Because there is so much complaining here in the forum at the moment:
I just clicked the check mark at the end of a new lesson to complete the lesson. And I was asked if I really wanted to do that, because otherwise the words marked in blue would be considered known (at least on the German user interface)…
Guys, that’s exactly what so many of you wanted. So give credit to this innovation!
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Clicking the check mark changes all the blue (brand new) words in the lesson to “known”. But it doesn’t change the yellow worlds to known. Nice.
So it gives you a choice. If you really want to go through a lesson without looking up the words, fine. If you don’t care about the color feature, click the check. Or you can click X on the last page, to exit the course without changing colors.
If you want to reset all words to blue in all courses, just remove Turkish from your list of languages. Then add it back into that list. All words are blue.
Is that sarcasm?
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They did what you all wanted, even though it wasn’t originally planned. Doesn’t that deserve a little “thank you”?
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What “we all” wanted was to correct a design flaw. It is an established standard to ask for confirmation when an action has irreversible consequences.
What “we all” suggested in addition to that was to accompany this with a “Don’t ask me again” checkbox, another established standard, for those who don’t want this “feature” and may consider the extra click at the end of the lesson an annoyance.
So after all they deigned to make half a step towards a proper product, not speaking of all the other flaws they mostly ignore.
So no. I consider this neither innovative nor thankworthy.
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I didn’t see this at all. Is it on the app?
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@DJTembo - thank you! So nice to see some positivity and I agree that credit is deserved so thanks again to LingQ for a small but significant change.
I’m sure that others are going to jump on the negative bandwagon but that’s their issue not mine. Have a lovely, positive day language friends.
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Because there is so much complaining here in the forum at the moment
Guys, that’s exactly what so many of you wanted. So give credit to this innovation!
If this “innovation” was exactly what we wanted regarding blue words, there wouldn’t be so much complaining here at the moment, don’t you think? 
What we’ve been wanting for years already is simply to be able to finish a lesson, get a list of blue words we encountered, and decide which ones we want to be moved to known and which ones we want to keep blue - could be because we don’t feel yet that we are familiar enough with them, or because we feel we don’t need to learn them yet, but maybe in the future, or maybe because we read a lot and we simply don’t want to have thousands of lingqs that we will never have time to review… There are many legitimate reasons for this option to be available and there’s not a single reason for not having it. Really, there’s no more to it than that. It has been requested in the past, it is being requested every day and it will be requested over and over again, because we simply need it, period. That’s why it is beyond my understanding why we’re consistently being denied something that is so simple to implement. And every time we ask for it, we hear that the current system is good, it works well and we simply don’t know what we’re talking about, because someone else apparently knows better than us how we like to learn our words. Or, even worse, we hear already before we even say anything that we’re jumping on the negative bandwagon, because requesting an essential and basic feature on a platform we pay for is “our issue”… 
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When I first started using LingQ, I spent time fussing over each word, making sure they were at the understanding level I thought they were at. But after a while I realized it doesn’t matter.
The known and unknown words we come across in a text don’t need to be categorized. We don’t need to make the decisions about each word. I was focusing on something that doesn’t matter. Maybe you are too.
The point of LingQ is to keep reading and seeing the translations for words we don’t understand. We don’t learn words by categorizing them as known or unknown. We only learn them by seeing them over and over until we know them. we’re never going to gain anything by spending time categorizing the words we come across - all that does is waste time that can be better spent reading more.
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I was focusing on something that doesn’t matter. Maybe you are too.
Maybe I am, maybe I’m not, but in my opinion that’s not the point here and it’s exactly what I was talking about. I am also tired of discussing this topic over and over again, because pretty much everything has been already said about it. I’ll only repeat that I totally understand and sympathize with disappointed users who come here with their personal learning styles and preferences, pay their money, report that the blue word system is confusing and not 100% to their liking, ask for one tiny feature to be added (no one is postulating changing the system completely) and then hear in return that it’s their learning style and preferences that are wrong, so they should just forget it, give up, stop complaining, scale down their expectations and then they’ll be happy. As if adding this one tiny feature meant that those who are already happy with the current system wouldn’t be able to use it anymore the way they do now. 
You’re absolutely right saying that our time can be spent reading more, so I’ll follow your advice and finish by summing-up my point: as long as this feature is not added, the system is and will be an issue for new users, it has been discussed for years, it will be discussed in the future, people will complain about it, so I simply don’t understand why not just add this tiny feature (which will make everyone happy and won’t leave anyone unhappy) and cut all the future complaining by 95%.
Happy reading to everyone!
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To be honest, I don’t really understand why some people here are so set on keeping words blue at the end of a lesson either. This is only my humble opinion, but the way i see it, a word is either:
- unknown
- in the process of being learnt
- known
If you are not interested in learning a particular word, just click the trash icon to ignore it.
I think the team is not responding favourably to the request because they cannot see a good reason to make the system unecessarily complicated. I am not always on the same page as them, but can understand their point of view here.
What they should do however, is have “paging moves to known” disabled by default on new users’ accounts as I agree that adding a bunch of unknown words to the word count not only messes up the statistics, but is a pain for the user who then has to comb through the text fishing for every unknown word turned white.
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