I am writing to report a consistent issue I’ve encountered with the practice mode word count settings.
Recently, I set my practice session length to 50 words, but the system only provides 30 words in total before completing the session. I have tried reloading the page several times to see if it was a temporary caching error, but the discrepancy persists.
Could you please look into why the session is terminating early and not reflecting the selected word count?
Thank you for your time and for building such a great tool for language learners. I look forward to your help in resolving this.
It happened just now in two practice sessions. I closed out the tab? window? app? in between the review sessions after seeing your message. I’m on iOS and use the bookmarked page shortcut. I selected a wordlist with 58 items but there are still 28 unreviewed after trying to practice 50.
When this started I just assumed I was getting so many wrong that it reduced my review count but my first session didn’t have any mistakes.
So this is still happening but I have another fact: it seems to only happen when you review from a list. If I just review all cards and ask for 50, I get 50. If I select a book to review from and ask for 50, I get 30. HTH
If I select a book, and select all terms, I end up only reviewing words from the currently visible page of words. Is that possibly what you’re seeing?
I think that’s a longstanding issue… If all words from a text are selected I suggest it should at least choose words to review, which are still due to review. Or the word list could provide a sort method that would allow the user to select them that way. (It has “Recently Practiced,” and you could then page to the end, but this sort method filters out words that have never been practiced at all.)
So in reading this, I learned of a different way to review. I’ve only every used what’s available in the Practice tab. I see now you can go directly to the Word List tab and choose there. But doing it that way limits you to 25 automatically (before even considering what’s ready for review or not). I think these are different scenarios. I don’t know what the developer has going on behind the scenes though.
Hmm, likewise I learned something. Your way is much more effective at getting through all the words that need review, although it does indeed seem to be capped at 30 words.
Thanks for clarifying! I’ve found the bug and fixed it. Please let me know if this keeps happening for you after refreshing your Readlang tab or if you find any other problems.
. I’ll deploy it tomorrow.