[No Longer Working] WaniKani Lesson User Synonyms

[kobayashi]

Just noticed today people have been posting about this…
Did some testing and yes it seems broken.
Some of the server-side behavior it relied on is now gone.

@galg

I’d really like this to work because I currently keep notes on locked items in somewhat related unlocked page notes. Unfortunately I keep getting “Error adding note. Retry?” Using Firefox.

Trying to set notes or synonyms on still locked items now gives a 404-error.
So WK is rejecting them.

@raegefilth

Not sure if this script is still being maintained (doesn’t look like it but o well, I don’t know where else to post it), but since two days or so, the synonyms that I’ve added during lessons somehow disappear again?

@miyasaris

For the last two or three weeks the script has not been working anymore. I can still enter synonyms during lessons but once I get out of lessons after the quiz, they are gone.

Unlocked but still unlearned items seem possible to set…
The server takes both notes and synonyms with no error.
But upon lesson completion, the synonyms seem to be erased.
I am able to read-back synonyms on unlearned items using the API-V2, so they are being saved by the server…

The script could perhaps be changed to submit synonyms to the server after lesson completion, rather than immediately after entering them.

@riccyjay

By the way, has anyone ever discovered any reason this is not a part of the regular experience? Especially given the pointlessly frustrating way you’re forced to add synonyms during reviews.

I agree the functionality this script provided should be a stock feature…
I can’t really see why we shouldn’t be able to add notes and synonyms for any item unlearned or even still locked.

Ran across this thread:

Feature Request: Ability to add synonyms, meaning and reading notes before lessons

The ability to add notes to items before I learn them will be incredibly useful. Here are some reasons why I think it would be an important feature: It will be easier to practice future items whilst waiting for new lessons to be unlocked It will give users the chance to write notes for items they have learned reading/hearing elsewhere. Users can write notes for items they haven’t learned, that can be easily confused with other learned items. This change will not harm anyone who wants to conti…

@viet
Previously it was possible to submit synonyms for unlearned items during lessons and have them retained after lesson completion.
It now appears that such synonyms are being erased upon lesson completion.
Is there any possibility of restoring the previous behavior?

Reading the API-V2 ‘study_materials’ data for an item immediately before lesson completion it shows the added synonyms.
Reading again just after lesson completion shows they are all gone.