On the forum, the public vs private has to do with being hidden from search engines. Some people don’t want random google searches to potentially lead to their logs, and others are fine with it.
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Ahaha got it ! I will take a look at your thread too 
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I see, maybe I will keep to private for now then :). I hope people will learn something from it (and that they dont mind me forgetting to update for a month)
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Sorry if it’s the wrong thread, but I couldn’t find a “Thanks/Appreciation” topic. I am just back from my first trip to Japan and wanted to express thanks to those who helped me here and for this tool itself. I studied for three months, but that alone allowed for making many more connections than I expected and as a result I never felt isolated in Japan.
Thank you all and as an old man said to me as I lifted him into the air at an idol metal concert: 頑張れ, 頑張れ
<3
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Oh, nice. Tell us about your trip. Where did you go? What did you do? 
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I went to Tokyo, stayed in Sumida-ku for the sumo, ate at Chiyonofuji’s stable, met his wife and the physical trainer who works on the top wrestlers. I tried shodo, sashiko and went to Tokyo Calling 2025 in Shinjuku for idol metal and moshing. It’s awfully expensive, but I’ll save and return when I can. Have you also been?
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Yeah. Once or twice.
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Amazing idea, it’s like a personal museum. It’s well written and the photos show a lot of intention. I never thought of doing something like this, thank you for sharing 
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New to the forum, so pardon if this is the wrong section. Over the past month or so I’ve noticed some cards (mainly radicals) from previous levels being reset to “new lesson” status. I just noticed a bunch of radicals and vocab varying from level 5 to 8 (I’m on 9) got reset and have to be restarted. Is this a known bug, or is there some setting I need to tweak? (If it matters, mainly use the Tsurukame app for doing my cards, but I can see the resets on the wanikani site too).
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Yesterday, they moved the 東 radical card from level 13 to level 6, and the 京 card from level 25 to level 8, so that’s what’s happening here - it’s not a card you’ve seen before being reset, but rather a new one that’s suddenly materialising at a level lower than your current one.
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Started typing saying I’d swear I’ve done them before, but the levels on the vocab words I was going to cite have changed. For example I learned Touhoku already but now it’s marked level 11… though I have done the kanji for capital already, which is also level 8 like the “new” radical. So I’d done them both (capital and east), but the cards much have been marked new when they changed the levels? Is this a regular occurrence, and I’m just seeing it now since I have a few levels under my belt?
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They move stuff around semi-frequently, so you’ll come across this a bit as you carry on, probably most when you’re in the middle levels 20-40. Maybe once every month-ish you’ll see something new suddenly pop up in a lower level, whether it’s a new item or something they’ve moved. At the moment they’re doing some more movements than usual around 北 東 南 西 specifically
Also the cards are new, they’re just radical cards rather than kanji cards which you have done. Radicals which are the same as existing kanji you’ve done do come sometimes
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Hello more advanced beings who kindly offer guidance to travelers. You must be 神.
I am struggling with applications of 後 when it can mean both “behind” and “after.” I read through an earlier post and some google, but it didn’t resolve the confusion. I can accept that being my current level, but asking in case someone holds the key and can share.
後 - learned as “behind” (not bad)
以後 - [lit. “from” applied to “behind”] learned as “after this” (not bad)
後で - learned as “after” (oh)
The last two came up in the same review for me today and I realized I had a conflict in my mind about how to read 後 as it’s sometimes giving “behind” and sometimes “after.” I tend to think of those as opposites. Thanks for any helpful thoughts.
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Think of it this way: if you’re running in a race, anyone who’s behind you will finish after you. Behind in both space and time, as it were.
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This is from the BunPro page on 後で :
In Japanese, あとで is a combination of the noun 後あと (behind), and the particle で (with). When these words are linked, they form an adverbial phrase which is used to express ‘after’, or ‘later’. As with で’s standard meaning of ‘with’, あとで is simply highlighting that something will happen, ‘with’ the ‘after/behind’ part of something.
Fun Fact
The reason that 後あと is translated as both ‘after’, and ‘behind’, is because sequences of events in Japanese behave similarly to a train. When the head of the train (one action) passes a specific point, there are still potentially many carriages (other actions) coming ‘after’, or ‘behind’ it.
So in a way, you’re saying “with the behind of” A (being a moment or an action), then B.
If you can metaphorically “look” at the behind of something, it has passed, and you are now in the moment after that passing.
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Thank you @Belthazar, @Omun for these top notch replies. I signed up for BunPro in anticipation of reaching lvl 10 and starting grammar study, but didn’t know they had such nice explanations. Great resource.
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thanks 
until now I’ve just memorized it and just accepted it
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hi ! I am not new, but i was starting to notice that in my levels, there were less and less “visually similar kanjis” sections, and I wondered if I am just biased or if all levels havent been “treated” with this feature, which was very useful to me.
For exemple 幸 looks a lot like 辛 so I was surprised to not see it included
Thanks!
Yeah, the feature didn’t exist in the beginning. I think the content team of Wanikani is generally really receptive to adding them on a case by case basis if they are informed about what the users have trouble with.
I do see the two you mentioned in the visually similar Kanji section of each other, though?
So, I’m not too sure why it is not showing on your end.
Did you maybe open the page of the “radical” instead? They don’t have a visual similarity section.
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Thanks a lot for the feedback! I 100% didnt have it when learning it in the lesson of the kanji, but as you noticed, they are both in the page of the kanji in itself. I will signal this in Bugs report section! Maybe that explains my impression.
Fingers crossed that they added them quite a lot then, it’s a very good feature, it would be frustrating if whole levels are missing it 