Please consider adding 「ことだし」,「ないもの（だろう）か」,「（よ）うものなら」 as future grammar points for N2. : )
Also I think「とはいいながら」 could be added to the「といっても」grammar point page.
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One feature I’m missing during reviews is a “hard” button as in Anki. When I get a Bunpro review which was really hard to remember and where I was not really sure, it’s highly likely that I’ll screw it up after the next SRS interval.
With a “hard” button the SRS level and the interval would not increase so that I’ll see that grammar point sooner (compared with a normal correct answer)
Example with an SRS 9 review:
Correct answer: SRS increases +1, interval increases to level 10 interval
Correct answer, but pressing “hard”: SRS and interval stay at level 9
Wrong answer: SRS drops -1, interval decreases to level 8 interval
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I like this idea, but to add to it: hotkey for hard. Just to save my hands from leaving the keyboard during reviews xD
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The “hard” button would also be especially usefull on SRS 11 reviews. Instead of finishing this grammar point automatically when it reaches SRS 12, users could decide by themselves if they want to see it another time by clicking “hard”. The review would remain SRS 11 then and it is up to the user wether to finish it the next time or not.
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Something that would be really nice but probably a lot of work to do would be if in addition to a show grammar info button, there was a “show other grammar used” button, specifically for the other grammar used in the part of the sentence you fill in.
I’ve been struggling with this sentence in my reviews because the question is about てくれる (n4 lesson 2) but the answer used てくる (n4 lesson 4) and I haven’t quite gotten to it yet.
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I was just thinking I wish there was a way to focus only on casual speech, or only on academic speech, or keigo, etc. Maybe there could be categories, where each Grammar Point is either [Exclusive・Frequent・Present・Rare・Absent] in each category (excluding the first):
- Masculine/Feminine
- Casual
- Polite
- Keigo
- Academia
- Narrative
- Poetry
(“Narrative” refers to 3rd-person storytelling; “Poetry” includes song lyrics.
Would “Academia” and “News” be identical?)
Sure, there will oftentimes be plenty of overlap.
There may be important categories worth adding, too.
Let’s take かしら as an example though:
- Masculine/Feminine: ♀
- Casual: Present
- Polite: Present
- Keigo: ???
- Academia: Absent
- Narrative: Absent
- Poetry: Present
(My understanding of かしら may be wrong, of course 
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This undertaking would almost certainly require the help of at least one native speaker. At any rate, such classification would A) help users decide which lessons to prioritize, and B) allow for cramming sessions to be tailored to specific speech registers:
Need to write an essay in Japanese?
Drill all the academic grammar before you get started.
Need to type a Japanese e-mail for work?
You might want to drill all the Keigo you can.
Want to talk to some Japanese friends?
Warm up with some casual speech drills.
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I think it would be funny if male learners started accidentally using わ and かしら all over the place.
Nice idea though. I think it could be useful.
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I LOVE the “Related” grammar section when viewing grammar pages, and the alternate acceptable answers when quizzing, but it would be super cool if in the future, more specific nuances were explained between things. Maybe it’s so insignificant, but one might be /slightly/ more informal, or normally only said in x situations, etc.
Maybe when toggling through alt answers when quizzing, the orange hint text could cycle too, sort of briefly covering that?
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I love both of these ideas, could it possibly also track what was studied in previous sessions and allow for a “pick up where you left off?” option? That way we have a way to avoid getting rolls for the same grammar points each time, meanwhile some are left in the dust and never crammed.
I’d also like to request an additional cram feature. It’d be great if there were a multi-level cram option, where we could choose multiple N levels to cram for, or the troubled grammar from all levels. This would provide a more cumulative cram session so we don’t forget about old points.
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I don’t know if people have already recommended this, but…
A referral program would be pretty dope. Something like, have a friend register to Bunpro through your link, and if they buy a subscription, you and your friend get an extra month of service or something like that.
Two friends already joined Bunpro on my recommendation, so it’d be cool to get something out of it. 
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I would like to be able to see the SRS level of many items at once. Maybe add it to the overview page or to the icons for the individual grammar points?
