We’ll have to look into both of these. I think the audio one is fixable… but we are currently focused on the next update which will not have these two changes yet.
Hello, Hack Chinese friends!
If you think having official LTL decks for Hack Chinese (and Skritter) would be a good idea, please “like” the post in another thread.
Thanks!
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hey, Daniel, how’s it looking getting reverse direction on HackChinese? (i.e. English flash card, and I have to know the Chinese equivalent.) my brain is getting good at building connections to the visual aspects of the Chinese characters and the meaning, but when I try to quiz myself randomly in English I can’t for life of me remember what the Chinese name would be.
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Hi Ben,
We started this project a while ago and have some decks from LTL here: Hack Chinese™ Official
Daniel
Hi @Jordan-Mandarin . Reverse direction reviewing is on the ‘definitely will develop’ list, but there are still several other features that are requested more frequently that we are working on first. Thanks! Dan
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Those are great @Hack-Chinese-Daniel . Unfortunately, they (and the Skritter decks) are only up to HSK 4+. The original post was asking about HSK5 and above.
This would actually require work from the LTL end rather than Hack first @Ben-Mandarin-HSK_5
It’s not been the top of our priority lists but I’ll look to see if we can scrap together some resources when we come back as a team in January.
Thanks for the nudge
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Hi @Hack-Chinese-Daniel and happy new year!
The list of new plans for 2023 is very exciting! Looks great 
especially the part about more support for traditional characters! I am too afraid to try bomopofo though…
Can I ask, is bringing back “temporary block” on the list? There are often words I just can’t be bothered to deal with (eg if I’m really tired) but I don’t want to put on my real “block” list as I wont be able to seperate them from the real blocked words. It was a really useful feature to still allow me to make progress on the easier words and clear out my list.
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lol, 2k words to makeup… gonna be some work for sure!
Chipping away and keeping up my 100% record for 2023.
The new algorithm changes helped me knock a few more off also!
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Been using Hack Chinese for over a year, love it!
Would like to suggest an improvement on the LTL Felxi <-> HC partnership. In the catalog split each of the HSK levels up into the 5 chapters that are in the level.
Right now you add a whole level in bulk. Example: HSK 3+ is total 236 words, when scheduled this list the words don’t seems to be presented in the order of the chapters.
To have some control over what you study when, it would be great if in the catalog these levels can be chopped up into the separate chapters of each level.
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Thanks Jasper, we’ll take a look at this
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The new changes #1, #2 are great and I think the sufficient change to reach and keep!! the 100% record.
I didn’t care too much about the 100 % last year, and hc is simply my Chinese treasure box to keep found things. And I am usually extremely strict with details to accept a word as known. To get back to 100% was never a problem, but to keep it, as there were insanely many reviews due on too many days.
The update skipped away about 300 reviews, I did the missing 250 reviews yesterday and now it all looks perfect for the next weeks.
2,129 strong “words”. I love this “due later today” and the overview for the upcoming weeks.
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A lot of regularity this year with a 3k words increase 
I’m now sticking at 8 new words a day as I found it really efficient for me, let’s see if can empty HSK6 list of vocabulary for next year !
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This is beautiful! Mind if we include this in an IG post?
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Sure, feel free to use this screen. 
The last Hackchinese updates improved a lot my vocabulary study routine :
I switched from some 10 or 20 minutes sessions - where I was trying to match and finish my reviewing at the end of the timer to not bulk to much new words - to a 100 words stack sessions with the manageable new word limit that is stopping me automatically when I’m done.
That’s why there is less variation at the end of my curb and I found it more easy to review all the vocab.
A really great tool !
I’m in awe of that thread. I clicked on the link for Hack Chinese but I began to hyperventilate…
How do you even begin?
And also, call me old and old fashioned… (which I am) but don’t you guys also write the characters by hand? I can’t remember any if I don’t spend a little time writing them as elegantly as I can.
I’ve heard of people with baskets filled with index cards. I think that will be me in a few years. I’ve only made 200. Does anybody else bothers with that?
I will try to click on the Hack Chinese link again, dah! aaaaah
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@Pascale-Mandarin_Simplified_HS, I don’t think you’re old and old fashioned enough if you’re studying simplified characters 
Seriously though, while writing by hand is a tried and true method for memorizing characters, it is not the most efficient one. I would only recommend it for the most basic characters and radicals.