taking a turn for the worse – Khan Academy Review

Used to be that you could scribble all over the problem, figure out an answer, then switch out of annotation mode to answer mode and write your answer. You probably had to write it a few times before the handwriting recognition code interpreted it correctly, and that was a bit frustrating. Not as frustrating as the knucklehead decision made by some user interface genius recently, however! Now you get this fiddly widget where you have to “type in” your answer. That wouldn’t be so bad in and of itself, but when you switch out of annotation mode now, it hides everything you wrote! If you are doing a problem where memorizing the answer would be tedious, you now need to have paper and writing tool so you can copy your answer into the answer widget. This smacks of a decision made by someone who does not use the application, never a good sign!
Review by Up too early on Khan Academy.