Yea same here.  I think there's some server problem going on.  This started about 20 minutes ago.

A change in the web server config caused the problem.. Thanks for posting about it here, or I wouldn't have noticed until later!

Noticed the new phone interface last night.  Thanks!

I'm talking about the non-flash version.  I can't use flash on my phone.

about the phone version...

again, this is possibly a problem that may effect me only but, my cards really do contain a lot of information. especially the grammar cards. here's a typical example of a JLPT Level 1 grammar entry:

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Q:
１１
～をもって
（固）
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A:
意味：～で
終了や始まりの区切り、または限界となる時点などを明示する。
挨拶などに用いられ、「～をもちまして」と丁寧な言い方をする場合も多い。
接続：[名]＋をもって
①本日の営業は午後７時をもって終了いたします。
これをもちまして本日の披露宴をめでたくお聞きとさせていただきます。
参考：６８～をもって（手段・方法）
♯ 解説 ♭
「～をもって」も「～でもって」の用法のいくつかを分担している複合格助詞で、書面や改まった会話で使われる表現です。以下のように、原因・理由のときは「～をもって」が不自然になることを除けば、「～でもって」に置き換えが可能です。
拍手で（・でもって／・をもって）二人を迎えましょう。＜手段・方法＞
60点で（・でもって／・をもって）合格点とする。 ＜基準＞
今日で（・でもって／・をもって）会社を辞めます。 ＜限定＞
戦争で（・でもって／?をもって）多くの人が死んだ。 ＜原因・理由＞
なお、「～をもって」は手段や方法を表すことが多く、「～を使えば・～を使っても」を意味する「～をもってすれば・～をもってしても」という慣用表現を持っています。

? 例文 ?
１．後日、書面でもって（⇔をもって）連絡いたします。
２．目には目を、歯には歯を。武力には武力でもって（⇔をもって）対抗する。
３．身をもって体験することこそ、何より重要だ。
４．おかげをもちまして、無事卒業を迎えることができました。
５．空手で鳴らした彼をもってしても、かなわなかった相手とあっては、私たちではとても歯が立ちません。

★ 例題 ★
1) 現代医学をもって（すれば／しても）結核やコレラは容易に治せる（ことに／ように）なったが、癌やエイズは未だに現代医学をもって（すれば／しても）治せないでいる。
2) これ（ ）もちまして、私の挨拶（ ）（かえて→ ）いただきます。
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so as you can see, there is quite an amount of information on the answer side of the card. this does not all show on the phones interface because there is no "scroll down" feature. Is this a problem with my phone or is there not the option with Anki on phones to do as such?

yorkii wrote:

about the phone version...
this does not all show on the phones interface because there is no "scroll down" feature. Is this a problem with my phone or is there not the option with Anki on phones to do as such?

He did say it was a bug that you can't scroll on phone.  I think this is another reason to push for that "Don't review this on the phone" or some form of "alternate" Q and A fields.

Don't get me wrong though, I may always seem to be complaining, but I think Anki is the best SRS program out there hands down.

Cmaj7: thanks for the report. Please email me the file you're having trouble with so I can check it out for you. My email address is at the bottom of the Anki pages.

Aikiboy: if you're still having trouble, please send me yours, too!

Yorkii: as stated earlier, it's a known issue that scrolling doesn't work on the cell phone flash interface right now. JimmySeal's suggestion should work around it for now. Note that while I don't want Anki to prevent you from making such long cards, you may want to consider how effective it is to create such mammoth entries. Please have a read of http://supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm - especially point 4.

If a word has completely different meanings, I think you should be adding separate entries - for example:

昨日の風はすごかったよ = the wind yesterday was terrible!
彼、すごいね。= he's amazing.

That way each usage is broken up so that you can practice it separately. The problem with large entries is that when you look at a word, you're forcing yourself to recall all possible ways it could be used. That is not something we normally do in a conversation. If you're studying a word which has multiple meanings or uses, or you're studying grammar, I think you're better off creating multiple cards which drill you on the different ways you can use the word. That also keeps the information as atomic as possible and facilitates the learning process.

Resolve beat me to the punch but I was also going to point out that splitting up the information can help you a lot.  I hadn't read that Supermemo page before, but I recommend having a look at it.

Incidentally, #6 mentions the importance of imagery in flashcards.  There are several reasons why
->キリン
Is a much better flashcard than
giraffe -> kirin
or
キリン -> giraffe
so I'm glad that we can insert images using HTML, but it's another place where a "don't show this on my phone" checkbox would be helpful.

Last edited by JimmySeal (2007 June 14, 10:57 pm)

Haha Wiseass.  My point is that most phones can't display images above a certain size (about 200 x 300) and even for the images that could potentially be displayed, they would use a ton of packets.

Personally I would like the feature because my phone can't display characters that aren't in JIS第１水準 or 第２水準.  I can messily decompose characters, as in
桌 {ト＋日＋木}
And I have been doing that, but it starts to get really ugly if I want to quiz myself on a compound, like 桌子.

resolve wrote:

Please have a read of http://supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm

Wow, thanks for that link. I had never thought about memorizing this way, but now that I've read that, I can see how cloze deletion would be really helpful while enforcing correct grammar, although I'm somewhat concerned over how much easier context clues will make flashcards. Huzzah for run-ons.

Actually, I hadn't tried it yet.  But placing an <img> tag in a flashcard only gets it to show an icon of a piece of paper with the corner folded over.  Hmm....

Images are relative to the current directory, not the directory your deck is in. So you need to set the working directory to the location of your deck.

Also note that images are not stripped out of the last card text as they probably should be, so it'll get messy if you're using big images. But it does work in a limited fashion:

http://repose.cx/dump/anki-images.png