Is HanziHero dead? Can we get an update?

HanziHero
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In my personal priority order

  1. Inability to easily view/set/manipulate learning order of items (mostly words)
  2. Inability to easily find/tag/deal with with leech cards
  3. Inability to see/enter/learn other alternate pronunciations/meanings
  4. Inability to find/tag/deal with similar conflicting characters/words that continually get mixed up
  5. Inability to find good practise material for your level

My personal preferred solutions:

  1. Remove the current prioritisation system and just add a simple queue system that is checked first when adding new items to learn, if queue is empty then fall back to the current character priority system
  2. Add specialised leech section that let you see and study cards that are regularly failed (where “regularly” is some variation of “card has at least 5 reviews and more than 30% of them are failures”)
  3. Put the dictionary definitions inside the character/word details panel (as in next to Mnemonic, Pronunciation and Meaning sections there is an extra Dictionary section that’s just got the full details for everything). Also add an option in the HH sections to allow you to enter alternate pronunciations/definitions as valid answer (exactly like how you allow Mainland vs Taiwan tones and just show warning) so I can type in hai2 for 还 etc.
  4. Add a new card/test type where you are shown two characters instead of just one and you have to answer all the usual questions for both while they’re side by side (so there are two answer boxes where you must type in both pronunciations or both key words etc). This would run off the Visually Similar section so any character that has a similar entries, once you’ve learn both then you start seeing the comparison cards in the queue. Finally you then let users add their own items to the similar list so they can setup their own comparisons as needed. So I could tag 很 and 浪 and then have the comparison card show them together and be answered simultaneously as 1 “card” in the system that’s full SRS’d as any other item. (And if I then add 狼 as another similar item I get (很 vs 浪), (很 vs 狼) and (浪 vs 狼) as 3x comparison cards etc).
  5. Email DuChinese people and setup a system where you can import your known list of characters from HH into DuChinese and have it spit out their story content ordered by the % of characters you should know based on your HH list. Bonus points if you then let them link back so you can export new characters/words found in DuChinse back into your HH custom queue from item 1 so instantly start studying what you’re reading.

[Edit:] Re-reading this after some of the replies and I now too agree that the custom list order isn’t actually as important of some of the other items below it. My new order is prob just to put my original #1 behind the comparison cards (so 2nd last, only ahead of reading material finder).

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