just revising the list perhaps you can help me get to the bottom of some of these issues.
With the improvements to the dashboard and loading screens we believe 7 is fixed and 8 should be fixed too but if not, we would like some advice on how to replicate it.
We did some work on 11 some time ago and I have not seen that lately so I think it is fixed but let me know if you can still see it
same with 12, we did some work some time ago and should be fixed
we refactored the audio library a few versions ago and we believe 20 should be fixed but if you can reproduce it please let us know
I’d need some specific example on 15 as I am not sure how to reproduce it
and for 25, for us to understand what is going on, could you please compare 5 and 7 words sessions and tell us exactly where is the difference? I have tried but i am not sure where the problem is.
Jesus, since you are here… Sorry if I’m late, but noticed it only recently. Your team made another ‘improvement’ in the app - audio button is pulsating now. This is totally unnecessary. I mean, If people are here to learn, they don’t need bells and whistles, which are not only helping, but even more distracting for your attention.
Also, you can see these overlapping buttons. It’s been more than a year now since this happening. You either should scale back audio button (why in hell it’s so big?) or make this whole thing adjustable to the screen. Don’t you see that it’s inconvenient for the users to type? Screens are from official courses, the same thing exists for certain items in the user created courses, but I told you already about it.
Hi, just popping in here since this seems to be the big bug topic
I just noticed that since the update, courses don’t seem to load well anymore. I can load a course when opening the app, but if I then want to go to a new course it just keeps loading and I need to leave the app and start it again for it to load. Anyone else having this problem?
I can’t provide any assistance on this one as I haven’t ever come across this personally. It might be best to ask in the thread that I linked.
It’s pretty easy to reproduce: when you do a 10 or 7 words learning session in a community course, you’d expect to “plant” all words in two sessions. However, with 10 you’ll be left with (I think) 5 or 7 after the second session. in fact I tried this out yesterday and I had to go through 3 sessions (10, 5, 3 words) to fully learn the 10 words.
I suppose a description is more helpful than a video. Also, this video would get pretty lengthy as you have to go through sessions, so here’s a description:
go to one course and do a repetition session (or whatever else)
after the session ended, switch to a different course (I always do these in a row from bottom to top)
tap the three dots button and start i. e. an upcoming review (you may have to do this quickly)
You might have to try this a few times - the problem doesn’t always happen, but very frequently.
Particularly if you don’t wait until the app does whatever scrolling it seems to require doing. Sometimes waiting a while doesn’t help either.
Also notable is the fact that, for a good many weeks, the course list will take a few seconds to update when switching between courses.
For instance, I usually keep older/finished courses in my “personal order” and work through the list from bottom to top. This means that some courses may have no words to be reviewed in which case I tap them once (so they remain in the order I want them), wait for the course screen to come up, then go back to the course list / dashboard and select the next course. When doing this quickly for two courses, the first course will not have been moved away from its position in the dashboard to the top of the list. For that to happen, I’d have to wait 1-3s until it gets removed from its original position therein.
Did you notice a pause of some seconds (1.5-2) they have added after each audio? If a course contains audio files it takes about 2-3 minutes more than before to finish speed (50+50) or classic reviews. They did it maybe a month ago.
Not really, but what has changed (IDK, maybe 2 months ago?) is that, during speed reviews, the app now waits until the audio of an item has finished completely. Before the change, i. e. long sentences were simply cut off by the next item. I actually liked that quite a lot as it made the whole thing a lot quicker!
BTW, speed review is called turbo in the German version which I think no longer really applies since the change …
I have a new issue that I have come across due to changing my learning approach.
I’m working on a bunch of (community) courses with hard to learn vocab. In order to better force stuff into my brain, I learn words. After the second cycle (all completely “learned”), I do between 1-3 speed review sessions on the level they are in.
Also, I tend to use the following procedure when working on those courses:
review any words up for review (SRS)
speed review over the last 1-2 levels and/or the course as a whole
Both the above procedures seem to prevent such repeated words from ever showing up on a standard review session - the regular review obviously only contains words that I either answered wrongly or that haven’t been repeated for a longer (!) time.
This leads me to the conclusion that a word’s SRS score is being updated (“watered”) every time you do a speed review.
Now I recall that you changed speed reviews in the not too distant past. A speed review will now repeat words that are up for review first, watering them along the way. Also, when a speed review is being used instead of a regular review, the speed review will only test the words that are up for review.
Thus, a speed review does update the SRS score of a word that was up for (classic) review.
While I suppose it’s OK to alternatively have a means of reviewing words via a speed review (handy for courses with hundreds or even thousands of words up for review), it’s very much preventing us from doing additional repetitions when repeating words that are not up for (SRS-) review.
Gee, you’re right! There’s actually two different issues - the one that I thought #5 referred to was the fact that, when moving from one course to a different one and then started a (whatever) session, that session was started with the formerly selected course, not the current one. So what I meant was actually #7, so cheers for correcting that!
I obviously completely misinterpreted your thread there. I was under the impression that the influence on SRS repetitions only affected words that were up for review. But I’m sure it affects words regardless of whether they’re up for review or not. I actually like the former, but the latter is effectively hindering one’s learning process.
I haven’t seen this issue ever since they changed the dashboard. It takes a while for me to locate “my next course” as I have to scroll like crazy, but once I pick a course, everything’s just fine.
Also, I have a couple of official courses which I keep in the loop (sorted from course 1 to 7 or in between, where appropriate), so I’ll check on the dashboard whether there’s any words up for review, then I select the first course (say “Swedish 1”). The course (due to having been finished) will scroll to the bottom which allows me to just tap the next course (i. e. “Swedish 2”).
Assuming the first course with words up for review is “Swedish 4” then I’d quickly change from 1 through 4 and then hit the “Review” button. This hasn’t been a problem as of yet.
