Is it possible to restore old wanikani layout? I know that now it’s customisable, but as other mentioned, the new look is so sharp, less delicate, more distracting.
Also, the most important thing, I used to use the WK as dictionary as well. Showing the search results as tiles instead of a list is not intuitive at all. It also relates to the kanji page’s vocab section.
Nevertheless, thanks for your hard work, WK devs 
I’ve been following the forums from Koichi through this all and it has been reiterated several times by him himself that there is no way to revert to the old UI. I really have appreciated their ambition but there is definitely some objective steps back in layout and function that I’m not happy with. All we can do is keep giving feedback and hoping they can polish up their (very great) new foundation to not come at the expense of the ol’ reliable features the previous UI gave us
The deployment process was not great. Normally, when making such a huge change to application, you would let users try it first, with option to go back for now. Than work on updates based on feedback, and when everything is ready, deploy it.
At least this time they let us know something is going to change, not like last time when they just updated the website and broke most scripts.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that them announcing it only, what, a week ago? with no other buildup and with the stipulation that it is irreversible was odd. I didn’t question it since I didn’t think it would be at the expense of old features (which it ended up doing) or changing anything beyond the dashboard (the UI all over the program is different now, too), but now I am retrospectively wishing there was some more constructive skepticism in that timeframe so at the very least we weren’t fully “stuck” with this
I don’t think there was any malice behind it of course, but the way this all unfolded has felt a little too anti-consumer for this program I otherwise love near-unconditionally
Not a fan of the new UI. Looks like it was made for mobile devices, rather than for computers. I also use WK as a dictionary, and the new search titles are simply more cluttered looking compared to before.
If anyone is making an extension that reverts back to the old UI, please drop a link a let me know.
Long time reader, first time poster.
The new UI is good but there has to be way to have the best of both worlds.
Old UI and new UI.
If Gmail has the option to choose between basic UI (which I primarily use) and advance UI, can’t it be simply be implemented for WaniKani?
I know I am in the minority but I still have to ask.
This is every update WK do
New UI: “Like it or lump it” (as we say in Australia).
+1 for this. The new tile format has a cute appearance, but when a user is trying to review a set of data, a collection of tiles is far less efficient than a simple list. I would hope the devs would prioritize tool effectiveness over aesthetic.
I’d love an option to display results in a list form.
Every single time anything anywhere changes up its layout/design, this kind of feedback is given. And every single time, this kind of feedback amounts to nothing.
As someone who has been on the internet for quite a while, the best thing you can do is to just get used to the fact that things that get regular updates will change up their UI eventually, and it will require some getting used to because it’s not going back.
I’m not sure where to post it but after the comment about tiles in search I’ve decided to post it here. When you do a review and get it wrong you can look at other information and one of those is kanji composition. You now get tiles which is what you get in a search. The kanji are smaller in those tiles - they used to be larger and my eyesight is deteriorating (age) - this makes the tiles harder to read than the old format. Can you go back to how they looked before
I’ve been very critical of WaniKani’s development in the past (and I still think the backend is a complete mess that should probably be prioritized over these cosmetic changes) but I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect a fairly niche website like this one to maintain two different codebases for the frontend over the long term. I understand that changes will never satisfy everybody, but the new features justify the churn IMO and the pros outweigh the cons.
Now why on earth WaniKani devs absolutely refuse to have a transition period where both interfaces can be used side by side and smoothly switch to the new UI over the span of a month or so, I do not know. It’s always like this and it’s really dumb. If I did this in my line of work, my clients would murder me.
The basic functionality is still there and you can never make everyone happy so I’m OK with it. 
I just need them to stay in business long enough to get me to lvl. 60 
They used to have an own site for especially developers of scripts to take a look at the new ver so they could edit their scripts for the upcoming changes. Usually two weeks prior before the change took place. Seems like that’s not a thing anymore.
Look at this thread for reference: Making Progress on the Dashboard
I remember that era but I would argue that even then they didn’t do it right: most users don’t read the forums and opt into beta tests, you need a period where the new version is the default and people can opt out of it if they encounter issues.
When the big “scriptocalypse” happened a couple of years ago they did have the beta version available for a little while before, hardly anybody used it and when the switch finally occurred most people where still completely confused.
Wholeheartedly agree. There are definitely better ways to incorporate changes than how they’ve been doing it so far.
i have tried the search and I do like the new layout. The tiles look better because they are coloured. Because I have burnt a lot of kanji the tiles in the review screen are grey which makes them harder to read.
The search is a serious downgrade. I loved search and used it a lot. It was nice to differentiate and compare between similar items in the list format.
Agreed. Now people gotta manually deleted widgets and re-add them just to get things to barely be useful for additional learning. Now things like burned lists and how long until the next kanji pops up are a lot harder to get to and are in annoying icons instead of a list
I would prefer to have the old wanikani back, but that seems impossible now. I’m just gonna grind even harder and finish it as soon as possible
