The current website is no longer compatible with my Kindle Fire tablet !!! !!! !!! I used to be able to work nicely with the tablet in landscape, but only as long as the address bar and tabs are hidden off the top. Now I’m unable to interact with the page even to advance the page without it unhiding, leaving me with NO way to proceed!!! !!! !!!
Issue remains unchanged in spite of every trick I know.
Being older, I do have my font size set rather high. With the top hidden, I can see six lines of text, and I have enough room to advance the page, but when it unhides I only have four rows of text, and the entire area to advance to the next page is BLOCKED by the YouTube display that cannot be moved or hidden.
Oh, and the icing on this particular cake? Every time it unhides, going from six rows to four, the page completely looses my place !!! !!! !!!
Holding the tablet in portrait , the bottom 4 out of the 10 lines of text are TOTALLY BLOCKED !!! !!! !!! by the oversized YouTube viewer that is a completely useless waste of screen space, but can not be moved or hidden.
I’ll check with our team if there is anything we can do here.
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Lingq would help people who like big text by maximising teh area of the screen that shows text and possiblyl
removing unneeded white space
removing some headings.
You should make it optional as it might seem unclottered and I asusme some people like some of the headings (I like to know when I completed my goal).
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Can you use a web browser version?
Text size can be set on Android via the whole device and also within Lingq. Shortcuts are possible.
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If they could at least stop it from unhiding the top, I’d be fine.
The app on kindle plain doesn’t work.. I have yet to find any possible use for it, so I use the browser exclusively. I do have the device set to show things large, in addition to increasing the font within lingq.
Not only does the issue persist unchanged, today when I logged in, I was greeted with the pro.p to join challenges, with no prompt to renew my streak in Spanish. So now said streak is broken solely because the designers can’t be bothered to fix a problem that they caused !!! !!! !!!
I am so frustrated I could cry.
Current status: LINGQ is useless on kindle fire tablets !!! !!! !!! If I hold it in portrait, I can see 6 lines out of 10 with the bottom 4 lines being blocked by the overly huge YouTube window that cannot be moved or hidden !!! The app is absolutely no help since the lessons won’t even load.
Do you even test updates before releasing them ??? ??? ???
Sorry for the technical breakdown, but I think there’s 2 issues here:
- the YouTube player overlaps with the text on small breakpoints — it would be nice if that was in it’s own pane separate from the text, but then I guess that would change the amount of text that could be on screen so the book’s text might have to be re-paged. It might be fine that the player overlaps, except that…
- the YouTube player is draggable on desktop browsers, but not on mobile browsers. It seems like the YouTube player is using the HTML5 draggable API, which doesn’t work on touchscreen devices unfortunately.
The YouTube window should be dismissible with the X button in the top-right corner though, I wonder why that isn’t working.
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@abejfehr Are you also on Kindle tablet?
@madcybrarian I don’t have any update here yet, sorry. We will hopefully find a way to deal with this.
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Current status: holding the tablet in landscape, the top unhides the instant I interact with the screen, even if I’m only trying to advance the page. I say try because all this unhiding chaos does not permit me to turn the page. Holding the tablet in portrait, I see ten lines of text, the bottom 4 of which are BLOCKED by the overly huge YouTube window. If there is a word I need to look at, if it isn’t in the top 3 lines I’m SOL because the little definition window will be hidden behind the YouTube window. Yes the YouTube widow can be closed but this stops the audio.
As for the app you published for kindle, my southern matron knee-jerk reflex is to say “bless your hearts” but I cannot avoid the full “how can THAT much of an idjit?!?!???” inflections and implications. Speaking as a techie (Former network administrator, my first programming language was GE basic . . . ) the program will not even load the courses on the screen. it does absolutely nothing to justify the storage space it takes up. How in the world did it get approved to be published?!?!???!!!
Another major shortcoming of both app and webpage is the complete lack of a way to import without having to go sit at the big computer to do so!!! !!! !!! How hard can it be to provide a field one could paste a url into?!?!?!!!
After poking and prodding both the website and app, the best I’ve found is to use the web page in portrait. I cannot see the bottom four lines of text and the further down one goes the less accessible the vocabulary becomes. This is NOT a workable situation and renders the whole system borderline useless.
@madcybrarian Appreciate your updates here. As mentioned, we will see if we can do anything to improve functionality and appearance on Kindle tablets.
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This is what I see when I try to open a lesson.
To Zoran and anyone else trying to find a resolution, I thank you!!!
To the specimens who deemed this app to be ready to publish, BLESS YOUR HEARTS, AND THE FOOLS WHO TRAINED YOU !!! !!! !!!
@madcybrarian Is that screenshot from LingQ Kindle app? We stopped updating that app years ago and what you see in that screenshot is extremely old version of LingQ.
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Yes, it is the app. Even after multiple uninstall/ reinstalls, and rebooted the tablet until it was in danger of developing delusions of being a basketball. Same on two kindles, and everything appears to be on the latest version available