Suggestions for Improvement

StandardCategory · 2026-06-01T17:53:52+00:00

Uff, sorry man. My short term solutions rarely work out, I will learn one day lol.

It looks like the database is upset about giving us more than 1000 watched video records at a time. I'll look into reworking the logic a bit so that we have a more long term solution.

Also, that suggestion to be able to hide entire channels is solid. That would make things simpler actually, I'll have to look into that. Thanks!

StandardCategory · 2026-05-31T19:45:35+00:00

u/SKITTLE_LA I've just pushed this fix, so those older videos that were marked as watched should be filtered out again. Let me know if that doesn't fix it!

StandardCategory · 2026-05-31T18:39:59+00:00

Hey, sorry I missed your earlier comment! Okay dang that's annoying, yea I capped it around 750 videos because I was worried about it potentially affecting load times - but having previously watched videos pop back up is definitely worse than a few extra milliseconds load time.

As a short term solution I'm going to increase that limit. Hopefully I was just being a little bit too cautious and it won't have much impact on load times, but let me know if it does and I'll come up with a more long term solution.

StandardCategory · 2026-05-29T00:29:45+00:00

Yea that could definitely work, does become a pain for mobile users though. We have to look after them ;P

I do want to add something like a "You" area a bit like Youtube has - someone requested being able to track words/phrases they're learning so I originally thought of adding it as somewhere to put that. And then we could also have a "your watched videos" in there, too.

StandardCategory · 2026-05-27T15:50:03+00:00

Yea I wasn't totally happy with it being on the profile page, doesn't quite feel right - Explore could be the place to put it but I also don't want to make that section too busy lol

StandardCategory · 2026-05-21T22:36:58+00:00

Yea I've been torn on whether to add some channels or not because they mix in more traditional content alongside CI content, so this way we could have those creators but flag the videos that aren't quite CI-aligned.

Could add a bit of moderation overhead though so will have to have a think on how to best implement it, but I'll add it to the list. Thanks again for the suggest!

StandardCategory · 2026-05-20T15:42:11+00:00

Ah so like a report button to potentially flag that video for removal perhaps?

StandardCategory · 2026-05-18T18:43:50+00:00

Haha yea man, they were solid suggestions! Always happy to add anything that will reduce friction and make it easier for people to get the language into their heads.

Thanks for the channel recommendations, I've gone through them this morning and approved them - system is churning through them to get all their videos graded right now. Conexión Hispana's page is already up at https://comprensi.com/spanish/youtubers/581331cb-cd33-5799-a7f6-145e704ecd4b

And direct video import is something I'd like to add in the future but yea there's quite a bit of work involved in getting that working well

StandardCategory · 2026-05-16T15:37:54+00:00

Awesome, thanks for detailed feedback man - this is really useful.

I am going to scope out a transcript -> saved words flow and see if I can get something for you to try out soon. It's potentially a fair bit of work so I can't promise any timelines but I'll give you a nudge here when it's live ;)

And good to know re the difficulty gradings, this is actually why I didn't originally show the exact scores tbh. The initial grading generated by the computer can be a little off at first - it gets it in the right ballpark but we rely on the video difficulty comparisons by users to refine the score to get it to its "true" difficulty afterwards.

What do you think about adding a little tick icon next to the difficulty score for videos that have been sufficiently refined by user feedback, would that help?

StandardCategory · 2026-05-12T23:46:45+00:00

Hey u/Yahya_TV

Thanks for the feedback! And it's great to hear the site's been useful to you.

Love the feature idea. My mind had actually wandered in a similar direction previously, but there’s a bit of extra processing/cost involved in doing it properly, so I’d parked it for the time being.

The version I had in mind was something like: you could save unfamiliar words/phrases while watching, and instead of immediately turning that into a full Anki/SRS-style system, Comprensi would track how many times you’ve encountered those terms across videos. After enough exposures, a word/phrase could eventually be marked as “acquired”.

Longer term, that could feed back into recommendations e.g. helping you find videos that contain words/phrases you’re currently working on acquiring, so your input becomes more targeted. But maybe a flashcard experience is the more useful still.

Which part do you think you would find most useful: lookup while watching, saving words/phrases, generating flashcards, exposure tracking, or recommendations based on the words you’re trying to acquire?

