Text function

Hi Language Reactor team,

I’m a long-time user and huge fan of your platform — I rely heavily on the Text mode feature for reading articles (especially from sites like The Guardian) using the “Open in Language Reactor” right-click option.

Recently, something has changed in the system:

  • When I right-click an article and choose “Open in Language Reactor,” it now redirects to YouTube mode instead of Text mode.
  • Even when I manually enter URLs like this:

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https://www.languagereactor.com/text?url=https://www.theguardian.com/...

…it still redirects me to the YouTube tab.

I’ve tried everything — clearing cookies, reinstalling the extension, using incognito mode, and even creating custom bookmarklets and HTML tools. No matter what I do, Language Reactor is not respecting the /text?url= pathway.

This feature is critical to my daily study workflow. Has there been a change in how article loading is handled? If so, is there a way to force or restore access to Text Mode via external URLs?

Thank you so much for all your work — I’d really appreciate any guidance or a fix.

Hello,
@Kate_Keating-Kellehe Sorry for that
We’re already working on that problem