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Crossword Puzzles, new content, reworked kana drills and more!
Time for another update! This time we bring you a new minigame to help you train your vocabulary in a fun way.
Crossword Puzzles
That's right, you can now enjoy crossword puzzles in Japanese! They work as usual, except you must now answer in Japanese rather than English. This means you get an English prompt, which also trains you in a different aspect of learning than the usual SRS reviews do.
Here's an image to show you what it looks like:
Click on a tile to see the prompt (you can click multiple times in case there are multiple prompts for that tile) and its corresponding tiles get highlighted.
When you fill in an answer, it will show either red or green letters right away, indicating whether you answered correctly or wrongly:
Once all the tiles are green, you win and you can generate a new puzzle right away, or select a different difficulty level and give that a shot. That's right, infinite crossword puzzles!
As for difficulty levels, we currently have:
N5
N4
N3
N2
N1
MM Adventure unlock batches 1-10
MM Adventure unlock batches 11-20
With possibly more coming in the future (e.g. concept groups like animal names) 🤩
We've also made it so you can quit at any time and when you come back to the page (on the same browser), it will ask you if you want to continue your last session or generate a new puzzle.
Other things
As usual, the new batch of levels for the adventure regions also just went live. But we also sneaked in a few more small features and bugfixes:
New Features
The roadmap page now has status indicators indicating which points have been completed, which are currently being worked on, and which haven't been started yet.
The Kana Drills have been reworked! There are now multiple stages rather than one big session. Each question type now has its own stage, after which you have a small break and the next stage starts. This should make it feel a lot easier to work through.
Next to this, we're going to be removing the audio stage from the kana drill exercises in the first adventure region and make them shorter in general. If you still feel a bit shaky after doing them, you can always do more drills (including audio drills) by repeating the level or by going to the kana drills on the tools page.
Kana Drills - We've also added hotkeys for the multiple-choice answers! You can now press 1-2-3-4 to choose the corresponding answer.
Wordle - The hints layout has changed. It now also shows the remaining characters and had its order changed a bit.
Personal Synonyms & Notes Modal - Now displays which item you are editing.
Bugfixes:
SRS Lessons - Pressing the left-arrow hotkey at the first lesson no longer breaks the page.
SRS Lessons & Reviews - Lightning Mode button now registers your click/tap on the button, rather than only on the icon itself.
Sharing Your Profile Images, Social logins and more!
Hey all! It's been a lil while since the last update, but we certainly haven't been sitting still! We've got some cool new things for you.
Creating & Sharing Your Profile Images/Pages
Starting with the ability to customize and share your profile pages through links and generated images!
Here's an example of what such an image looks like:
And here's another one:
You can choose if you want your own banner image to display, or one of our presets. Next to that, you can select which stats you want to show off and whether you want to show your title and badges or not. Everything is customizable and we can't wait to see what you guys come up with 😊
You can access it through the "share profile" button on your profile page.
This also becomes the thumbnail image of your own profile page when you link it in other places like Discord, forums, social media, or anywhere else. You can copy the link it gives you after generating your custom image, or by going to "https://marumori.io/profile?username=<yourusernamehere>" Give it a shot!
Image Resizing
In tandem with this, we've also released a new system for image uploads. Whenever you upload a new image for your user account, it will now properly resize them once, rather than on the fly. This should result in much faster image load times and improved site performance.
Social Logins & Connections
You can now register, log in, and link your Google and/or Discord accounts. Linking your social account(s) to an existing MM account will then let you log in with a single click of the button. It also simplifies account registration for new users, as they can just click the button, authorize and go explore MaruMori.
In the coming period we will also be working on creating a Discord bot, which you can use to do Dictionary lookups on Discord, immediately add items to your study lists, share your progress or profile images, and more! If you are in the MM Discord you may have already seen it at work, as we now automatically post our task progress updates through the bot 
Other Changes
Not being logged in while exploring MM will now show a login button in the navbar.
