I would love it if reviews were added in hour intervals instead of half-hour intervals. Seeing that I have, for example, 15 reviews for the 4pm hour, but some portion of them are added at 4:30pm, doesn’t feel great. I end up having to delay my study time to begin at the half hour mark of the hour instead of the start of the hour to get everything done without having the reviews bug out on me at the half hour mark.
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The prompt is a little vague. (What’s used with adjectives? the correct answer? my answer?)
Maybe another prompt like “Can you think of something that goes with verbs and nouns?”
Thanks!
I am not sure if this has been suggested but:
Ways to increase website activity and incentivise logins:
1)A feature to pull 25-50 random reviews for those who have their current grammar under control. Maybe called “Daily cram” or something. Maybe with a +25-50% experience bonus.
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Timed cram = 30 seconds to see how many grammar points you can correctly identify and vanquish. (This cram in particular should not trigger ghost reviews and should have some form of experience bonus)
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Weekly scoreboards for website/forum activity.
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Links to forum discussions for each grammar point. (I have seen that this is here, but perhaps adding it into the “reading” section. Honestly, I have no idea how I missed it until now)
Reasoning:
Right now, I am seeing from 3-20 sentences a day and falling.
I could add more grammar, but I am focusing on vocabulary at present.
I could manually cram, but I would prefer to avoid the bias I would create by selecting them manually.
I could just not use the website daily, but I do want to get my 3 whole dollars worth. XD
These features would have a few key benefits:
1)Allows students to keep in contact with Japanese grammar more effectively when not adding new cards.
2)Encourages daily log in amongst those with all grammar “mastered”. This website does theoretically have a life span in the months rather than years to those who are already familiar with the lion’s share of the grammar points. Retaining those who are already proven to be willing to pay is likely easier than the eternal battle to draw in new blood. Improving “replayability” and “community elements” is a way to do this.
3)People like earning exp. At present “cram” is the only way to continue to raise your “level”. The “gamification” should be leant into, I suppose. As long as these features are optional, but with solid rewards, I see limited drawbacks.
A more active and long term user base makes financial sense and encourages consistent study habits.
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the review forecast on the dashboard is really great, also being able to toggle hours and days. personally i’d prefer a two week preview (or more) though, mainly to avoid big review piles. if i see a busy day coming up i’ll go easy on adding new items and i feel one week is just a tad too short sometimes.
also, a hand raised from me for a japanese from zero! path 
i think i’ve seen it requested before and i just wanted to add my vote 
They won’t be able to read anything until they finish book 1 
oh yeah 
i keep forgetting that the book has this progressive kana approach. i use the online course (despite the old clunky website) and there you can decide whether to show romaji, +hiragana, +katakana or +kanji.
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I really enjoy the feature to cycle through the accepted answers after getting a review right. There are also many answers that get you a hint like “this works, but looking for another grammar point”.
I think it would be awesome to be able to see all those answers and their hints, too, to get a feeling for different ways of saying the same thing. I sometimes go as far as trying all the different grammar points I can think of, to see if they will trigger hints.
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I second this for the long term development of this website. A way for it to be done 100% in Japanese would be a godsend.
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Any plans to add a search bar on the main page of bunpro? Sometimes if I encounter something while reading I want to look it up but given how my bunpro tab is usually on the home page, I have to go under All Grammar in order to search. Not the biggest pain in the world but going back and forth sometimes gets a little annoying
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This is clearly a very, verrry low-priority detail, but this is the message I got for adding the last available N1 grammar point via the “New Lessons” button on the dashboard:
Seems it should say something slightly different if I’ve already added everything that’s currently available 
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I was thinking about some sort of reverse quiz in Bunpro – where Japanese is given and you have to guess the correct English. It’s probably difficult to make an exact Bunpro-style quiz because there’s so many ways to translate Japanese sentences and grammar points, but I’d still be interested in even just a multiple choice quiz. And you could use all the existing sentences. And allow the user to press space before showing the choices to allow some time to think of what the correct answer should be.
Example:
この絵は、綺麗じゃありません。
This painting ____ beautiful.
…press space to show choices…
a) is
b) is not
c) was
d) was not
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A landing page with an about section and patch notes would be nice. I’m personally not a huge fan of how the community pages are organized which makes it hard to actually tell what’s being updated, or what the plans for the service are.
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I consider resources that force 振り仮名 similarly handicapped…
I think it’d be nice to have the audio somehow gathered separately to listen to on repeat when doing other activities. 
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It would be really nice if there was a text box in which I could just paste some text and I would see which grammar points are being used and where.
This would be so cool! Reading through some article or something, not being sure if I understand a sentence or maybe even paragraph completely, being able to just take it and see what it is doing, being able to pick up studying these points immediately.
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There might be better options out there that I’m just randomly forgetting, but have you tried ichi.moe ?
Thank you, I tried that site, and it mostly does what I would want.
But the important thing would be that the text box would result in easily accessible links to the relevant grammar points on BunPro. It would be very convenient, I think.
Might be an odd suggestion, but would it ever be possible to get a function where you could manually decrease a grammar point’s stage? There’s a few that I know the answer to but in reality my understanding of how it’s actually used in sentences isn’t at an 8 or 10 stage. Probably a crazy suggestion but could be interesting!
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@EdBunpro As a work-around, I’ve started doing this-- whenever I notice a grammar point that somehow reaches 9 or 10 but I still feel weak on understanding, I just click Reset Review (at the bottom of that point’s info page). It’s a small hit to my pride, but the extra practice is useful. And it doesn’t take long to get back up. You’re back up to level 7 in 2 weeks or so. 