Big Update: Profile, Cosmetics Shop & Referral Program - June 13th

Great Update! I love the referral programm, as I often tell my viewers on stream how great bunpro is.
The Shop is great too. Considering how much B-points some of us might have I’d appreciate a buy all option per category. (I was able to buy all the themes and still have 44k+ B-points left)

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I refuse to accept there isn’t a Nagoya profile theme! We’re the 3rd biggest city in Japan (if you consider Tokyo/Yokohama the same thing).

The Historical Museum of Waterworks & Sewerage deserves to be commemorated!

Seriously, my parents in law live like a half mile away, and It makes me laugh every time I walk past.

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Japan does take water incredibly seriously, with periodicals about water usage, sewerage, etc.
Don’t even get me started on the manhole covers :joy:
I guess a lot of it is to do with the water needed for rice paddies.

On a different point, I really like the new badges, though they don’t always seem to load for me:

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Took me a few hours to decide what I wanted. At first I wanted the Kyoto background, but my husband decided to use it, and I want to be different lol. Very cool feature.

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Thank you for this update ! It’s very cool ! The next additions I’d like to see are Japanese train decorations and stickers for 乗り鉄 ! I will save my coins for this :train:

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That is exactly why I said it should give you less, not exactly sure how much, but enough that doing them properly is still a lot more rewarding.

Is Bunpro supposed to take the unlocked things back?

No, just make it so that once you mark something as mastered, it can no longer give you the B-Points for doing it properly. Obviously, make it sufficiently clear to people that this would be happening in order to prevent mishaps.

About your last argument: in that case, I’d have to do reviews for over 150 grammar points. Furthermore, if I started doing vocab on Bunpro as well, I’d have to review thousands of words I already know (my vocab is stronger than my grammar), all just for B-Points.

Purely in terms of difficulty, yes, it wouldn’t really be hard. In terms of efficiency? I’m not so sure about that.

I’m aware that this is a pretty tough issue to tackle, and I also understand that this might be a little inconsiderate of me. This is why I’ll respect any decision made on this by the Bunpro team :bowing_woman:

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Though easy for me to talk since they already have Osaka :smiley:

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We don’t, but I agree as I lived around 名駅前 my first year in Japan and want some Nagoya love.

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I’ve got no one to share this with, so maybe sharing my profile here will make me feel a little less alone.

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Super cool to see how everyone has chosen to customize their profile.
They all look soooo good! :tada:

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Don’t be sad - you’re not alone! :slight_smile:

Here’s mine:

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So many great updates to the site lately, but this is very cool. Page looks awesome now, and definitely have plans to change between different images, pins etc. and color combinations. (I got a ton of points so I’m lucky I can buy a bunch of cosmetics from the start).

Here my page (for now anyway). I’m conflicted between having the usual data on the front page or remove it just to admire the image!:

Osaka lover?

There’s a strong Osaka loving gang here but no, just a castle and Japanese history lover (ref’ my data dumps in the old ‘Race through the past of Japan’ thread haha), so this was my first choice (and fits with the こうよう color theme)

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I love this update so much! Such a nice little reward for studying.
I agree with @burgerkingler, please add an “I love Hokkaido” title :pray:

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Haha well the two are not mutually exclusive xD

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Recently returned to BunPro after a long, long, long break, and I’m excited to see it’s still being updated in such a huge way. Massive props to the team. It seems I got a lot of nice B points for previous reviews, so I’m sprinting to the shops as we speak! This is going to be a huge motivator to get more reviews done :slight_smile:
It would also be really cool if some of the flairs could be shown on the forums as well?

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It’s on our eventual to-do list to see if there’s a way to use the Titles from the Shop and have them appear on the forums as well! No promises or anything, but would be cool to have for sure as a potential opt-in thing. Flairs may be a bit trickier, but also something we’ll keep an eye out on~

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I believe on the Wanikani forums they had a big riddle event during Christmas at some point, which then had them manually(?) add title options to everyone who participated in certain milestones. If that could be an automated process, you’ll probably can have it as part of the system, but I think it would be more a thing of having all bought titles in a list, where the user still has to select the one they are currently using.

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You’d be surprised at what we’re cooking up next

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This is expletive awesome. I have never been as interested in maintaining a streak until now. My longest up to this point is like 30 days. Kinda sad to see that the South African flag was not added to the store. Also scroling through the store and seeing my recently bestowed meme title of 日本語が上手 just available there was a kick right in the gnomes. Pretty stoked nonetheless. I’m not too familiar with discourse, but would it be possible to add custom flairs that can be used on the forum to the store?

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Cool update, all the cosmetics look great! Would love to see some 剣道-related items in the future :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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