I lost power this evening (using phone tethering to post this). Hopefully it will come back soon.
Update: Fortunately, the power came back after 2.5 hours.
Tue Mar 21 2023:
Time spent: 19m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 432
Reviews in next week: 734 (+302)
Reviews in next month: 1208 (+474)
Accuracy: 87.00% (87/100)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 298
Guru: 357
Master: 333
Enlightened: 852
Burned: 5757
Apprentice under 300 for the first time I believe!
You know once it gets under 100, your review pile will be virtually indistinguishable from anyone elseâs right?!
Really great to see you still going at this mountain. 
Have a nice day.
Today, I guruâd my first level 49 kanji. It only had one lesson (éä¸), which of course only took a few seconds to go through, but that one lesson was enough for the clock to tick over from 7:48 to 7:49, and thus consistent with past practice, I am counting that as a minute spent doing lessons, so todayâs post has â18m L1â, meaning 17 minutes of reviews and 1 minute of lessons, per the new format I made up (and retroactively added to previous posts as previously mentioned).
I also failed to guru é§ today due to mistaking it for 訳. Itâs annoying how often things like that happen.
Wed Mar 22 2023:
Time spent: 18m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 423
Reviews in next week: 725 (+302)
Reviews in next month: 1189 (+464)
Accuracy: 80.00% (80/100)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 293
Guru: 357
Master: 334
Enlightened: 846
Burned: 5768
Couldnât focus this morning and so decided to stop early.
Thu Mar 23 2023:
Time spent: 11m
Reviews completed: 50
Reviews remaining: 448
Reviews in next week: 742 (+294)
Reviews in next month: 1182 (+440)
Accuracy: 76.00% (38/50)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 289
Guru: 363
Master: 331
Enlightened: 843
Burned: 5772
Fri Mar 24 2023:
Time spent: 16m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 417
Reviews in next week: 720 (+303)
Reviews in next month: 1175 (+455)
Accuracy: 85.00% (85/100)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 279
Guru: 365
Master: 339
Enlightened: 842
Burned: 5777
Under 400 for the first time. My review count is really dropping fast now.
Sat Mar 25 2023:
Time spent: 16m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 385
Reviews in next week: 711 (+326)
Reviews in next month: 1160 (+449)
Accuracy: 87.00% (87/100)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 265
Guru: 375
Master: 333
Enlightened: 848
Burned: 5781
Sun Mar 26 2023:
Time spent: 18m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 383
Reviews in next week: 709 (+326)
Reviews in next month: 1152 (+443)
Accuracy: 78.00% (78/100)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 262
Guru: 376
Master: 325
Enlightened: 854
Burned: 5786
This morning, I followed the banner to the forums and spent over an hour reading all the angry complaints about the UI changes, and thus I had no time to actually do reviews this morning. I guess Iâll have to start again tomorrow and see just how bad things are. The loss of the summary page at the end is going to really hit hard. I still canât believe they would launch such a major change with no warning or beta, especially with such major regressions and negative feedback.
Mon Mar 27 2023:
Time spent: 0m
Reviews completed: 0
Reviews remaining: 437
Reviews in next week: 749 (+312)
Reviews in next month: 1152 (+403)
Level: 49
There was a warning, but it was a bit too abrupt, and more targeted at userscript developers.
Also, the review session itself does track accuracy, although itâs different to the summary page accuracy (summary page was percentage of subjects correct, review page is percentage of reviews correct).
There also was a beta, but it wasnât very publicly advertised.
Yeah, I know, it was hidden in a post on the API forum in a locked filing cabinet with a sign saying âbeware of leopardâ. And they ignored the little feedback they got from the script developers anyway.
What I meant is that there was never any warning or beta for regular users. It wasnât advertised with a banner on the front page like previous changes have been.
Wow, the new UI is really bad. The questions are in smaller text scrunched up at the top of the screen for no reason, and theyâre not even consistently sized, the colors are somehow really garish now, the transitions are weird, etc. The new page for seeing the correct answer when you miss a question is so obnoxious that I often ended up advancing to the next question before I even saw the answer.
The lack of the summary screen at the end is also really jarring. Itâs like if a videogame immediately booted you to the title screen after beating the final boss with no credits or cutscenes or ending at all.
And of course, that means that it is impossible to see how you did. How many reviews did I do? What was my accuracy? How many items did I burn? I have no idea. And of course it (was) useful for other stuff too. Like when after I leveled up a week or two back, I mentioned that I got 6 out of 9 lvl49 kanji right in one session. The only way I could see that is by counting them on the summary screen afterwards. I know several level 49 kanji came up for review this morning, but I have no idea what the actual number was and there is no longer any way to tell.
