I meant the 2.0 website. I took the screen grab from the old site because it was easier to find the stats I was looking for there.
I found out that the website was set to show definition and other reviews, whereas I only ever use Skritter for drawing and tones. I didn’t realize it was possible to have different settings across UIs. Anyway, now they match up.
I think I’ve found something out about this. I was using the toggle in the lower right-hand corner to mark familiar items as “got it” or “too easy” rather than tapping through (that is, tapping the middle right of the screen to advance to the next character) to avoid drawing them, because when you tap through you don’t have the option to mark items according to difficulty. And it appears that when you do that, the app doesn’t count it at all and simply re-presents items in an endless loop until you either deal with them in some other way, or just go insane. I went through about 6-7 cycles of (I think) the same 30 items presented in the same order over and over, and then just started tapping the right middle and advancing that way, and then finally the counter started dropping.
Also I suspect that even drawing characters and then marking them as “too easy” either fails to register at all, or has no stronger an effect than just tapping through. I can still have a brand-new term introduced into the list, draw it and mark it “too easy,” and see it come back up in (generally) less than 5 minutes. As near as I can tell, it only re-appears once, maybe twice, but marking “got it” has exactly the same effect. I have to do every character a minimum of twice, no matter how I mark it.
The counter is still messed up, too. I can get it down to about 10 or slightly under, and then it will barely budge. It takes dozens of correct responses to get the counter to drop only 1 or 2 items. I can’t properly express what a tremendous psychological demotivator it is to have that number just hovering up there without responding to your efforts.
I’ve chosen to ignore it. My approach at present is to tackle my morning queue and get it down to the point where the counter hangs, and then just tap through everything as fast as I can until it clears. It’s not ideal, but these are all terms I’ve seen before, and god knows they’re going to be right back in my queue tomorrow anyway. Then I manually add my 100 terms, get through them, and then check the counter once or twice throughout the day to keep it from getting out of control.
Like I said, not ideal, but I’m done wasting time with endless repetitions of review items I can’t clear from my queue. I think I’m easily saving 80% in wasted time this way. Eventually, these issues will be sorted out and the study list will function normally, but until then I’ve got a way to get through the next few weeks without going all the way nuts while getting back on track with my larger overall study objectives.
It took me a while to find it, but I’m using app version 2.3.0. I couldn’t find a way to look for updates.