Consider dropping 'extend daily limits' from custom study

[dae]

Custom's study's "extend" option was a quick-and-dirty hack, that works by reducing the count of cards studied that day in order to trick Anki into thinking more cards are still available. This leads to confusing behaviour when users extend their limits above the currently-available card limit, or when they put negative values in.

When @RumovZ introduced per-deck limits, I believe the thinking at the time was that they would eventually replace the existing custom study functionality. Perhaps it's about time we think about doing that?

[GithubAnon0000]

What should we use instead? I often use it to increase my limit of new cards for today, since it's easier than in this window:

In the window above, lets say I set my new cards for today only to 5 and then learn everything that is scheduled for today. If I now want to continue learning 5 new cards, I'd have to set this card count to 10. Not a big issue, but the current custom study behavior is more intuitive to me (it just says "increase by 5" and I don't have to manually increase it myself).

If the daily limit option from custom study gets removed it would be a little bit more inconvenient for me.

[parhamfh]

I agree with @GithubAnon0000. Could replacing the "existing custom study functionality" mean leaving the feature but relying on the new functionality in the backend? Asking without knowing how the app is structured, just a suggestion!

[admiral-Guck]

I would also dearly miss the ability to quickly go "I'm on a roll, let's do some more". I don't have an opinion on how that should be implemented, but the activation energy should be low and not result in having to remember to reset the daily limit.