Now who will update the Wanikani Breeze for the new update? I need a dark theme.
The person maintaining Breeze Dark has already said theyâll update it as soon as they can (maybe even today). Watch for changes in the Breeze Dark thread.
I am trying to figure out what exactly is bothersome about the new UI layout for Lessons and Reviews (outside of âthis is different, rrr!â), so I can provide helpful feedback. For one, my eyes (and hands!) are having to work a LOT more than they used to, and not just because Iâm trying to find the new location of information. Everything is so⊠spaced out. Look how large the section header is on the item info!
I get the sense this might have been a visual hierarchy decision? But I feel the hierarchy can be established without the headers eating so much screen real estate.
By contrast, hereâs a screencap I yanked off the forums of the old format:
Everything nice and tight, my eye barely has to move at all from where it was to the information I need. Hierarchy is clear.
Additionally, itâs very weird to me that I have access to sections (Reading, Meaning, Context, etc.) which arenât related to the current question⊠If I get the reading wrong, now I can also look up the meaning, even if I havenât gotten that question yet? Itâs been a long olâ time since Iâve done web dev, but arenât there âhideâ properties for styling of elements? Perhaps something like that could be used to show only relevant information and save space. Or, if possible for the page to do so, detect which question type it is and simply donât pull in the non-relevant sections. It doesnât appear the page is reloading between questions, so perhaps not. [EDIT: wait, what am I talking about⊠Showing only relevant info is how it worked before, of course itâs possible!]
Having to scroll a whole half a screen or more to get back to the kanji/vocab, input space and next buttons if I input something wrong is⊠not a great experience. Except in cases where the user specifically requests an auto-scroll/jump (such as by clicking an item in a table of contents), auto-scroll is a huge annoyance.
Looking at the Review screen: consider where the userâs eyes are when the scroll happens. Theyâll be on the answer space, right? Thatâs a good distance down the page height. So when a user gets a meaning wrong and you open both Meaning and Context and scroll so Meaning is at the top of the page (where their eyes arenât), their eyes are going to be on the Context portion, not Meaning, when theyâre probably looking for Meaning first. It actually would have been better if you hadnât scrolled, because Meaning wouldâve been close to where the eyeballs are pointed already!
Also, rather presumptuous to assume the user WANTS to be scrolled to that information. Perhaps Iâm remembering incorrectly, but didnât I have to choose to expand item info in the past? Couldâve been a userscript feature or I just didnât notice because it wasnât so disruptive. Most of the time I get something wrong itâs either: typo, I know the correct meaning but my English fails me in that moment, or momentary brain fart and I immediately realize my mistake. I do NOT want to be yanked away from the flow!
If I completely blow it on an item, Iâll be more interested in revisiting it outside the context of the Review, when I can take more time to look over the itemâs page and absorb the information. Like, yâknow, when I get to the Review Summary page and I can click on the item to⊠Oh. Right. WELP.
I donât think Iâve seen this mentioned elsewhere, so maybe Iâm in the minority here, but⊠I really, REALLY donât like that Levels, Radicals, Kanji, Vocabulary are now an additional click to get to on the dashboard. Why are you making me do more work for something which was previously surfaced and wasnât causing a space issue in the first place? UI misstep, for sure. Well⊠unless youâre on mobile, I guess. This is why sites have different style structures for mobile vs desktop.
Echoing others in that I also miss the âare you ready to quiz?â prompt. I do like to double-check beforehand to make sure Iâve absorbed all the items in a set before moving forward, sometimes I jump back and forth, and sometimes I donât realize Iâve hit the end of the set.
As a final note: I feel two weeks is not sufficient heads up for userscript writers (or for a beta only mentioned on community forums, for that matter). They have lives; this is a hobby, not something they get paid to do. Some of them may not have even seen the information in that two weeks (in fact, I know that to be the case because a scripter said as such earlier in the thread.) Bless these userscript creators who mobilized under such short notice, gave up their weekends, etc., but that ideally wouldnât have been necessary. And I echo a lot of the opinions here that user scripts are, unfortunately, a LOT of what makes WaniKani worthwhile. Using WK today has been a PITA.
