Push Notifications, Emojis, Billing Management & more

Changelog

Stay up to date with all of the latest additions and improvements!

March 21, 2023

Yet another update just went live

Let's head into the main feature of today's update.

Push Notifications!

You can now get reminders on your phone or desktop whenever new SRS reviews become available, or a daily reminder to do your lessons.

For review push notifications, you can set a minimum threshold before it will send you a notification (say, at least 10 reviews available).

For your daily lesson reminder, this is set at 10 AM every day, in your selected timezone.

You can enable both options individually on the settings page. If you use multiple devices, be sure to register them all individually.

Note that on Mac, you might need to give your browser explicit permissions to show notifications before they show up.

iOS currently does not support push notifications, but the next OS update (16.4) will likely support it, so soon you will also be able to get MM notifications!

There's also another fun new feature we're introducing today. Perhaps you might've already seen something new in this changelog?

Emojis

That's right, we've added emojis! 🎉 When you comment on MM you can now type emojis with :nameofemoji: and a small suggestion popup will let you select an emoji to insert into your comment. 🤩

We've also added a few of our own custom emojis (which we will expand upon in the future), all of them starting with maru for the name: etc

So it's time to get expressive! 😊

Next to this we have a few new other additions and bugfixes:

New Features:

Billing - There is now a separate page to manage your billing details (e.g. to cancel your subscription, update your payment method or look at your invoice details). You can find it by going to the regular billing page.
Navbar - Added a nice pulse animation for when you have new (on-site) notifications available (like this changelog!).
Study Lists Overview - Changed the progress bar colors of the Study List cards to be green only when the progress is at 100%.

Bug Fixes:

SRS Lessons & Reviews - Entering an answer with certain Keyboards on Android in Firefox will no longer require two or three "enter"/next presses for it to submit.

March 19, 2023

More SRS Improvements (Hotkeys, Audio in Lightning Mode) And More!

Here we go again! This time we've got some additional SRS improvements like hotkeys, and audio autoplay in lightning mode, but also things like proper thumbnails when sharing MM links, loading screens for adventure, and a bunch of high-priority bug fixes!

Let's get into it:

New Features:

SRS Lessons - You can now go back and forth between lessons with the arrow keys (left / right).
SRS Lessons & Reviews - Hotkeys have been implemented! You can now use the following hotkeys (and customize them on the settings page):
- Open Suggestions Modal: S
- Unblur Spoilers: U
- Play Audio: R
- Suspend Item: No Default Hotkey
- Undo: BACK_SPACE
SRS Lessons (Quiz) & Reviews - Audio now continues playing when moving on to the next item
SRS Lessons (Quiz) & Reviews - Audio will now autoplay when correctly answering a (vocabulary) reading layout with lightning mode enabled. Meaning you will hear the pronunciation after answer submission.
Furigana - Furigana selection has been disabled, which means that copying a sentence will no longer wrongly add the furigana in.
Grammar Lessons & Reading Exercises - Furigana size has been increased a little bit.
Manage Study List Items - The "Level" column is now sortable
Adventure Overworld - Now has a loading screen
Adventure Regions - Now have loading screens
Unregistered users can now view more parts of the MM dashboard, including the adventure pages, excerpts of grammar lessons & reading exercises.
SEO & Sharing link improvements - Sharing a MM link will now have a proper title, description, and a dynamic thumbnail to match whatever you might be linking to (e.g. a Grammar Lesson).

Bug Fixes:

Adventure - The side-menu list will now properly show green checkmarks for all completed items.
MaruMori will no longer redirect you to /locked if you are not logged in
MaruMori will now properly refresh your session in the background, meaning no more random /locked redirects/logouts!
SRS - Now properly ranks items down once if below SRS level 5, twice if level 5 or above when submitting a wrong answer.
SRS Lessons - Hitting ENTER after clicking the next lesson button would result in it skipping a lesson. This has been fixed.
Study Lists - Setting Lessons Per Day to 0 will no longer give 10 lessons the next day.

March 13, 2023

Small update: new artwork!

Small but very fun new update today:

We've got new artwork for the overworld and regions. Namely a new arrow and three new cursor pointers!

"Clickable" cursor:

Default cursor:

"Dragging" cursor

We've also got new level tiles coming along soon, as well as other artwork that we'll tell more about in the future!

