Same here, reviews don’t get recorded but I get the points every time. Making things easy for exploiters.
I’m okay with this if they are working on it, things can break and it might take a while to fix them especially with a small team. Memrise has given so much to me, I give them all the time they need to adjust everything, and a big thank you.
The update, bug or whatever is going on for the last 2/3 weeks, having to introduce commas, apostrophes, symbols, alternate definitions to get a review right has ruined the site for me, barely usable, and very frustrating. It’s something I cannot understand or find any logic to if it’s a decision and not a bug or error. Has the staff said something about it?
Removing the courses tab, changing the dashboard which now loads five times slower than a year ago and it’s more disorganized, removing course forums, making the mem system worse, an unchanged premium service for two years, an infantile and tedious app, and in general focusing effort to change things that worked well instead of actually improving anything. The most voted and great ideas on the old suggestions page were ignored. We learned to live with that, but for me this is the icing on the cake.
I suspect you meant “the last straw” or “adding insult to injury” rather than “icing on the cake” (which I’ve only ever heard used to refer to good things!).
Strangely the comma bug seems to have been fixed, but in doing so they re-introduced the old buggy behaviour where when you’re asked to retype an answer containing commas that you got wrong, it stops accepting input the moment you type a comma.
Memrise: listen up, good people. You are losing custom: stop. It’s about communication. Don’t leave a banner message for days: update it every few hours. Even without progress, something like “we know it’s been four days now” lets folk know you’re there. Users can forgive difficulties and delays but not communication gaps: it takes only minutes to edit a banner and put a date.
So while you sweat day/night, remember basics: communication takes minimal time but makes a huge difference. Learn (:-)) this principle or pay. Psychological avoidance can turn mere problems into total breakdowns - which is a pity, because there is such goodwill and gratitude to you here. Best to all,
Peter Burton
Bethnal Green, London.
There is basic communication in the original thread. If people wouldn’t create new threads every time something goes wrong and just keep to the already open thread then you wouldn’t miss the communication from the Memrise Team.
So, before posting in another thread，read the older ones first to see if the problem has been reported before.
BTW: here is the link to the Memrise communication about the problem upgrade.
So true. The most ridiculous thing is, that everyone has to read as the first message above everything that “EVERYTHING SHOULD BE WORKING CLOSE TO NORMAL”. lol I don’t know anything that is working, because the main thing on Memrise is reviewing old vabulary before anything else is done and reviewing doesn’t work.
Yes, exactly my problem. I probably spend about three-quarters of my Memrise time reviewing and this was still not working properly last time I checked, about two hours ago.
I’m guessing things still aren’t working. My home page is completely blank of courses and it has a message on the top saying that there are problems with the site currently. Do other people have courses on their homepages (along with the message) or is there something weird with mine as well?
I even can’t learn new words any more now, it get’s stuck on the overview page. Guess I’ll use ProVoc (or Anki) offline now to learn my vocabulary (and as I already mentioned, busuu for grammar). Or even get my real flashcards out again.
I just tested what’s working and what’s not working.
If you go to an individual course page and select a lesson, you can review the words in that lesson. (The web address will look something like this: http://www.memrise.com/course/55058/complete-turkish/59/ for lesson 59.) After reviewing, if you refresh the page, you’ll see that the words that were up for review went from, “now,” to “in 6 days,” “in 12 days,” “in 24 days,” or something similar. The blue review button above the word list will still say, “Review 15 words,” (or whatever), and the word count on your dashboard (and your course page) will not change, but I expect that when everything gets sorted out soon, Memrise will count those words as watered.
Note: If after a review session, the lesson’s word list says, “in 6 days,” and then you click review again, when you refresh the lesson after the second review session, than those words will be due again in 12 days. If you review a third time, they’ll be due in 24 days.
You can plant/learn new words in a similar fashion. Go to an individual lesson page, such as http://www.memrise.com/course/55058/complete-turkish/60/, and then click, “Learn these words.” If you refresh the lesson page after a planting session, you’ll see that you successfully planted some words. If you plant the whole lesson, the “learn these words” button won’t change, however, and the progress bar above it will still be empty. On the course page, the color of the lesson icon won’t change either. But those words were successfully planted. If you want to review those newly-planted words in 4+ hours, you’ll have to edit the url to http://www.memrise.com/course/55058/complete-turkish/60/garden/review_level/.
@Kaspian, the better approach is to review from the course’s main page. If you review from a level page, you will be presented with the number of items the counter at the top says, even if there are no items due for review now. Reviewing from the course’s main page does work as it should.
Thanks @Arete_Hime. This is helpful advice, which lets me catch up a bit with my backlog.
But, at the end of a review session, I’m not seeing a “levels” button - only one for “Next”. So, the route I’m having to take back to course homepage is to click on the black “X” and then scroll down my pinned course list again. But this seems to work ok - at least, it offers me a fresh set of tests. Obviously, the review counter doesn’t reduce, though.
