Make your voice heard where it hurts: Angry about the Decks update? How to make your voices heard
1 Like
@solomon_ver Weāre planning to come back in the next 1-2 weeks with a proposal on how to improve the situation of abandoned courses, which should address the errors you mentioned.
We canāt share any course creator email addresses, but itās likely there will be a system whereby trusted users can have ācontributor statusā on abandoned courses, as @alanh suggested.
You can see the list of features on Decks here
http://community.memrise.com/t/what-features-are-available-in-decks/33423/2
You havenāt answered my questions yet 
Weāll only accept suggestion for waiting an app version of Decks with all the features memrise have.We donāt care about your excuses.
1 Like
anyone know what happened to Memrise Pro users ???
their community-created courses will transfer too ???
I wanted to buy It for learning stats and offline mode app.
please answer
2 Likes
@Petulant_Victor63 sorry I missed your first message.
-
The old versions of official courses that will move to Decks are the ones in this list
https://www.memrise.com/user/Decks/courses/teaching/
So the one you mentioned with stay in Memrise. -
Yes weāre expanding and improving them all the time, and our Content team will announce these as they happen. Weāre not planning to add new languages in the next few months but we continually reassess this
2 Likes
Iāve been using Memrise for 6 years and have created more than 60 courses and I must say that this is a horrible idea.
Iām not surprised, though, as Memrise has been notoriously terrible with regards to listening to user feedback and communicating effectively with their community.
This site really needs to pull itself together because right now it is certainly on a slow and steady suicidal march.
3 Likes
I tried Tinycards a while back and didnāt like it. I found the community content is quite messy and itās difficult to find useful decks that I liked.
Quizlet isnāt too bad. Thereās a lot of sets by teaching professionals and you can import other peopleās stuff to make your own sets. Creating is very easy and provides automatic text-to-speech in most cases. You can add your own audio files, but thatās a premium feature. It lacks the ability to create multiple levels in a course, and the spaced repetition isnāt as nice as Memriseās.
I just had a look at Anki, but that looks like a lot of hard work to set up. It looks like it needs patience to learn to use effectively.
Although not an app, I would highly recommend goldlisting:
Gold List Method
1 Like
@parsalotfy not sure I understand your message fully, but all community created courses will get transferred to Decks.
@kevin5284
I mean , what happened to a person that paid for annually plan to study community courses offline ?
4 Likes
What about people who canāt access the Internet easily, for instance people who are travelling a lot? Or people learning more obscure languages?These people are being completely ignored. You will lose a lot of people as a result of these changes.
3 Likes
Looks like Iām late to a party. And I was even sent an email invitation, tooā¦
This is a very bad move. Itās a real shame, too, because Memrise has been so useful, but a lot of that has to do with user created courses and the few regulars here on the community, rather than the organisation themselves (just a nicer atmo here ā find Duo forums toxic). The community has grown sparse, of late, and I suspect it will grow sparser yet at this bad piece of news.
The fact is, with every update to the app, more breaks than is improved and feature after feature has been systematically removed until, like Duo, youāve destroyed the good thing you had by trying to be clever (and only managing to be mediocre instead).
Do you not know, Memrise, youāre making a whole lot of money off the fact that user-created courses can be downloaded and used offline through the app? At least as much as you make of your own courses, surely? Plus, you donāt even have to make those courses ā the community does, itās free labour! Why would you get rid of this aspect of the site when you barely have need to maintain it? Seems like one, shooting yourself in the foot and two, like a childish tantrum over the fact the user-created courses are just as popular as the official ones.
@Monomaticās right. How hard would it be to seperate the listings for courses into an āofficialā and āuser created sectionā? I could do that blind drunk whilst eating cereal with a sporkā¦ using only my nose to press keys. Or in other words, the jobās a face roll.
Honestly, Memrise, youāre just going to have to sleep where you settle, but when you realise youāve wrecked your platform with repeated poorly-thought-out decisions, itāll be too late to really get back what you once had. Really, who is it who said you canāt dig a grave from the bottom? You guys do it well.
ps. Of course, I say all this as a non-pro member who doesnāt have any of their hard-earned wrapped up in the site ā unless we count time as money, of course. I feel pretty impartial on that basis, as I have no need for refunds and outrage (beyond that at your obvious stupidityā¦ but I feel that towards most people anyway, so itās neither here nor there).
pps. Whatās really sad is that this is the most active Iāve seen the community (four hundred posts to a thread in a day) in a long timeā¦ and itās because everyoneās angry. Good job, Memriseā¦ good job.
10 Likes
Todayās worst news. Like many other users, Iāve been using memrise for community-created courses and created courses for myself. Without those courses thereās no sense for me to continue using memrise.
Very strange policy to move the courses away. If the memrise team is afraid to scare away new users with low-quality user-contenet - at least it would be nice to allow users to move Courses from Decks back into memrise for themselves.
1 Like
I guess if anyone of the devs are still listening. The main reason why I and probably many like the offline mode is because a āmobile friendlyā site would still require you to download the data of said course every time you access it, there may be temp files but those get cleared out once in a while and they only stick around if you leave the course open in one of the tabs of the browser, and the tab has to be loaded first.
This basically makes a repeat of redownloading the required data over and over. All the courses I follow as well as many other also include audiofiles and if you start counting can add up to quite the download time.
Not everyone has a mobile data plan and open wifi while commuting is okay but never good enough to load courses with for example audio when the entire course has not been downloaded beforehand.
I have once counted that it took 15 minutes to load a single of those ālearn new wordsā rounds in a course that had audio and my commuting time is about 20 minutes, this is what made subscription valuable to me.
Same with the temp files that might get saved, they get automatically deleted after a while and you donāt find out until you try to open the tab/page and get your āthere is no internet connection, cannot load pageā message.
Heck it would even work if you can download the course from the Decks website as code and load that into a simple app which serves only in loading said file as a course, this way you could skip the entire connection to the server entirely. The only thing you have to work on is security at that point.
3 Likes
@parsalotfy Iām sorry for anyone using offline mode to learn community created courses. If they want to send a message to our Support team to discuss their subscription, Iāll make sure we respond to you promptly. Hereās the link:
https://memrise.helpshift.com/a/memrise-learn-a-new-language/?p=web&contact=1
1 Like
thank you to answer.
1 Like
Would you perhaps consider opening the Decks API so the community could develop their own app?
4 Likes
Memrise does NOT want to āsupport the Memrise community.ā Theyāve given us nothing but lies and lip service to that idea.
Sources:
1 Like
What a terrible idea ā to stop supporting loyal Memrise members. Well, I have now seen everything related to business people and the web business.
2 Likes
Lol. I canāt even tell whether youāre sarcastic here. And whom towards, them or us whiners?