I've been in legendary mode for a long time and when I switched to the new app I had a LOT of new multiple choice questions
@jwfirecracks just so you know. There are definitely more questions in the app. I like the MCQ's except that the app doesn't include explanations so sometimes I'm totally lost as to why the answer is what it is.
This is a result of the missing feature in classic web app
@mcloaf has spoken about. There are not questions that are unique to the beta, but you must unflag and reflag topics in classic web app to get updated content.
I think they tried to be the best of both worlds with the beta (long term rote memorization and a sleek question bank) and did a crappy job in the process.
If the success stories from the original platform from their blogs are true, why in the world mess with a good thing? Improve questions, improve content, and fix errors..... but don't switch algorithms! Geez
Couple things here. Why has the job been crappy? Rollout has not been smooth but iterating quickly (far more quickly than past fixes to classic web app in my opinion).
As for the algorithm, I support the new algorithm wholeheartedly -- but I didn't always. It took quite a while for me to wrap my head around the difference between a calendar model and a priority model -- but prioritized questions makes much more sense to me. We'll be posting a lengthy discussion on the algorithm next week on the blog.
Perhaps a nice feature on mobile would be able to long-touch on the 5 and have 'never see it again' pop up so I can get rid of questions when I don't want to see them anymore but still want questions from that subject.
Never see again is coming back to the mobile / beta very very very soon. Firecracker is actively investigating ways to incorporate it to minimize clicks -- as we're doing for all clicks, not just new features.
That's a nice idea, but make it long enough so that accidents don't happen! And since we can't see the list of "Never see again" questions, it's an accident waiting to happen.
When 'Never see again' comes back there will be a way to find and retrieve them.
So... This is a thing:
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(I got to it by using the topic search on m.firecracker.me and searching for Abdomen.)
Yeah, really funny story there.
About the order that topics are listed on the web beta/mobile.. Can you change it so they are listed either in alphabetical order or in ascending order of score and/or percentage completed? It doesn't make sense to me why the topics I've done the most of/know the best show up at the top of the list.
It seems better to put the weakest topics at the top rather than the bottom so you are reminded to do questions from that topic. Out of sight, out of mind kind of thing.
Alphabetical makes more sense to me, but you have no idea how big of a project this is -- it's incredibly not simple, so it's not a priority right now. Apologies.
I'm really approaching the breaking point with your engineering team clearly not giving a **** about this problem. It's been brought up multiple times and nothing has ever been done about it. I just unflagged/reflagged endocrine and I have 94 new study questions. If I don't reflag regularly I run the risk of missing out on a lot of content that's either new or been lost due to editing to the cards since I flagged them. I paid for the full product, should I get my money back if your engineering team isn't willing to make sure I can reasonably have access to it? I shudder to think how many undone/hidden questions are out there for users who have been using the program a long time and never unflag/reflag. Unacceptable.
I encourage you to go to the beta (which you've indicated reticence to use), use the messaging feature and tell the developers this. The messages in the beta (and Android app, iOS coming upon approval) go directly to developers.
