Recent blunder on JPDB (there's a 10k cap on decks!?)

[Redglare]

Earlier this autumn, I reached 9999 vocab in my ‘Vocabulary I’ll Never Forget’ deck on JPDB (yay!). Turns out that’s max capacity for decks (ohno!). I thought I could move the words over to another deck and delete the words after, however, the way I did it wasn’t correct. Which means I unfortunately deleted the entire deck and all the vocab returned back in queue for reviewing.

I did consult the discord server and thankfully they had tips on what to do (scripts/tools), but I was just so frustrated (why no info in the FAQ about 10k cap? I never knew there was a cap on decks), I ended up leaving the site for a few months. I had the tools, but I was just too tired after manually getting (most of) the words back into my Never Forget deck again, I decided to put it off for later.

Long story short/TLDR; There’s a 10k cap on decks on JPDB. With the export script (found in the jpdb discord server), it is easy to export vocab from one deck and import them to another one.

1. Make sure you have Tampermonkey and the export script installed.
2. Make a new deck (I named mine Never Forget 2).
3. Set the deck state override to ‘never forget’
   
4. Export vocab from Never Forget deck.
5. Open the new deck and import the vocab. Now the vocab won’t show up for review.
6. Delete vocab from the original Never Forget deck. Then you can continue to use the k shortcut again to mark vocab as never forget during reviews.

NB! You’ll have to repeat the steps when you reach 10k again in your Never Forget. Just make another deck.

I hope this helps so people won’t make the same mistake I did.

[Redglare]

Now I just need to get back to the reviews which is still a mess, haha TuT

[RebBlue]

In case you didn’t know, there’s also a limit to the number of decks you can have (250). Though by the time you’re reaching 250 10k never forget decks, you’ll probably know enough words for most things.

[pm215]

Thanks for the heads-up – my never forget deck is at about 7000 items (though I’m putting fewer items into it these days).

[pm215]

@Redglare

There’s a 10k cap on decks on JPDB

Though e.g. if you create a deck from one of the pre built ones, e.g.this one, it can have more than 10K items in it – my deck for that book says I’m at 10353 / 14305. So maybe there’s something special about prebuilts, or about the never-forget deck.

[Redglare]

@RebBlue

In case you didn’t know, there’s also a limit to the number of decks you can have (250).

Did someone actually do this?

@pm215

Though e.g. if you create a deck from one of the pre built ones, e.g.this one, it can have more than 10K items in it – my deck for that book says I’m at 10353 / 14305.

Yeah, that’s why I never expected there to be a cap Probably pre-builts being special.

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@Redglare

Wuiii, progress (Did bit by bit while watching stream)

[Redglare]

Wuiii

The main reason I made this thread: Motivation for clearing my reviews

[Redglare]

Turns out the changelog is a good place to seek information. Things like this should’ve been in the FAQ if you were to ask me.

Got confused when I couldn’t add new cards to my random vocab deck. Turns out when I added a built-in-deck, I went over 60k total cards.

[pm215]

Yeah, same thing happened to me a while back. Options for fixing it are either to delete decks (it will prompt you to move the cards you have studied to a new deck), or to get the patreon subscription…

Totally agreed about the docs (a lot of this is undocumented and you have to ask in the discord), but given the dev isn’t really working on it I don’t think docs improvements are very likely.

[Redglare]

Just adding this script here from the discord server so I don’t have to search for it again: JPDB add context menu in reviews

It adds this menu during reviews for easier management. Convenient for when you want to remove a word from your reviews without having to send it to blacklist.