Lately the app experience has become really frustrating because the interface feels extremely slow and unresponsive.
Changing pages takes forever, pausing audio/video takes forever, moving the video window around the screen lags badly… almost every action has a noticeable delay. It genuinely makes the app exhausting to use sometimes.
I’m saying this respectfully, but I honestly don’t understand how the platform can perform this poorly. It feels like people have just gotten used to it over time and stopped mentioning it, but the responsiveness right now is really bad.
Is this being worked on? Because the learning content itself is great, but the user experience is becoming difficult to tolerate.
I’ve been using LingQ daily for quite a while now and I actually find the app pretty responsive most of the time. I rarely feel like it’s slow or laggy when navigating between lessons and playlists.
That said, I do sometimes have to wait a second or two for a word definition to load, but it’s not frequent enough to bother me. From what I remember, this has always been the case on LingQ, even back when I first started using it.
If the app is feeling consistently slow for you, it might be worth checking your internet connection. Sometimes a weak or unstable connection can make things feel much slower than they actually are.
Just my experience though, hope it improves for you!
I experience the same sometimes. Usually the platform works fine, but once in a while it’s just slow as molasses: The page doesn’t render (it shows the gray placeholder that slow JavaScript apps have when the data hasn’t loaded yet). This happens both on the desktop (with Firefox) and on the android app. Also, and this happens more often: editing definitions becomes slow (it can take 7-12 seconds for the request to process and all that time the input fields are disabled). This happens seldom enough that I forget about it, but when it reoccurs it’s absolutely frustrating.
With all the AI stuff going on, can LingQ use AI to improve the app, at least use it to find and fix bugs in the code and etc ?
I’m not a programmer but recently I used AI to update a script (written for an older version of a software I use) written by someone else. I used AI to make it compatible with the latest version of the software. basically just give all the code to the AI and ask it make it compatible with 2026 version of the software. It even told me about and fixed some bad coding. A real programmer can probably use AI to do a lot more.
It seems like the problem with Amazon is they let AI have too much autonomy. They should have to still test first before making the code live, just like working with humans.
If LingQ use AI to find and propose fixes it should be fine I think. AI shouldn’t be working on live code and publishing updates on its own. Same like how LingQ AI proposes meaning of word looked up based on context, but it is still up to human to accept it or not.
AI coding is impressive but not magic. One can’t prompt, “AI, fix this rotten codebase” and voilà! Especially not the sort of convoluted bugs I see in Sentence View. Granted, Sentence View is pretty hairy stuff by nature.
IMO LingQ has followed a typical path for startups. Fast prototype code to get up and running, followed by more and more features, then more and more patching of prototype code. At this point it’s hard to fix things won’t breaking other things. It’s easier and more satisfying to add new features and safer to leave the old code alone unless absolutely forced to.
Larger, more professional. companies bite the bullet and rewrite the old code. I don’t think LingQ has the budget for that and I’m not sure they have the talent either.
FWIW I would advise LingQ to slow down on features and gradually rewrite the old code, using AI judiciously. As well implementing strong regression testing. But I’m not expecting it.
In any event LingQ programmers would be advised to start adding AI to their toolbox, if they aren’t already doing so.