Wanikani's lack of improvement

[StayBlue]

Other people put the point I’m going to make better than I can, so here you go:

@simias

Having many of users of your website interface through third party tools you have no control over is pure liability. I develop products with web interfaces, if I learned that a significant portion of my users found it incomplete and started hacking around it with userscripts, I’d be sweating bullets. It’s unmaintainable and unsustainable.

They should have taken the hint and migrated the important functionality into their codebase. Instead they semi-officially embraced the userscript culture and used it as an excuse not to implement these features and mock users who would even dare ask for them. It’s just bad software engineering and bad product management.

@seanblue

The public API is completely different from scripts that rely on internal code or HTML structure. If a third party app is solely relying on the public API in accordance with the API documentation and guidelines, then it should never break. If it breaks it’s likely because WaniKani broke the API contract, whether intentionally or due to a bug, and that would be WaniKani’s fault, not the fault of the app developer.