Interesting quote @amanda-norrsken - it will have to be changed:
"The Memrises community uses images and . . . "
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Put mems back. Full stop.
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just today somebody put a video on youtube about a language learning app called HiNative from Lang-8
i don’t know whether it’s any good, but you could always give it a try
youtube video
HiNatve
hinative site
hinative site
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medium, than one app. I made an account there some time ago, forgot about it. As said, medium, but interactive; given that the memrise-app is medium as well and does not have either mems or interaction with other users, give it a try
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This is really sad. I cannot really express my disappointment. I really liked memrise, used it for over 5 years and made many courses. I spent hundreds of hours making courses and mems. But with other’s mems taken out, its so much work destroyed. And for what benefit?
I even subscribed to PRO to support the website, even though the features were not worth it for me. Its really sad to see all the work of so many people just being flushed away. I am really afraid this is just the beginning of the end of me and memrise.
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It is soooo soooo sad, isn’t it?
Why remove one of the main features of Memrise instead of having an upvote/downvote system or simply having an option to hide them? This completely breaks tons of courses with mems added by the course creators. I’ll be turning off the auto updates on the beta version incase this gets included there as well.
I’ve been a pro subscriber for the last year and I love Memrise, but I really can’t understand this change.
Also, have the Memrise staff all muted this thread? Why no responses?
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I’m serious. This really is devastating. I don’t think I am exaggerating. For sure a central part of my language learning was memrise.
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I feel your pain, J, I really do. I have seen with my own eyes the amazing work you did on your mems. I can still see some of them because I chose them, or if I go to your profile, I can see them there, too, thank goodness.
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It is weekend. Perhaps that’s the reason. Another reason might be that outside the staff members we see on here, staff might almost never look here. Another reason might be that they’re set on the change and they feel talking about it any more won’t accomplish anything.
Anyway, an invitation to @BenWhately and @knarusk to read the topic and look at the poll.
At the moment 70 people have voted in it, and 69 people want to have the change reverted. That would give me pause. At least tell us where you’re planning on going so we can plan accordingly.
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I’m not sure who is currently managing Memrise’s social media presence (it used to be @Lien), but I think that the following post and discussion currently taking place on Memrise’s Facebook page is an excellent illustration of the benefits of crowd-sourced language learning. The original Memrise post was a misleading usage over-generalization, and comments added clarification and usage examples. https://www.facebook.com/memrise/photos/a.595530880473616.152371.149149908445051/1742794479080578/?type=3&comment_id=1795509317142427
Memrise’s Facebook presence is a far more public venue than this discussion board. More than half-a-million people follow Memrise on Facebook. I tried to explain the Mems issue in the context of that Facebook thread. Others may wish to add clarification, or like each others’ posts on there, which could bring the issue to a larger audience.
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They also have a Twitter account (@memrise) but never seem to use it for announcements. Also several of the staff have their own twitter accounts.
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Can you, or someone, paste relevant bits here?
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The Facebook thread is not even about Mems. Memrises posted a picture yesterday morning on when to use “a” and when to use “an” with nouns in English, with the admonition “Get it right.” 103 people commented on the post, with clarifying explanations and examples.
It’s just an example of how Memrise - or anyone - can have incomplete understanding, and crowdsourcing fixes that. Here, we are “preaching to the choir.” The FB thread is a concrete example of crowdsourcing.
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but then not memrise is not about crowdsourcing for learning, but about the “social media” platforms memrise is using. Good luck to memrise with moving completely to FB
They aren’t moving to FB, they use FB to promote themselves (unpaid advertising, crowd buzz). No need to sneer at that. All sorts of companies promote themselves or their product on FB.
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what I meant is that the examples/explanations/the crowdsourcing etc came via FB, not via memrise. Did i made it clearer now?
Ah, I see. Memrise has shown no interest in using FB to crowdsource learning, so you wishing them luck with that confused me.
The very fact that the crowdsourcing was not on Memrise, and was not directed by Memrise is, in my opinion, what makes this a useful example to share with hundreds of users who don’t use this community forum, and may not even be aware of the mem features.
I found this app about six months ago. I use it everyday from the day I’ve found it. The mems are the attractive part of the application. I used it to learn new words in english. When i see a new word but i can’t fully understand its meaning, the mems help me to know its meaning and the way of using the new word. Maybe someone knew the word’s meaning better, created a useful mem and shared it with others to help them. This new policy is not helpful at all. I and most of my friends are really disappointed by eliminating mems
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