Memrise would be great - if it would load in a reasonable amount of time

Many of you may have run into the same articles I have seen about this great new free service called Memrise for learning languages. So I signed up and quickly was going through their "Basic Japanese" word list. I was feeling much more comfortable than I have even with Rosetta Stone, at much less of a financial investment. I was so pumped that I could hardly wait until my 4 hour "refresh" window was up and I could do my next session.

Unfortunately, that's when the "free" in the service became overwhelmingly apparent. It was taking minutes (literally) to load my word list, and while I would enter an answer it took another minute or two to actually score and bring up the next word. So I started having attention problems which started dropping my score. Worse, when I came back for my third session it decided to start asking me to type in the words I was learning. Since up to this point I had just been picking from flash cards of english to japanese, or vice versa, I found myself completely unprepared. Now the wait to see if I was right or not became almost painful, and the inability to get any hints quickly turned me from "yay, I might finally learn this" to "wow, there is no way I would wait for a site to refresh this slowly unless they were paying me".

I decided not to make a big deal thinking maybe it was just a big weekend for them, but the past week and this weekend have been as bad if not worse. I have no doubt they are growing faster than anticipated, but I can't think I'm the only person who has gotten quickly discouraged.

Someone please drop me a line if they ever push out a version 2. I have some plants dying on the vine that could probably use the CPR :-)