They’ve gone then…and without any further publicity. 
You are right, the old Course Forum is no more! How sad.
“Independence Day” and we have they have been cast off.
However I see the “Forum” button still exists and leads us to the Community home-page, which at least is good news.
Too bad they could not at least redirect to the right language in the new forum context.
Then new users have to “create” an account.
bye bye old Forums… a sort of Frexit.
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This would be a great idea (and would work for languages), however many of the courses in Geography, I support, are bizarrely in several different categories.
(I’ve mentioned before that I suggested a re-think of categories)
I think if MemRise could provide a more specific link for non-language courses, it should go to a top level, probably here:
Memrise has created a really big mess for communications between course maintainers and people taking the courses. There’s no way we can solve it. One thing we might be able to convince them to do, despite their frequently-expressed hostility against feature requests and the web (and their imagination that all feature requests are about the web only and must be ignored because they don’t help mobile users) … despite all that, we might be able to convince them to add a forum URL field to the course settings, so course maintainers can put a URL of their choice there, and the forum link would just take people to that link. It’s a small enough and reasonable enough and important enough request that maybe, just maybe, they’ll listen if people keep asking for it.
The whole concept of replacing a forum for each course with a single post for each course, where there’s one long stream of comments, is not really sane IMO, but that’s what memrise thought to stick us with without even asking if it made any sense first. I think many of us would prefer to just use forums elsewhere, or make our own, if only there were an easy way to link from the course to the forum.