Still not working and no word from staff.
It reminds me of when they took away the image search function.
I’m still optimistic though. The guys at memrise are a bunch of hippies and have just spent months galavanting around Europe on a huge holiday. Now they are focusing on other things: Space theme? Meet the natives? New courses and duplicated courses to avoid alts (silly imo, they could have just added a button on the course to click for English (or a variant of English), which would have selected one set of alts or another).
The value of the courses in memrise is now dubious at least. What is the point of these new courses? Is it for geeky people like me who go on holiday and want to speak the native language? If that is the case it will attract much less users than lets say the HSK courses that built this website. Those courses attract anyone who is actually seriously studying a language. The same as any of the languages that follow the CEF.
Then there is the app. Every website needs an app right？ Great idea, except it is different from the actual website. The testing and use of which interfere with all the old courses. Now we have everyone and his uncle adding alts to make a course work on the website and then deleting those same alts because they are surplus and unnecessary to the app. Because, the app automatically accepts the correct answer, turns green and then moves on to the next question. If alts are involved then app users have to press an extra button to move to the next question and that is where the problem lies. People don’t want to press that extra button.
Oh, and the space theme has me totally baffled. These same people that took away all the nice plant growing terminology because it was misleading are now taking another step for memrise and one giant leap in the same direction as before. I’m baffled, befuddled, bemused to say the least.
People who studied at Oxford, memory masters, authors, affiliate universities, language experts, all this talk of Science and what we end up with is a hippie bus, total shenanigans and an office full of cats (one of which lacks the correct number of legs if I’m not mistaken.)
IMO, that was the biggest mistake of all and they made it from day one. Anyone who owns a computer knows that cats are going to get involved. They may have some guy from a Scandinavian country (I just made that up) teching stuff on his PC (probably a Mac knowing these guys) coding, editing, debugging, full of thought and contemplation then bam! Meow, purr, cat walks on keyboard and memrise is bugged. Get a dog guys! Dogs don’t interfere with computers. It’s programming 101. My girlfriend bought a cat and that cat owned my laptop every single time I used it. They lean on it, walk on it, sit on it, brush themselves up against it, sleep on it, even attack the keys. It’s a nightmare!
And can we please have the ‘Resident Evil - Umbrella corporation’ umbrella logo back? The new purple one on my links bar looks emo. Almost like it wants to shrink away and go unnoticed among the other logos.
That’s my 10 pence or I could duplicate this post and write 10 cents.
SoL
