# Anki 23.12 Beta

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771>\
**Category:** Beta Testing\
**Created:** [November 29, 2023, 1:17am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771 "2023-11-29T01:17:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Expertium](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/expertium/32/24176_2.png) [@Expertium](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Expertium)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/82 "2023-12-08T17:04:33Z")

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1. I like the globe symbol, but I’m afraid it’s not 100% obvious that it means that this setting is applied globally. I think it would be nice if when the user hovers their mouse over the globe, it would say “Affects the entire collection.”.  
 ![1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/3/f/3f0206cbca7191bc337359f8e5044c53d52d3ebd.png)

2. “Optimize All Presets” is too easy to miss. I **highly** recommend moving it under “Optimize FSRS parameters”.

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**Author:** ![chrislg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/chrislg/32/32411_2.png) [@chrislg](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/chrislg)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/83 "2023-12-08T21:37:25Z")

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I agree. Can we also add an option to see which presets are used by which decks ? 🙂

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**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/abdo/32/654_2.png) [@abdo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/abdo)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/84 "2023-12-08T22:08:51Z")

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> [@cqg](#):
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> It still doesnt work for me:

Oh, not again. I have an idea why that’s happening. Does it work if you click somewhere on the card text after enabling auto advance from the menu?

> [@cqg](#):
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> Also, the related shortcut (SHIFT + A) has stopped working

Can’t reproduce this part.

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**Author:** ![chrislg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/chrislg/32/32411_2.png) [@chrislg](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/chrislg)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/85 "2023-12-08T22:39:33Z")

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I can reproduce the same autoadvance issue. Shift + A does not work for me too.

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**Author:** ![cqg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@cqg](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/cqg)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/86 "2023-12-09T14:36:30Z")

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> [@abdo](#):
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> Does it work if you click somewhere on the card text after enabling auto advance from the menu?

If I **click** on More \> Autoadvance and wait, autoadvance works for the first card and then stops working, as shown in the previous GIF.  
If I click on More \> Autoadvance, and then click anywhere, the autoadvance gets deactivated and doesn’t work at all (even for the first card)

Does that make sense?

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**Author:** ![Aleksej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Aleksej](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Aleksej)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/87 "2023-12-09T16:03:07Z")

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“[Enhance main window](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/877182321)” shows a column with preset names, but I guess it’s the other way than what you mean.

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**Author:** ![MIZMU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@MIZMU](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/MIZMU)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/88 "2023-12-09T21:12:50Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/6/d/6d51ecbbdcedec730300f372870e99edad9fe6a1.png)  
This beta regression -RTL -deck options

& errors

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/c/a/cafae93dfcdabfea516789591a43c6df67d476a3.png)

(For some reason the Windows console does not print non-ascii characters. It actually happens when using Anki, but does not happen in other programs.)

mpv is still running even after closing anki

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**Author:** ![Expertium](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/expertium/32/24176_2.png) [@Expertium](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Expertium)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/89 "2023-12-09T21:45:15Z")

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@dae “Evaluate” is bugged - it uses all reviews, not just reviews from the selected preset. It works properly if I manually type the preset name, but I assume that it’s intended to fetch the preset name without the user manually typing it. Since “Optimize” uses reviews from the selected preset, it makes sense that “Evaluate” should too, but currently that’s not the case.

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**Author:** ![jcznk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/jcznk/32/15215_2.png) [@jcznk](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jcznk)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/90 "2023-12-09T21:50:55Z")

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Version ⁨23.12 (97f43fbd)⁩  
Python 3.9.15 Qt 6.6.1 PyQt 6.6.1  
No add-ons.  
Does not occur on beta 1.

When pasting text from e.g. Wikipedia, Anki strips less HTML than it used to, and also adds a lot of HTML that is absent in the original text. Also, you cannot press shift key when pasting to strip formatting.

