Finishing lessons adds all words as known error

I only want to add the words ive learned and see how many i gained at the end of each lesson however randomly it started adding all blue words to known once i hit finish lesson, including names and things i dont want to add.

This option?

Previously if i finished a lesson it wouldnt add the blue words to known once i finish the lesson, i just didnt want random blue words unrelated to my language to be added as a known word to which has only started happening today unfortunately.

I can simply delete the blue words I dont want to add as i read however i just didnt have to do that before.

I am surprised because it has always worked like that. It’s something people have been complaining about for years, but it’s not a bug and the Lingq team made it clear they wouldn’t make any changes there because there is no reason to leave blue words in a lesson they say.

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@bugsugg Yea this is how it is supposed to be unfortunately. The bug ironically was that it didn’t work that way for you before :sweat_smile:.

@SeoulMate one reason I can think of, although granted I know it might be niche, is that I like to take my time creating lingqs properly on a computer where I can easily access all my preferred dictionaries and sources etc. So when I’m using a device like a phone on a bus or train or I’m just out, it would be nice to be able to read, click on the blue words to see their meaning but not save them as lingqs, finish a lesson, and then later in the day, when I’m home, go through lingqing all the blue words. But yea, they seem pretty unmovable on this topic.

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In ‘App settings’ under ‘Reader’ scroll down to ‘General’ and disable ‘Paging moves to known’. I had the same problem at the start when I looked at a lesson and suddenly found some 250 words as known. I don’t understand why this is not the default setting.

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@bugsugg When you complete a lesson, all remaining blue words are moved to Known automatically. To avoid that, you need to ignore words before you complete a lesson or create LingQs. That is how it always worked; no changes have been made.

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Yeah, I think it makes a terrible experience for a new user.
I had no idea what was going on, and by the time I found it was just a terrible default setting, it was too late–the “Known words” pool was wrecked.

I don’t know why someone doesn’t fix it to be a usable default experience for new users.

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Similarly, ‘Paging moves to known’ is odd too. Especially, defaulting to it. Who is learning words that fast? It only makes sense for someone who already knows alot of the language or maybe for someone who is using sentences view only (in which case it is ‘Next sentence moves to known’.