# HARD no longer adding any delay in Next Interval calculation

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**Created:** [August 25, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/hard-no-longer-adding-any-delay-in-next-interval-calculation/66127 "2025-08-25T14:08:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/hard-no-longer-adding-any-delay-in-next-interval-calculation/66127/2 "2025-08-26T00:46:12Z")

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> [@hugomarins](#):
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> … this new behavior has some downsides.

It’s unlikely that you’ll find much support for reconsidering a decision that was already a fading memory [when Damien wrote that 4 years ago](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/new-intervals-for-early-late-reviews-graph/14416/4). And especially now that the SM-2 algorithm has been surpassed in most ways [by FSRS](https://docs.ankiweb.net/deck-options.html#fsrs), which uses a completely different system for determining new intervals after delayed reviews.

> [@hugomarins](#):
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> But now pressing Hard appears to bring an unreasonable penalty, and the gap between Hard and Good became enormous.

Isn’t the real issue that it was pretty much guesswork? Whether to add the full, half, quarter, or no delay sounds like it was a rough approximation along the lines of “that seems fair.” If it was _hard_ to remember the answer after that period of time, and we know the next interval is already going to grow based on the card Ease – not having it grow even more than that doesn’t seem like a penalty, or all that unreasonable.

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