Why can't I have integrated retyping answers?

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I know there was a thread about this already but couldn’t find it.

I HATE WaniKani whenever the plug-ins stop working. Why do I need to be treated like a child, like I don’t know best if I’m getting it right or not? I keep looking stuff up in Jisho to see if I really had the right idea even when WK accepted it, and vice versa. Does the majority of the userbase consist of school kids or why don’t you think they can be autonomous in their studies?

Thanks to all who keep maintaining the plug-ins, but I mean BunPro for example DOES have it natively.

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WaniKani is a very opinionated kanji course where the decision making has more to do with the personal takes of the developers involved than any hard data as to what works. Because of this, there’s some hard stances as to how much you can trust the user, and how things aught to be done. (The answer here is not at all. Their decisions stem from the belief the entire userbase will cheat the second they get a chance because clearly none of us can be trusted. I truly and utterly hate this, because I do not cheat.)

This can be good if you’re not used to learning enough to know what works for you. Just leave it to this website, they’ve made all their decisions for you, so you don’t have to worry about it and focus on the material. It’s why whenever this kind of talk comes up, you get a lot of people saying they just trust the system works blindly and do the material, often in a very defensive tone.

But it’s not great when you’re starting to get a feeling for what works for you and what doesn’t. It can make it feel like you’re bashing your head against a wall. Even with plugins when they do work.

This is just how WaniKani is. It’s very opinionated in design, and you don’t necessarily have to agree with those opinions. There’s more, and often better, options out there for most people. For me, using WaniKani past level 20 felt like a constant evaluation of values between myself and the program. So I ended up moving to Anki to get some more control and configured it to my liking after I hit level 30. I’ve been much happier since.

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