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User Levels and Experience plus new Lower-Intermediate Content Batch
Guess what? It's Tuesday which means it's time for another batch of levels! But not just that, we've also implemented a new user level and experience system.
Each level will take 20 experience more to unlock than the previous, and we currently go up to level 100!
We think that reaching high levels is already a very major achievement for most. Still, for our most hardcore students, we've also decided to introduce "tiers" or "paragons" which let you start at levels 1-100 again but with a special icon showing that you've already done an X amount of 100 levels.
Also, for the existing users, rest assured that we've backfilled your experience and levels, so be sure to check out your fancy new level!
Bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes and.. our first easter egg!
Time for a new update! Today we've mostly got a big bunch of bugfixes but also the ability to remove items from study lists and our very first easter egg achievement is ready to be earned. How to get it? You'd have to figure that out yourself!
Let's get to it!
New Features
Achievements - Implemented our first easter egg. Something about making Maru mad at you.. 😠
Study Lists - You can now remove items from your personal study lists through the management table. Simply select the item and select the action from the actions dropdown.
Grammar Lessons - Highlights for grammar explanations now have a different color than the tooltip items. This way it's easier to see which ones you can hover over for more info (the green ones).
SRS Lessons & Reviews - The text size for the kanji subtitle has been increased on mobile
Bugfixes
SRS Lessons & Reviews - "Used In" tab should now show up correctly after navigating back and forth.
Manage Items - Unsuspend is now properly available when selecting all items at once
Manage Items - Fixed an issue with the placement of the actions dropdown.
Grammar Lessons - Read time estimates have been adjusted to be more realistic 😆
Adventure - Fixed an issue where maru would sometimes get stuck in a black void after navigating back and forth the overworld
Adventure - Fixed an issue where an animation would get applied to other pages, resulting in "dancing" scrollbars.
Home & Study List Dashboard - The intermediate and above bars will no longer play hide and seek on mobile
Conjugation Trainer - Removed some incorrect conjugations for かっこいい
Adventure - Fixed an issue with scrolling/dragging on Samsung and some other android devices.
SRS Lessons & Reviews - Fixed an issue where entering "Not allowed" answers would do nothing.
Dictionary - Searching with a capital first letter now properly converts to a kana search (if convertible).
SRS Lessons - Fixed an issue where selecting the last tab and then starting the quiz would show no tab for the next item
Adventure - The animated arrow no longer goes through the navbar and modals
SRS Lessons & Reviews - Fixed some colors for the input on the backside
New Lower Intermediate levels batch
Hey everyone! It's been two weeks since our last content drop so you know what that means... New Lower Intermediate levels! Enjoy 5 new grammar lessons, 1 unlock batch, and 1 reading exercise. All yours for the taking!
Aside from this we also fixed the position of one of the conjugation trainer levels.
On the dev-end side of things, we got a new update almost ready to go too, expect it to drop in the next few days 😁
Many new (SRS) features and improvements!
It's time for yet another update! This time we really tried to focus on getting smaller but high-priority features and improvements in there. So without further ado, let's jump in!
New Features
SRS Lessons & Reviews - The styling for the questions has changed. We've been working on making it more clear as to what we want you to answer. Based on feedback (thanks!) we've changed the primary color for "Meaning" questions to dark yellow and added labels right above the input. Here's how they look now:
SRS Lessons & Reviews - You might also have noticed that the top screenshot now shows a kanji form under the kana prompt. This has been added to make it clear which vocabulary we want you to answer when reviewing a kana-only word but there are multiple words with the same kana reading (looking at you やさしい!).
Conjugation Trainer - The conjugation drills have also gotten some styling and layout changes to easier to figure out the prompt:
SRS Lessons & Reviews - Lightning mode has been added! You can toggle this on or off during the lessons quiz or review session and it will automatically skip to the next question if you answer correctly. If not, it will show the backside. You can enable it by tapping the lightning icon in the top right:
SRS Lessons & Reviews - Speaking of showing the backside, we now have a mistake delay! This means that when you make a mistake, the system prevents you for about half a second from hitting enter again and accidentally advancing to the next card. Hopefully resulting in fewer typos being marked as done by accident!
SRS Lessons - The circles at the top are now clickable to go back or forth to the corresponding lesson.
Bugfixes:
Overworld - Maru will no longer jump all over the place and swim with the fishes after a reload on Firefox.
Dictionary - SRS Statistics - These will now correctly load for vocabulary (forms).
Dictionary - SRS Statistics - No more infinity % correct!
Grammar Lessons - Fixed an issue where you could sometimes scroll horizontally
Grammar Lessons - Clicking "next lesson" should now correctly scroll your page to the top of the next lesson.
Notifications - Changelog/System notifications will now cause the red dot to appear at the bell in the navbar.
Dark Theme - Modals - The popup modals have been given a different background overlay to make them stand out more against the content behind them.
SRS Lessons & Reviews - Kanji - Fixed an issue where the incorrect readings would be highlighted in the "used in" section.
Comments & Notifications - These should now properly display custom user avatars.
Pfew, quite a bunch! We've also got our onboarding system pretty much ready to go and are laying the final touches on the first Premade Study Lists. Next to that we've also set our sights on finally implementing the level & experience system to give some extra feedback on your progression.
Phase 1 is quickly coming to a close and we're very much looking forward to starting work on the Sentence Database, Grammar Database, and Grammar SRS!
Animation Performance Improvements (plus no-audio-on-iOS fix!)
Hi all! A slim but very important update today:
We've redone the animations on all adventure pages. This should lead to much better performance on all devices, with mobile devices in particular. Another side effect is that we've been able to restore some of the animations in Lower-Intermediate to their former glory, as we had to cut some out to get better performance.
This should also solve the issue of audio refusing to play on iOS after navigating back and forth to the adventure regions and grammar lessons a few times. This too was caused by the animation library we used, but have now completely removed from the website 🎉
Aside from this, we've also sneaked in a few general bugfixes:
Bugfixes
Kana Drills - Replaced the audio for か and ひ
Settings - Social Links - Kitsun link button will no longer get removed by some overzealous ad-blockers.
Notifications & Comments - Timestamps should now display the correct time (e.g. a few seconds ago).
Kana Drills - Fixed an issue where you could click on the correct answer multiple times and increase the correct count by doing so.