Feedback - Suggested Improvements/Feature Request

They do get read and often linked into our Slack channels for internal discussion.

I feel like in this thread in particular a heart from staff maybe feels a bit like a “good idea, we’ll make it happen”, even if logically that isn’t the case. :sob: I think that is probably where the hesitation on our part comes from.

That being said we should probably give out more hearts here (without them being promises) because you all constantly amaze us with some good ideas :bowing_man:

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For “fill in the blank with an English translation” question, it would be good if there was a button for us to quickly add our own alternative correct answer.

For example, one card accepts “famous piece of music” or “excellent song” but not “famous song”.

If I’m marked wrong, I’d like to say “actually mark this correct and accept this answer from now on”.

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I have spent a lot of time on many apps and programs, but I always come back to Bunpro. I love it!

That being said, is there a reason why the vocabulary decks include so many example sentences? If it is really just about the word, wouldn’t we better benefit from just a single sentence? I have loved how other apps have connected words with images, which I don’t think you should take the time to do, but I was thinking maybe you could give us more “ownership” with the word by letting us choose the example sentence we like the most. With the sense of selection, and the continuing occurrence of the sentence, I would imagine that the word (and a hopefully useful phrase) would better stick in our minds.

I might be the only one who does this, but I find that it is too easy to ignore the whole sentence and only insert the answer (I need to be better about that and slow down). So, I guess my feedback and/or request is, do you think there is a way to make the vocabulary, and specifically their example sentences, carry more weight and be more memorable?

The fact that vocab has a lot of examples sentences is very useful for gaining rich understanding of context. Some words also have dual meanings so testing both meanings is valuable. It would be nice if there was a more steady progression, such as only varying sentences after Adept, for example.

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Suggestion/feature request: Add a progress bar for “other” that includes all vocab cards that are non-JLPT to the overview screen. (And probably make it toggleable for people that only want to focus on JLPT.)

I’m one of those person that really like these charts as it gives me motivation to fill them up. However, I’m also adding a lot of rondom non-JLPT words to my review pile that I mine from lesson/movies/games/etc./etc… Would love to see how many I actually have added that are non-JLPT.

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Content request: there is a lack of Capybara in the shop! Such a chill and social animal needs representation!
We (I) absolutely need capybara pins, decorations and avatars to grow the capybara cult!
(Edit: maybe in an onsen with a Yuzu on its head, like in the famous pictures :thinking: )

[The tone was obviously a joke but the request is serious, whenever there is time and money for it of course :relieved: And thanks for the cool customization options you provided so far!]

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That better articulates what I was feeling. It was changing too fast, and I would like more time with each example sentence.

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I was wondering if some of the items that can be bought with B-Points can come in colours that correspond with the available accents.

Personalisation is really important to me, but the most important thing is that everything is purple, preferable matching shades of purple. I found it quite difficult to find a set-up that I liked, which was surprising as I really love the shade of purple in the accent and I was expecting to be able to change everything to that colour.

Just basic pins, frames, themes etc. with no real design is fine, I just care about the colour. Maybe it could be the Bunpro logo in different colours.

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I find that I desire to understand the “breakdown” of the kanji in words. Because of this, I am always switching over to another website to better understand the word. There are already so many great explanations of the definition in Bunpro, but would it be possible to have a section that is just the most basic word for each kanji?

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When viewing a deck, it would be nice to be able to filter by learned status.

At the basic level, just “unlearned” vs “learned” similar to the count as sometimes I like to review decks to mark off words that I’ve learned from other sources, so that when I pick up lessons it’s all new words.

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Hello !

Could we have a button that allows to go back to the card we just did during reviews ?
It happens way too often to me that I wish I would go back to check some info on the grammar point, or that I wrongly pushed the right or wrong button for a vocabulary word. But for now, once you can’t go back…

It would be such a small but lifesaving change !

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I am seconding this!!

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I think it would be nice to have a link to stats page directly on the dashboard page. Right now it’s hidden in profile page what makes it at least 3 clicks – terrible UX for something that useful. I’d rather have the “edit” / “layout” buttons hidden somewhere. Additionally, it would be handy to be able to show troubled items from ex. one week (possibly custom time selection?).

I recently started doing a cram session of troubled items once a week and these features would make my experience a lot nicer.

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Hello, just searched for this topic :sweat_smile:. Can’t find any build-in implementation, so just whipped this up. You can paste something like this into your browser’s console (once per session), or put it into a greasemonkey script (match to https://bunpro.jp/learn* and https://bunpro.jp/vocabs*).

document.addEventListener('keydown', e => {
  if (e.key.toLowerCase() === 'p') {
    document.querySelector('.flex.items-center.gap-4.text-primary-accent').click();
  }
});

It looks for the user pressing lower or uppercase ‘p’ (just takes the press and converts to lowercase) on that button. If the DOM updates, that query selector will go out of date and you’ll have to find the new unique class selector (right click and inspect on the play button), and there’s a more robust way to do it with doing a regex match of the pitch accent text above it and traversing down the tree a bit… but, this is quick 'n dirty and just works. Hope it helps! Hands get to stay on the keyboard!

Oh, and to unbind it, you can add a handler name and set another key to unbind it, but it’s easier to just refresh the page. That works for now, but if the SPA functionality increases, you can hard refresh with (control + shift + R) or simply close and reopen the window.

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Wow, thank you so much!!! I really appreciate it!! :smiley: You’re the MVP!!

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No problem! Happy studying!

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I would once again like to request a counter for non-JLPT items. I can see how many items I’ve studied overall, but I have to subtract JLPT items from that to find how many non-JLPT items I have learned. It would be nice to see how many non jlpt non grammar items I have learned as a separate number.

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It would be nice if you could customise the progress bars to be decks, or just generic items you’ve learned. The JLPT structure is nice, but JLPT is just one goal of language learning.

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I’d like to see a refresh of the 関西弁 deck particularly with the option to turn of the standard Japanese translation on the grammar points which would be useful for reading mode. Additionally example sentences with each vocab would be lovely.

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Apologies if this is the incorrect place, but I was doing some cram sessions, and my Anki-style muscle memory of spacebar to advance and pressing “1” for Again and “3” for Good kept messing me up. Also, I thought about the “p” to play audio that I did a few posts upward.

So, I put together a little script that can be copy pasted into console, or just used as a greasemonkey script. It keeps the original Bunpro hotkeys of “1” from the initial or secondary screen marking as Hard, but adds “3” to the “2” binding as well, so you can just press “3” for Good. Also, you can tap spacebar to reveal the answer to a card, then spacebar again to mark as Good. So if you know your cards well, you can just keep tapping spacebar to advance through everything while marking cards as Good. If you like keeping your (right) hand near your mouse, you can just keep tapping Enter to advance through everything while marking cards as Good. Other default hotkey bindings are left in place, such as “p” for playing the audio. Enjoy!

The link should work for a few days. I don’t have any accounts elsewhere, so figured I would just post it here. If it’s against the rules or something, moderators ofc feel free to nuke the post, no offense taken! :cherry_blossom:

BUNPRO flashcard cram fast and Anki-style script

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