Putting WaniKani on vacation mode and waiting to see how things evolve in the coming days, I think. As much as I like(d) the WK system and all the work it did for me, Kanji Study has SRS now, and Iâve already imported all the WK kanji into it⊠And Kanji Study has a built-in dictionary that shows the most common words for any given kanji at the top of the dictionary section, which honestly might be better than WKâs mash of vocab. Not that it matters to WK, they already have my money, but this update is forcing me to consider if Iâm using my study time as efficiently as I could be. And also what Iâll recommend to people in the future.
Reminding myself to be patient here, but also having some real second-guessing-myself feelings about getting Lifetime at the end of last year. Iâm just two months away from my first trip to Japan and was trying to cram; this timing kinda sucks for me. Ah well.
Like many already said, the summary page after reviews was really important.
Conclusion after hanging out in this thread on and off today:
I think what Iâd like to see from WK is an official surveyâsent via email, not in a forum post where plenty of users wonât see itâregarding what we want from updates. Iâm picturing a âhow much would you like to see/how important to you is X featureâ with like a 1-5 ranking system.
Something like that feels like a good way for the folks running this show to get a solid idea of what features need to make it into vanilla, particularly things weâve been using scripts to do for years. Our redo/ignore buttons, dark mode, autocommit, reorders, etc.
That, followed by actual open beta for changes, where users can provide feedback before everything is decided, not just âwe made the new version available for 2 weeks so people could work on their scriptsâ, that is not the same.
At this point I donât think itâs unreasonable to ask for some kind of update from the Tofugu team considering the majority of people replying are royally pissed off. What are you guys going to do, if anything? It is hard to tolerate such inaction with no communication, itâs been nearly 12 houurs.
Honestly hugely bummed by the removal of the summary page, which was a huge motivation for me to keep studying, as well as a quick overview of terms that I need to practice more. I really hope the summary page gets brought back, or at least have it on a separate page along with past summaries (an idea I really like).
Iâm very happy about the better mobile functionality, but please bring back my summary pages!!!
People have different thresholds for frustration. Personally I would have stopped using wanikani and used a different method/app had I not been able to implement undo and lesson reordering with third party tools so in that sense I consider the stock website unusable.
As a matter of fact, itâs just been updated! Reviews now work again and the colours are mostly back to dark mode - a few things left to fix but the most important part is fixes 
And theyâre apparently working on the lessons pages now
Maintaining two separate versions of a website is a burden, I certainly understand why theyâd want to unify everything as much as possible. Iâm sure a compromise will be found.
A perfectly valid opinion, however I donât think we should be complaining about this update based on a few scripts which will probably be updated within less than a week. Should they implement some of those things natively? Very probably, but thatâs a separate topic to this update. There are definitely a few other issues with this update though (for example losing the summary page, perma-breaking some types of scripts such as voice randomization, etc), Iâm not disagreeing on that! At the end of the day though it does also have some improvements, both in the UI and backend (such as making it easier for style scripts).
I really would like to see the review summary come back, even if as only an option. I really like being able to quickly look at all kanji/radicals/vocab mistakes Ive made in the last session all in one place to just quick review before starting the next review session. I donât think the extra study recent mistakes section can achieve that as efficiently as the review summary did.
The blue border around the text box is surprisingly distracting
So we all want the review summary page back asap.
What was the logic behind the decision to remove this? 
Yeah I think some of the backlash is a bit extreme, but also I understand that when you have a well established routine itâs frustrating to wake up and realize that suddenly you functionally canât do you reviews the way youâre used to.
It could also all have been avoided had they implemented a temporary switch to opt out of the redesign while the issues are being ironed outâŠ
Totally agree with you.
Iâve always keeped track of the mistake from my sessions and I used to do it from the âreview summaryâ.
Careful sampling opinions using these threads, people who are fine with the changes are not hanging here. I personally never cared for the summary page, although it certainly wasnât a negative either. I would just click through without paying much attention.
Thank you for this write up, I was struggling to put into words why I didnât like the new info menu during reviews
Usually I just want to quickly check synonyms, not load a full, way too long thing complete with radicals and context sentences (I feel those are nice but should be an extra click away since itâs so long)
As much as I like(d) the WK system and all the work it did for me, Kanji Study has SRS now, and Iâve already imported all the WK kanji into itâŠ
Can you link me to Kanji Study? Canât find the tool youâre talking about
Kanji Study is an android app (I found it very well done for writing practice), you can check this thread for interesting inputs about it.