a) an option whether you want to learn in automatic mode or to make choices by yourself. I would deny automatic mode its right to even exist, but I suppose some people like it. Reverse option should also be available for those who can learn independently of robots.
b) if you wish to learn on your own account then you will have several buttons for learning modes at the bottom of the screen (buttons are also could be a subject of further customization) instead of a whole additional screen, which is just inconvenient to open every time.
I wouldn’t want to automatically do more. What I’d like is an option. When I’ve done the amount of words I choose to do in a lesson (mine is currently set for 5 new words at a time), I have the option to continue with 5 more or do something else. I don’t like that I have to essentially go backwards to go forward.
Thank you for your feedback. Thanks to the changes we introduced now the code on both dashboard and course selector uses newer and cleaner code and it is easier for us to work with it and continuously improve it.
We are iterating on this though to reflect some of the feedback we’ve heard and we will continue to improve it. We know that long course names are seeing some problems and that the icons use quite a lot of space on screen, as well as other things. You will see further improvements coming in the next few updates.
It would be great if you could make it a habit to actually communicate changes and new features somewhere, preferably within the update-message in Google Play itself!
That is, something more meaningful than what you keep posting presently - there’s got to be some jester in your own ranks …
Last Monday my (some two weeks or so) older version of the Memrise app wouldn’t start, so I went ahead and installed the latest version, knowing that the changes to the dashboard and course screen would probably irritate me (that was the reason why I turned off auto-updates for the Memrise app).
But I’m lost for words just how friggin’ much this version bothers me!
It’s not that the order of levels has been reversed for whatever reason (we’re now falling instead of rising, but that I can live with).
It’s not the fact that you can no longer access a course’s details and, instead, the abstract is now dangling at the very top, strangely wrapped.
And it’s not that the course’s leaderboard can only be accessed from a session summary either.
All those are changes to the worse, but I’d quietly accept them and wait for “better times”.
But who on Earth came up with the idea to scroll to the top each and every time you access the course list?
I can’t tell how much time I’m wasting to find the next course I want to work on and how many times I accidentally pick the wrong course, resulting in my order completely messed up!
@MemriseSupport, @JBorrego: please, please, please - undo at least the scroll-to-top change!
I’ve pretty much accepted that, often, changes aren’t for the better (even though I was under the impression that you were about to go into the right direction!), and I’ve learned to be patient and to pull the punches, but this here is just such a drives-you-up-the-wall-every-five-minutes feature, it makes me want to throw my tablet out of the next window like a zillion times when I use Memrise!
Strange, now it’s not working properly inside levels, maybe, I spoke too soon. Inside a level you return to the top of the list after seeing an item. After classic or speed review it’s fine, you remain where you were.
We would like to but things arent always that simple. Releases don’t always include user facing problems. We need to make them more internally comprehensible, they need translations, they need to be linked to the vendors release at a specific time (so they some times delay releases). Prepping ahead of time isnt always possible either as some times you don’t deliver what you wanted on time so…
But yeah, ideally we would like them to be more informative too
Last weekend was bank holiday weekend here in the UK and that meant that our week was a little shorter. The week before we skipped release due to this (week being shorter and us not being able to monitor after release) and last week being shorter we did not make it in time unfortunately.
Thats not ideal, as you have had to live with what we know isnt a great user experience for the course selector for a little longer. As I said a few days ago, we had prepared many fixes for the problems you raised around that but they could not go out due to the reasons above. We have now started rolling the latest update with those fixes (and there are a few more coming) and we hope you can get them in your devices in a couple of days.
Well, there obviously has been an update. But, again, it really is a change to the worse. NONE of the problems have been fixed.
Instead, you can now hardly see how many words are up for review due to the information being very small and getting lost with all the other info (streak, words learned/to learn, etc.) shown on a single/crowded row.
I do hope that this isn’t the end of the “fixes” to the dashboard and course detail screen …?
I like the improved the App dashboard - particularly the removal of the rubbish bin icons. I was always concerned that accidentally hitting one of those might have caused one of my courses to be deleted.
Hitting the tiny missile symbols appears to launch courses - which can currently be done much more easily by simply hitting course icons. So, for improved functionality, I’d suggest removing the missiles, and increasing the size of the ‘due for revision’ (teapot) numbers.
Reading this I am now very afraid of updating the app… has the update improved since your last message? I saw there was a new one released on the 20th, so after your post.
I get confused if we are talking about the App dashboard or the web dashboard.
Could the title be modified, please?
Anyway as the last posts were about the App, could I remind @memrisesupport that I don’t know what the “Home” hand planting icon does?
It doesn’t do anything on my phone and certainly doesn’t take me to what I’d expect (my home page of courses as on the web).
Anyone else know what it does?
I too like the removal of the large icons (now in the three vertical dots option) so we can see the whole course title (which user-created courses use).
PS
I see the rocket is how many days streak I have on a course (ie how many days I’ve been on my mission).
PPS
How does one update the app?
There is no notification and it’s not in the cog wheel settings, so I guess one has to check the store occasionally?
PPPS How interesting, when I looked at the App store earlier it showed my version as a different number to the App store.
Now the App store says the version is 20th April and my App has indeed been automatically updated.
If you were going to go to an eye doctor to know how your eyesight is - in this case the last update is most certainly great and handy. I just hope Memrise won’t charge us for extra services.
If you’re on Android, updates are managed through your Google account resp. the Google Play Store. If you have auto-updates turned on, you’ll receive updates without having to do anything (that’s how I do it).
If auto-updates are off, go to the Play Store, click the hamburger icon and tap “my apps and games” (might differ, my store is in German).
This should take you to the page where you see pending updates.
Moving the number of words to review was an annoying change. I’m all for making tweaks to the design but this one didn’t work. The number is really small and hard to read - the main reason for opening the menu was to see which causes I needed to review and now that’s so much harder. Putting it back on the course photos would be so much better.
