@eunoia’s courses are orphaned, although they have a bunch of contributors - me included. To be very honest, did is a case where I doubt I’ll post a link… I’ve have made thousands of corrections in those courses, and I don’t have the amount of them to curate them alone…
I’ve just stepped out of this thread into the top level and see that @Lien has already created those top level categories for us here
and @Risenfall has already posted an example following the suggestions above, here.
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I’ve changed the topic titles and added the tag course-forum for all the topics now. Adding the tag I think might be useful because then you can get an overview of these [Course Forum] topics here: http://community.memrise.com/tags/course-forum
I hope any moderators and leaders and regulars will also change the names of these topics and add the tag when they come upon them. I don’t want to be the sole Don Quijote doing that.
To make sure any contributors get notified when someone posts in the topic, I would just ask anyone who posts a report in the topic to copy something like this, which I would put in the top post:
To make sure your post gets seen by the course creators and contributors, paste the following into your post:
Edit: did you get a notice from this quote pdao and Onesmy?
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Another example of why it is usually best to step back and let the dust settle before tackling something new. Waiting generally pays off… 
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Hi @Arete_Hime, re:
I’ve changed the topic titles and added the tag course-forum for all the topics now. Adding the tag I think might be useful because then you can get an overview of these topics :
Having not tried it, forgive the question but, where does one add tags? I tried to access the area for this thread for instance and can’t find it.
FOUND IT - It’s under the title edit!
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@Arete_Hime Great to have this dedicated thread course-forum. Bravo !
But really asking users to add tags to their post just so that the course creator gets notified… arghhh.
When you think that in the past it was one click and go for the users…?
This is going to be interesting to say the least.
Wait and see…
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It’s asking course creators to add tags to the topics, and moderators, leaders, and regulars to do that for them if they didn’t. And asking users to copy a line in their post: you’re my only hope @flamantrose! if they post in that topic. I agree it’s not anything resembling a convenient solution. But then again, the original solution wasn’t all that pretty either.
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Thanks @Arete_Hime for explaining. I need a Memrise course on how to use the new Forum 
I thought the tags were key words added to a post, thinking that people add keywords (tags) to posts. But one only adds keywords upon creating a new discussion thread, which is entirely different.
So for the course creator, in the title of the new discussion thread put [Course Forum] at the beginning. Then maybe also the keyword course-forum to the course forum discussion thread.
To get notified or to notify someone people should put mentions @coursecreator in their posts.
Simple two step process, it is better.
Thank you !
I’ve posted my general forum link (for all my courses) in my courses descriptions - at least, in a part of them. The team should the gentleness to allow the links in course descriptions to appear as links - in blue, and to be clickable and to open in a new tab, so the user has a direct link to the forum
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For the benefit of readers of this thread, I am attaching a synopsis of the discussion we had:
By @DW7
Thank you for having a go @Hydroptere and giving us the opportunity to have a look.
I agree with you that the link will need to be an active one and that people
posting in a “Course Forum” (when more than one course) will definitely need to specify which course (and level hopefully) they are reporting on or you could spend ages looking for an entry.
I went to your course to see how you’ve set it up. I did see the
link which I had to copy and paste into a new tab, BUT I only knew what
to do because of this forum.
The example of the link is in “La Mer” course and it had no introduction/ instructions. Ie it wasn’t clear what the the link was for and I think we are going to have to rely on MemRise publicising the new way of posting comments.
Reply by @alanh
Another way to move between the course page and the forum is to
highlight the text of the url in the course description area [it’s not a true link - as @Hydroptere rightly pointed out in another thread] and then right click on it, then “go to…”.
The example I looked at clearly says “Post issues under…” in the
course description area. I did something similar with mine, and added a
new thread in the existing Course Forum for good measure.
By @DW7
But to come back to a comment I made earlier in the other thread (ie this thread now), I think the response rate when it was given as an easy link when one got an answer “wrong” was not used that much, so I don’t know how many normal users will know what to do and report issues under the new system.
Perhaps MemRise will be emailing all users on the 1st July to inform them.
This is a request to @OliviaZavala
By @Hydroptere
A. thanks @alanh
B. @DW7:
1 the “course description” is for describing the course. In fact,
only with great displeasure I’ve posted the link there: it’s eating up
characters, posting “for this and that” would have taken the whole space
provided
2 the link is long and ugly; however, it is clear that is link to a
forum, if one can read: course forum hydroptere’s courses… I expect
the user to read the title of the link and to figure out by
herself/himself. I don’t think figuring out is that difficult
3 this is the max I can do, given the way memrise handles this issue.
