Hey, I just in the last days noticed some issues/problems and things that could maybe be improved:
1. After finished a quiz there is a green banner on top telling you that you are reviewing (if you missed items). The problem is, that pushes (at least on my screen) the display of the answer check down. So I can't see if I reviewed it correctly or incorrectly.
2. This is a problem for i.e. German users (like I): When I type in something (for example at shiritori) the first letter automatically is upper case. The problem: Upper case is not recognized and changed into kana.
3. When I turn my screen (usually acidentally) and the display turns on its side and then turn it back to normal again the display is magnified and I have to manually zoom out again.
4. When I insert a shiritori term it is a big awkward to scrool all the way down over the explainations until I can click on the next shiritori game.
Are 1,2,4 limited to the iOS app, or do you think these are just issues in general?
4 in particular...I think the games' layout are in serious need of a refresh (not just shiritori, but the other ones as well). The lists are getting way too long, and shiritori is probably not very new-user friendly. For now, though, what if I add ways to collapse some of the information and save that preference from session to session?
2. hrm...so, I've been meddling with the romaji translator. The problem is that with some questions (not shiritori), they have abcs in them, so the site is trying to say "hey, if it is capitalized, they must mean the letter, and not kana". Now, I can turn this off for shiritori since that'll never been the case, but do you have this issue in quizzes as well?
Regarding number 2 I can confirm that it also happens on Android in the normal web-browser - i.e. this is something specific to mobile phone keyboards attempting to help the (German) user? Certainly not an issue on PC, but not only limited to iOS either. I solved it for myself by using a japanese keyboard instead, but this might not be the optimal solution for everyone.
Of course, some issues might also appear on the android app. I'm only using the iphone one, so I can only speak about that one. Japanese keyboard is great, I use it on my macbook but on the phone I haven't tried yet. But I reckon most users will simply want to input with their native keyboards. About quizzes and issue #2 I will try later with the app.
I put a fix in for #2, updating the site now! This is for shiritori only, at the moment. If it indeed needs to be fixed with the quizzing, a more involved fix will be necessary.
Back to working on this. A few followup questions:
1. You're referring to the "This quiz is finished" green box, correct? (I was mistakenly thinking about something else). Do you think just adding a way to dismiss it would be enough?
1. You can now tap on the green to hide that message. It will remain hidden for the remainder of that quiz (unless you reload the page by diving into settings or sth).
2. I cannot replicate the zooming issue yet - would it be possible to get a video of it?
I did a video and will send it. But I also realised when this occurs. So try this to replicate: Just zoom in manually and then let the screen return to normal (zoom out over screen and let it pop back in). Afterwards in the app, no matter on what page the zooming issue will occur next time you tilt the screen.
Thanks, got the video. This is probably default behavior, and while I agree that it's not ideal, I'll need to look and see if I'm in a situation to change it or not (since the app is not truly native, but a hybrid between the app and the website)
I just realised how the issue usually occurs: when I click the input box at shiritori my phone zooms in. That usually is the initial zooming that leads to the tilting problem afterwards. Because usually of course I don’t accidentally zoom all the time.
No, definitely no locking. I just wanted to underline how the issue occurs. If anything the only way imho would be to fix the autozoom after tilting somehow (if at all possible).
The server is still not big enough for it to strain the resources I have! What can happen, though, is that slowly changes here and there introduce small speed bumps, and they pile up. If a certain action seems longer than it should be, let me know the specifics of it and I'll be happy to look into it.
What's an action? From my perspective, it is something you do on the site, whether that be loading a specific page (if it's a lesson's list of terms, I'll need to know which lesson), or it could be something as micro as "tapping the settings button on the dashboard".
What does happen, especially with older users, is that they have a huge amount of materials, and optimizations are lacking for them. Example: one user was taking 45 seconds to load up the shiritori cat page, where everyone else was taking <0.5 seconds. Due to the particular set of data (or amount of data), it was bogging down.
So by all means, let me know of specific "this is too slow", or "this use to be faster, now it isn't". :)
Edit: try something for me. When the question comes up, wait １０ seconds, and then answer. I'd like to see if the speed in the Next Question button changes at all. If it does, that'll be a bit clue as to what is happening.
