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It's similar in principle, but works pretty differently in the details. I'll try and write a blog post about it sometime soon!

A question I raised in another thread: why does memrise's testing interval (apparently) stop at 3 months? This seems like a waste of time for some extremely basic words that I know really well. I don't want to 'ignore' words in my lists, but that seems like the only way right now to stop these kind of words taking up my time.

+1 to Azimuth question. Very valid point.

This seems to have changed recently - some of my plants are out at 4 and 5 months now. Which is very welcome.

same here - I've seen a couple that are 4/5 months as well. It's a very welcome change.

We set the 3-month ceiling a while ago to avoid runaway intervals, which was a problem we were experiencing occasionally with early versions of the algorithm.

Now that our algorithm is more stable, we thought we'd try @Azimuth and @revans' suggestion to increase the ceiling. So far so good, but it might be too early to notice any subtle consequences.

Great news, thanks! (and maybe if it continues to work, intervals can be extended even further for words that you never get wrong).

cool, I was worried about that, that's great. One fun thing with anki was that if I took a "break" for a few months, then any words I got right when I came back that were way over their interval were set to not test me for another year or two, which was kind of amusing (but not necessarily wrong)

Thanks! it is awesome to have higher ceiling. I use memrise both for learning new words and for reminder of older and easy ones (funny how some of them disappear if you don't see them for a few years and when you need them, you feel like an idiot) so I take a lot of courses and I was already worried I might eventually get to situation where 10000 or more words would be waiting for me every three months. A nightmare...