Yes, I remember such confirmation was present. Getting it back and listing on the confirmation screen all blue words with the possibility to uncheck them all would be AWESOME. There might be a usability issue if there are too many new words. As for me just adding a single checkbox to decide whether to add all or none words would be great.
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Another good and more fair option would be to send the blue words to stage 1 instead of known, since even if you might not know them just yet you surely encountered them having finished the lesson.
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There is no reason to complete a lesson and leave blue words behind.
I think it’s a terrible design choice. Software should never make permanent changes behind the user’s back.
When I click a Complete button, I have no reason to expect that means “By the way, all those blue words you skipped over are now listed as known” any more than I expect that when I click that button to get to the next sentence.
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Scenario:
- Import a lesson.
- Page through entire lesson in Page View to check text.
- Click the Next button, now the Complete arrow.
- Boom! All blue words are now Known.
- There is no way to undo this.
I got burned this way twice when I started using LingQ. I was quite annoyed.,
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jt23 I completely agree with you. Having no options to undo the “add to known” operation or some UI to review added words in backward-chronological order where I can manually remove them is probably the major issue for how I’m currently using LingQ.
I guess there are some technical/architectural limitations as to why those features were not implemented yet after so many years, and developers just try to cover those limitations by stating that the current app behavior is “as expected”.
Silently adding all words to known and making this operation irreversible is a usability disaster aka “data corruption”.
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I added this confirm popup to Rooster Auto LingQ Extension
I’ll continue to improve this in coming updates.
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My issue here is that it is adding people’s names in stories to ‘known words’ and over time this accumulates a lot of ‘words’. So the count is highly inaccurate. I have tried to find a way for Lingq to ignore a name as a word, but I can’t get rid of the blue highlighting and when I complete the lesson any names are then moved to my known words. Very annoying. There are so many parts of Lingq that have not been very clearly thought through.
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You can just mark them with ignore and they are not added. I do this all the time.
However, I do leave common names in the language in there, as names are types of words.
Maybe this feature is only available on mobile, but I use desktop and have found no option to just ignore them
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This can be done as well. (Correction: see below comment, this only works for words that were once lingqs)
Go to vocabulary>filters and sort by creation date, also filter to known words.
That will give you exactly a “UI to review added words in backward-chronological order where I can manually remove them”
This only shows words that originally were Lingqs and were afterward promoted to known as a result of a dictionary review. I didn’t find a way to see words that were marked as known (intentionally or unintentionally) from the start.
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You are correct. I hadn’t realized that. Thanks for pointing that out. The only way to reverse them would be to re-lingQ them, which seems unnecessarily opaque.
It would be better if such words were available in the same UI. They must have a list of them, as they are included in the known count and not shown in blue after that point.
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There are reasons… they may not be LingQ ‘official reasons’ but lots of users are demonstrating they have their own reason, so it would be nice if you could consider giving users an option instead of forcing this system on them
Not least for the accidentally clicking of the tick - its in EXACTLY the same place as ‘next page’ so if you don’t realise its the last page you’re stuffed. it ridiculously easy to use by mistake.
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The same issue. Awful scenario
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On my computer, there is no “last page” button to click on - in fact there’s nothing anywhere near the “next page” button. Did they fix the issue, or is it a browser issue? I use Chrome.
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Yes, this is very helpful. I appreciate it a lot and it has saved me MANY times. Also Rooster Observer (premium version) lists all known words and you can revert them.
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This is a nasty, nasty “feature”.
At least move the “Lesson Complete” button out from under the “Next Page” button or add a confirmation.
This is by far the worst part of this software and I’m ready to drop it right now out of sheer frustration.
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Here’s another fun side effect of this.
Once you accidentally mark a lesson complete, LingQ starts pulling sentences from that lesson for your reviews of words from other lessons.
[EDIT: I now think this side effect can be solved by removing the offending lesson from the “continue studying” section.]
This has me trying to fill in blanks in sentences that I have no hope nor expectation of being able to read. What a waste of time!
This might be the worst example of UI/UX malpractice I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying a lot. You have the completely harmless “Next Page” button which the user clicks mindlessly turn into the “Make a permanent change without confirmation” button, and that change not only impacts other areas of the program and other content, but it also cannot be undone no matter what the user does.
How hard would it be to move the “Mark Lesson Complete” button away from the “Next Page” button and solve the whole problem once and for all?
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What browser are you using that makes the “Lesson Complete” button and the “Next Page” button appear close to one another? I use Chrome and I’ve never seen anything like that.