Design "leech" icon and text

[david-allison]

For use here

I feel the icon should convey "this card has taken up too much time, and this is a problem"

• We want a line of text and probably a link

I feel it should be similar to the following, but a lot shorter, ideally we want one line due to the length of the tags sheet

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_Originally posted by @david-allison in https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/pull/16859#discussion_r1728546978_

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Past discussion:

https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-45-beta/10664/7

Also see thread above

[brishtibheja]

We want a line of text and probably a link

(just some thoughts)

Isn't this already in the tooltip in deck options? Most people will see this only after they've spent a significant time in the app as you need to accumulate 8 lapses for a leech. How useful would it be by then? Tangent: the snackbar messages are another place for improvement.

[david-allison]

The tag won't appear in the list until leeches have occurred

[brishtibheja]

That was my point. For me it was pretty intuitive that cards become leech if they're failed too many times.

[david-allison]

I didn't appreciate the impact leeches had on my Anki time for quite a while (hence why I changed thresholds)

Unsurprisingly, the default is very sensible, and we should spend some time informing people (like Past David) on why the threshold is set the way it is

[snowtimeglass]

Some icons: