It’s too late for me memrise… What a cock-up…
Very great news! Thanks that you did listen to the community, I think it is a great move!
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Thank you so much Memrise for considering this carefully and deciding to go with a mobile app. This has made my day.
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Thank you memrise … signing up pro immediately 
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Thank you Memrise Glad I can go round telling all my friends how amazing Memrise is again!
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I wouldn’t do that so quickly. So many things have been wrongly done in the last 2 years I have been a paying member… Cancelled my subscription few weeks ago.
This only one move in the right direction (Decks-app) has to be solidly confirmed in the next 1 or 2 years before I maybe pay some money to Memrise again. By the way, we haven’t seen any Decks app yet, they’re just “working on it”. So long, Memrise has mostly disappointed and “betrayed” me again and again. So, wait and see.
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If they branch off the existing Memrise mobile app sources and do a little bit rebranding and redirection to Decks REST APIs this should not take more than a week to get the Decks app up and running.
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Already there 
Now the comment pointing out that it would be fun that the previous comment got more likes than the first one…
Hi,
GREAT NEWS! I was asking you to surprise me and become the first company who listen to its members. And you did! Thank you.
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So happy to hear the good news - I’ve paid for a pro-account for my son again
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I have no inside information on this particular course deletion, just a general understanding of a legal process that happens fairly frequently, on Memrise, and also on other internet sites, such as Ebay.
You said, “course of the same textbook.” Copyrights are complex issues. Sure, nobody “owns” words and conjugations. But when someone arranges those words into groups and designs a learning sequence, as generally happens in a textbook, that learning sequence can definitely be owned as intellectual property and copyrighted, and the publisher has legal rights.
Certainly the publisher has the right to not have the name of their product used to describe a course on Memrise that is not affiliated with or endorsed by the publisher.
If a course is removed by Memrise due to a copyright allegation, the course creator would definitely be informed. The course users would probably NOT be informed. Any copyright infringement is only an allegation, and does not have to be proven for Memrise to respond and take down a course. Memrise would not get involved in adjudication of claims or counter-claims.
(( If someone with forum privileges felt like taking the time, moving Lydia9’s original post about a course disappearing, and responses addressing that occurrence, to a separate thread “Course disappeared”, could be helpful. The event doesn’t have anything to do with this thread ))
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Hi, @kevin5284 have you seen my post about display issues with Decks? Though I have a scroll bar on the r/h side (on an Asus T100 convertible laptop) it isn’t actually functional so everything below a certain point on the screen cannot be accessed. Any ideas on how to fix this? Many thanks, Peginthesnow (CarolineParkinson89)
That makes sense, so putting a list in the same order and chapter one, chapter two etc. can be an issue? Is it only if you publish it or even for unpublished courses for private use? In my friend’s case she said Memrise replied to say you can’t restore somthing that’s been deleted and unfortunately nothing’s backed up etc. and there was no mention as far as I’ve heard of any copyright infringement, sounded like a glitch. But I don’t have the correspondence so I couldn’t say further than that I’m afraid. Glad to know that acciental deletions don’t appear to have happened to others, if at all.
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To whom it may concern,
I want to present myself like an English student and a former customer. I’ve just received a message from your company notifying that you will delete my courses. I’m going to take my final English exams in two months time and I need the courses that I created to brush up my vocabulary. Those courses which I have been creating with a lot of efforts, it took me THREE years of my time. It has been a very hard work and they are essential for me to get over the English course that I am currently doing.
I have always trusted in your website to develop my database from the beginning. That is the reason why I have been working so hard all these years. And I do not want to failure my exams that I will take in two months because the system is going to work no more. Those courses are invaluable and indispensable for me.
I would be very greatful if you can help and give me any solution to my problem. I am sure we can get an agreement.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,
Tomás Pindado / Inmaculada Gonzalez
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y’all are real trifling. I think we could all see that cynical move for what it was. Now i dont know whats going on with this 2 tiered app amendment but if I’m missing any features on decks, I will be taking my business elsewhere.
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User related courses are special because everyone learns differently and when it pertains to certain languages that are more complex and/or less popular than others, Memrise hasn’t put enough effort into them to make me ever want to give up user created courses. I have never been impressed by any courses made by Memrise. Their courses are very elementary, boring, and pertain to a specific audience. The only way I would ever pay for Memrise is if they developed a way to effectively teach grammar for the languages I want to learn. Otherwise, it it just a platform for memorizing words and sentences, not actually learning the language. It’s not worth the money.
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I’d say don’t waste time deliberately learning/memorising grammar rules - just learn 10,000 words (possibly using Memrise) in a language, then start reading Wikipedia articles and watching YouTube videos that interest you in the language. I’m currently impressed by Stephen Krashen’s research - this is an early video that summarises some of his key ideas.
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3UrGCj71s
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If you like Stephen Krashen, you will also like Steve Kaufmann’s videos on YouTube and his language-learning company, LinQ.
This is pretty much what I did, only I started reading and listening to books straight away, watched kids’ shows on the internet in the original Swedish and pronunciation tutorials. At the same time I started learning Swedish vocab via memrise.
It was so much more FUN than using grammar books or textbooks, although I did buy a couple of grammar reference books, eventually, by which time I could actually make sense of what they were explaining 
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In school with traditional learning I was able to make basic paragraphs within a year while with memrise and social media it’s been 3 years and still can’t do it.So I disagree.
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Why not stop using Memrise and social media for language learning at least for a while, and switch over to the traditional method that worked well for you in the past?
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