What bothers me about Memrise

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Since I have not found any place to provide feedback except for the forum, I’ll have to be a crybaby here.

First of all, I’d like to clarify that for me, Memrise is the best learning platform out there - this is why its so annoying that it has so many shortfalls that could easily be corrected.

  1. Complete lack of settings/preferences
    When I started doing Memrise, I got long sentences to type in, which was tiring at first but I really grew to like it. Then they disappeared and now only the shortest sentences are to be typed in. I understand that most people prefer this, but why can’t there be a CHOICE? For example, “Only type sentences that are shorter than XX characters” - and I can choose 30, others can choose 10 or even zero. Everyone wins, not a difficult programming task.
    There could be many other options like this. I don’t like the “word order” one cause I have to get my hands off the keyboard. Why can’t I disable it?

  2. Completely useless Pro membership
    I am paying to Memrise because it’s cheap but the extra services could fit under an ant’s booty. Some rather useless statistics like which course I was learning recently or when do I learn the best (here’s a thing, I - as probably almost everyone - don’t care at all if I’m 1% better in the evening than in the morning. The only thing I can use that statistic for is print it on toilet paper and wait for next morning to use it).

I was about to cancel my Pro membership, but I thought I’d first contact the customer service, because I really like this platform. Since there is no customer service, here I am. I’m not sure what I’m expecting. Anyways, if anyone is in a mood to contribute / answer to this, please.

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I forgot to say what I would want for a Pro member.
First of all, a list of all the mems I know from a language, by category: sentences, verbs, nouns, adjectives, common phrases, etc.
Second, statistics that could really help: how many percent of the most common words do I know from a language (Top 1000, top 2000, top 5000). How many phrases/sentences I know from certain tenses (e.g. from different conditionals, past and future tenses, etc.). If they were even more ambitious (I’d pay more for such things), there could be personalized combinations of words/sentences from different courses, giving you for example sentences with your difficult words or with your lesser-known tenses, etc. This way it could actually become a tool that can teach you a language to a very high level. Currently it is just a fairly effective complimentary tool.

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