Apart from the famous ~ ～ bug, this new “function” grinds my gears really.
You have a word/kanji with several meanings, and you must remember their order to pass the tapping tests. This makes no sense, since the several meanings doesn’t have any logical order. A week ago these tests were a bit easier, because the ; mark stood at the end of the word helping in most cases.
I would like to ask you to make these kind of lists unordered (both answers accepted).
A post was merged into an existing topic: Courses suddenly requiring either hyphens or even strict typing
So, not all courses work with tapping tests.
Tapping tests were added to memrise after it had already been in existence for a few years, and many many courses had already been made, by course creators who didn’t think of tapping tests. But memrise, despite vehement protests from me and a few other people, just immediately enabled them for all courses. As a result, many of us existing course creators disabled tapping tests in our own learning preferences and left them disabled, to avoid ruining courses where they don’t work - like the course you’re posting about. An unfortunate side effect of that is, I think, there are still course creators who forget about tapping tests and continue to make courses where they don’t work.
Go to your learning preferences and disable tapping tests.
If you really love tapping tests, you can re-enable them when you take other courses, but it’s a pain.
Personally, I like tapping tests, but not enough to keep going into preferences to enable and disable them, and occasionally accidentally forget and have them mess up a review session. So I just leave them disabled always.
It’s a pity memrise didn’t do this right, and make them an opt-in setting per-course, letting course creators choose to enable tapping tests on particular columns in their database when appropriate.
but there is a “tapping tests enabled/disabled” option for any database so that a creator can choose if tapping is permitted in the course, right?
Yes, they did add that much later, but it defaulted to on for existing courses, and I think most course creators don’t know about it. Not to mention that the long wait meant many course creators who had been active in previous years were gone. What I wish they’d done with this as well as any other new test types or similar features, is give a highlighted message or popup prompt to any course creator when they log in, explaining the new setting affecting their courses and asking them to set it appropriately.
