We have just pushed a new and improved blue popup to the lesson page. Make sure to refresh your browser to clear your cache, then when you hover on a blue word you will see the following changes:
The Known button is now in the top right corner
A new “Ignore” button to the left of the Known button which means this word will not be included in your statistics at all
The User Hints buttons are now more clearly identified as buttons with a plus symbol on them to make it more obvious that they should be clicked.
Google Translate has been integrated into a button so that if there are not at least 3 User Hints, the Google Translate translation can be chosen
The “Add New Hint/Check Dictionary” button is at the bottom of the list of User Hints and has the Search Dictionary icon on it
We hope you like these changes. We think the popup is clearer now and the additional functionality makes it even more powerful than it was before. Let us know what you think!
@Jingle - yes, the ignore button is the minus sign. Adding the word “ignore” on the button would cause potential issues, since the text would need to be translated.
Hehe, yes. If you would like to ignore a word that you have already marked as known, either double-click it or highlight it, then click on the Ignore button and it will move to the “Ignore” list in the database. Please note that it can take a few minutes for the known word count to update.
The Google Translation issue with phrases is now resolved. One other note, we have also now made it so that you can either hover or click on a blue or yellow popup to open or close it. Just a little more flexibility especially if the popups are acting up which sometimes happens.
I wonder if it would be possible to have access to the list of the words we know, so it would be easier to have some words ignored from our word count rather than going slowly though lessons.
I know this sounds like something that would come out from a guy with OCD, but many people have asked for a “reset word count” and quite a few have been as fas as deleting their account just to remake another one where the word count would be more accurate, so I guess it wouldn’t be a crazy idea.
@sigma - We’ve had requests for this before, but in many cases the list will be so long that it will be impractical to organize it and will likely be very resource-heavy when generating the list of words. Most people who delete their accounts and create a new one are people with only a few hundred known words who unintentionally clicked the LingQ’d button.
If a word is marked as “ignored”, all you have to do is highlight it or double click it, then you can either create a LingQ out of it or mark it as Known.
