While you’ve been focusing on learning languages, we’ve been working hard to make LingQ even better than ever. This is the first of many exciting new improvements that will be coming your way over the next few months.
We started off by redesigning the lesson page, something that will make you smile. There will now be sounds to notify you when you’ve created a LingQ, Known Word, Ignored Word, and completed the lesson. Because we know some of you use LingQ late at night, you can turn the sound off in the settings menu by clicking on the Settings icon located above the lesson.
We’ve also moved the audio playback controls to the lower left-hand of the screen which will make things less cluttered.
There will also be plenty of other behind-the-scenes improvements like; faster performance, bug fixes, new content and lots more.
So stay tuned for these upcoming changes and give it a try. We hope you like it as much as we do.
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These changes are now live. We hope you are going to like them. Of course, let us know your thoughts. We think this makes it a little more clear that we want you getting rid of your blue words when you study lessons. And, it gives audio feedback when you take actions to remove blue words. Hopefully, this makes things a little more fun. Of course, for those who prefer peace and quiet, simply toggle the sound effects off from the settings menu.
You will also notice that a variety of changes have been made to the interface to make it feel less cluttered. The Info pane has been removed since it provided relatively little value and was quite prominent in the interface. You will find the provider info back at the bottom of the lesson like it once was. You will also notice that the minimize control has been removed and the minimized view is now available as “Hover Mode” in the Settings dropdown.
Finally, the audio player now floats along the left side of the lesson text. We feel this is a more convenient location and allows us to remove the bottom controls to free up more text area which was a common request. There are some things we need to do to the audio progress bar to enable better control. We will push these shortly.
