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ChinesePod Website Updates for August 2017

Here are some more updates before the end of the month;

Library List has been re-added and now lives in the More sidebar menu with a slight improvement in aesthetics. Thanks to @Paulperrett for spotting its disappearance.

Many more new custom icons appearing all over the website including the lesson page sidebar. We’ve updated this menu to make it easier to read and see the download options. This was in response to @598735503 request.

Another update is the vocabulary manager which organises all your decks and flaschards.

We have updated the buttons and re-arranged them to make them more logical for creating/editing decks, as well as moving vocab items between decks. Hopefully, all the changes make it easier to manage your words which you can either export or study on iOS or the upcoming Android release.

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We’ve also made a slight change to the lesson pages by moving the lesson info out of the sidebar and into the main lesson page. Now you can see all the topic/function and grammar tags associated with each lesson, and click them to find related lessons with the same theme or grammar.

Another small change is that Pinyin and English are no longer highlighted in red since we want you to focus more on the characters. If you prefer to just see Chinese, you can de-select the new buttons for English and Pinyin. English is now italicised to make a clearer distinction between the pinyin.

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We've also made lots of small tweaks to the website to hopefully make using it a bit nicer and logical. We hope to continue improving it for all of you.

Thanks,

Gwilym

It seems that with the new update, the English automatically appears, even if you have set it to “hide English translations by default”. This is the same for pinyin.

ok we’ll look into this.

Is it possible to save my selected filters? Every time I refresh or reenter the main page it resets itself. Thanks.

in my oppinion is much better to be able of hide/show the pinyin individually.
Thus you dont have to turn on/off at every moment you want to read the character, moreover you can know later in which sentences did you have some troubles.

Respect to the filters, I also miss the filter of the courses that before We had it. In that way i could select several courses at the same time and choose the non studied yet getting having a geneal vision of all the podcast of the courses Im interested in.

Thabk you very much fpr the attention and I hope that you have in consideration to re enable it ,because affects directly to the funcionality of the course that is much more important that the design…

We’re working on fixing that bug, and improving it somewhat, so that hiding/showing pinyin and English will be a permanent option, and you can change settings direct from the lesson page.

The next big project is courses, and we hope to improve how they show on the website :slight_smile:

It’s not possible at the moment but we can look into how we can improve that.

Thank you James.

In my opinnion I liked to have the course as the dashboard before where you can select the courses, the level, the different options…

This functionality is now back, and now easier than ever to change with a quick setting in the lesson sidebar. We also have the Hanzi red button to hide/show the Chinese in case you want to practice translating from the English, or writing out a sentence without any hints.

This should be fixed now (See the GIF above)

Can we please get this changed back to how it was before? like this:

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The ability to selectively show and hide english/pinyin one by one, was for me one of the most valuable tools for improving listening! Right now it’s all or nothing, and it’s completely thrown out the way I’ve studied. Thanks!

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To make matters worse, now if i want to hide the english/pinyin but be able to scroll down to view it after listening, i’m presented with this:

So i can barely even press the play button because of the ‘help’ button in the way. This help button has been a pain for a while now, but now it’s even more in the way because of the inability to selectively control english/pinyin

Sorry to be a whinger, most of the changes I like, but it seems like every time you change the way dialogue is presented within the lessons it’s less effective, at least for my style of learning. Cheers!

Ok, this has been fixed. Thanks for letting us know.

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The 3 buttons will be back in the next update so you can show/hide sentences instantly. The individual hyperlinks for each sentence will not, but you will be able to easily hide/show them with the floating buttons. Thanks for your feedback.

Let us know if there is anything else you would like for consideration.

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hi Gwilym,
thanks a lot! That’s was a great feature and happy to see it back!

Me i’m still fight to get the floating audio control player! The video ok, we have it but personnally, i never watch it : everytime listening the audio and little bit boring when i have to scroll up to make a pause (when i was to segment my study for example).
Moreover, I like to listen in car (or not anymore since im living now in shanghai and dont have a driving license :’( ) but also at work, and then a repeat button would be awesome!

Is definitely an error that the individual hyperlinks for each sentence wont go back.
That is a big change for the persons that we have been using this.
The previous way, was much more faster, and dinamic,

The fact that you can show all or nothing makes that we have to been activating/deactivating the buttons at every moment that we don know something, and making that we have to see the pinyin of the following sentence unintentionally.

Definetly I think is a big mistake.
I hope you have it in consideration James.

that’s your view, honestly I prefer the floating button.
and if need one word pinyin, you just put your mouse on it…

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we’ll try and work on a solution that makes everyone happy. :woman_technologist::man_technologist:

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Thanks mate, i appreciate your attention and CP’s overall responsiveness to user requests. It’s really refreshing!

Also I noticed the “help” button has moved over to the left of the screen, this is definitely better for me, hopefully it’s good for everyone :slight_smile:

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OK we have pushed some changes to make it hopefully work better for everyone. Also my name is Gwilym :wink:

So if a user has opted to hide English/Pinyin in lesson settings, then the floating buttons are not clickable but you can still show and hide individual sentences by clicking the 3 dot menu.

If a user has pinyin and English on show, then they can hide individual sentneces and hide all by clicking the floating buttons.

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