Recent App Updates - Week of May 9th

Are these issues happening to you on the web or on the Android app?

Ah, good thing to clarify!

  1. The first issue (“Review Due” is no longer restricted to SRS) I discovered on Android. However, I tried it on the computer and found the same issue there (Chrome browser), as I believe I outlined in the other thread that I linked to. So, both Android app and web.
  2. The second issue (Daily Stats not registering listening efforts) is completely Android app, as I don’t listen to podcasts from the computer at all. So, I can’t speak to whether or not that issue shows up on the computer. Weird thing is, however, I had previously noticed it with a 30-minute podcast on May 24 - didn’t acknowledge that I completed the listening. Tried again yesterday with a 30-minute podcast - didn’t acknowledge that I completed the listen. Then I listen to a ~17 minute episode - that one is marked as complete and showing in stats. All from the same course, so I’m not sure what the difference is.
  3. The third issue (losing the space between words from the source material when copy-pasting) is indeed happening while working on the web (Chrome browser) via a laptop,

Thanks for the description @redtomato501. That kind of wraps up the problem I’ve also tried to describe in my post in this thread regarding the SRS due review issues


Hello Mark,

I thought here is the place to mention a few bugs that I’ve noticed, some of them recently, since the Android update a few days ago. Thanks very much for fixing the wordcount bugs! :slight_smile:

  • On Android: When you have autoplay TTS on, when you click a new/blue word (or highlight a new phrase), it plays a different TTS voice than when you click on a LingQ/yellow word. The usual voice I had was that which speaks, when I click the LingQ/yellow word and the new voice is that, when I click a new/blue word. I am getting two TTS voices. This has only been happening since the recent Android update.
  • On Android: When I edit a definition of a LingQ or write a definition of a new LingQ, it doesn’t automatically update. You first have to click away from the text to update it. So if you click on the blue word, write in your own definition, then when the cursor is still in the definition text box, you either swipe down the window or click another level (eg. if you recognise the word, so you click ‘2’), the window closes, but the update/new definition is not saved. In order for the new/updated definition to be saved, you must click somewhere else outside of the definition textbook first, such as in the notes section, before you either swipe down the window to close it or you click to manually change the level of the word.
  • On Android, but I think browser too and this has been happening for a while: if you write your own definition, it adds this definition to the community definitions. If you update that definition, it adds a NEW definition to the community definitions, while keeping the old one as well in the community database. If you make several updates to your definition, you have added multiple definitions to the community definitions! This is obviously not ideal because the reason you update your definition in the first place is because your initial definition wasn’t good enough. Eg. The word had multiple defintions, so you write in a second one. Or maybe there was a typo. Or a number of reasons. But, in any case, one user shouldn’t be able to add multiple definitions to the community database, when all they’ve done is edit the same, one, single definition.

Thanks, we’ll look into all of this.

I have also ran into this bug on the browser version. When you first click a yellow word, it will show no community definitions. If you then click that same yellow word again, it’ll show the community definitions. The community definitions 100% exist. It only happens sometimes though. See the common word (4 coins) below.

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Edit: I just checked, the bug of reducing your wordcount is not yet fixed.

On browser: The minus symbol (-) in the statistics of a lesson does not update the total wordcount. It is merely superficial and doing it seems not to save. When you close the lesson, reopen it, the statistics are what they were before you clicked (-). The plus symbol (+) updates the total wordcount. I checked this by having a second tab open of my profile and refreshing it to see if it updates my wordcount for today. It goes up when I press (+), but it does not reduce when I press (-).

-Hi Tiago/Mark,
I received 5.4.3 (357) for Android and there’s still some issues, although a litttle better


  1. For imported e-book it is generating the lesson audio, but when I go to play it, it shows a time of say around a minute (should be closer to 12-13 min on a full lesson). When I play and look at the “follow along” view, it shows this time of around a minute, when it finally counts down to 0 it DOES keep going with the audio and “follow along”, but the time starts counting negative.
  1. For imports of at least one website
 Nachrichten & Analysen: der globale Blick auf Schlagzeilen – DW for example, the generate audio is still producing the yellow “spinner” and never generates anything. I also just imported an article from there to make sure it wasn’t something corrupted from lessons I had previously attempted to generate.

Link to the article I imported in #2:

The auto generation was working perfectly prior to the recent updates of the past month or two or so.

Hi,
just wanted to give feedback that the Portguese vocabular in the German course has been removed. This one seems to work now :slight_smile: Thanks a lot, I’m very happy!

For #2, we’ll push a new update today that has a fix for it. Looking into fixing #1 duration glitch now.

@Tiago,
I got the new version 5.4.4(358), but #2 is still an issue. I tried a new article and the yellow spinner is still there.

Link to the article:

The yellow spinner starts immediately. If I click the headphones it says it’s busy generating the audio, but it never completes.

I noticed for the imported book lessons (which work aside from the issue in #1) it doesn’t automatically try to generate the audio. You have to click the headphones and it will ask if you want to generate the audio. This is similar behavior to the iOS version of the app.

Not sure if that provides additional clues and what may be causing the different behavior.

I don’t know if it is just me, but I find the new mini pop up widget on Android very small. Some of my definitions take up two lines and the font is so small it is almost impossible to see. Any chance we could choose to have a wider widget? It was larger before the last update and I thought it was better that way.

I also find it inconvenient to have to scroll every time I have a longer definition or a note.
Would be great if we could see the entire definition upon clicking on the word (as is the case for the web version). Also a little note icon in the text on which we could hover to see the note itself wouldn’t go amiss either.

Thank you for the feedback. We’ll make some adjustments to the mini popup and font sizes for the next update.

@tiagosalvador
I’m now on version 5.4.5(361)

The #2 issue still seems to be an issue on some imports. I get the yellow spinner on anything imported from Nachrichten & Analysen: der globale Blick auf Schlagzeilen – DW when I try to open the lesson. Can you guys try? Here’s a new article to try:

I tried importing into different courses. That didn’t help.

I did try to import from another website, https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ , and that worked. I can’t tell what may be causing the issue with the Nachrichten & Analysen: der globale Blick auf Schlagzeilen – DW website.

The other issue with the timing appears to be fixed. Thanks!

@mark, Not sure if anyone has seen this, but here are a few more bugs that I’ve encountered.

Maybe the forums are not the best place to be notifying the staff of bugs? It appears that some posts are often missed.