Adventure - Conjugation Drills - Will now properly redirect you to the adventure region you came from after completion
Grammar Lessons & Reading Exercises - Clicking on "Next Lesson" will now properly scroll the page to the top on every browser (Firefox had issues).
Image uploads - Changing your header image or avatar will now properly update them visually too, without caching interfering.
What's next?
A lot! We're still working very hard on the Grammar Database, the Sentence Database, and Grammar SRS and making sure they all work together perfectly.
So far we've got the CMS and Backend side of things pretty much done, meaning that every Sentence gets tagged with the corresponding vocabulary, and kanji in it, then gets connected to a Grammar SRS item(s), which in turn are connected to Grammar Point(s).
We plan to have these Sentences turn up everywhere in MaruMori. From the Dictionary pages to Grammar SRS to the Grammar Lessons in Adventure, everything will be connected and show you exactly which vocabulary, grammar, and kanji are being used. If you are familiar with Kitsun's reading tool, it will work similarly, but go even further 
I hope to show it to you all real soon, stay tuned!
New Region Names and Bugfixes!
Time for another update! This time we've got the new names for the regions and a whole bunch of bugfixes.
Note that we're still working on replacing them in the actual grammar lesson content and such!
You can also already access a fun new feature from the profile page (see if you can spot it!), which we will be telling you all about in the next update!
New Features:
Our Regions now have their new and final names:
Introduction (PRE-N5) - Isle of New Beginnings
Elementary (N5) - Fledgling Forest
Apprentice (N4) - Depths of Devotion
Adept (N3) - Jungle of Tenacity
Advanced (N2) - Sands of Mastery
Expert (N1) - The Scorched Summit
Wordle - You can now click on the solution to go to the corresponding dictionary page for further information.
Wordle - We now show the English definition of the solution too.
Maintenance Mode - We've introduced a new maintenance mode for when we need to make large changes that require the site to be down for a little while (hopefully almost never!)
Profile - You can now hover over the badges to see their names.
Bugfixes:
Changelog - Loading newer items no longer sometimes scrambles the content.
Study List - Manage Items - Levels now correctly show up on tablet resolutions
Tooltips - Should no longer appear upside down sometimes, and also not keep their position incorrectly while scrolling the page.
Profile - Fixed an issue where line breaks would not work
Firefox - Fixed an issue where multiline text input no longer worked for firefox browsers
Social Notifications - No longer shows an incorrect date/time when someone else likes your comment or replies to it.
Profile - When you view someone else's profile page, it will no longer say "You did X", but rather their username.
Adventure - Fixed an issue where visiting the adventure page before logging in, then logging in would not fetch your region progress correctly.
Eggcelent! The first MM Easter Egg hunt is on!
We are introducing our first annual easter egg hunt! Can you find all the eggs hidden in our regions? If so, you can earn an eggtastic new achievement!
Here's a tiny hint as to how they look:
You have about a week's time to find them all before the egg hunt is over. Good luck and happy holidays!
Grammar Lesson & Reading Exercise Settings (hide furigana etc) and a new content batch!
We have some much-requested smaller features in today's update:
We've added settings for both Grammar Lessons and Reading Exercises. Letting you customize the following them to your liking!
You can find the settings menu by clicking the blue settings button at the bottom right of the page (it's hanging fixed on the side)
Grammar Lessons:
Show Furigana:
Always
Only on hover (or tap on mobile)
Show English:
Always
Blurred (click to unblur)
Font Size:
Adjust the font size of the whole lesson! From 50% to 200%, with each change increasing or decreasing it by 12.5%. Difficulty reading furigana? Say no more fam.
Reading Exercises:
Show Furigana:
Same as above!
Font Size:
Same as above!
Note that these settings are individual from each other (grammar lessons settings do not influence reading exercises, or reversed), and are device-specific. So you can adjust your settings just the way you want them for mobile and desktop separately!
And, as always, we've just released a new batch of levels for the adventure region. Still going strong on our bi-weekly release schedule!