In this forum it’s 99%.We did not see Decks but they already did an FAQ.People want the offline mode but they clearly said it’ll will never happen.
I feel like they’ll lose even more money because of the cancelled premium account.
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Pretty much 90% of their Pro users are cancelling, that’s a huge loss for Memrise…
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CITATION NEEDED
Where’d you get that statistic from?
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76% of all statistics are made up on the spot : )
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Ok I admit, you got me there… lol.
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on this forum indeed. But: compare the approx. 35 million users Memrise has with the number of clicks on the FAQ Decks links, or the number of answers in the polls in here, for example… ahem, no comment… unfortunately
(i do agree, taking community courses off the app did “help” this situation - i.e. of course it was part of the larger strategy, that was carried more or less without informing in here about the “general picture” etcetcetc: But, and I repeat myself, the company needs control over the profitable product, and that means separation of in-house from community-created, this is an absolutely logical decision)
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Since he said of us I think his talking about the forum only.
35 million users Memrise
35 millions users but how many are active?I introduced memrise to 5 people all off them stopped using it within one month.
the number of clicks on the FAQ Decks links
I read the FAQ but I won’t use Decks.
Why would you include people you know nothing about in the equation.We don’t know there opinions.Based on the opinion I read over the internet the % of people against it right now is 99%.
They could push official courses without separating community and official courses they would avoid the cost of building deck,cancelled membership and few users lost.
The stats are weak what’s a lot more important than the number of users using official courses vs number of users is who’s categories is using the website+app more frequently.So I don’t see this as a logical decision.
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I think it’s true that hardcore users (anyone learning mostly user created staff) are outnumbered by ordinary users (beginners or tourists who are learning only official courses).
Let’s do some rough math. My wild guess is that Memrise audience is about 10 million users per month. If the rate is about 1 to 20 then there are 500 thousand hardcore users. Split that number in half (for desktop and mobile users) and we have 250 thousand folks. Assuming that one in ten is willing to pay 10 euros annualy Memrise can raise 250.000 euros per year to support this project. Though it’s a big number, but by all appearances this is not enough. Let’s not forget about goddamn taxes and everything.
Well, you can put in your own numbers, that’s only my guess. It’s interesting to know real data though, maybe @kevin5284 and @edcooke can enlighten us all.
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250k is enough to hire two engineers to fix stuff.
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Wow. 125 voters so far. I’m impressed with this reaction. Surely by now shouldn’t they see that people don’t want change.
Memrise has more than 40 million users¹ (registered accounts?). Ten million of that comes from Play Store². Numbers are not available for App Store but let’s say that it is also 10 millions. So, half of Memrise users have used once the app and started an official course: 20 millions. The other half, 20 millions never used the app and are accounts that have used mainly user created courses and have been with memrise for a long time, I guess.
The official courses have pretty low user retention rate, for example, the Spanish (Mexico) Course level 1 has 967k users enrolled, now look at the level 2, just 73.4k, and level 7, just 8.30k³. The same pattern happens in other official courses. Probably much of level 2 and level 7 user have payed a subscription, but level 7 are long-term paying-user.
Memrise should focus on level 7 loyal users, that, i think, want to be fluent and would pay to use advanced user-created material.
They have chose another strategy, focusing on Beginners from level 1 they want to increase the retention rate. They will build an app/an game for lazy people learn languages. That is it.
By the way, The forum has exactly 17983 users⁴.
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The problem with beginner course revenue targeting is the same as the January gym memberships, people sign up, forget to close but at some point they close the account. So it’s a very spiky revenue chart, lots in beginning but tapers off. The trick is stickiness, to keep customers stick to an app. Part of that is a huge amount of courses.
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It’s almost like the company hates not only itself but the community as well. Memrise could have been the facebook of language learning. It had such a huge, passionate community, which is a unique asset that should never be taken for granted. But not only did they take it for granted, they actively shafted their community time and time again. Mind blowing. You don’t often witness such a staggeringly absurd level of incompetence.
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