What happened to Tofugu.com?

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What happened to https://www.tofugu.com/ that hasn’t been update in quite a while?
I loved the column “New Japanese Learning Resource”, that used to be released at the beginning of every season.
But the last one that got released was the Winter 2022. Spring 2023 never come.
That’s unfortunately.
Will it ever come back?

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There was another thread about this in May, looks like they’re working on it:

I assume the team’s focused on WaniKani right now and that’s why there’s been a lack of articles lately. I’m hoping for the return of that column too!

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@Mods I to miss the learning resource post among others. There have been times were it has skipped seasons in the past. It has been 7 months without a new post on that topic. Have you quit caring about keeping it going?

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Thank you very much.
I did not know about that post from May.
Hope they come back with the learning resources very soon.

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Hey @Mandopicker! @meagstudies is correct! The whole team is putting a little extra love and care into the WaniKani side of things right now, so we have been spending less energy and resources on Tofugu. This has happened in the past, but as @TofuguKyle mentioned, Tofugu isn’t going anywhere. Although I can’t really go into details, the work is still being done. :muscle:

Thanks for the ping and questions! Happy studying! :nerd_face:

-Nick at WK

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I’m assuming this applies to the podcast as well?

I guess I’ll just be a patient little duck and wait. ^^

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Hey! Yes, you may have to be a patient little duck since Kanae is focusing her attention on some other projects at this time! :duck:

-Nick at WK

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I guess it’s really dead now? :pleading_face:

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I think the team is probably just focused on something else, whether that’s WaniKani or some complementary resource for learning grammar or vocabulary. I doubt we’ll see any updates about it because users would give an overwhelming amount of feedback (just look at the posts about relatively minor WaniKani updates) and I don’t think they want to have to backpedal or apologize like they have with EtoEto and TextFugu in the past.

I also think Tofugu content has been winding down for a few years now and this is not a new phenomenon. For example, the last interview was in 2018 and the last post about travel was (understandably) in 2020. We can really only speculate about what the team is up to, though.

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Bumping a dead thread, dead like WaniKani.

Randomly remembered “hey didn’t WaniKani have a podcast?”. Last episode April 2023. :skull:
What about Tofugu itself? Last article August 2023 :skull_and_crossbones:
Youtube, seven years ago. Althought that, I knew was long dead.
Twitter? No clue. They apparently won’t let you look at anything without logging in now.

Guess everything is going the way of EtoEto. :coffin:

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You got me curious, so I went and had a look at Twitter. They’re still replying to questions via the Tofugu and WK accounts, as recent as a couple of days ago, but no fresh posts in a good year or so.

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Hey guys, any update in this topic? :smile: It’s been quite some time!

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I made a chart of the number of articles and podcasts published each month, using data from Tofugu’s “archive” pages and the Apple Podcasts feed:

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The blog has gone on hiatus before, but this is the first time an entire calendar year has passed with no posts at all.

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Did EtoEto officially die? I remember pre-ordering it (or maybe it was included with another purchase) so long ago…

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Hi, unfortunately the team decided to stop EtoEto a while ago. A lot of things have changed significantly since we released WaniKani and Textfugu, and we’ve changed course when it came to teaching grammar. We still write about grammar over on Tofugu though.

— Tofugu’s Twitter account, May 2023

(it seems they do not, in fact, still write about grammar over on Tofugu anymore)

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I miss the Japanese resource posts on Tofugu. Since the site currently seems abandoned, is there another site out there with regular lists of resources?

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Can we just ask the @Mods once again? Even if the answer is that there is no plan to do so again!, I would love to know. If anyone have alternative lists of resources like they used to do too…

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The answer is the same: we have no plans to update in the near future. The site is not going anywhere though, so there’s a lot to go through!

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Maybe this explains it. Can’t find anyone to blog :slight_smile:

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Tofugu really helped me with particles so this is unfortunate

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