Hi!
I'd like to see if the characers I'm studying are purely traditional or not. Is it possible to display the red "trad" label while studying Traditional only?
I was studying "Traditional and previously added Simplified" in order to see the label without adding simplified characters. But now somehow the simplified words came back (a legacy from the times when I was studying both, I suppose).

We could change how it works if it would be more useful to those people who are only studying traditional. I think we probably wouldn't change it for people only studying simplified, though, because most of those are less concerned with traditional characters than in the opposite situation.

What do y'all think?

Nobody else? :(

It sounds like this proposal amounts to just informing people that that somewhere in the world there exists an alternative form of the character--if you saw the red, you'd know there was a simplified form, but it wouldn't display what that form was, nor would you be studying it. I don't really see how that's useful. If you cared about that, you'd probably be studying both. Just knowing that there is a traditional or a simplified form of this character, even though you've decided not to study it, seems like noise to me in basically every case I can think of. I particularly think it's a bad idea to show the red and yellow traditional/simplified labels because a) I don't think they're very aesthetically pleasing--gets the job done if you're studying both, but wouldn't want to look at it when studying only one; and b) the (effectively) random use of the colors for some but not all characters would be confusing and distracting.

A better solution would be to have the alternative form of the character displayed somewhere unobtrusive on the study screen after you get a writing right or wrong. That not only tells you that an alternative form exists, but also what that form is, and provides some passive reinforcement if you come across it in the future. I think this was discussed in a forum post recently.

Yeah, I think it should be optional to display the labels.
Still, I'd like to see the label because I'd look up the simplified variant per magnifying glass. I found it very useful when I could see the labels without studying both. Fact is, in most cases I can guess how the simplified version looks like, so I don't need to study both with Skritter. Maybe I'd be studying the pinyin and definition parts of the simplified characters if the learning progress were separate, but even if I did, I'd only want to study the variants that don't look anything like their traditional counterparts. I think I can study more efficiently with the labels.