Memrise is Doing Away with User-Generated Content… Now What?

Author: Shannon Kennedy · Type: practitioner · Status: draft · Published: 2024-05-09 · URL: https://eurolinguiste.com/memrise-is-doing-away-with-user-generated-content-now-what/

Licence: Personal blog, all rights reserved; brief quotes used under fair use.

Summary

A Memrise power user (61.6M points) documents Memrise’s removal of community/custom courses from its app (March 2024, full shutdown later extended to end of 2025), argues the change destroys what differentiated Memrise, and demotes it to a supplemental tool, recommending LingQ for its import features instead.

Insights

• Memrise burned its most invested users by killing user-generated courses, converting a differentiated platform into a commodity course app and pushing power users toward import-friendly tools like LingQ. (high, draft) memrise user complaints market gap

  Custom courses offered a level of personalization and authenticity that official courses might struggle to replicate. — Why users are upset section

• Serious learners treat the ability to bring, own, and export their own content as decisive when choosing tools - the author’s replacement recommendation was made specifically on import capability. (medium, draft) memrise lingq positioning

  Kennedy now recommends LingQ as a replacement, citing its robust import features for vocabulary and courses. — Author’s recommendation section