People make mistakes, we’re all human, but the frequency of readings changing with WK has become rather wearing. Countless times I’ll answer a question in a review only for it to be rejected, because WK have at some point changed the meaning of a word. This isn’t a rare event. I get it that mistake…

Hey everyone - we brought this issue back to the larger content team. I come with their message: Thanks for this feedback! You shouldn’t be getting penalized for using old meanings, at least not for about 6 months after the changes. In terms of how we handle meaning changes: If the old meaning …

Stuff like this (and many others) is why the Double-Check userscript is essential for WK.

I do completely agree with the diff part. It would be great to be able to easily see what the past meanings/readings were. I know I struggled a lot when the big change happened a long while back with many radical names, particularly because I’d see them used in the construction of another kanji an…

Notion pages – update log – for each item could work, since WK is already using Notion. Just making links from info in review, and item pages. WK should figure how to display log contents on the website, and notifications, though.

I came to the discussion boards with the express purpose to rant about this! I just encountered it with 豪 - ‘luxurious’ which is now ‘exceptional’. It broke my flow! I’ve only recently broken out of my 2000+ review hole to make progress again.

6-month grace period is not enough. For example, if I were to get back to WaniKani, it’s already more than a year. Well, OK, I can be wrong, but let me easily know why it is now wrong.

I’ll pass that feedback along, thanks @polv

Also, it doesn’t work very well with multiple alternative meanings and user synonyms. People can easily avoid answering the landmine for more than 6 months. Transparency without “try answering” is important.

Thanks for the detailed response, but if 6 months was enough I wouldn’t keep crashing into this and I wouldn’t have made this thread. Diffing the pages would be worth the engineering effort, even if it was just a notes section with the original reading. Also, what happens with third party apps whe…

changing the primary meaning of kanji is SO DUMB I can’t believe it, it’s not even funny. I’m rushing WK just to get it over with, I’m really bitter with how you guys handled this. @koichi seriously, WTF man?

[image] Thursday October 17 2024 Content Updates Content Updates Hello, Changing the primary meaning of a kanji is kind of a big deal I think. I associate a kanji to a particular word, and changing that word is destabilizing. It seems 妙 to change the meaning of this kanj…

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matt_llvw April 17, 2025, 10:48am 15

here’s a new batch of useless primary meaning updates:

Topic		Replies	Views
Updating the "meaning" of Kanji WaniKani	11	566	December 15, 2023
Does WaniKani change meanings or readings of the vocabulary without notification or any popup? WaniKani	12	343	August 29, 2024
Please can we stop removing Kanji meanings? Feedback	27	2071	November 20, 2023
PLEASE — Add a “Pause Content Updates” Toggle Feedback	35	861	June 17, 2026
Can vocab just reject readings put in the meaning field instead of counting them wrong? Feedback	62	3788	July 16, 2019

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