March 9, 2023

SRS Reordering, Study List Deletion and many improvements and bug fixes!

Time for another pretty big dev update! This time we focused on a few highly requested smaller features and things that were on our priority to-do lists.

First up, Reorder settings for your SRS Reviews! You can now sort your reviews just the way you like them:

Randomly (default)
Oldest First
Newest First
Lowest Level First
Highest Level First
Meanings Layouts First
Readings Layouts First

Next to that, you can also choose to keep item siblings together! This means you will get all item layouts before moving on to the next review item, letting you quickly finish items. This setting is combinable with the above reorder settings too!

You can access these settings by clicking on the gear button next to the lightning mode button in the top-right during reviews:

Next up are a bunch of new features and improvements:

Study Lists - You can now Remove Study Lists from your account. Just open the Edit Study List modal and click the Delete button to delete it. Easy as pie! Note that you can only remove your personal study lists or premade lists.
Study Lists - Manage Items - This page now also shows your SRS level for each item you learned so far!
Study Lists - Manage Items - This page now shows a loader while data is being grabbed from the server
SRS - Vocabulary - The All Definitions tab now shows detailed extra information next to the definitions, similar to the dictionary pages.
SRS - Vocabulary - Now shows Part Of Speech information on the Primary tab
SRS - Vocabulary - Now shows which kanji are contained in the vocabulary. Click on them to open a new browser tab with their corresponding dictionary entry.
SRS - Vocabulary - Spoiler blur is now off by default for kana-only items (as there is no other layout to spoil).

Bugfixes:

Main Study List - Fixed incorrect lesson order on some new additions
Main Study List - Resolved an issue with ghost lessons
SRS Reviews & Lessons Quiz - Items with "..." or similar in their meanings are now correctly validated when quizzed.
SRS Reviews & Lessons Quiz - Fixed an issue with being unable to answer with just the value without the parentheses. Meaning answering "mandarin" for "mandarin (citrus fruit)" will now properly work again.
SRS Reviews & Lessons - Lightning mode no longer breaks the ENTER key from advancing through the modals (finished lessons, quiz, next batch, etc).
Study Lists - You can now set a study list to 0 lessons per day again.
Study Lists - You can no longer set negative values for the lessons per day setting.
SRS & other inputs on the website - Sometimes, browsers would suddenly suggest filling in your details in unrelated inputs on the website. This should be fixed now.
SRS Reviews - Fixed an issue where the results screen would show incorrect (visual-only) information if you answered an item wrong in a previous session, then finished the review (correctly) in a new session.

March 6, 2023

Main Study List (Unlocks) Major Overhaul Part 1 + New Lower Intermediate Content

Hey all!

We've got exciting news today! We've been overhauling the main study list unlocks which you get by unlocking vocabulary & kanji in the adventure regions.

We've removed items we felt were odd, unfitting for the level it is in, or deemed redundant. But we've also been adding a lot of new Vocabulary! We feel these additions make for a more well-rounded course.

This is the first batch of major changes for the main study list, we've got a lot more on the way as we work through the whole list. All changes can be viewed down below.

Because we've been removing items, we've also added a new Study List for you to grab, which contains all removed items. The reason we've added this list is so that your reviews still have a home, now that they might have been removed from your main study list. But grabbing it is completely optional!

Note that all additions have automatically been added to your main Study List, based on whether you already unlocked the batch it is in or not. So no need to go back and unlocks things manually!

Next to this, we've also added a new batch of Lower Intermediate content. As usual, you can find 7 new levels in the groovy underwater region.

Check out our main study list changes below:

Replacements:

Replaced all Vocabulary with not-yet-learned kanji to their kana-only forms

Replaced ページ with たべる in level 2
Replaced つける with なまえ in level 2
Replaced すぐ with また in level 2
Replaced ゆっくり with のむ in level 2
Replaced 大みそか with いく in level 3
Replaced 日 (Sunday) with 日 (Sun) in level 3
Replaced 日ごろ with 日々 in level 3
Replaced さん with 中 (Middle) in level 3
Replaced 一月 (One Month) with 一月 (January) in level 3
Replaced 人出 with 日の出 in level 4
Replaced 本日 with 日本人 in level 4
Replaced 見かけ with 見た目 in level 5
Replaced コンピューター with パソコン in level 5
Replaced テレビゲーム with ゲーム in level 6
Replaced 半月 (Half Moon) with 半月 (Half Month) in level 6
Replaced おじいちゃん with おじいさん in level 6
Replaced 何 (なん) with 何 (なに) in level 6
Replaced 出来る with できる in level 7
Replaced 夜空 with 夜中 in level 10
Replaced 予言 (wrong entry) with 予言 (correct entry) in level 17
Replaced 要 with 要る in level 24

