I only come on Memrise now in response to emails I receive regarding this topic. I haven’t done any of my courses for a couple of days. The popup box seems like a classic case of ‘how to annoy your user base’, and since Memrise don’t appear to be willing to remove it, I’ve started looking for another memory site.
@graham.parker.35513c I’ve replied to your message, but you’ve yet to respond. We want to understand why the popup still appears on your screen.
@Joshua, you’re missing the point. The pop-up occurs after login. Private browsing or not shouldn’t matter. If you want to not bother your users, you will then, naturally, link the pop-up settings to the user and not the computer/browser. No need for cookies or whatever. You remember my personalized settings based on my login. It’s not magic. Add the pop-up stuff to that. I have my browser (FF) on some sort of private mode (clearing everything when I close it), but only because of memrise, I have kept my browser on (and stayed logged in on memrise) for days - to avoid having to see the pop-up all the time.
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I have the security settings high on my PC for obvious reasons, so yes, I have to log in each time I visit Memrise. But as I have already mentioned, this window appears ‘after’ I have logged in. So you’re aware of who I am, and you’re aware that I’ve rejected the 1 hour offer already, so how difficult would it be to not make the popup appear for me on subsequent visits after login? I already know the answer to that, since I design and build web sites myself, and if I did decide to plant an annoying popup at the start of the site ( incidentally I certainly would not) then I’d at least make its display dependent on previous actions and preferences made by registered users; a simple update to a field in a database table on the server is all that’s required.
Honestly though Joshua, generating a healthy userbase for a web site is difficult enough, so to achieve that and then start inserting irritating popups like this is extremely counter productive and really quite bizarre…
That’s definitely a nasty bug. Thanks for pointing that out, we’ll get that fix.
I have already done that Memprize with the same email address I use on the site, I still see the same popup. (I delete my cookies when I close the browser, so that is natural) But would you implement a system where people who already participated don’t get this popup? (Also a badge would be more motivating than a popup 
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I generally use Chrome when doing Memrise.
@Joshua, it’s still there. Every time I log in. It’s annoying having to click it away all the time.
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