Previously if I got an answer wrong, it would show me the correct answer and tell me what I typed, with an opportunity to type the correct answer.
However now it shows me the next question and then after answering correctly (I don’t know what happens if I get the next question wrong) it then shows me the previous one I got wrong (with the same opportunities)!
Has something happened as an unforeseen consequence?
It happened to me, too. Actually, it never went to the page that shows the correct answer and the mem. When it returned to the missed word, it was just with a multiple-choice question. I hope it’s a bug, not an intentional change, because I couldn’t even stand to complete the set.
I hope you’re right, but I remember all the times in the past that they made deliberate but unpopular changes, and their people would come on here and lie saying over and over again, “Thank you for the report. I’ll pass it along to the team.”
It sounds so familiar. But being skeptical, I ask myself how could this truly be a bug? How is it possible that Beatrisy’s QA Team didn’t notice that this new update fundamentally changed the way Memrise works before they released this update? How could they not notice something so obvious? It isn’t some minor glitch, like a font size mistake that could conceivably be overlooked.
The bug is so obvious that I was sure that it’s a new feature (please! add info in dashboard about new features!). But it’s just a bug… So no learning today…
Well, there might not be testing departments, no QS teams, no time for internal tests for 1-2 weeks, whatsoever…
What code most companies (e.g US) today deploy is not a stable code from a specific branch…but it always feels like a deploy / rollout of the master/trunk (developer code) right from the day (commit) before.
I still remember the annoying programmable mixer reboot bug in my RC transmitter (computer controlled) and the US company didn’t care to fix this REBOOT bug (this is a no go!) for at least 6++ months.
They never fixed it as a hot release…but instead of introduced multiple other bugs with the next release when they finally cared to fix the reboot.
So many DuoLingo problems and bugs (incl. frontend changes) can only be worked around with user scripts, style sheets…
The end user is the ALPHA / BETA tester…
There seems to be no money or interest for most companies to hire 3-5 or 10 people, do intensive QA tests of new developer BETA code…and release new code (once intensively tested for a while) delayed.
As we can not change the same practices happening over and over again we have to either accept it or love it.
I do not even understand why there can not be finally a code freeze for the next 6-12 months…why all those many changes on the web portal without any QA? Do I need any of them?
Maybe you’re right, and that’s in fact the case, but then that means that Memrise and Beatrisy are lying when they say that she’s QA Team Lead/Manager. According to them, there is a team, and she is the one ultimately responsible for it. She also describes herself as an engineer, and has lauded the fair bit of engineering that went in to creating the “up next” button.
My suspicion remains that this is not a bug, and that they will let it remain this way for at least a few days. Then they will decide whether to revert it and say they “fixed the bug,” or ignore complaints, or admit it is a “new improvement.”
Time will tell if I’m right.
I agree.
And this is the condition of that site after Duolingo has received close to 110 million dollars from its investors, which is about twenty times the size of Memrise’s total capital investment.
I think what makes it so annoying is that you loose concentration on the parts you got right and wrong, and when you re-write you can’t concentrate as well on the wrong ones. I hope it’s a research grounded decision, because it doesn’t feel right.
It seems this has been affecting people for a while now, but it only just started happening to me today (I use the iOS app and the web daily, and it just happened to me right now on the web). I agree with @parix that it breaks my concentration on what I got wrong, and I hope they revert this if it was intentional, or fix it soon if it’s a bug. For the record, it happened to me in the Dutch 7 course.
This change (or bug, I hope) is really annoying. You’re going along with a nice rhythm, type, enter, type, enter, but then, bam, you get an answer wrong, and it comes back to bite you when you’re not expecting it, leaving you feeling like you’re being punished for committing an error. I have started a review like 3 or 4 times and then just paused it without finishing and left the site out of annoyance and frustration. I hope it can be fixed soon. Also, I still hate auto-advance
Today I still can’t remember words I didn’t answer correctly yesterday. They are not new words so I should have remembered them today. I guess this change doesn’t work for me. I feel like everything is mixed up in my head.
Please fix this, please don’t be another memrise “improvement”. Please! I love this site but its getting harder and harder to stick with it with these kind of changes. If this stays, guess I will go to Anki and leave memrise finally.