Additions:

Added 人 to level 3
Added 口コミ to level 3
Added 人口 to level 3
Added 〜山 to level 4
Added 火山 to level 4
Added 女の人 to level 4
Added 女子 to level 4
Added 少々 to level 4
Added 日本 to level 4
Added 子ども to level 4
Added 上る to level 4
Added 先日 to level 4
Added 年中 to level 5
Added 父の日 to level 5
Added 母の日 to level 5
Added 王子 to level 8
Added 中国 to level 8
Added 不足 to level 8
Added 不正 to level 8
Added 時 to level 8
Added 高校 to level 8
Added 今夜 to level 10
Added 色々 to level 10
Added 夜明け to level 10
Added 思う to level 11
Added 日本語 to level 12
Added 歩道 to level 13

Removals:

Removed そうですね from level 3
Removed 入り口 from level 4
Removed お子さん from level 4
Removed ごろ from level 5
Removed お目にかかる from level 5
Removed よそ見 from level 5
Removed サーフィン from level 6
Removed 大手 from level 6
Removed すごく from level 6
Removed ディーブイディー from level 6
Removed 大正 from level 6
Removed 何べん from level 6
Removed 眼鏡をかける from level 6
Removed 言づける from level 6
Removed 未 from level 6
Removed 行き来 from level 7
Removed 休校 from level 7
Removed 聞かす from level 7
Removed 元日 from level 7
Removed お中元 from level 7
Removed 長さ from level 7
Removed 長らく from level 7
Removed 学長 from level 7
Removed 出前 from level 7
Removed 歌舞伎 from level 8
Removed 早まる from level 8
Removed 人名 from level 8
Removed 大国 from level 8
Removed 本国 from level 8
Removed 国々 from level 8
Removed 後方 from level 8
Removed 兄さん from level 8
Removed 父兄 from level 8
Removed 空ける from level 9
Removed 自ら from level 9
Removed 円高 from level 9
Removed 入門 from level 9
Removed 古本 from level 10
Removed いろいろ from level 10
Removed 月夜 from level 10
Removed 知らず知らず from level 10
Removed 知れる from level 10
Removed 小売店 from level 10
Removed 昨夜 from level 10
Removed 思いがけない from level 11
Removed 思い切って from level 11
Removed ビデオカメラ from level 11
Removed ホワイトデー from level 11
Removed 字引 from level 11
Removed 主 from level 11
Removed 姉さん from level 11
Removed 金もうけ from level 11
Removed 家内 from level 11
Removed 海上 from level 11
Removed 当分 from level 12
Removed アイロンをかける from level 12
Removed 紙くず from level 12
Removed お医者さん from level 12
Removed 歩行者天国 from level 12
Removed によると from level 13
Removed 見物人 from level 13
Removed 物知り from level 13
Removed 週休 from level 13
Removed この度 from level 14
Removed 持てる from level 14
Removed 出来るだけ from level 89

Kanji Primary Readings:

Changed primary reading of 上 to じょう
Changed primary reading of 分 to ふん
Changed primary reading of 食 to しょく
Changed primary reading of 兄 to きょう
Changed primary reading of 弟 to おとうと

Meaning Changes:

Changed primary meaning of 父 to (one's own) father
Changed primary meaning of 母 to (one's own) mother
Changed primary meaning of 半分 to half (of something)
Changed primary meaning of ううん to Nope
Changed primary meaning of 兄 to (one's own) older brother
Changed primary meaning of サボる to to skip school
Changed primary meaning of みかん to mandarin (citrus fruit)
Changed primary meaning of 引く to to pull; to subtract; to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
Changed primary meaning of 姉 to (one's own) older sister
Changed primary meaning of クラブ to nightclub; school club
Changed primary meaning of 白紙 to blank paper