A new announcement is just coming in from Starship Memterprise.
In the last few weeks we’ve been working on improving the performance of the site, squishing lots of pesky bugs and some general maintenance. Here’s what you can look forward to in the newest release.
You no longer have to worry about the safety of your data. We’ve made the web App safer by switching over to SSL protocol.
Learning Arabic will now be a joy, with left to right support for tapping tests on Memrise Arabic courses
Your number of words to review was suffering from a pesky bug infection. We’ve squished it.
You can now edit a course’s short description, to give other Memrisers a better idea of what your course is about.
Phrases longer than 15 characters for Official Memrise courses will no longer have typing tests.
Fret not Agents, this change will not affect the behaviour of User Generated courses. All other test types will still be present in your favourite community courses!
Thank you for the notification. Would it be possible, in future announcements, to include the scheduled date for the release in which the changes will take effect? Will it always be the date in the heading of the thread? For example, I’m not yet seeing the change affecting mems.
Regarding the re-introduction of the facility to ‘unlike’ mems, could you please explain the thinking behind this and say what measures you have put in place this time to prevent (or address) the same kind of misuse which led to the removal of this facility a couple of years ago?
For sure, any function can be misused. But right at the monent, I keep seeing a bunch of distracting mems in one of the courses (nothing against the rules there, just bad mems) , and I can do absolutely nothing to stop seeing them… so I thought maybe I could at least unlike them.
please make the multiple choice option ( instead of typing) optional. you will see lots of your customers (especially web based ones) not happy about this change.
Hi there. How come phrases longer than 15 characters no longer have typing tests? My husband I both feel this is NOT a positive change and makes the learning process much easier. Please consider going back to the old way. Or at least if we are choosing from a list of 4 - 6 phrases for the correct answer, make the phrases very, very similar.
Would love to know why this change. We don’t like it at all.
The elimination of typing for answers longer than 15 characters diminishes the value of Memrise considerably. I will have to reconsider the use of this platform - and I am a paying customer.
I couldn’t agree more. I am forced to use a script that renders the learning experience boring by basically being “typing only.” The alternative, with multiple choice only for 15 characters or over, will not teach me the language. It’s nothing but a waste of time. This is terribly disappointing and I can’t imagine I will continue to be a paying customer for long as the boredom sets in. But I know we all complained heartily about it when they experimented with it a few months ago, and we never got a response, and apparently memrise doesn’t care about web users. So I’m not expecting anything.
funny thing is that this is the 2nd time they do this. about two months ago the same problem happened but they reversed it when they see the comments. this time they are happy to sacrifice the professionalism in the favor of mediocrity. and apparently they are not capable to make this optional at least
I am disappointed with the elimination of typing for answers longer 15 characters. It does not work the tapping tests and the tapping learn of phrases and sentences. I am a paying customers. This is the bad choice. I can´t learn phrases and sentences. At this point memrise is good for nothing for me.
Oh no I loved the typing tests too… why did you removed them? Maybe you could make that an option so that the ones who want them can easily switch them on
I too am disappointed by the removal of typing for answers longer than 15 characters. I specifically switched to using the web version to increase the difficulty by typing answers while using the app for regular speed reviews.
I feel that the multiple choice reviews do not benefit my learning nearly as much as typing answers out, even if it is sometimes annoying to have to redo the whole answer just because of a typo. Since the change went live, I noticed how I intuitively spend less time looking at new sentences I learned because I knew they would be easy enough to pick in a multiple choice answer. It also removes the rewarding feeling of typing out a long sentence and getting a green bar.
I would very much welcome a setting to either disable multiple choice tests altogether, or maybe influence that 15 character cutoff. It would fit right in with the tapping test setting IMHO.
this update seems to have put the courses that I am learning back on my dashboard, so I don’t have to go on courses to access them, so this update is good for me
I agree with all those who regret the disappearance of the typing test for >15 characters questions. Giving a choice would have been soooo much more helpful. All the more because, personally I tend to use the dictation via microphone for those long questions so as to work on my pronunciation. Please bring that back!
Besides, two things could really be useful:
a button to access directly the forum thread devoted to a course from the page of said course
if there are some more in-house courses in the pipeline, it’d be great if that was to be announced ahead of time!
Thx keep on the good work (but bring the typing tests back)
I don’t understand whom this change is serving. I have not seen any comments praising it, that’s for sure. If the problem is that people are annoyed when typos ruin their long typed answers, it would seem that the obvious solution is a “ignore/typo” button. I know I’ve wanted one many a time. And, as has been said by several people, why not make it optional? That would seem to be quite easy to do. I just don’t get it.
Just adding my voice to those already expressing dismay. I’ve tried the new way with tricks like formulating the answer in my head before my eyes land on the always-very-obvious answer. Guess what: I’m not learning! Nothing sticks. I’m not, er, ‘memrising’ anything!
I’m a Pro member and will be asking for a pro-rated refund, and obviously won’t be renewing. I’ve just subscribed to another paid online language platform.
Thanks Memrise, I learned a lot using your platform over the past year, but there’s nothing for me here anymore.
that’s a very good point. now that memrise team decided to completely ignore us, I demand full refund.
it’s not enough to just cancle renewal, I cannot justify another two months look at the stupid upgrade of yours
Memrise has a very large data base of users doing the official courses. I would presume that Memrise made this choice for their official courses based on data.
You know you could copy the sentences into your own typing-only course if that’s how you’d like to practice them? Your learning doesn’t have to be limited by this change.
very funny : )