This morning, millions of Livemocha members all around the world received an email containing this message:
"Unfortunately, the Livemocha community will close permanently on Friday, April 22, 2016, and you will no longer be able to access your account after that date.
We highly encourage you to remain engaged, make friends, use those remaining beans, and build lifelong memories with us for the next few weeks."
To appease its many now-devastated members, Rosetta Stone suggested that users check out thier language-learning app and redeem the free trial (which is available to anyone, regardless of whether they're from Livemocha or not). Rosetta Stone also decided to give Livemocha members a discount on Rosetta Stone software, as a way to show their appreciation for the community's support over the years (it seems like Rosetta Stone is just trying to get money out of people, to make up for their poor sales).
Rosetta Stone fails to see that this is a community of many language learners, many people. Rosetta Stone simply sees this website as a money-sucker, but I think that Rosetta Stone needs to look at its poor software to see why they're having a dip in sales. Livemocha is a wonderful place, with wonderful people and wonderful courses, and Rosetta Stone must recognize this.
We, the undersigned, respectfully ask Rosetta Stone, Inc. to keep Livemocha running.
