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Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by dogmatism »

readthenotes1 wrote: post #14
siva7 wrote: post #6

It was a fascinating symbiotic between nerdy med students from all over the world and an obscure open source flashcard app that originally targeted language learners. I've been part of that community for many years and would have never foreseen this outcome but in hindsight it seems the best path forward for anki.

I don't think it's just for nerdy med students nowadays. Who studied for Step I without it? And How? (And Why? :)

If one is of a certain age, of course they studied for step I without it

and the classic method was the inspiration for Anki to begin with: making your own flashcards on index cards! You could do a version of spaced repetition by shuffling the deck.

Not sure the digital version is actually easier or more effective

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by golem14 »

krick wrote: post #70

I feel like there's a lot of confusion, so not sure if anyone can clear up mine, but I'm really struggling to see a significance of this. Obviously, like all ignorant people do, I am going to oversimplify things here. But still, to me, the "platonic idea" of Anki seems a dead simple thing. All what I care about when using Anki is what's on the 2 sides of a Card, a question + answer, which can only be some visual imag…

IMO, the add-on value is the repository of decks that exist (and may or may not be free).

So an app-store of sorts.

As others have said, there are some provisions in place that make it allegedly harder to do a hard landgrab and keep people from freely sharing decks, to to me, even if it were so, I would not be too concerned.

In my opinion, the very act of creating one's deck is a key part of the learning. Maybe it's different for larning vocabulary, but as you said, it will be very hard to make those hard to share.

Learning a deck generated by someone else has never been as effective with me, so I think it's a false sense of time saving to use those.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by Shank »

The community has been in a deadlock over making FSRS the default (https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/3616), and I wonder if this will lead to some resolution.

It seems like the core things that Anki needs are new user experience improvements, and algorithm updates. SM2 really shows its age as compared to other algorithms.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by SpaceManNabs »

Shank wrote: post #74

The community has been in a deadlock over making FSRS the default ( https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/3616 ), and I wonder if this will lead to some resolution. It seems like the core things that Anki needs are new user experience improvements, and algorithm updates. SM2 really shows its age as compared to other algorithms.

Is there that much of a difference?

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by doctorpangloss »

Jacobinski wrote: post #20
infotainment wrote: post #5

On the plus side, the actually good mobile Anki client, AnkiDroid, remains out of the hands of this potentially questionable new entity. (AnkiDroid has always been run independently, which is good, considering the state of the iOS client, which has always been neglected.)

True. It should however be noted that the most active maintainer of AnkiDroid will be joining the new entity: > We’re currently talking to David Allison, a long-time core contributor to AnkiDroid, about working together on exactly these questions. His experience with AnkiDroid’s collaborative development is invaluable, and we’re grateful he’s willing to help us get this right. We’re incredibly excited to have him joi…

anki has so much potential and has such a big and unique audience, it is incomprehensible to me how it has managed to be so neglected.

and then now why, of all times, when a solo developer is never more productive, would the lead maintainer cede ownership? the antidote for programming burnout has just been invented, just take it haha

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by TheDong »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #77
Jacobinski wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True. It should however be noted that the most active maintainer of AnkiDroid will be joining the new entity: > We’re currently talking to David Allison, a long-time core contributor to AnkiDroid, about working together on exactly these questions. His experience with AnkiDroid’s collaborative development is invaluable, and we’re grateful he’s willing to help us get this right. We’re incredibly excited to have him joi…

anki has so much potential and has such a big and unique audience, it is incomprehensible to me how it has managed to be so neglected. and then now why, of all times, when a solo developer is never more productive, would the lead maintainer cede ownership? the antidote for programming burnout has just been invented, just take it haha

My experience using AI is that it wildly increases burnout, not decreases it.

Writing code is fun. Solving interesting problems is fun.

Debugging deep problems is fun.

Debugging slop code is a painful suffering experience, having to constantly double check that the AI agent didn't just change the unit tests to "return true" and lie to you is tiring, and the feeling that you can't significantly improve the tool burns me out hard.

That last one can't be overstated. When I find a weird behavior that looks like a bug in the linux kernel or rustc or such, I find it exhilarating to read code and understand what the bug is, how it got there, and to feel like I can fix it and never see it again.

When claude code gives me a "wrong" output for my prompt, I don't feel like there's any possible way I can go and find what part of the Opus 4.5 model resulted in it not being able to give better output.

I feel helpless to debug what went wrong when claude code spirals into the deep end.

I can add more initial context, add skills, but those are tiny heuristic tweaks around the giant mass of incomprehensible weights and biases that no human understands.

The antidote for programming burnout is not to replace all the fun parts of programming with painful probabilistic suffering.

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by angeladarby077 »

7jjjjjjj wrote: post #57
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This may be true, but as someone who picked up Anki as a desktop app back around 2009 it feels a little crazy. I also can’t imagine making cards on a phone, given how much switching between apps/windows is involved and how poor mobile platforms are at multitasking. It’s difficult to envision it being anything but maddening.

Desktop for creating cards, mobile for reviewing them.

Who is this

Re: Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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Post by Ifkaluva »

SpaceManNabs wrote: post #76
Shank wrote: post #74

The community has been in a deadlock over making FSRS the default ( https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/3616 ), and I wonder if this will lead to some resolution. It seems like the core things that Anki needs are new user experience improvements, and algorithm updates. SM2 really shows its age as compared to other algorithms.

Is there that much of a difference?

As a user, it’s a HUGE difference. FSRS leads to an incredibly reduced workload.
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