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  1. phrases

    For subscribers....let us separate phrases. (in french) If ever i click on a noun phrase that i want to save as a flash card... I can't click on the following words otherwise it attaches itself to the previous phrase.

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  2. Allow the text to be copied and pasted.

    Oftentimes the translation is incorrect and I would like to copy and paste the text into chat GPT to get the correct translation.
    Having to type out the whole sentence including the ö å ä letters is painfully slow and very demotivating because it stops the flow of the story.

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  3. Salute Jonathan

    Hi. I don't know if you know, but the second story in the Catalan Public Texts, Salute Jonathan, is actually in Interlingua, not in Catalan.

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  4. Please make it automatically show the dictionary again it saves a lot of time

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    completed  ·  AdminReadlang (Language learning app, Readlang) responded

    I've just made a followup change which changes the button into a toggle between "Show Dictionary" and "Hide Dictionary" and the setting persists within the same browser session, so that once you've clicked "Show Dictionary" once you won't need to keep clicking it for each new card you open. This isn't exactly what you asked for but I hope you'll find it a reasonable compromise.


    (I added this feature because the external dictionaries add a lot of clutter and can feel like they are getting in the way, particularly when you want to scroll the main page but end up scrolling within the external dictionary instead. Also, they sometimes hijack the keyboard input focus which is annoying when you are trying to edit the translation for example)

  5. Chapter containing only numbers

    Currently you cannot have chapter titles consisting only of numbers.

    For example, this markup will result in only Part I and Part II chapters being rendered.

    # Part I

## 1
Text text text text text text text text text text
## 2
Text text text text text text text text text text

# Part II

## 3
Text text text text text text text text text text
## 4
Text text text text text text text text text text

    I've recently started to read Albert Camus — The stranger, which uses exactly that chapter structure, so I had…

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    completed  ·  AdminReadlang (Language learning app, Readlang) responded

    Thanks for the feedback! I'm currently reading a book with this exact problem so it had been on my mind but you've given me the impetus to actually fix it, which I've just done. The fix will only apply to new texts or texts which you edit and re-save.

  6. Get rid of the "session complete!" message after every set of review cards, it's 2 seconds people don't want to wait to get to the next set

    The cheery new "session complete!" message is unfortunately pretty aggravating. I'm in a flow and where I'd before just hit enter again to get into another set of cards now I have to wait 2 full seconds looking at "session complete!" before I can continue. The screen saying how many words I've reviewed is reinforcement enough. The "session complete!" message just makes me want to stop.

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    completed  ·  AdminReadlang (Language learning app, Readlang) responded

    Thanks for the feedback!


    The main reason I added this was so that there was some instant feedback upon reaching the end of the session, at which point there used to be a pause of a second or so where it felt like maybe Readlang hadn't registered your last button press (at least on my account which has an unusually large amount of words). So to make it feel more responsive I added the "Session Complete" step while the words and graph were loading. To avoid the "Session Complete" step feeling too brief, I made it wait at least 2s regardless of how long the server request took, which I agree wasn't ideal.


    I've now updated the behavior so that "Session Complete" will remain at the top of the page, and the other content including the graph and the words learned today will appear below it as soon as the…

  7. Add compatibility for Chinese full stops

    When saving words in Chinese, too much context is saved along with it. It seems as if only western stops (.) are used to separate sentences, while Chinese stops (。) aren't recognized. It would be great if Chinese full stops were recognized so that sentences are automatically parsed.

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    completed  ·  AdminReadlang (Language learning app, Readlang) responded

    Chinese full stops are now supported, so contexts will be limited to the current sentence.


    (This is already live on readlang.com, and will be available in the Chrome extension as soon as Google approve the release, which normally happens within 24 hours, but could take longer)

  8. Upgrade Readability.js

    Please upgrade the version of Readability.js in chrome extension.

    I constantly run into a bug on some sites, namely "washingtonpost.com", which has been fixed in https://github.com/mozilla/readability/commit/2333080231e62b5d1212058bf20ed8e1a7c62040

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  9. Make answers really hidden (no cheating)

    Answers are easily made visible by text-selecting the context.
    There should be real hiding, so no cheat is possible

    https://i.postimg.cc/XNKcN3nF/screenshot-686.png

    I can imagine that users find it easy to be able to cheat every now and then, though...

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  10. Drag to highlight multi-word definitions

    Else keep separate as default click behavior in the reader view. Some adjacent words are still multiple concepts!

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  11. add a button to go to the beginning of the article

    Often I want to read an article multiple times for reinforcement. When I get to the end it would be handy to have a button to take me back to the beginning so that I do not have to hit the previous page button a bunch of times.

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