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Not sure if this has been asked before but would love a feature where we can review by lesson only e.g. N5 Level 9 grammar point only. Id like this option so I can review the last learnt lessons first. Its kinda hard that the latest ones learnt are the last ones on the Review list and for me new things are easier to forget.
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I’d like to suggest an undo feature for Reviews if it hasn’t been suggested yet. I know we can retry our answers by hitting Backspace, but sometimes I click Enter twice (or click Enter after clicking A or Space) and immediately proceed to the next question when I actually want to read back on the previous question for longer.
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Sorry for posting in succession, but I’d also like to suggest a feature where we can view the alternate forms of the grammar (the one available using the ‘a’ key in Reviews) in the Examples part of the Grammar page itself.
Sometimes I’d like to go through what kind of answers could have filled a particular sentence by going to the grammar page instead of waiting for the sentence to appear in reviews.
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Problem: Lack of grammar meaning explanation
As a near-daily user of this site for the past year, I’ve seen my grammatical ability improve drastically. However, I’ve noticed that bunpro misses out on a huge opportunity to make the learning process easier and less confusing.
While the nuance, usage, and examples provided for each grammar point have gone a long ways in making it improving the learning process, I still find bunpro lacking in providing the context of how that grammar point works the way it does and how its components contribute to its overall meaning.
Sure, explaining how, for example, each version of ‘can’t be helped/can’t help but do’ is different helps, but I think it’s far more effective to provide a semantic breakdown of that grammar’s components - especially for the longer, more complex items.
Possible Solution: Semantic breakdown of grammar points
For grammar larger than say, ように/みたい…, breaking down the meaning of a grammar point would greatly help understand the subtle differences between grammar, as well as the role of components play in that particular grammars meaning. This is especially evident as one moves up into the N3 and N2 grammar points, where numerous permutations of こと, には, にも, ならない, ことはない, etc are put together in a single long grammar term.
Possible example:
Aに越したことはない [#525: nothing better than ~]
Meaning Breakdown: Aに越した[have gone beyond A] + ことはない[doesn’t happen]
By breaking down the meaning and roles of the pieces of such grammar points, its easier to start to grasp not only the grammar point itself, but all the grammar components that make it up. Thus, through this approach, it no longer feels like a new grammar – similar to how wanikani teaches the meaning of a word by showing how the meaning of the kanji and other words combine to it makes its overall meaning.
Ultimately, by adding a feature similar to the one described here (even just for some of the items), bunpro will play a key role in facilitating a more intuitive understanding of not just specific grammar points, but also the recurring themes and components that make Japanese structure what it is.
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Great idea!
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Is it possible to slightly stagger some of the longer SRS intervals? I’m a big fan of the Self-Study feature, and I’ll usually add 5 or 10 extra sentences culled from the suggested readings. While Bunpro doles out its own sentences bit by bit, it just assumes I want to review all sentences I’ve added immediately. (This might be a good request, too - just because I add sentences to Bunpro doesn’t mean I want them all thrown back at me at once!)
So, I review the sentences, and get them all correct (because I JUST added them). So that group of 5 or 10 gets bumped out to the next interval, and then the next interval, and even if I get one wrong in a future interval, I know there are, like, 9 more in that immediate bunch. So the majority of them keep moving forward in a big blob of reviews. And so a week later, I’ll get 9 “ほしい” or “まで” or “なくてもいい” sentences at once, all in row, waiting in one batch for me to do. It would be better if, at the larger intervals, they could be spaced ever so slightly. I feel like Anki used to do this; if you got something right, you wouldn’t necessarily see it 4 days later - you might see it 3 to 5 days later. And instead of 30 days later, somewhere between 27 to 34 days later.
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@monkeytunes This is a great idea! We would love to tinker with how the SRS works so that you can get the most out of your studies. We would also like to add more customization options so that you can fine-tune your own SRS intervals to meet your needs. Stay tuned. Cheers!
@Ambo100 We already have this Wasabi post linked in the のだろうか readings section. Were you thinking of another grammar point, perhaps? Cheers!
Oops, my mistake. I’m not sure how I missed that 
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