Tue Mar 28 2023:
Time spent: 7m
Reviews completed: 39
Reviews remaining: 464
Reviews in next week: 769 (+305)
Reviews in next month: 1148 (+379)
Accuracy: 74.36% (29/39)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 254
Guru: 380
Master: 327
Enlightened: 854
Burned: 5788
Iâve been quietly following you for a few months. Youâre so close to 0 reviews remaining, so I hope you can power through these changes. Weâre the same level now, so know thereâs an annoyed bloke from Australia begrudgingly working through his reviews just as you are.
Today was my first full session after the changes and I guess I just have to get used to the new UI. There are still a bunch of things that bug me though. For example, I still canât get over how the kanji questions appear in smaller text than the vocabulary questions now, which looks really amateurish.
The biggest issue though is that the popups when you get a question right or wrong that show you the new SRS level are now hard to read. It looks like they start out dark purple for some reason and slowly fade in to the normal green/red color. The upshot is that the majority of the time, I advance to the next question without seeing the popup and have no idea when I got it right or wrong or what the new SRS level is.
Itâs not even like theyâre that slow, just slow enough to be useless. The same is true of the cards at the bottom that you can open up to see the right answer. They donât take that long to appear, but it is still slow enough that I often advance to the next question before seeing the answer, even when I specifically pressed the key to open it up after missing a question. Of course when I genuinely didnât know the answer, Iâll just wait for it, but if I think I already what I got wrong, Iâll often just skip it. Itâs hard to remember exactly how things were before, but I donât recall ever seeing that before. Before, even if I was pretty sure what the right answer was, I would open it up just to double check.
Sometimes I wonder whether it is not that these even got slower but that advancing to the next question got faster, but thereâs no way to know for sure, and the garish and unreadable color transitions on the popups after answering a question are certainly new.
Incidentally, I was wrong about the information card you can open at the bottom now just being a straight copy of the webpage you can go to outside of reviews, e.g. https://www.wanikani.com/vocabulary/ĺ°˝ĺ. On closer inspection, they are actually different, which makes it even weirder that they would change it, since theyâre not saving code that way. The new review-bottom cards still seemed to be designed to just have the relevant information, theyâre just a lot less compact than the old ones for no good reason, requiring more scrolling to see information.
The other major thing is that I got new lessons for the first time today, so I got to see what the new lesson screens looks like as well. In the past, I would almost always know that new lessons were coming after a review because I would see that I guruâd the relevant kanji when I answered it during the review, but now there is effectively no feedback during reviews, so it was a complete surprise.
Overall, lessons arenât too bad, but I did get to see the removal of the enter key on lesson cards that Iâd read about. For some reason, they decided that using enter to advance between lesson cards clashes with âexpected browser behaviorâ and made everyone use the right arrow instead. However, you still have to use enter to advance after each question while doing the lesson reviews and to advance on the post review screen. Itâs a very trivial issue in practice, but the transition is a bit weird.
On the bright side, it sounds like there have been some minor graphical fixes at least. Going by the feedback (i.e. complaint) thread, there was initially a distracting thick black border around the answer input box, which they have now changed to an unobtrusive light blue.
Wed Mar 29 2023:
Time spent: 19m L2
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 434
Reviews in next week: 763 (+329)
Reviews in next month: 1143 (+380)
Accuracy: 80.00% (80/100)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 249
Guru: 388
Master: 326
Enlightened: 853
Burned: 5795
Thu Mar 30 2023:
Time spent: 23m L2
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 415
Reviews in next week: 740 (+325)
Reviews in next month: 1132 (+392)
Accuracy: 84.00% (84/100)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 248
Guru: 391
Master: 319
Enlightened: 860
Burned: 5799
Fri Mar 31 2023:
Time spent: 18m
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 383
Reviews in next week: 729 (+346)
Reviews in next month: 1123 (+394)
Accuracy: 86.00% (86/100)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 237
Guru: 394
Master: 324
Enlightened: 860
Burned: 5802
I noticed this morning that the kanji and vocab questions now use the same text size, so at least they managed to fix that, I guess.
Sat Apr 01 2023:
Time spent: 20m L1
Reviews completed: 100
Reviews remaining: 376
Reviews in next week: 715 (+339)
Reviews in next month: 1131 (+416)
Accuracy: 85.00% (85/100)
Level: 49
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 228
Guru: 395
Master: 331
Enlightened: 859
Burned: 5808
Well, it looks like it has now been five and a half weeks and my review count is still at 376. I told you you were being wildly overoptimistic.
Youâre well under 400 reviews though, and your apprentice count is right down.
Your reviews in next week count is still quite high, so I think youâre right not to just power through extra reviews right now, or itâll come back to bite you.