掲示板 Forums - Update Notes for new.renshuu.org

If you are on the new server, below is a detailed list of everything new. Discussions about new things can go here, while bug reports should go in the Experimental features forum (link just above this post)

Current status: available on the new server!!

New Features

**[Feature]** Under Quizzing (in Settings), you can now disable the panels that show information about your incorrect answers

**[Experimental]** CONJUGATION schedules!!!!! Add them via the Experimental panel (in settings)

Notes: includes verb and adjective schedules. Feeds off of the conjugation quizzes in the Lesson Center, so it should work a similar way, but more testing is needed

**[Experimental]** New setting (under Experimental in settings) which will show furigana above unknown kanji in multiple choice answer boxes.

Notes: This is highly experimental, so please try it out. Keep in mind that you need to also have the Vocabulary setting (how to show unknown kanji) to the first option (show the kanji with furigana)

Improvements

**[Improvement]** Settings panel adjusted (Lessons category removed, options being shifted to Vocab or Kanji categories)

**[Improvement]** A lot of icons swapped over to renshuu-made hand-drawn artwork. Please let me know if anything looks off!

Notes: the up/down arrows for sentences will be replaced soon, too. Particularly interested in any visibly issues regarding the icons. They were designed in the hopes of using both color and shape to show on/off states, instead of just the "colored or grey" setup.

**[Improvement]** Usage notes for words will also show your notes, even if you have the category deselected for other users.

**[Improvement]** Usage notes with word links will allow you to link a single usage note up to multiple words. Works when editing previously made notes, too.

Notes: this is not an automatic process for previously made notes, so if you have made a note that, say, compares two or more words, definitely go and edit them. More info here: https://new.renshuu.org/forums...

**[Improvement]** Grammar usage notes now have language and privacy settings. At some point, will backtrack through previous notes and mark up non-English ones.

**[Improvement]** Better back/close button functionality when going through multiple grammar pages in a row.

**[Improvement]** Users who are logged in via a Google account can now also set a password through the settings panel.

**[Improvement]** You can now bookmark and add-to-schedule from a list's page.

**[Improvement]** When editing a list, it can be marked as finished. This will hide it when using tools in discord, as well as when listing the lessons in the add/remove box

**[Improvement]** Definition hints available for vocabulary writing practice questions

**[Improvement]** Link to adjust mastery added to ... menu in vocab dictionary

**[Improvement]** Our learning events on Discord that follow along the Japanese Basics lessons are now available on the Japanese Basics page!

**[Improvement]** Improved layout on compact view for schedules

**[Improvement]** If you search a kanji compound in the kanji dictionary, it will search for both/all kanji.

**[Improvement]** On grammar expression quizzes in the Lesson Center, renshuu pro users can now choose to limit the number of questions per expression (due to a larger pool of questions to draw from).

**[Improvement]** You can now add terms and lessons to schedules that are fixed on a lesson-by-lesson path (most of the ones that renshuu has).

**[Improvement]** Counter punch now has correct/incorrect markers in addition to colors (after answering) to help differentiate choices.

**[Improvement]** Grammar search (in dictionary) catches more variations of some expressions (Ex. としては now returns page for として)

Fixes / Changes

**[Fix]** Kanji mnemonics will display your mnemonics first, if present.

**[Fix]** Fill-in-the-blank preferences for vocabulary schedules where not always being saved.

**[Fix]** When changing writing box size, the setting did not always stick

**[Fix]** Game was starting prematurely in Quick Draw if you tried to change the drawing speed.

**[Fix]** Improvements on hiding romaji in question answers, as well as slight improvements in the definition simplifying process.

**[Name changes]** (In progress) Lesson Center -> Community Lists, Japanese Basics -> Japanese Lessons

Notes: also considering simplifying the button language for schedules, feedback wanted:

(changes under consideration)

Focused Review > Review

Learn & Study > Learn

Learn New > Learn

(In other words, it'll be either Study, Learn, or Review. "Learn & Study" and "Learn New" were somewhat repetitive because the "xx to study, yy to learn" text is just to the left.

Two notes on improvements:

1. Thanks for adding the mastery adjustment in the vocab dictionary! Could you do the same for kanji & grammar? (Maybe you could just make the word "Mastery" clickable, which brings up the adjustment box?)

2. The new icons make the buttons bigger, which is easier to see & to click on. A few visual things I noticed regarding them; For the listening questions, the icon is below center. For the writing pad, only the trash can is updated, which leaves a lot of icons still to be changed. However, should they be changed, I'm not sure if the suggestion buttons will look out-of-place or not. I doubt that it would be possible to change those buttons to match the style easily, but one suggestion would be to increase the button font size by one or two points to match the bigger buttons of the new icon style.

Meatball menu for words in the dictionary ^^^

The icon for "Link another word" should probably not be a trashcan? And having the majority of the icons here be pencils makes it hard to tell which options are available at a glance, though I'm not really sure what they would be replaced with.

Vasnody は 11月27日, 6:04に

I think that one of the reasons that the "block" icon looks out of place is that it doesn't have a black outline like the other icons.

Yes, the "Link" should probably be a chain link. Possible suggestions for the other menu items are:

Adjust mastery: pie chart or bar graph

Add sentence: speech bubble

Report mistake: emoticon with "x"s instead of eyes (kind of like this: , in fact, you could just use this icon!)

Add usage note: the pencil works great! Just leave it as is.

I think you wise to be cautious. 👀

For blocked/not blocked symbols I'd suggest the road sign symbols:

-Red circle with slash (blocked, not allowed)

-Open Green circle (not blocked, allowed)

Sorry for the stream-of-consciousness messages - Not sure the green dynamic would work, even if I was fine with the color usage - I want this to act as a block for not just terms, but sentences, etc., so having a green circle (or something similar) next to all the sentences is not going to be clear.

If we did the eye, it could be grey for normal, grey with red line through it for blocked - it would make a nice transition from the old icon (slash in both versions).

Road signs in many regions have an open green circle for permitted activities, and the red circle with a slash for activities not allowed.

Parking, No parking signs is one example (shown below).

Other examples include:

-Passing, No passing signs

-Bicycles, No bicycles signs

-Right turn allowed, No right turn

etc.

I suspect the scaling of the icon is not correct here.