Memrise
Language learning platform
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| July 2024 | Memrise announced in a blog post that community courses will be removed from their new app experience and moved to a separate platform. |
| February 2024 | Memrise again separated community courses to a new website, making them inaccessible through the updated mobile app and removing offline download capabilities. |
| 2023 | Memrise integrates a GPT-3-powered AI Language partner into its official courses, aimed at helping language learners practice human-like conversations and overcome the 'confidence gap' in language acquisition. |
| 2023 | UNESCO publication recognized the Memrise projects for Ume Sámi and Kristang languages as 'inspiring stories' in indigenous language documentation and preservation. |
| December 8 2023 | Memrise closed its community forum as part of the transition away from supporting community-created content. |
| November 2023 | Memrise announced plans to 'sunset' user-created courses, signaling a shift away from community-generated content. |
| September 2022 | Memrise completely removed the 'mems' feature from the site, a decision that generated significant negative user feedback in the official forum. |
| February 25 2020 | In response to user criticism, Memrise reversed the previous decision by undoing the split and merging community course content back to the main Memrise site. |
| February 2019 | Memrise announced the creation of 'Decks' to separate community courses, planning to move user-created content to a different web-based platform without offline access. |
| 2018 | The Institute on Collaborative Language Research at the University of California organized a workshop to teach participants how to use Memrise for teaching and learning endangered languages, highlighting its potential for language revitalization. |
| May 2017 | Memrise won the 'Best App' award at the second edition of the Google Play awards. |
| 2016 | Memrise became profitable, achieving a monthly turnover of $4 million. |
| 2013 | Ben Whately and Ed Cooke discussed their strategic approach to creating mems, focusing on leveraging internet culture's fascination with cats and the potential cognitive benefits of 'cuteness'. |
| 2012 | Ed Cooke highlighted the network effect of learning through mems, emphasizing how more users contribute to creating new mnemonic content on the platform. |
| 2012 | Less than two years after launching, Memrise had crowdsourced learning materials for approximately 100 languages, ranging from widely spoken to niche languages like Catalan, Haitian Creole, Klingon, Toki Pona, and Esperanto. |
| October 1 2012 | Memrise launched Memrise 1.0, allowing 100 users to sign up and test the non-beta version of the website. |
| September 2012 | Memrise temporarily suspended its website leaderboard due to extensive cheating by users employing bots and non-intensive mechanisms to artificially inflate their learning scores. |
| March 2011 | Memrise was selected as one of the Techstars Boston startups. |
| November 2010 | Memrise was named as a finalist for the 2010 TechCrunch Europas Start-up of the Year. |
| July 2010 | Memrise was named as one of the winners of the London Mini-Seedcamp competition. |
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