The New Dashboard is Here

[Dsingis]

I would like two things.

1. can we get a longer review forecast back? Like it was before? Something that stretches over two widget groups, for which you need room in the same place in two widget rows? Similar to how it was before

2. can we get a different option for the level progress? Something that shows the items itself? Like with the recent mistakes widget, or recent unlocks?

Also, ignore the empty space at the top right from my layout, that’s for when the review summary addon gets updated, as I don’t just want to see a percentage, but to click on there to see what levelled up/got burned etc.

[gameoholic]

wkstats as a widget please.

[porglezomp]

It doesn’t show your real stats on the edit page, you have to go back to the homepage to see the real data in the layout.

[gameoholic]

yeahhh I just realized that haha thanks

[mmiski]

Sorry, but is there a way to get back to previous layout?
The daily/hourly schedule view, the locked/unlocked kanji, hovering over them, recent mistakes list, all is missing…
The level progress list: to see what kanji I’ve unlocked and progress of them, i need to click now on an icon, scroll, and then click back to return. No hover about when’s the next review of an item as well.
I’m using wanikani on a PC mostly, and the ergonomics is worse that it was before, sorry.

[arcbine]

In the old dashboard, you could over hover a kanji and it would tell you how long until the next review in the alt text, but it’s gone in the new dashboard, I was wondering if that could return, or an easy way to know how long till the next review without navigating to the page for that item? Could even have a separate widget for this.

[_Quinton]

I wish the review forecast was taller or the entries were shorter, so you could see a whole day’s worth without scrolling. Overall there’s definitely poor use of space on laptop/desktop displays, with things larger than they need to be and extra clicking/scrolling needed to see things now compared to the previous dashboard.

[rustx]

I’m still using the review summary extension, it now appears at the bottom of the page but still works.

Disappointed there’s no review widget considering the effort they put into this, not really surprised though

[drackyslime]

@mmiski and @arcbine ,

The New Dashboard is Here

Good news for us “hover” truthers, staff has said in email and here that they will be looking at it Probably removed by mistake / slight overview of a feature that users use a LOT but sometimes can be hard to notice (like for the “one view” of all the items and their progress )

We had the same concerns about hovering, but it appears to be coming back

[lvluplog]

When I click to check a previous level’s progress, it goes to a new page without any of the UI.

(Clicked to check level progress of level 9 example)

[AlexR1der]

Yes, I know, that was the only thing I saw working on mobile. I saw no kind of customisation other than that on mobile, is what I was trying to say.

For example there’s no way to change variant or theme, like I’ve seen in people’s screenshots, and I don’t even see a button to pull up a menu for this or something.

[AlexR1der]

I second this, I would use that all the time

[Shiruchan]

This is amazing. It’s great being able to add the widgets that are most useful for you and to have this little extra of customization with the different color themes. Thank you so much for the massive effort it’s been worth it 100% <3

Greetings from Barcelona!

[Frederik283]

Here’s my dashboard

I wish I could make the Review Forecast widget default to showing the current day instead of the week. I don’t really care about how many reviews are coming this week, but I use the daily forecast a lot to know when to come back to the site.

[llamaforceone]

It would be nice to see when level ups happened!

[kbvw]

Hello,

Really hate to be this person, but I still want to give my two cents, because all of the enthusiastic positive replies will give a very skewed picture if the others decide to bite their tongue.

As a person sensitive to stimuli who likes very minimalist UIs, for me this is a downgrade. Of course, customization is always great, and I did now remove the items I do not normally look at, so that’s a plus. But for the items I do look at (mostly “level progress”, “review forecast” and “item spread”), I’m sorry to say that they are all worse off.

Generally speaking, the old UI was more subdued in terms of contrast/borders of things, and I find the sharper borders uglier: I guess that’s a personal aesthetic preference.

Specifically, for the review forecast, I now have to click to see the breakdown of today’s reviews. (And the green bars look cluttered to me: there is no unit underneath, so my eye does not use them and I still need to parse the numbers on the right.)

For the level progress, I now have to click and scroll to see how far I am with this level’s specific kanji. (And as others have said, there is no more information on hover, but I guess this was already noted.)

For the item spread, I don’t have to click, but the breakdown into a small matrix of small numbers makes it much harder for my eye to quickly see how many items are in “apprentice”.

In the old UI I could see everything I care about in a glance, and it looked great too: I have been praising WaniKani to people in the past as an example of an amazing app/UI. (Still is an amazing app. ) I feel like the new UI tries to squeeze information in much smaller spaces in order to fit a widget model.

Sorry again, I know you put a lot of effort into it! (I am a developer myself.) I guess if I don’t have to click through anymore to see those things I mentioned above, that would go a long way for me.

EDIT: I realized the green bars in the review forecast were there before… my bad. But my eyes had a much easier time ignoring them with the softer contrast, increased spacing, and lack of brackets around the number to the right.

[blue_mango]

At kanji page, would it be possible to see the vocabulary as list, not tiles? As it was before. Thanks.

[Wonsul]

That’s an awesome update, thanks a lot!!

[lvluplog]

Also just to say I really like the update.

I think the recent mistakes flashcard would be better with a bigger font size for the kanji like so:

[Angelodmage]

So many posts, I’ll add my two cents too.

Widgets have no settings whatsoever, I expected each widget to have some settings. Like choose default clock style (AM/PM vs 24h). I am sure each widget could benefit from this.

New design relies too much on clicking. I don’t want to click on 20 buttons to see all the informations. Let us see all the info at once.

New design also leaves way too much space around items, wasting space. I get that this is “modern design”. but it doesn’t work when displaying lots of small items. This also applies to the kanji display, each kanji is now smaller with HUGE border around it. Why? Just leave them in same size box so they are organized nicely in a grid and reduce the space. Nobody needs to see empty space.

We need a layout that allows one widget to be tall and have multiple widgets in a column next to it.

Can we please get the clock to look like this? It was one of my most used parts of the page. I would also appreciate if the rows were closer together - again, too much wasted space.