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  • Memrise CEO just published blog post about changes to website and app

The most telling para is this: "The vast majority of our users tell us they want to be able to navigate Paris, talk to their partners' families, or understand Bad Bunny when he is signing." (presumably means singing unless Bad Bunny has developed a Reggaeton sign language)

I don't think anyone would argue with this - just that it completely ignores what a SRS system can do, It is one part of the process - and that is what Memrise was good at. Their attempt at becoming a one-stop shop is doomed to failure (like all apps that promise they are the ONE solution). No amount of AI or whizzy new GUIs will change this.

Damage control. They got avalanche of 1 star rating on google play and their overall score dropped from 4.6 to 4.5. The moment they get the situation under control, they will axe the community courses without a blink of eye.

neoncube Interesting recent post by Ben Whately on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/memrise/comments/1alrrxn/comment/kpmlfjv

I'm getting ready to send him an email 🙂

Ask him about this too 😂

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      NewLandRise The moment they get the situation under control, they will axe the community courses without a blink of eye.

      To be fair, this is what they promised:

      "We will preserve your lists while alternatives are explored. We aren’t going to delete your lists any time soon and without lots and lots of notice."

      Admittedly, they are not very trustworthy people, so we'll see.

          A nice post from Ben Whately on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/memrise/comments/1alrrxn/comment/kpmlfjv/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

          Hi, Ben here, founder of Memrise.
          First, I want to apologise for the shock of this transition for many of you. We did try to make sure that everyone knew what to expect well in advance, and have been supporting people to migrate community courses to other places - but we clearly have not done it well enough.
          Second, I wanted to highlight a great initiative that we have been supporting for some time to migrate the community courses to: https://mylittlewordland.com/. We are also happy to support anyone else wanting to do something similar. Just because we can no longer justify supporting the community courses doesn't change the fact that we would like to do anything we reasonably can to help everyone who does still want that experience.
          Please get in touch at [cs@memrise.com](mailto:cs@memrise.com) if you would like support on moving community courses to another home and we'll do what we can to make that easy for you.
          Thanks and again my apologies for the way that we've handled this.

          I've been preparing to email them but am still thinking through what I'd like to request 🙂

          One of the Memrise staff just mentioned on Reddit that the timeline for removal of community courses is closer to 6 months than to 1 month.

            7shi Yes, thanks! 🙂

            I'd already closed the tab and couldn't find the comment again, haha.

              neoncube Does "the removal" refer to the removal from the current Memrise website and the app? The suggested "new URL" for the community courses seems to be semi-permanent-esque (i.e. "not to be removed in the foreseeable future" as they say)?

                  johnastsang My reading of this is that Memrise is preparing to remove community courses from the app and is separating the community courses to a dedicated URL on the web but still plans to eventually sunset the community courses. I'm guessing that they're moving the community courses to a dedicated URL so that instead of web users needing to switch between the new and old experiences, they can access both simultaneously (via separate URL's) 🙂

                    schlick Supposedly they now live on the "new experience", in which all the words are there, but presented in a different way ("scenarios" instead of "levels").

                      Has Memrise deleted my community courses? Where can I find them?

                      Rest assured that no community courses have been deleted.

                      We have now launched Community Courses on their own unique website: https://community-courses.memrise.com/signin. To access your community courses, follow this link and use your existing Memrise login credentials.
                      All progress you made on community courses will still be there and you'll still have the ability to join new community courses, as well as create them. The only thing you won't be able to do is access these on the Memrise app.

                      elfendertig You beat me to it! XD

                      Happy to see that the community courses should be up for at least a while longer 🙂

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