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Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by hermanzegerman »

divan wrote: post #237
hermanzegerman wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can just use the computer version then, and buy it when they know it's useful for them?

Some people would need to buy computer first. Again, it's very hard to recommend mobile app to people if you need to add these kind of "workarounds". Especially for the main target audience - young students – many of whom live in their mobile phones and not used to spend 25$ for apps.

Every university student in the Western world has access to a Computer, and those who are poor usually have an Android Phone (with free AnkiDroid) and not a very expensive iPhone. If they can afford an iPhone they can afford the App

I think this "problem" is somewhat made up

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by IshKebab »

caspar wrote: post #250
IshKebab wrote: post #249

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If it's still open source it doesn't matter who owns the copyright.

Not strictly true afaik? If you own the copyright to the entire codebase you can relicense at will to a different license. (that's what CLAs enable among other things) Not sure whether you'd still be entitled to the source code under the previous license then.. can a copyright owner revoke a previously issued license to the code? Haven't heard of it, but wouldn't surprise me if it's legal.

I am aware, but I don't think that's what OP was talking about.

You can't revoke previously issued licenses (unless the license allows it, which it doesn't in this case).

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by Aachen »

david_allison wrote: post #232
Aachen wrote: post #230

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Information on Discord visible only if you sign up for it (and afaik, in some countries, upload identification)... that does seem rather in line with the deep web architecture that AnkiHub uses. Maybe this would be good in a ticket or the Anki forums, since it's relevant to the people using and contributing to the app. Here on HN it's now also findable in web searches as a side effect of copying it I guess

This is the Discord server which AnkiDroid has used for dev for just under 6 years. Nothing AnkiHub related.

It needn't be related to the corp for it to be a match made in heaven

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by FrinkleFrankle »

throwforfeds wrote: post #216
Timpy wrote: post #62

I discovered Anki 12 years ago while living in Japan. I was trying my hardest and absolutely failing to remember any of the Japanese I was studying. Maybe I was due for a learning-style renaissance for myself and Anki was just the catalyst, but it really made a positive impact on my life. More than just memorizing kanji on AnkiDroid during my commute, I just started to believe I could learn anything. I was starting t…

Agreed, Anki has really helped me with learning new languages. The creation of cards was always a slog though, so recently I've been playing with an Anki MCP server hooked up to Claude. I can dump my iTalki lessons in, or ask Claude to make cards based on a song I've been listening to, etc and get a bunch of relevant cards generated for me. It's honestly been kind of magic.

Yeah, llms change the game for card creation. I'm trying to learn Rust (programming language) and I have Codex ingesting books/articles and generating sensible cards from them. It's able to consistently get the HTML right for syntax highlighting in examples too.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by __float »

pushedx wrote: post #150
__float wrote: post #10

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The (paid!) iOS client has always been a disappointment to me, and I've long been jealous of the open source Android one. I don't mind so much that it's paid, given how much use I get for the price, but it sucks knowing it sucks and not being able to help make it better.

I use the iOS app daily, and while it's not the prettiest thing in the world, it has nearly every feature of the desktop client, including full scripting support for card contents, which is amazing for things like collapsable elements and media. And, at the end of the day, it's about what you learn from using it that matters.

That's part of my problem. I actually don't love how many billion options Anki has, and I'd love something with a more opinionated UI.

(I think the data model underneath Anki is...showing its age (and lack of explicit design) and building that on top of it would not be too easy. I've thought about it a few times.)

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by jaredklewis »

DeusExMachina wrote: post #174
jaredklewis wrote: post #34

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I use the official iOS client everyday. What’s wrong with it?

I also use it every day. It does its job, but it has many usability issues that make it less than ideal. For example, copy and paste retains the text color (probably by design). So, sometimes I get black text on a black background, when the app is in dark mode. The editing process to remove the formatting is pretty annoying. It takes me time to find the edit button, which is buried in the menu but prominent in the de…

Ah I see. I very rarely edit or create cards on mobile so for me it’s mostly a card review app.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by divan »

hermanzegerman wrote: post #251
divan wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people would need to buy computer first. Again, it's very hard to recommend mobile app to people if you need to add these kind of "workarounds". Especially for the main target audience - young students – many of whom live in their mobile phones and not used to spend 25$ for apps.

Every university student in the Western world has access to a Computer, and those who are poor usually have an Android Phone (with free AnkiDroid) and not a very expensive iPhone. If they can afford an iPhone they can afford the App I think this "problem" is somewhat made up

Well, I don't want to sound patronizing, but the world is so much bigger than your notion of "Western world" where every student with iPhone has computer.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by efreak »

caspar wrote: post #250
IshKebab wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's still open source it doesn't matter who owns the copyright.

Not strictly true afaik? If you own the copyright to the entire codebase you can relicense at will to a different license. (that's what CLAs enable among other things) Not sure whether you'd still be entitled to the source code under the previous license then.. can a copyright owner revoke a previously issued license to the code? Haven't heard of it, but wouldn't surprise me if it's legal.

Sure, you can change the license, but the old license still applies to the code as it was before you changed it. Assuming you're using a legit open source license the first time around, nothing changes regarding how you can make use of the old code; all they can do is make it harder to find (close the repo) or harder to make use of (squashing/flattening the commits to make it impossible to get the correct historical version), both of which are trivially bypassed by using a third party fork or source release.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by Larrikin »

divan wrote: post #257
hermanzegerman wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every university student in the Western world has access to a Computer, and those who are poor usually have an Android Phone (with free AnkiDroid) and not a very expensive iPhone. If they can afford an iPhone they can afford the App I think this "problem" is somewhat made up

Well, I don't want to sound patronizing, but the world is so much bigger than your notion of "Western world" where every student with iPhone has computer.

You are patronizing. Every student with an iPhone has access to a computer even if it isn't their own. If they are so poor that none of their facilities have one then they have a cheap Android.

This fictional person you describe also has access to the web and Anki on there.

Anki is not a very useful tool if you are not making or editing your own decks or a teacher is for you. This is an incredibly painful experience on mobile.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by philipdavis »

throwforfeds wrote: post #216
Timpy wrote: post #62

I discovered Anki 12 years ago while living in Japan. I was trying my hardest and absolutely failing to remember any of the Japanese I was studying. Maybe I was due for a learning-style renaissance for myself and Anki was just the catalyst, but it really made a positive impact on my life. More than just memorizing kanji on AnkiDroid during my commute, I just started to believe I could learn anything. I was starting t…

Agreed, Anki has really helped me with learning new languages. The creation of cards was always a slog though, so recently I've been playing with an Anki MCP server hooked up to Claude. I can dump my iTalki lessons in, or ask Claude to make cards based on a song I've been listening to, etc and get a bunch of relevant cards generated for me. It's honestly been kind of magic.

The MCP approach is brilliant! I've been solving the same friction problem from a different angle. I mostly use Anki to improve my vocabulary, and ended up building a tiny browser-side tool for myself (now called Wordwise / Anki Dictionary) that lets me double click any word on a webpage, get a clean definition + the sentence it appears in, and export it straight into Anki with one click.

It’s been a surprisingly good middle ground between fully manual cards and fully LLM dumps. If anyone’s curious: https://wordwise.me

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