I’ve noticed this mainly at the Enlightened > Burn stage. So I’ve forgot parts of a Mnemonic for a kanji or vocab because it’s been so long, I get it wrong, click to remind myself of the Mnemonic and it’s been completely changed, for both the meaning and reading, now forcing me basically re-learn t…

t looks like they kept the old mnemonics on-site for about 2 years: [image] Update on the Old Mnemonics Announcements Hello everyone wave For those of you who have been around long enough, you may remember that we released a content overhaul on WaniKani a few years ago. W…

I’ve not once used a mnemonic past the guru stage, not once. Am I the weird one?

No, I’m the same. I would guess most people are too. 95% of the time I don’t need them. I guess it’s kind of minor but for those very few times I do still need to go through the Mnemonic In my head to remember, it annoys me to see it’s been changed.

I personally never use the mneumonics unless the item becomes a big leech, then they can help. I often make my own mneunomics if I need to. Making them offensive or funny makes them stick in my head more :smiling_imp:

I probably have less than a handful of items I used the mnemonics for. Only for a quick mental map to stop making the same mistake over and over again. If you need to rely on seeing part of the mnemonic on an enlightened item to get it, you should probably just mark it wrong anyways and start from s…

Man that list is great! I tried googling for old WK stuff but I guess I wasn’t good enough. Finally can get my nailbats and Jews back :stuck_out_tongue:

I noticed this too, even though I only started WK in January. I frequently add custom meanings - additional meanings I found in the dictionary or in the case of existing radicals I add the official meaning for consistency. However, during the overhaul many of my custom meanings seem to have been de…

[image] PepsiBottle: you should probably just mark it wrong anyways and start from scratch with a new approach or just brute force it in. That would’ve been my suggestion as well. [image] Manapotionplz: But is there not some way of implementing something that lets us decide if we want to…

[image] WeebPotato: [image] Manapotionplz: But is there not some way of implementing something that lets us decide if we want to keep the old Mnemonic? Like some sort of history for Mnemonics that we can select from? That wouldn’t be very practical honestly. They could easily implement…

For a while after the 2019 radical overhaul, there was a setting to “show old mnemonics”, available to already established users. It lasted for like a year, then disappeared. It had its own little section, separate from user meaning notes.

[image] WeebPotato: That’s something for the mods to look at, I believe. @Mods is it possible for an assigned user synonym to be automatically removed by a synonym clean-up you guys did on the backend side? Thanks for the ping, I think this is unlikely though. [image] _kaminari: However,…

Please stop changing Mnemonics

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kimera July 20, 2023, 1:57am 6

t looks like they kept the old mnemonics on-site for about 2 years:

I guess that’s not a huge amount of time when you’re at the ready-to-burn stage though.

You can still look them up on this list though, do a ctrl-F (or cmd-F on Macs) and paste in the character you’re looking for.

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