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

https://www.memrise.com/blog/changes-to-the-memrise-app

Q: When will you shut down this new URL? How long do I have to access my community courses?

A: Community courses will live in the new URL at least until the end of 2024

Q: What will happen to my community courses after you shut the new site down?

A: Before we do, we’ll have a way to give you your word lists in a format that allows you to take them, and continue to learn them, somewhere else. After we shut down, they will still exist in this format for you.

6 days later

The latest post from MemRise says there will be a new home (URL) for community courses.

I have two questions:

  1. How long will they remain there?
  2. Will the web version maintain the many Multimedia levels we have created (these are helpful).

@[deleted] have you been able to import the multimedia levels (and attributes) and do you have any plans to display them in a similar way to the MemRise web currently?

(Not sure if this was the best thread to post this comment - feel free to move it.)


PS The answer to Qu 1 is …

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    DW7 Will the web version maintain the many Multimedia levels we have created (these are helpful).

    I can answer this: Yes, they are there.

    7 days later

    In app.memrise.com, classic official courses are still available.

    It seems that they are not forced to switch to the new experience. The current status may be maintained for the rest of this year.

    18 days later

    Good morning all. I'm not sure where else to ask a question about MemRise.

    The App no longer (as advertised) lists any Community Courses (just their own 1 to 7 and a few others as 7shi has pointed out), but what has happened about the new experience and the removal of the 1 to 7 structure?

    Is there any announcement about that?

    Thankfully our courses are still present and work on the Web version.

      DW7

      I'm on the website but I suppose it's the same problem on the app. I just asked about the access to New Memrise again because I hadn't heard any news from them in 2 months. They answered this:

      We're sorry you've been unable to access the new Memrise content and features. We've had to temporarily stop users moving to the new experience while we iron out some problems faced by users that have already been migrated. If you would like to be opted into the New Memrise, please submit your email via this form and we will switch your account as soon as we can.

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      New update from the CEO: https://www.reddit.com/r/memrise/comments/1axye57/comment/l0w8guj/

      Hi u/Primary_Mobile7290

      Thanks for the thoughtful comment and for acknowledging various aspects of our business reality.

      I understand your point about over-emphasis on cash and business goals, and I do agree with you.

      Of course, we need to contend with the economic reality of self-sufficiency. If we cannot pay all of our bills with the subscription revenue we generate, then the whole Memrise endeavor is over. The servers would shut down, and the Community Courses would disappear. 

      This is the situation we were once in. If we hadn’t changed course, we wouldn’t be having this conversation today…and everyone would be even more upset about it.

      Fortunately, we have recently achieved self-sufficiency. This means we can now cover all our bills from the business's revenue without relying on external investments to keep the lights on. This achievement, among other things, allows us to keep Community Courses online in 2024 and beyond if needed.

      Now, we can turn our attention to building the tools and a learning experience that users tell us they want - though not the users in this forum, I will concede.

      In the seven years before January 1 of this year, we released 3 new languages with very small content dictionaries.

      In Q1 of this year, we released 3 new languages with large dictionaries (Arabic, Greek, and Indonesian)

      In Q2 of this year we intend to release 6 more. We can do this because of the changes we made to our backend. Changes that aren't compatible with managing the many Community Course dictionaries.

      Once we get our new platform a bit more developed and stable, we can revisit the Community Courses issue regarding minority language courses. 

      In short, without any promises whatsoever, I think there are ways that we will be able to deliver a full Memrise experience to learners of increasingly diverse minority languages. Again, I know that “a full Memrise experience” is not what many people in this forum desire. 

      At this moment, we must focus on building a technological and financial foundation that can support this aspirational dream, and that requires us to make the poorly communicated decisions we have made that are so frustrating to everyone here.

      Looks like they're no longer reliant on investor money, which must be nice for them 🙂

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      5 days later

      DW7 Sounds like some welcome changes to most people who use the app 🙂

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