On mobile, after learning your 5 new lessons and start your quiz, only your final learnt lesson’s picture is shown.
The quiz seems to going how is should be but the picture of the radical, kanji or vocab shown is always your final one of the 5. This makes it a really annoying guessing game.
Ah, didn’t notice the level. I swear there’ve been a few low levelers asking about the same app fairly recently though. But, I suppose I was just blind there too. Or, they could have installed ages ago, but just recently started really using WK.
It’s persistent and pretty common outside of the forums as well. I regularly get people in email who either confuse my app with one of the old ones, or who think my app is official in some way.
The old app will inevitably stop working completely on September 1st. So in September we’ll get one more wave of ‘why won’t the WaniKani app work anymore?’, and then it will probably become less of a problem.
It’s very annoying that one of the old apps has a name that suggests/implies that it is official…
It really makes WaniKani look bad. Thankfully its harder to find now, but still surely some folks who have issues and abandon WK thinking its some garbage. And potentially go bad mouthing it to others. WK should have done something back in the day about it. Maybe they tried?
I don’t know it they did, but from a legal point of view, they could have argued for a trademark violation. Trademarks are primarily defended to avoid confusion among customers, and this kind of confusion is a prime example of why trademarks are useful and important and legally enforceable.
But these old apps were created so long ago, I suspect the WK folks just didn’t expect this kind of confusion to be relevant back then. The online world has changed a lot since then. Plus, getting rid of a trademark violation usually requires expensive lawyers and is often seen as a bad PR move if the target is an individual or a very small company/group.
I recognise your profile picture and username. I used the forums a little back in 2018 and saw you replying to a lot of different posts. You were always around 10 levels ahead of me or so. What happened?
Yep. That’s what I’m wondering. It was years ago, when the team was smaller, and presumably less financially secure. Entirely possible they asked the dude to change the name of the app, and dude told WK to suck it. At which point, can the afford to fight it? Is it worth it in the long run?