Translations are very, very slow to load

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I’m wondering if this is just me or if anyone else is having the same issue. Back a few years ago when I started using LingQ the translations were lightning fast. Selecting a phrase would immediately show the translation for it, and I could click that translation to make a LingQ if I wanted to.

Nowadays, it is so slow that it is quite literally faster for me to select the text in the LingQ popup, and use the DeepL browser extension to translate the text. Often it takes 10-20 seconds for a translation to show up, and it will just spin until it shows up. It completely breaks my immersion with what I am reading.

I have tried changing the setting to use Google Translate, DeepL, ChatGPT, and all of them are equally slow. I started noticing this around the time when the “contextual”/AI definitions started showing up (quite a while ago) I’m not sure if it’s related.

Is anyone else seeing this?

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I notice this with phrase translations (selecting multiple words). I usually have to click out of it and select it again before anything shows up.

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This has been something that I’ve also realized so yes

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I was the same, I kept going in circles for a long time before appearing

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I have also noticed this for the last couple of months. It’s grindingly slow. If it is the AI definitions slowing things down, I would like to have the option to remove these.

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我宁愿用词典，都不愿意等待ai词汇出来，太慢了

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We will try to make improvements here. Thanks everyone.
@David72 You can disable “Show contextual meaning” under settings.

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Thanks Zoran. That’s made a big difference!

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Do I need to turn off both “Show contextual meanings” in the settings? Why are there two Show contextual meanings?

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For what it’s worth, I’ve had them both disabled for as long as the option has existed - it hasn’t made a difference for me, the translations (particularly for phrases) is still excessively slow.

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You’re right. I’ve now played around with it a bit. I unticked the “contextual meanings” box for Words and this worked to stop the buffering for looking up single words in the dictionary. I then unticked the same “contextual meanings” box for LingQs but this has made no difference. The loading times when highlighting more than one word is very slow with buffering.

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@len1984 Yes, for both blue and yellow words. You can disable it for both.

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It probably has to do with the shift to LLM AIs, back in the day it was all machine translations. I personally noticed that the translations in sentence mode would take a while, but if you switch from chatgpt to deepL the sentence mode ones become lightning fast at least if thats any help.

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