Half of the language courses I use are not by Memrise. As most of Memrise’s own courses for the languanges I was interested in (pt-PT, da, but also other languages if you omit the few “hot” ones) are anglocentric, some community courses were the essential motivation for my subscription. If the change to drop those courses goes through, using these courses on the phone, on the tram etc. will become virtually impossible. (Mobile-friendly of course means: a lot less reliable than the app, no locally saved courses, using loads of paid data volume.) Then Memrise is of not enough use to me any more, so I am going to cancel my subscription then.
(The tone of today’s message suggests that everything has been decided anyway, which is quite sad, as I liked Memrise.)
I know you want to give spotlight to your courses. And i’m sure if I started using memrise right now I’d love them, but at this point they’re not at the level I’m interested in, I’m sure I’d try if I were to start another language.
Thing is… you could’ve made separate section on memrise website. Official, Community.
Give icon or some info on the list to distinguish one for another.
Instead you decide to remove all what made you so popular to another site with less support.
I just checked my account. Most of the courses i use are communiuty created or my own. And there are only European and some Asian languges by Memrise. Hundreds of different languages are in community created courses.
You just don’t understand. Money is the reason - it is hard to compete with the free community courses. What they want to have is a paywalled course, where to study in any way you should have a paid subscription. No subscription - no courses at all. And these community courses, they are just a nuisanse, they are as good as “official” ones. Why bother with the paid membership?
Only flashcards? Does that mean that there won’t be the option to build the sentences and test my writing? I have no memrise app for Finnish and flashcards are the same as writing words down in my notebook. It takes your learning only that far. I love Memrise because its the only place I can learn properly Finnish. And now you will take it away.
Oh dear, I recommend Memrise to everyone I meet, including tertiary classes I tutor or attend, and I didn’t even realise there were official courses on memrise, I thought they were all community created. I even had a subscription for several years. The important part of memrise for me was the ability to create courses that fit into various niches, such as minority languages or vocab for certain books, which were hosted as part of a proper professional site. I doubt there are any good alternatives, but without an app or full support, decks doesn’t sound like a good alternative either. I’m so disappointed! I really loved having my courses as part of memrise since beta, with hundreds (thousands?) of beginner te reo Maori learners coming here to this great site and community, especially since Maori has otherwise been unavailable on other international platforms (until this week). Big changes, a lot to think about. The end of a 7 year era for me anyway!
Not sure what courses you uploaded, but I would beg you to not delete your courses at least until the changes officially go through. Some of us are frantically trying to complete our courses before the shit storm. Haha
This is unsettling and I can only enter the choir of the other posters.
Will there be a way to pull the raw data from any course that I’ve uploaded back to my computer? I mean I have some data on my computer but I made a lot of corrections and so on only in memrise itself not in my excel sheet.
I would like to get the raw data so I can think about putting my course into another service/app.
EDIT: Does anyone know of a website with an app similar to memrise with your own courses? I might want to switch.
I haven’t downloaded my courses for a while, and it used to be an awful process, as support for course creators has never been good, so I doubt it’s better now. I will also need to look into it though.
Dear Memrise. Could you explain me what are the incentives for staying pro member? Now I subscribe 8 courses and all of them were created by community (5 public, 3 private). To be honest I have never used your app as the website works well for me and I don’t need offline access. Actually I should be pleased since I won’t have to pay for your services any more. Unfortunately I am afraid that a new website will be a citizen of the second category when it comes to quality and performance as the main focus will be put on the main website and mobile apps.
As a matter of fact I don’t get that whole big change.
It will ONLY be possible to use Decks from a web browser. There will be no app, nor an offline mode. For many of us, that makes the new service unusable, hence the outrage…