- 23.12 beta2:  

- Pasting the same text on 23.12 beta1 (expected behavior):  

- Original HTML (from [Lorem ipsum - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum))

```auto
<p>Versions of the <i>Lorem ipsum</i> text have been used in <a href="/wiki/Typesetting" title="Typesetting">typesetting</a> at least since the 1960s, when it was popularized by advertisements for <a href="/wiki/Letraset" title="Letraset">Letraset</a> transfer sheets.<sup id="cite_ref-Cibois_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cibois-1">[1]</a></sup> <i>Lorem ipsum</i> was introduced to the digital world in the mid-1980s, when <a href="/wiki/Aldus_Corporation" title="Aldus Corporation">Aldus</a> employed it in graphic and word-processing templates for its desktop publishing program <a href="/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker" title="Adobe PageMaker">PageMaker</a>. Other popular <a href="/wiki/Word_processor_(electronic_device)" title="Word processor (electronic device)">word processors</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Pages_(word_processor)" title="Pages (word processor)">Pages</a> and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word">Microsoft Word</a>, have since adopted <i>Lorem ipsum</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-SDop_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SDop-2">[2]</a></sup> as have many <a href="/wiki/LaTeX" title="LaTeX">LaTeX</a> packages,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ms-212251_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ms-212251-5">[5]</a></sup> web content managers such as <a href="/wiki/Joomla!" class="mw-redirect" title="Joomla!">Joomla!</a> and <a href="/wiki/WordPress" title="WordPress">WordPress</a>, and <a href="/wiki/CSS" title="CSS">CSS</a> libraries such as Semantic UI.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup>
</p>

```

This also happens when copy-pasting text from the Reviewer to the Editor, e.g.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/f/d/fd48af3ac3c0ab71187b9b63e2ac21142f57a919.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/d/5/d573f9d1573280c973bd6d4c862b13a07b0e3a76.png)

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**Author:** ![jcznk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/jcznk/32/15215_2.png) [@jcznk](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jcznk)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 3:19am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/91 "2023-12-10T03:19:21Z")

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Also: `Prefer image pastes over HTML in the editor` seems a bit too aggressive? (at least, I surmise that what I’m about to describe is due to this change)

This feature is great since it allows to paste images from sources that used to deny access.

But now every image that is pasted from the web is automatically renamed to a random string, and any attribute it might have is removed. This is really disadvantageous, for example, when dealing with Wikipedia images, which almost always have very descriptive names and alt attributes.

In general, this change seems to make it more difficult to keep the collection well-organized and to search for images in the Browser.

E.g., same image pasted with 23.12 beta 1 and beta2:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/a/7/a7cb0fe777aa2a9185881ed9171433090dd7d05f.jpeg)

(also: maybe it’s just me, but the color of the second image looks slightly different? despite both being from the same source)

IMHO, it would be best if this behavior was applied only in cases where an image couldn’t otherwise be pasted due to access denial or similar errors, and continue using the old behavior in all other instances.

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**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/abdo/32/654_2.png) [@abdo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/abdo)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/92 "2023-12-10T09:53:37Z")

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> [@jcznk](#):
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> But now every image that is pasted from the web is automatically renamed to a random string, and any attribute it might have is removed.

I can’t reproduce this. What’s your OS and browser?

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**Author:** ![chrislg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/chrislg/32/32411_2.png) [@chrislg](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/chrislg)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/93 "2023-12-10T10:06:21Z")

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The sync button becomes blue even by clicking in the decks. Is it designed to do so ? 🙂

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**Author:** ![jcznk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/jcznk/32/15215_2.png) [@jcznk](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jcznk)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/94 "2023-12-10T13:54:13Z")

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I’m using Windows 10 home 22h2 (64 bit) and Chrome 120.0.6099.71 (official build, 64 bit).  
Also seem to be able to reproduce this using Microsoft Edge 120.0.2210.61 (official build, 64 bit).

Some more examples:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/6/c/6c0d349d4d7038161b55986e201aba05a891dc4e.jpeg)

(you may notice that Anki was not able to fetch the second image on the left in the bottom row and instead included the link as the src attribute. Anki did not notify me about this. This happened only once and I was never able to reproduce this, even when pasting again from the same source)

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**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/95 "2023-12-11T02:40:01Z")

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> [@jcznk](#):
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> When pasting text from e.g. Wikipedia, Anki strips less HTML than it used to, and also adds a lot of HTML that is absent in the original text.

> [@jcznk](#):
>
> Also: `Prefer image pastes over HTML in the editor` seems a bit too aggressive? (at least, I surmise that what I’m about to describe is due to this change)
> 
> This feature is great since it allows to paste images from sources that used to deny access.

I’ve reverted the change for now, as it was causing both of the above issues.

