PLEASE — Add a “Pause Content Updates” Toggle Hi, I’m a Level 60 user. I’ve been using WaniKani for years, and I recently noticed that the meaning for a kanji I had already learned has been changed. The “Last Cord”-- The Change That Prompted This Post I originally learned 緒: Thread + Someone = …

The problem with versioning data like that is that the database grows in file size like crazy Which, given what you said, makes it not an option for them (lol heroku)

You finished years ago. It’s time to move on to anki+immersion or full time immersion.

[image] The moving target of Wanikani readings Feedback BAFFLING

[image] Logograph: This is actually pretty impossible to implement in any system ever in any practical manner It really isn’t, just version the subject data by date and query the correct one based on user preference. They already have a data_updated_at field in the subject API, they would jus…

boy i hope meanings of words or their usage don’t ever change in the coming years or decades…

an other batch of useless primary meaning updates: [image] Thursday April 17 2025 Content Updates Content Updates Kanji 女 (1) - Added じお to the warning list, updated the reading explanation. 上 (1) - Added じおう to the warning list, updated the reading explanatio…

[image] matt_llvw: an other batch of useless primary meaning updates That seems overly harsh to me. Also they mostly seem to have added more allowed words and have not really removed old ones?

It’s harsh because multiple people ask them to stop changing the primary meanings of words and kanji as it is very detrimental to the learning process and like always they’ll ignore the request or give bad solutions like here .

[image] matt_llvw: multiple people ask them to stop changing the primary meanings of words and kanji Conversely, most of the changes they do make are based on feedback and requests from multiple people suggesting the changes. Which is of course the classic problem for pretty much every compa…

[image] mtlvmpr: relatively easy to fix since they have the data of when you unlocked the kanji and when you burned it. That data is available for us too but creating a script is a bit difficult as we don’t have a Thank you for providing some techincal background as to why this hasn’t been im…

Thank you for all the input / agreement / further opinions. Another work-around I found: When I am sus that I am being gaslit about a meaning/kanji name… ie, “wait, that wasn’t the original thing I learned…” Content Updates Search And replace my query with the word/kanji you are suspect of, to se…

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an other batch of useless primary meaning updates:

Topic		Replies	Views
Update beneficial or detrimental for higher levellers? WaniKani	29	1938	December 8, 2018
New Content not so Optional After All WaniKani	90	5373	December 16, 2018
Disappointed in WaniKani lately WaniKani	52	4892	July 4, 2023
Wanikani's lack of improvement Feedback	117	6177	February 3, 2025
WaniKani Content Overhaul Announcements	1143	60087	December 28, 2019

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