As of today, we have officially completed the test phase of the new version of our dictionaries. We are indebted to our users not only for their patience but also for their numerous suggestions during the test phase, which allowed us to make improvements so that today we can finally replace the old version with the new one. It was certainly not the first time we have implemented changes, but the recent changes were by far the most complex to date, especially from a technical point of view. The full scale of the complexity could only be understood once we had made the new version available to a large number of users, each with a different combination of browser and operating system and with different habits when using the dictionary. Unfortunately, for many this turned the testing phase into a very "taxing" phase - apologies once again if you experienced problems, and thanks for bearing with us.
Even if many users initially found the new layout unusual, even irritating, we hope that most of you have, in the meantime, come to appreciate the many improvements we have made: for example, the conjugation/declension tables for verbs, nouns and adjectives, as well as the pronunciation recordings are now accessible in one click, and load times are faster thanks to leaner page volumes. You can find an overview of the most important changes here
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Navigation still needs to be improved in one or two places (which we are working on), but hopefully this will not spoil your overall experience of the website or make it unusable for you For a transition period, the old version will remain available at odict.leo.org The old version will be disabled once all the remaining problems have been solved.
Yours,
LEO team
21. 3. 2013