three years ago they gave points for making mems
the reason they gave was, that making a mem helps remembering
than they stopped giving points for it
why?
because it turned out it did not help remembering, or because they had enough mems to lure people to memrise with pretty pictures?
but now we can’t see each others mems anymore
why?
because they were ‘offensive’?
i haven’t seen a single offensive mem
my feeling is that in a few years time memrise will be entirely to be paid for, so that you get the material that was made for free by it’s users
mark my words: the next step is deleting the leaderboards
and everytime they change something, what they’re telling us is that their theories about memory and learning are not correct
Dear MemRise team (including @BeaTrisy@Joshua@MemriseMatty and @Lien), I have never seen so much upset at a change/ loss of a feature and there have been many ‘regrets’.
(Except perhaps this early thread. I know we were all upset at the loss of Course Forums, but a lot of that thread was about how to make it work for our courses for the benefit of the community. See : [Site Feedback] Changes to Course Forums - email from Olivia Zavala
Is there any chance of a re-think or at least a compromise? Failing that, a comment or acknowledgement of our many posts would be appreciated.
From the large feedback we have received, we have decided to close this thread. You will only see your own comments. Sorry, only one. The first one. No other comments will be seen except those created by Memrise. I’m sure you all will agree that this will be in the best interests of every user…
What? Why? I realy hate you for this. It’s not for just taking someones mems and not use your own. We learn leanguages together. Someone find a good pattern, another one find good picture for it, next one upgrade it to the next level. When you see a lot of other mems you maping your own maind (create something like road map for remembering) - its help you and help others because we are all humansbeengs we have nearly equal thoughts process, when shearing we creating a giant neural net. And by this I can learn language using another foreign language. Now its all gone.
Return this back:
You won’t see mems that you “liked” anymore.
You won’t see mems created by fellow learners.
You won’t see mems created by course authors.
Whithout it my lerning speed doped down by 3-4 times.
I don’t see the reason to use memrise anymore. There are a lot of other stand alone applications that can give me same vocabulary cards builder-remainder with pictures and comments. I will try to stay there as long as posible because I paid for it for a whole year and because I already have a lot of words mems there, but you force me to leave your project. It’s a pity.
I rewrote it too. But there are several hundred people upset about the ongoing process versus several million downloading the app, most of the latter having no idea of this thread or this forum at all.
I guess you’ll have to change this to “Be the ONLY one to create one”.
Learning Japanese through Memrise was such a treat because the mems offered me not just a way to remember the characters, but also some very important cultural or historical context for them, especially for characters that had no direct translation to English. Now that there are no more mems except for my own, my learning process is severely slowed down to the extent that I wonder if it’s even worth using Memrise anymore. Such a shame.
i was one of those people who took time to make mems for japanese, mandarin korean russian and some for finnish and latin… i always had good memes full of info and explanations for me first of all and also for the people who do not have time to do all that research… i did them in english so that everyone could understand… now i can assure memrise that in over 800 mems none is offensive except if you are a &^#@@# twat and you want to make anything offensive…
Like many others, I had made the (incorrect) assumption that the absence of mems was some sort of temporary glitch/error. Now that I see this is not the case, I’m truly surprised by the rationale behind this decision. This severely limits much of what made Memrise such an effective study aid for Japanese (and undoubtedly, many other languages) – I’m really hoping this change is reverted, or that those who have been disappointed by this change can find a replacement site for Memrise.
Why not have a toggle for community mems (somewhere in the settings menu)? It could be turned off by default. This way, people who really do not want to see explicit/offensive content are safe from harm. But for those that do appreciate community mems have the choice to enable them. You could even put a warning that says “toggle at your own descretion”
They really helped me learn. Now I feel so lost