Since the introduction of AI generated translation suggestions the user interface for “lingq”ing words has become horrible. The UI loads the translation suggestions from the lingq database and then populates the list for selection of the lingq. But this process of populating the list is done with an asynchronous query to the AI. This typically takes much much longer than the lingq internal database.
So I’m looking at the suggestions, and am already choosing a fitting one. But shortly before I can click the response from the AI comes in and completely re-shuffles the list. When I finally click on the translation, it is a different one. This is a fundamental sin in user interface design. Once the list is populated, it must not be changed anymore.
The quickest fix to this problem is to provide the option to disable the AI suggested translation. A more elaborate fix would be to split the suggestions into the (single) AI one and the other database provided ones. And most importantly that regardless of the order in which the web API calls provide the response, that the position on the screen does not change.