Wow…
I have been a free user for almost 2 years. I hadn’t even opened the forums yet to complain because it’s a free service :). But this is now just getting beyond ridiculous how Memrise is regularly using its paying users’ money to make the site a bit worse every now and then. And now not just bit but a disastrous update.
“Improvements” that I consider as regression that are inhibiting learning and need to be fixed or made configurable:
- Dec 13 dashboard - it’s a just disaster. people need to see the words left to review for all courses immediately. And other major issues.
- Nov 28 auto-accept - make it configurable
- can’t type sentences - maybe I’m imagining this but I used to be able to type long sentences in German Memrise lessons 1 year ago. Can’t do the same now in Brazilian Portuguese Memrise courses. Just multiple-choise/tapping tests. Make it configurable.
I will also put down some actual improvements I’ve had in mind if you manage to crawl out of this enormous hole you have dug yourself in past weeks:
- Give user the control over the types of tests. For example I don’t like multiple-choice tests. I think they’re quite useless after the initial learning cycle. I would like to type almost always. But some love those tapping tests. So the learners should have more control over it (not just Memrise and/or the creator of the course).
- Give more control over intervals on a specific word basis. Like the simplest would be to replace the current accept button with 3 buttons, something like: “remembered it well”, “more or less well”, “not well at all” and adjust the interval of that word accordingly (if it was correct). They could be as alternative/parallel to the current accept-button logic with the middle button working exactly as accept is working right now and submitted by the enter key as right now and having the same interval logic. I.e. Not changing the current behaviour at all for the users that liked the way it was. But giving more options for others. Or just make it simple by letting the user enable/disable this “fancier” functionality in the settings.
I had even been considering becoming paying member not because your site was especially good but more because I’m a software developer myself. But you just invest users money to make it worse. So you see the conflict…
Cheers from Estonia