Often when I visit the WK homepage I get this popup… At first it was 1GB, then 1.4, 1.6, now 1.8. What does WaniKani need all this storage for? Or is it just Safari being weird? [Screenshot 2020-02-18 at 21.43.39]

I think the normal limit on most browsers for per-site storage is something like 50MB for IndexedDB, 5 or 10MB for localStorage. I can’t fathom how a site can ask for a gigabyte or more.

I have a Mac as well and I’ve never seen this. Like what do you even download on WaniKani? Did I miss something? Maybe you are in year 2021 where WK is doing video tutorials as well.

Okay, seems like it’s a bug in Safari and Calypso. Supposedly addressed in Calypso about 15 days ago. Not sure about Safari.

Especially because the majority of WK is text.

1 durt is about 42+ MB so you do need a lot of RAM

I’ve deleted all local data (shame Safari doesn’t let you see what it is, or how much) and temporarily deactivated all but the most essential extensions. Will try to diagnose what’s causing this. My theory was that maybe it’s caching the audio files for each item locally, but on second thought the …

[image] plantron: 1 durt is about 42+ MB so you do need a lot of RAM A lot of RAMs…

Possibly downloading all the speech recordings?

You can do that on tsurukame and it uses very little space.

The rule of thumb with IndexedDB is that it can take up to 6% of your free disk space before it is refused. There isn’t a specific limit for it.

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plantron June 25, 2020, 10:37pm 21

It’s just Safari being a crappy browser

Wanikani would like to use 1.2GB of storage on your Mac

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