Devlog 6 - StudyBuddy

u can throw everything u got wrong into blooket now

• button on the dashboard for the whole account, and one per worksheet if u only
  want that paper
• it gives u a file, u upload it to blooket, u get a set of exactly the
  questions u missed
• wrong means ever wrong, not currently wrong. if u got it wrong on paper and
  then right in review, its still in there. thats the one u actually want to
  drill and it wouldve been weird to leave out
• blooket hands u an .xlsx template so everyone calls this an xlsx export, but
  its uploader only accepts csv. took a while to work out
• also its importer just silently imports nothing if the file is slightly off.
  no error, no warning, zero questions. three separate ways to trip that

picking a subject barely did anything

• theres a dropdown on upload for what subject the worksheet is. it offers
  things like “Algebra 1”
• only the first bit of that was ever used, so picking Algebra 1 searched all of
  high school maths. exactly the same as picking “all of high school maths”
• the one control u have over how ur questions get sorted, doing basically
  nothing

long papers were quietly losing questions to a limit

• the topic tagger takes questions 100 at a time. fine
• except it grabbed 100 in no particular order and then removed the ones already
  done, so on a 114 question paper 14 never got looked at, and which 14 was
  down to whatever the database felt like that day
• worse on a second pass: if 100 were already tagged it handed back an empty
  list, which reads as “nothing left to do”, and the rest never got tagged at all

two screens counting the same paper differently

• the worksheets page filters out page junk like “CONTINUE TO THE NEXT PAGE”
  before counting. the dashboard didnt
• so the same worksheet was 25 questions on one screen and 26 on the other, and
  nothing tells u which one is lying

the chart was lying about time

• the accuracy chart draws a bar per week. it was only making bars for weeks u
  actually did something in
• so 12 bars looked like 12 weeks in a row but werent. practise in march and
  again in june and u see two bars side by side like it was steady
• every week is a bar now, empty ones included, and it says which weeks its
  showing

scrolling changed my settings without me touching anything

• the page range and question count boxes were number inputs, and number inputs
  treat the scroll wheel as a way to change the value
• so scrolling down the upload page with ur cursor over one of them silently
  rewrote which pages get read
• found a pile of other accessibility stuff while i was in there: buttons a bit
  too small to reliably hit on a phone, cards that vanish in high contrast mode,
  and a “skip to content” link that didnt actually skip anything

also

• asking to see an explanation u already had was using up ur hourly limit for
  generating new ones
• the topic picker was built in a way that made screen readers think the list
  had nothing in it
• button labels were half Title Case and half sentence case, sometimes on the
  same screen