I’ve spent the last three weeks or so digging through Wanikani’s CSS and making much-desired improvements to the new UI. These will hopefully make many people very happy .
Features
The padding on subject items is reduced to make them smaller and easier to read. The gap between items in the level progress widget has also been reduced, letting you see more before you have to scroll.
Vocabulary and search results now display as a list (hooray!). The radicals and kanji in subject lists have been increased in size and are now readable, with the white background removed.
Make sure you have a custom CSS extension, such as Stylus for Chrome/Firefox. For mobile devices there’s Makeover for iOS (only works with small amounts of code) and Stylus for Firefox Android (not yet tested).
To install on Desktop, find the style here and click install, then install again.
Final Thoughts
My fingers are still crossed that Wanikani will make official changes similar to these, eliminating the need for an extension, but for now hopefully this makes Wanikani nicer to use and eliminates (or at least reduces) the most egregious user experience downgrades from the update.
These changes all look really nice. Hopefully WaniKani can officially make some of these changes. I don’t think they’d be too hard to implement or mess anything up.
WK must be so lazy that they have to rely on WK users to develop solutions for a horrible change to the UI and bail them out - translation: “We’re keeping the new UI now that WK users have a fix for our poor decision choices of the new UI because of the New Dashboard which we would rather focus on (despite the loud criticisms of the new UI). Those subscription dollars will keep rolling in from the short termers.”
Like you @wintergreentea , I am hopeful that the large kanji tiles will return and the vocabulary and search results will be displayed in list format again without the use of browser extension but I’m not holding my breath.
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