Hello 
We just launched an update to WaniKani! You might notice some of the changes right away, and others not at all, but hopefully they add up to a nicer user experience overall. This update also sets us up to make more improvements more quickly in future, which is actually the main motivation behind this update. So, expect to see more exciting changes soon. But for now, let me tell you a bit about whatās changed with this update.
General UI updates
Weāve made changes to the text size, styling, colors and contrast, to hopefully make it easier to read, both on desktop on mobile. Weāve also made the interface and styling more consistent across WaniKani. This will allow us to continue to improve the design, and keep it consistent everywhere.
For example, the way we highlight radicals, kanji, vocabulary and readings is now consistent in lessons, reviews and individual item pages.
The item info section in a quiz was also updated to use expandable sections like the lesson quizzes, and the hiragana chart is now consistent between lessons and reviews.
We also fixed a few things, such as the audio icon overlapping when playing, and pop-up messages obscuring the Item Info button.
Changes on mobile
There are a couple of important UI changes just for mobile devices, too. The most exciting (for us at least) is that the keyboard no longer disappears after you submit an answer, so you can just hit enter again to go to the next item.
We also changed the slide navigation to a dropdown menu, to avoid it wrapping in certain situations.
User Synonyms in lessons
You can now add user synonyms directly from lessons, and they will be marked as correct right away in the following lesson quiz.
Session time-outs
There are no longer session time-outs, so even if you leave your review session open for a few hours youāll be able to pick up where you left off.
Hotkeys
In both lessons and reviews, you can now press ? to toggle (display and hide) the Hotkey (keyboard shortcut) menu.
You can press E to expand and collapse hidden sections in Item Info. The spacebar now allows you to scroll down the page. This is the way spacebar behaves on browsers generally, so should make things more intuitive for new users. So the functionality is still there, but weāve updated the keys to fit with what is expected across the web.
You can also use the tab key to click through the elements on the page, which is what the tab key is supposed to do according to browser conventions.
In lessons, you can no longer press Enter to go to the next slide, but you can still navigate between slides with the arrow keys (and WASD keys). You can also hit G to go to the next lesson. So in other words, there are three alternatives to the Enter key: g, d, and ā.
To give more context about why we changed the Enter hotkey, itās because previously we were overriding the standard user of Enter, which is to āactivateā (i.e. āclick onā) whatever is highlighted. Overriding this standard use is not recommended (and in some cases, even illegal) because users with impaired vision or motor disabilities will have a harder time using the app.
All other hotkeys are the same as before.
For comparison, below are the old followed by the new hotkey menus in lessons:
And these are the old and new hotkey menus in reviews:
Navigating using your browser
Reloading a page during a lesson will return you to the same slide. The browser back button can be used to go back through slides, or from the lesson quiz back to the lesson slides.
Skipping lessons
The Skip button that showed up in lessons next to the home button has been removed. If you want to skip an individual lesson, you can still do this using the G shortcut key. You can now also navigate directly to the quiz from lessons if you want to, by clicking Quiz at the bottom of the screen or using the Q shortcut key.
Summary pages
Weāve removed the summary pages that used to be displayed before and after lessons, so youāll now go straight to and from lessons and reviews from the dashboard and elsewhere. Some of the functionality of the summary pages is now covered by the Extra Study feature and dashboard counts, but weāll keep a close eye on this, and work on better ways to fill in gaps in functionality.
āLessons completedā count
Weāve also taken out the āLesson Completedā count, which used to show up at the top right corner next to the counts of remaining Radicals, Kanji, and Vocabulary to learn. This is a consequence of other changes rather than a final decision, though. And again, weāll be collecting feedback from anyone who misses it to inform our future updates.
User scripts
A lot has changed behind the scenes, which will hopefully make some things easier for script authors in the future. We released a preview update for script authors a couple of weeks back, to give authors time to update their scripts if they can. We also chose to launch this update all in one go rather than incrementally based on feedback from script authors that one large change is much easier to manage than many small changes. Still, script users are likely to notice temporary glitches related to this update. Please contact the author of the script directly with any questions about scripts. 
I hope you like these changes! If you have feedback or questions, let us know below or send us an email at hello@wanikani.com. Happy studying! 
I guess Iāll get used to it 
