User profile description

[SilentShuffle]

I’ve just noticed that the description section on my and other people’s user profiles has vanished. Is this a permanent change? If so, what is the reasoning behind it? I like using the description to promote new courses that I am working on.

[TinyCaterpillar]

They took them down about a month and a half ago, due to abuse from bots. See here:

Bio field will be suspended starting today

As of today, the Bio feature will be suspended on all accounts. This means the personal information you input to the settings page will not be visible on your profile to other users. Although the suspension of this feature won’t have any impact on your learning, we want to share the circumstances that led to this decision, and what it means for the future of social features on Memrise. What happened? We recently discovered a number of users had been using the same username and password for t…

They claimed at the time that it was temporary, but Memrise tends to say one thing and do another.

[SilentShuffle]

Thanks TinyCaterpillar. It would be a great shame if they never reinstate this feature - it’s hard enough as it is to promote a new course. Any update on this @MemriseMatty?