Now we can also see where the whole trouble is coming from in the last months.
It is a bit sad to see that the guys who created the official courses weren’t too clever and seemed to adjust the whole system to their laziness, because they were too lazy to adjust their vocabulary input with the correct separation symbols. They rather had the whole system/script changed/ruined, before they just simply adjust their words and let others do their work by now fixing all the problems they caused. “il loro (la loro; i loro; le loro)” writing semicolons in extreme long brackets instead of just using commas like everyone else was using for so many years is just ridiculous.
Of course there will be so many problems if the new script has to fit to these stupid way of entering vocabulary.
Sigh… new day, new daily issue volume 2 (because, seriously why not). Thanks hung-phan it seems like you’re the only one out of the Memrise team actually trying.
Course is returning the expected answer as wrong without the ‘Nap (Blah Blah’. Surprisingly, doesn’t need the closing Parenthesis though. Hyphen works as expected though lol.
Edit: That being said this result was like 3 hours ago, so hopefully it was fixed since then.
@sandslane Things are still definitely wonky as heck. I’ve had issues with certain words/terms or whatever in certain courses, but they’d be one offs that you’d deal with and be done, but recently it’s been every courses to different degrees of infection, in a manner of speaking.
At the moment it seems brackets which contain only one word have to be omitted to be correct, while brackets with more than one word have to be written out to be correct.
I even have a word/sentence that containts 2 brackets and the first one has to be left out (single word) and the second has to be written out (2 words) to be correct.
@Zyme There are a lot of odd things with brackets and no 2 courses seem to respond the same way. At least in the commas thread it says they are now working on the problem!
It’s more than “a bit sad”, it’s appalling. Memrise made courses that don’t work with their own system that the rest of us had been accommodating for years, then they went “whoops, we did it wrong” and instead of fixing what they did, they changed the system to break everyone else’s courses so it would work with how they set theirs up.
This is part of what I mean when I say, repeatedly, that memrise treats us with disrespect and utter contempt. Then someone like @BenWhately or @Joshau pops up occasionally to give a hollow apology and say a few nice things, and half the users here grasp at those straws and say let’s give memrise another chance, they don’t really hate us, look they said they’ll do better.
For years, this pattern has been going on. They do hate us. They’ve shown no sign of ever following through on apologies or trying to do better - they just get even worse.
Parentheses still broken. Oddly they work fine in some courses and not in others. Broken in my Russian and Japanese courses, but fine in my Spanish one.
@cos The more time goes by, the more I think you’re right.
Yup you may be right. Still broken today as well, Yay. My personal strategy now is just to ignore those words. Until Memrise figures out how to damage that functionality as well. Who knows maybe, it’ll get to a point in which I’m ignoring whole courses because they screwed up something that worked perfectly fine before.
All the personal courses I created for myself are currently not working because of this. I added additional info to my answers in parenthesis, such as gender, case, etc. Now none of my answers are accepted as correct without the bracket parts.
Geman course
grussen sie … (von mir), I used to be able to write ‘grussen sie’ or ‘grussen sie von mir’ now only the latter is accepted as a correct answer.
Was better when the brackets were optionally included in the answer.
Good luck, thanks.
different course - 'sich verlassen (auf) - accepted sich verlassen without the bracket which is ok, but confusing indeed
It is not confusing, brackets with one word have to be left out to be marked as correct and brackets with more than one word have to be written out. And of course the other way round: If you leave out brackets with more words it is wrong and if you write a bracket that contains only one word it is also wrong.
And it seems this way is what Memrise thinks is ok and it probably won’t change to a more useful way.
The silence probably just means that Memrise doesn’t care anymore.
@Zyme, @beegeedee, @kotodama, @JEMIK, @FilthyWeeaboo I will let you know when it is released. The process of releasing a version is complicated and combines many fixes for other problems as well.
Yup appears to work on my Russian course at least. Now the only issue is there an easy way to un-ignore words on a course with over 500+ levels? It’s kind of hard to find them on an individual level basis lol.