Oh I meant SRS where flashcards come up at certain times. I get resentful of having to sit down at certain times of day and thinking about large piles of reviews is super stressful for me. I don’t want to build my life around a wanikani habit.
But what isn’t stressful is reading, I absolutely love it. With the kanji foundation I have, I’ve got a good starting point for memorizing the kanji I come across myself. Is it maximally efficient? No. But I don’t care.
The OP talked about Wanikani learning site not about the forum. I don’t think the forum had anything to do with their decision.
And as for dealing with attitude on the forum, the ignore user and mute thread buttons can really make a difference. I wish there was a block option, would make the experience less stalky.
No. what prompted the whole argument was this part:
which was taken completely out of context by this
Which was cherry picking one sentence to make a point, ignoring (or failing to understand) what section 5. was really talking about.
Thanks for doing the 30 seconds of work going back to the original post that I was too lazy to do 
Reading what OP wrote again, I 100% agree with it. The downside of gamification is that competition is often extremely demotivating, which seems to be their point.
There’s a better way to do gamification, I wrote about it on another post -
I remember reading your post! I really liked it, I thought it captured a lot of the debate going on here, and also mirrored my views on the wanikani experience pretty well.
I honestly don’t know if the devs will ever implement some of these changes that could make wanikani more inclusive, but I like the idea of at least having a corner of the forums where people will stick up for learners who are struggling, so thanks for being part of that corner.
You do not have to sit down and do reviews at certain times of day. I have seen nothing in WK that has ever forced me to have do my reviews at a specific time. Items will become available for review at specific times (based on the SRS timings and when it was learned or last reviewed) but “available” is not “must be done now”. Those items will still be waiting to be reviewed an hour later, 4 hours later, 12 hours later, a day later, whatever. I have never laid out my schedule based on WK, I do my reviews when I have time to do them at a time I want to do them.
OP is presumably long gone, trying to get the WK team to change anything is about as meaningful as pissing into the ocean, and who cares how other people study? Do the thing or don’t do the thing.
I find comments like this weird.
Presumably you are here because you choose to learn japanese.
Whenever i read somelike like" WK isnt not work!" i keep thinking:
Yes, you should be more motivated to do WK than work because thats how you choose to spend your free time.
If you dont want to set the alarm based on WK then dont.
Whenver im at the PC i occasionaly open WK to check the amount of reviews.
That can be 4 times a day or not at all for 36 hours.
If there arent enough i just close it again.
That only works if by pure chance you fail the same items repeatedly.
If you take a single item, succed twice and fail one you have 66% and the item did not move.
Doing more items does not change that ratio.
66% average means you stagnate.
Oh, I stopped doing wanikani, I just hang out in the forums sometimes.
It’s hard to say what’s useful or not 阪神 was useful to know when I took the 阪神電車 from Osaka to Kobe.
Speaking for myself, they could cut all of the baseball related terms and I’d be happier for it.
Never though I’d need 特急 till I was navigating the Osaka Keihan Line daily.
It’s brutal. I would love to know how many times a reading/character has bounced around from apprentice to guru back to apprentice, and how many times that has happened.
Just came off a 90 item review @55%, because I didn’t review in the morning. I don’t even take lessons anymore as I don’t want to become completely snowed under with frustration.
Flaming Durtles on the morning commute is less forgiving that OG wanikani I find — especially mixing up kanji and readings for characters. Get it wrong. boom drop a level. Get it wrong twice… well back to apprentice with you — weeks of progress wiped out.
I too am close to quitting WK. I reviewed my burned items the other day, and they haven’t stuck. I don’t know if the SRS system even works.
Are you using the mnemonics? Because it’s not just about looking at the things and brute-force remembering them, but about creating the story in your mind and then once you see the kanji, you see the story, and then you know both meaning and reading.
Not to say that I find them particularly good here, but that’s the idea, ultimately, with the system they’re trying to implement here.
Not sure exactly if that’s what you are referring to, sorry if I understood wrong, but in case you want the to be asked for the Meaning and for the Reading for a kanji back to back, you can configure Flaming Durtles to do just that 
In Lesson Advanced settings:
look, wk is for kanji, bunpro for grammer, genki for a textbook and hololive/jp tv shows are for listening/enjoyment of the language, simple as that and will always be that simple 
The wk mnemonics are bad. Many have said the same thing.
I’ve started over.
Meaning + onyomi + kunyomi. Make a story from that, and always in that pattern.
Too many times I’ve got the story mixed up. Why WK introduce some kunyomi first makes no sense.
real its kinda confusing sometimes
Just want to throw this general purpose comment into the void: with any form of SRS, it is crucial to stop thinking “I need to make the app happy today” and start thinking of the app as a secretary whose job is to show you things you’ve forgotten recently.
Like, you’re in your office and your desk papers fly off the table and slide under the door sometimes and their job is to go pick them up and make sure they aren’t thrown away by the cleaners. This isn’t just important for psychological health, it’s important to use SRS as effectively as you can. Because the studies show reviewing something you can recall very easily does very very little for the memory; where memories grow stronger is when you either need to strain really hard to pull it up, or – in fact – when you’re relearning it after forgetting it completely. If ~this is the point~ where you’re already thinking “Damn, I’m such a dumb loser, why do I always…” it’s not just that that’s bad for you, you’re missing the fact that this moment is exactly where the real benefit of SRS ~is~, it’s doing its job ~for you~, and that job is “show you things when you’ll have to strain for them because that is what actually builds memory"
I feel your pain
