Hello again! 
We hope you’re staying hydrated and drinking your Pocari Sweat during this sweltering summer (or staying warm drinking your corn soup for our friends below the equator).
We’ve officially released Community Decks out of the Beta!
Here’s a recap of the initial summary for our new users and those who weren’t there for the initial Beta post:
The Recap
Community Decks allow you to:
- Create your own Decks
- Clone existing ones to edit as you please
- Share your Decks (privately and publicly)
- Access other users’ publicly shared Decks
Broad Deck Changes
We made some sweeping changes to the Explore Decks and individual Deck pages.
The browse decks page now has four tabs.
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My Decks:
- Your Learn Queue Decks, Custom Decks, and Bookmarked Decks
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Bunpro:
- This page contains the Bunpro Grammar, Vocab and Misc decks (Kansai-ben and Onomatopoeia)
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Textbooks:
- All of the various textbook paths such as Genki, Tae Kim and so on.
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Community:
- All public decks grouped by Deck Type (Grammar, Vocab, Anime, Novel and so on)
Each deck tile on the browse page has a “User Count” attached so you can see which Decks are popular. We also added a Bunpro icon to tell which are “Official Bunpro Decks” at a quick glance.
One downgrade was the removal of the Review button on each Deck tile. This was ultimately done because the query to calculate the number due takes a little bit of time. While not an issue when there are only a few Decks, pages with more took several seconds to load.
- Given the unexpected sadness about this change, we have brought the little guy out of retirement on just the My Decks page. That means all the decks shown here (learning, custom or bookmarked) will have the button available.
On the Individual Deck pages themselves, we adjusted the information in the header to include the Deck Type and user count.
We also streamlined the available buttons, including a Review button along with the Learn button and made it more clear if the deck was in your Learn queue or not.
The button group in the bottom contains the following buttons:
Bookmark - Edit (if it is your deck) - Clone - Deck Settings
Custom Decks
Creating
Under the My Decks page, you can click on the “Create a New Deck” button to open a form that lets you specify the title, description, type and also upload a cover image.
Once you create a Deck, it will take you to the Edit page.
Building & Editing
The first step when creating a new Deck is to add a Unit. You can add a title and label to make it more clear what the theme of the unit is. For a textbook Deck for example you might call it ‘Lesson 1’. For an anime deck, it might be Episode 1. Each Deck can have any number of Units.
After you have at least one Unit, you can add cards to your Deck. These cards reference Grammar/Vocab within Bunpro and live under a specific Unit. You can add any number of cards to a Unit.
Within the Add Card search, you can also specify which Unit it should be added to.
Lastly, you can drag and drop both Units and cards to sort the default order they appear in, within the Deck.
To edit the title, description, type or cover image, use the small pencil icon next to the Deck title
Cloning
One additional way to build a Deck is to clone an existing one. A cloned Deck will be copy of an existing one but it will belong to you. You can edit it, adding, removing or rearranging it to get it just the way you want.
Sharing Decks
Once you have built your deck, you can optionally choose to share it. This will give you a link you can send directly to another user that will let them see the deck and even study from it.
If you want to share your Deck more broadly, you can send your Deck for admin review. Once approved, it will appear under the Community tab for any user to access and study.
TLDR:
- There is a new Community tab in Decks that allows you to see a whole bunch of community-created Decks!
- You can see your studied Decks, and create your own custom Decks in the new My Decks tab.
Not much has changed apart from fixing and polishing a few things, that is, aside from the…
Vocab Import Tool (NEW) 
Since the Beta was announced, the main addition to Community Decks is the new “Import Deck Vocab” tool.
As the name implies, it allows you to import Vocab into your Deck in one fell swoop, as opposed to adding them one-by-one through the Edit screen.
You can access it via the Edit screen:
Clicking on “Import new Units” will take you to the input pop-out.
Add some content in the empty box here!
A bit of formatting is required:
- Each line represents a word
- Each line starting with a
#represents the title of a new Unit - Each line starting with a
##represents the title of a new Unit
For more info on formatting rules, open the “How does this tool work?” dropdown at the top of this form.
Notice that you can select between importing from either Japanese Text or JMDict Word IDs.
What's a JMDict Word ID?
It’s something you probably don’t have to worry about.
Our tool allows you to input IDs from the JMDict Dictionary Project, which is used by most free online dictionaries out there.
Using these basically makes importing more accurate if you have a list of them from another source that you want to import.
Here are two example screenshots of what a screenshot might look like:
Japanese Text:
JMDict Word ID:
After you’ve added your text, hit “Import List” and Bunpro will start searching for your Vocab.
Once the search is done, you’ll end up with a state like the above.
Here you can manually review the Vocabs that Bunpro has found and used to create your import.
Bunpro will warn you if it couldn’t find a word in your list, or if it found multiple of the same. It then allows you to remove, replace, or accept the ones that aren’t quite right.
When you’re ready, you can hit the big Save button and voila!
Import complete!
We’re hoping that this Import tool will help you create Decks fast.
Importing from other sources 
Some of you might be coming from other study sources like Anki, and may be wanting to study your Vocab with our Fill-in-the-Blank sentences.
Read our Support article about importing from Anki here.
That about covers it!
Building and sharing a Deck is a great way to help other users also learning from the same media – if you make an awesome Deck that someone might benefit from, don’t be too shy to share it!
We’ll never be done improving Bunpro, so as always, we welcome and encourage any and all discussion / feedback.
We are looking forward to seeing what our users that are fresh to Community Decks can come up with!
The Bunpro Team
❤️🔥 Acknowledgements 🫶
Sorry if I missed anyone (highly likely):
- @Flutter created a Vocab extraction tool that allows (with a bit of developer knowledge) for Vocab extraction from PDF, subtitle, E-Pubs and even image files! I believe there are a few Decks out there already made with this tool.
- @bunnypro and @sythe for already creating a bunch of great Decks
- @padscaesura0o For creating the great Wanikani companion Deck, Warakani
- @HannahEU @IcyIceBear @chicharron @eefara @Magyarapointe @haldo @FlippFuzz and probably many others for all the bug reports and help during the polishing phase!
- Literally anyone that created/published a Deck during the Beta!
Now just eagerly awaiting the release of My Cute Lil Deck 
