Haven't been here in years, what's different?

WaniKani
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Hi hello! Long time no see and all that.

I’ve had a lot of life changes since last using this website (It’s been like four years since I was active here…) and I needed to focus on other languages alas. Anyway,I decided I would pay for a few more months of this website to hit level 60 to try to actually take N2 this year now that I’ve more-or-less free.

I have a few questions primarily relating to what changes I need to know about. I’m level 49 and have over 2000 reviews that I guess I’ll chip away at now(??? I might reset idk) and was honestly just wondering like. Hey gang, what’s changed? What’s new? Did we change the radical names again? Are there more kanji? Did the church of crabigatorism thing ever lead anywhere? Any new and fun Japanese learning methods unlocked?

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Welcome back! Good luck with the pile (mountain) of reviews.
I finished WK after 2 years last summer. If you skim my Lvl 60 post you’ll get an overview of which other resources I’ve been using, maybe spot some new things? (I have no idea myself, how long they have been around).
Content wise, there has been additions to Wanikani, even some kana words, and some shuffling around of items too.

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Let’s say you do your reviews now and get 80% correct for 200 items, I say chip away that big pile of pending reviews. There’s a high probability you will remember all those burned items as well. If not, use the extension “Burn Manager” and revive those burned items.

If you do bad in those reviews, then resetting might be a great option. Just assess what you still remember and reset to a level based on that.

I haven’t catch up on everything but:

  • WK team has consistently added, deleted, moved, or modified radicals, kanji, and vocabulary. They have definitely changed names and mnemonics. Old radical names should still work.
  • Kana-only vocabulary has been added.
  • They have added illustrations for radicals.
  • They have added options for lessons and reviews that a lot of people were already using via extensions.
  • The dashboard design has changed. I honestly don’t remember if this was during your 4 year absence, though.
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Etoeto is dead

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Oh rip??? Is Tofugu still active much at all? The website seems pretty dead.