> <https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/174a2e7bc53541961c0896c7d041f03adb7b4813>
>
> This reverts commit abd8759d502bea5707661d17b06787e395794156.
> 
> Rolling this back… for now, as it's caused a couple of regressions:
> 
> \- In the old path, we returned (html, internal=False); in the new path,
> it's returned as internal=True, which prevents formatting from being
> stripped. This requires night mode to reproduce, as we don't strip text
> colors in day mode.
> \- It can result in lost alt tags and filenames, as after right clicking on an
> image in Chrome and choosing 'copy image', Chrome puts both the HTML and
> the image on the clipboard
> 
> Related discussion: https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/90

We could potentially fall back on a provided image if fetching an image fails, though it would be a more involved change, as the downloading happens later, after the image/link decision has already been made.

> [@chrislg](#):
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> The sync button becomes blue even by clicking in the decks. Is it designed to do so ? 🙂

Any change that syncs, including the current deck selection, will cause that.

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**Author:** ![sprvlcn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@sprvlcn](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/sprvlcn)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/96 "2023-12-11T03:14:28Z")

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In connection with this, 23.12beta2 pastes in some HTML even if the Shift key is held down, and also even if Tools / Preferences / Editing has the “Paste without shift key strips formatting” box checked. For instance when copy-pasting a single boldface word from an online dictionary.

So if this functionality is revived in the future in some form (perhaps opt-in), that should probably be addressed.

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**Author:** ![vaibhav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c68b51/32.png) [@vaibhav](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/vaibhav)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 4:37am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/97 "2023-12-11T04:37:25Z")

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> When using ‘deck:\*’ in the search, reviews from deleted cards are included.

After this change, the “Collection” option in the Stats page seems to be redundant. The user can simply type “deck:\*” in the search box to get the same result. Though, clicking a button is faster than typing it.

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**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 5:18am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/98 "2023-12-11T05:18:25Z")

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> [@Expertium](#):
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> > When using ‘deck:\*’ in the search, reviews from deleted cards are included.
> 
> What’s the rationale behind this?

“The more data, the better”. It’s only possible when explicitly including the entire collection, as revlogs from deleted cards can’t be associated with a deck/preset.

> [@Expertium](#):
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> Also, in my opinion, the “Optimize All Presets” feature is very inconspicuous.

I don’t think actions that close the dialog belong inside the advanced options, but I can add mention of the top button there.

> [@Expertium](#):
>
> Since the optimal retention estimator is now ~2 times faster, we could sacrifice some of that speed in favor of accuracy by increasing n in `sample(config, weights, w, 5)` to 7-10.

This is handled in fsrs-rs, so you could submit a PR there if @L.M.Sherlock approves

> [@chrislg](#):
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> Btw I have translated some strings in german and are still unreviewed

I don’t think many translators are in the habit of reviewing suggestions. You could try to find an active German translator on [Commits · ankitects/anki-core-i18n · GitHub](https://github.com/ankitects/anki-core-i18n/commits/main/) and give them a nudge.

> [@Gustaf-C](#):
>
> rather a text under “New Cards” that says something like “Open [New Cards] in the manual”?

No objections from me - would you like to send through a PR? 🙏

> [@Gustaf-C](#):
>
> There is now a small overlap between the reset button and the toggle button next to it in the options screen:  
> ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/c/4/c40b5153e47847ef36f87d8b56a0620e63df2a57.png)

The revert button shouldn’t actually have an outline - it looks like this might be a dark mode-only issue.

> [@Gustaf-C](#):
>
> And maybe there should be a hint in the filtered deck screen that interval 0 will return the card to the original deck?

Sounds good.

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**Author:** ![Aleksej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Aleksej](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Aleksej)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 5:48am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/99 "2023-12-11T05:48:41Z")

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When I open “Add Tags” in the Browser, the OK button is focused instead of the input field.

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**Author:** ![PilgrimLyieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@PilgrimLyieu](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/PilgrimLyieu)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/100 "2023-12-11T08:10:49Z")

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In beta.2, one of my deck raises the prompt “Error: 500: invalid weights provided” after pressing the `Optimize` button. Then I reinstall beta.1 and the parameters are optimized normally.

 ![1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/e/5/e56fc672be178b4dd1c3813b03c42010ec5bd4f1.png)

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Can’t reproduce in beta.3. Seems fixed?

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**Author:** ![vaibhav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c68b51/32.png) [@vaibhav](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/vaibhav)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-12-beta/37771/101 "2023-12-11T14:55:48Z")

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I am still on 23.10.1, but I found a bug that probably has not yet been fixed and is too minor to create a new post for:

In the Reviews section of the Stats, Anki shows:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/0/a/0a9e81860b5d90fe4c6fae55fc5dbfd3907618ef.png)

Here, the correct percentage should be 99.8%. Rounding this to 100% is misleading in my opinion.

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