Yes, memrise should make clear to the user how s/he can post issues…
at least they can allow clickable links in the course description.
Hallo, @Joshua, hi!
How do you do that thing with tiny.url? maybe I can change the whole
long sausage (the link to my forum I mean) into a tiny tidy something.
well, I’ve shortened the huge link by myself, first but it is too short
a shortening.
By DW7
Hi @Hydroptere, I hope you understood my post, and I agree 100% with you.
You may remember I requested a dedicated field for our links with appropriate wording by MemRise, which has not been granted but we have been promised more space, which should help.
All my descriptions have used up all my allotted space so I can’t do anything until my allowance has been increased.
I have also requested that MemRise re-educates the users to look for a link in our description.
And your idea of live ‘click-able’ links opening to a new tab is vital.
I too could do with help with writing tiny.urls BUT
I resist clicking them as I don’t know where I am going and it could be a virus!
(Normally this could be the case outside of MemRise, but one doesn’t know who might be able to get in or even write a course.)
I think you are doing a wonderful job - trail blazing - but I can’t
help thinking this is such a backward step and so messy - as well as
unlikely to be used as it’s not easy and in the appropriate place (ie
when we get an answer ‘wrong’ or spots a problem).
Please could MemRise note this thread.
Reply by @Hydroptere
Yes I did understand what you were saying, thanks, I’m upset with this strategy of memrise of first throwing the child into the fountain then watching the users saving it - again and again.
The above conversation took place in one of @Hydroptere’s courses but it has been moved here for all to see at her (sensible) suggestion.
If it helps, here’s how to make a link with a short-form clickable description that appears in blue. (Sorry this comment is so long!! It’s in 2 parts: How-to, and example illustration)
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The basic little formula is: [ url][/url]
BUT with no space after that first bracket - If I don’t put a space in there you would just see a blank after my " : "
I have to “break” the formula with a space to make the magic symbols visible here
The first bit should really look like this: [url] -
Inside that first set of brackets, after ‘url’, type in an “equals” sign: =
So it looks like this: [url=] -
Paste your link right after the “equals” sign, before the closing bracket: [url=PASTELINKHERE]
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Type your short-form description in between the two bracketed halves of the formula: [ url=PASTELINKHERE]Description[/url]
(Again, don’t leave any spaces anywhere - I put one in after the first bracket just so the formula is visible. Otherwise you would only see my example word, “Description”, in blue with nothing around it 
)
To illustrate this using the link to your Course Forum:
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Your link is: [Courses Fora] Hydroptère's courses
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Pasted into the first half, " [url] ", after typing in the “=”, it looks like this: [url=http://community.memrise.com/t/course-forum-hydropteres-courses/895]
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Using “Course Forum: Hydroptère’s Courses” as the description, and with the second half, the whole string looks like this (but with no space after the first bracket): [ url=http://community.memrise.com/t/course-forum-hydropteres-courses/895]Course Forum: Hydroptère’s Courses[/url]
(Again, I put in a space after the first bracket to break it and make everything visible)
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The final result looks like this and links to the forum (the only change from above is removing the space after the first bracket) :
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Thanks @Parrac. That’s really helpful.
If you don’t mind, I’ll move it to the “How to…” category, where it will be best placed for people to find in the future.
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That doesn’t actually work though in the course description field.
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Great!
(Edit: Though If it only works for the forums it may not be all that useful…)
You’re all doing a fantastic job organising all of this. I’m really enjoying poking around in the forums watching it all happen
Ah… Do you know why not?
Nope. It just doesn’t. It would be nice if, in this new reality, it were enabled @joshua, @daniel.zohar, @OliviaZavala. Olivia already said they would try to increase the character limit in the field.
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@Parrac
thanks for your detailed explanation + time and energy you invested in, but it does not work, unfortunately… the course desription field simply does not allow hyperlinks…
If they take the direct link to the old course forum, they should replace it with something… again: dear team, please allow for clickable and in a new tab open-able link to the forum of the course
many hanks
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@alanh why not leave it here and copy it there, or at very least tell us the details to create a blue link is now “here”.