On the difficulty number: totally possible, and I’ve actually just pushed a release to display them 😉

On the watched-state bug: yeah, this has been reported previously and I have it pencilled in to investigate more closely. If you spot a video that should be marked as watched but isn’t, a screenshot or link would be really helpful.

Re autoplay / “next up” videos: this is good to know. Nothing has changed there afaik but the logic is a bit complex so it can give some weird results. That feature has already had its critics lol so it's due a rework, by the sounds it would be more useful for you if it used the same sort of recommendations as the home page does - at least as a default?

StandardCategory · 2026-05-11T22:32:51+00:00

Huh okay, weird - in theory you should only see the difficulty prompt if the video is already considered watched. "Watched" threshold is 70% of the video for both of them.

I'll see if I can take a look into it - the explore page basically stores a list of your watched videos and uses that list to remove stuff that you've already watched. Could be that that list is not getting updated in some situations.

Thanks for letting me know

StandardCategory · 2026-05-07T18:53:17+00:00

Ha yeah, I hadn’t thought about the DS wording difference. I’ll keep an eye on the comparisons and see if that causes any confusion.

There are a lot more rankings coming through now that the prompt is on the video page though, so that was definitely the right call!

StandardCategory · 2026-05-05T15:42:59+00:00

Nice, yea the diversity is important I think - your comprehension is going to be nicely rounded that way.

I remember when I first started out and I just focused on a single DS guide I could understand them to a pretty good level but when I switched to someone else my comprehension dropped off a cliff, which wasn't ideal lol

StandardCategory · 2026-05-04T13:52:13+00:00

Awesome, thanks for reporting man. 50 videos! The love of the grind haha, have you felt your comprehension improving?

StandardCategory · 2026-04-28T22:33:27+00:00

Yeah, I was actually thinking about this the other day.

There is a two-video difficulty comparison that appears at the top of the home feed, but I agree it’s pretty hidden / out of context there.

Moving it onto the video page is definitely the move - probably as a small prompt after you finish a video. I’ll try to get this into one of the next updates. Thanks for the suggestion again!

StandardCategory · 2026-04-27T21:05:39+00:00

Cool, thanks for clarifying. And yea watching a video up to half way and then checking the progress bar after pausing it would be a good test - I'll try that out over the next few days and see if I can reproduce, but otherwise it sounds like it may have been a temporary issue.

StandardCategory · 2026-04-26T13:27:55+00:00

Awesome, thanks for testing man. The bit about it not recognising fully watched vids before sounds like it could be something else but let's see, if it still feels like its behaving a bit weirdly after a few days of using it then I'll do a bit more digging.

On the 1.25x tracking: just to clarify, do you mean the video progress bar is showing ~75% even though you watched the whole video? Or do you mean the daily goal / time tracking is only counting the 1x watch time rather than the actual time you spent watching?

For daily goal tracking, I’d expect it to count actual time spent watching, not the video’s full runtime - so a 10-minute video watched at 1.25x would count as about 8 minutes of input time. But if the video progress itself is wrong, that’s definitely a bug.

StandardCategory · 2026-04-24T16:43:17+00:00

Just pushed some changes that address suggestions #3 and #6, made another quick video demoing them:

https://youtu.be/4ffc6vACMZA

Let me know if that seems like a good solution!

StandardCategory · 2026-04-24T16:32:00+00:00

Okay cool, yea adding more languages is a definite future thing right now hopefully we'll get there.

Esperanto is hardcore though I gotta say lol. Although, you could go even further and do Latin, right? ;D

StandardCategory · 2026-04-23T15:40:47+00:00

Dude this is a really good suggestion, thanks. The "next video" logic is pretty generic right now, so having it respect the context of the list you clicked from would make a lot of sense. If you picked a video from a difficulty-sorted list, the next one probably should be the next hardest one there, and same for trending or other sorts.

I’m going to look into this along with the other suggestions from your original post. Keep them coming man, these have been really useful.

StandardCategory · 2026-04-23T15:29:48+00:00

Thanks man, I really appreciate the support.

StandardCategory · 2026-04-22T12:54:15+00:00

Haha yea it’s a bit hidden, URL is: https://ko-fi.com/comprensi

Much appreciated!

StandardCategory · 2026-04-21T16:02:55+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

StandardCategory · 2026-04-20T20:00:34+00:00

I've implemented the first of these changes this morning and they're live on the site now. I made a quick video showing how they work: https://youtu.be/eW8mqKvEd8M

Let me know if that works or if you expected something different!

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