Is this area superfluous?

[DW7 (Meminence, Rank 15 &)]

Is this area superfluous if, as I understand it, all community created courses will disappear one day soon?

Rollout of the new dashboard and learning sessions experiences to all our customers

See comments by @BenWhately

[Hombre_sin_nombre]

They are planning to remove only community non-language courses (no date, it’s just planned). But all community language courses will be moved to Memworld, that is to say, they will migrate, not eliminated. That’s what Ben said.

[DW7 (Meminence, Rank 15 &)]

Thanks Hombre,

Although I have supported several community language courses, most of the courses I support are from a wide variety of non-language interests.

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[Hombre_sin_nombre]

I see, I would be outraged. Why don’t you bring your position to Memrise team?

[DW7 (Meminence, Rank 15 &)]

I have (hopefully) here and a couple of earlier posts.

[duaal]

@Hombre_sin_nombre

But all community language courses will be moved to Memworld, that is to say, they will migrate, not eliminated.

No, this is what BenWhately said yesterday (my bold):

@BenWhately

We will then start recreating all the current UGC courses in the new within-Memrise system. We will keep the current UGC in parallel. We will recreate as many courses as are needed (there are literally millions of courses many of which are not used at all. We will not recreate all courses)

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@BenWhately

So the short answer is that existing UGC courses will survive for the time being. The ones that are in active usage will then be migrated to the new world. Then once the new world is working well enough for enough people, we plan to retire the old courses. That is not an irrevocable decision - but it is our intention.

And later this rather vague answer

@BenWhately

Language courses (however small) can be migrated if they are used.

Sounds like a tremendously loss in available courses especially from languages other than English.
And all the interesting looking non-language courses I still wanted to take, of course.

[Hombre_sin_nombre]

Yes, thanks for correction. As I understand it, they are also not going to move abandoned, unused language courses.

[DW7 (Meminence, Rank 15 &)]

Having so many courses I’ve created or look after (approx 250), takes me a time to get round them all.

I return to themes or preferences then move on.

So it may look ‘not used’, but I may have not done it for 6 months but will eventually fancy a change and return to it.

On some courses, sadly, I’m the only one currently using it, despite it being a really good and useful course.
(PS Part of the problem is finding them. App users may be unaware you need to go to the web. And some courses may be low in the search list.)

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Guess I’ll have to have a session on every course over the next few months.

[johnastsang (Johnas Tsanga7)]

Just to update:

Rollout of the new dashboard and learning sessions experiences to all our customers

There is no set time frame for closing non language courses. It will not happen fast. When we have got the ability for users to create language courses in the main Memrise product, and have moved over the user made courses to that system, we will be left with the non language courses on the legacy system. We have no plan to shut that down as this moment. But our plans are all focused on serving the language learners ever more effectively, in the learning of vocab and learning to use that vocab i…

To summarize what Ben has said so far:

1. Language UGC courses will be migrated to the new system, except those that are not used at all. I guess he’s referring to those that have absolutely zero users (i.e. those that are used only by the creator himself who have left Memrise long ago). I hope @BenWhately will clarify this.

2. Non-language UGC courses will not fit in the new system, but this doesn’t mean they’ll be simply removed. They’ll remain in the old system (i.e. our current system) until a solution is reached by discussion. IMO they should absolutely be preserved in some way.