I can’t join the call but I agree with everything Ray mentioned. I also use Memrise for kanji and I would gladly subscribe if it means I can keep the mems. I love this site as-is, and can see from the beta that the changes will simply ruin everything people value, it will kill Memrise.
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You can still add images to mems you make, though? I do it all the time
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The Mem function is going away entirely at the end of the year. They will just sort of…disappear. No more making or even using them.
Before I carve time out from my extremely busy schedule for a call like this, I’d like a direct answer to the following question:
Is there any possibility that decisions which have been announced by the Memrise team may be reconsidered or is this simply a call to try to sell us on what has already been decided?
Thanks.
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So the problem is that multimedia levels are not available on mobile apps, right? I am aware of this problem. I didn’t get what you meant just because I’m so used to viewing multimedia levels with my computer, which seems to display them with no problems.
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Oh, yes, you can still upload images from your device. But a few years ago, there was a photo library which you could browse and from which you could select images for your mems. I used to make mems with that, but I don’t add images to my mems after the photo library ceased to exist.
BTW I’ve just taken a look at your mems. They are very interesting and funny. What a pity if you could no longer make mems after the turn of the year!
If you need help for saving your precious mems, you may find this helpful:
http://community.memrise.com/t/rollout-of-the-new-dashboard-and-learning-sessions-experiences-to-all-our-customers/69305/187
PS I’m also learning Japanese (without needing to memorise kanjis from scratch as I’m a native Cantonese speaker from Hong Kong 
). Bon courage!
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Oh, I see, that’s a pity. I’ve only been here for 3 or 4 years so I didn’t know
And thanks haha… I didn’t notice I even had that many but I have over 500 apparently. No way I can save them one by one manually
Good luck to you as well!
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How do you access mems for a specific course like that?
I thought mems are only shown when you are learning new words, or failing them during the review. Both ways require a lot of redundant actions and are very cumbersome and unreliable. Is there a better alternative that I don’t know of?
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Oh, I’m not able to download everything, just remarking that I’ll never even get a chance to see the Mems for the Goethe course because I’ve only made it to B alphabetically. I just save the Mems on items as I learn them or if they are ones I miss a lot. I don’t have any special tricks or anything, sorry. 
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Many thanks @BenWhately for setting up this meeting.
I’m sorry but I will not be able to attend due to other commitments, but I am sure you will be giving us a resume afterwards sometime.
Also I know you have seen and read the many comments we’ve all made in various threads recently (and in the past), so I sure you know our views and concerns.
PS
Bottom line, as long as our created and supported courses continue in a format we like, and Mems are available, I shall be pleased.
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Okay we will definitely listen
As a reminder, please respond to these questions:
Thank you, @BenWhately, though I still have some concerns and I’ll need to see how things work out, the meeting was very constructive. Good luck with the new project. Please remain responsive to the community.
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@BenWhately, one major point that I forgot to mention in the meeting: How will Memworld deal with ancient/classical languages, like Latin, Sanskrit, and Ancient Greek, which cannot be learnt through immersion, watching films, having conversations, etc.?
In the same way as all other courses that can’t be moved to the new system: they’ll be kept on the old system.
As we discussed, once the old system is separated, it will be much less expensive for us to keep our running in parallel - the big cosy of the old system is how much it slows development of the new system. So it seems likely that we can keep the old system running until we find a solution that works for everyone.
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OK, that makes sense. Thank you.
This brings us to one of the questions that I asked here but did not get response. I intentionally didn’t bring it to the meeting because it’s relatively unimportant and the time was barely enough for the crucial issues. But as we’re speaking, please allow me repeat myself:
We may not understand the technicalities involved here, but could anyone in the Memrise team at least try to explain why mems need to be taken down so that the desired changes could happen? Particularly, I understand that the big changes are happening on a separate, in-progress website known as “Memworld”, so why is it necessary to disturb what we have here?
Thanks again for your time.
I have your word on that!
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It’s extremely important to me.
I’ve been on here since August, and in that time I’ve apparently made over 500 Mems. That’s not to mention all the brilliant ones other people made that were effective enough that I didn’t even need to make my own.
Oh man, now I’m getting mad again.
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great, fantastic, supercalifragilisticexpialidolcebitch whatever
leave the classical version as it is now, take down “temporarily” the mems, go on with the memworld, and let the users chose the version they want to use
given the more in-depth nature of the vocab some of us are learning, or given the fact that adults do not learn through immersion, just kiddies until…12? the current classical version is …fine. Learning is a process which in adults requires determination, skill, time, money (having spare time, etc), a supporting environment etc. These are not insignificant factors. Constantly disturbing them is no joy, no joy at all. As one user duly noted: am I “driven mad by a darn website…” or something similar
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