I’ve finally created a way for users to control the strictness of the handwriting recognition. Underneath the Ignore button, there’s now a Strictness button. You can lower the strictness of recognition if you think it’s being too strict, or raise it if it’s recognizing random strokes when you write something that’s not in the character. This only affects the minimum threshold for strokes being missed/accepted. If a stroke scores very lowly in recognition, but you set strictness very low, it can still be accepted.
You can also control how heavily stroke order is weighted. If you put it to 0%, then the recognizer doesn’t take into account stroke order at all. If you set it to 100%, then it’ll be very easy to accept the first expected stroke, normal for the second, pretty difficult for the third, and so on. If you change the recognition strictness a lot, you’ll probably want to increase the stroke order reliance, or there might not be enough information to recognize anything unless you write very precisely.
The defaults have changed a bit from what they were before, so you may see recognition be worse (or better). Please, play around with the strictness sliders and see what works for you, and we can adjust things from there.
Scott has boldly produced a new date range picker for the progress page, which is glorious to behold. You can also collapse your vocab lists on the practice page, to reduce clutter.