’s posting you’ll see the name of the user a posting refers to. This is actually a link - if you click it, the posting will be loaded into the posting you’re looking at (quite a nice feature!). Oh, and if there’s a quote, you can expand that too if you click the little down-arrow icon (I never know how to call that little triangle, sorry) or go to the post by clicking the up-arrow icon. HTH!

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You could already log into memrise.com with your mobile device and check out the sub-par UI when using memrise online – I doubt Decks will be much better and they will not exactly put any of their engineering resources on fixing Decks UI or Decks bugs.

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@kevin5284 Thank you for the replies

I guess it makes sense, you have to pass by the login page so direct 301 links don’t make sense. It has been years anyway since my courses were crawlable by Google.

Be careful with links in the mails this one in the announcement of Ed was broken. https://www.memrise.com/decksbymemrise probably deserves a 301 redirect.

All in all I really DO HOPE that learners of community courses (those who haven’t created a course) will all be notified in due time, it could be quite a surprise.

Thanks again

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I’m sorry, what do you mean by

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