New Feature: Friends on Wanikani

[hannah218]

It would be awesome if you could add friends on the WaniKani App. Like, my brother has just started using the app, and I would love to be able to have a widget on my dashboard where I could see his (and anybody else I add’s) progress. It would be motivating, and I’d definitely be more encouraged to convince other people to use WaniKani.

Does anybody else think this is a good idea??

[Kuvshinova]

If you wish to install a script manager like tampermonkey for chrome or greasemonkey for firefox, you can then install scripts for wanikani such as the leaderboard script. I’m not actually sure if it’s been broken or not by recent updates so I’ll rely on someone else to tell me that. Let me find you a link.

Here’s a list of scripts I use:
https://community.wanikani.com/t/personal-script-setup-guide-bookmarking-thread/38654/2

[Userscript] Wanikani Leaderboard

Script link: Description This script adds a leaderboard to your dashboard. [leaderboard%201%20-%20small] Get alerts of people’s level ups. [alertLevelUp] How does it work?. Add a username and the script will automatically retrieve the level and avatar from the profile page (wanikani.com/users/theusername). Background colors of users are determined by their ‘realm’ e.g. (pleasant, painful, death). Users in the lv 51-60 range will have a percentage bar to show the percentage of burned …

[sansarret]

Check several existing leaderboards:

Race to the Cake

Looking for a study buddy around the same level as you are? Looking for someone approximately at your leveling speed? Look no further, you have found the perfect topic! Note: There is already this one, but the OP hasn’t been seen in a while and I think it‘s kind of messy. So here is a new one. :bangbang:Some important notes: Please do not change other people‘s information or group membership. It‘s everybody‘s own decision which group they will join, if you think it‘s inappropriate, post somet…

You can start your own with leaderboard script:

[Userscript] Wanikani Leaderboard

Script link: Description This script adds a leaderboard to your dashboard. [leaderboard%201%20-%20small] Get alerts of people’s level ups. [alertLevelUp] How does it work?. Add a username and the script will automatically retrieve the level and avatar from the profile page (wanikani.com/users/theusername). Background colors of users are determined by their ‘realm’ e.g. (pleasant, painful, death). Users in the lv 51-60 range will have a percentage bar to show the percentage of burned …

[hannah218]

Wow thank you two! I haven’t really dived into the userscript universe, so I didn’t know about these. This was exactly what I’m looking for!!