Update 2 : The criteria for hiding stories was improved, taking in account the number of votes against the number of reports. Roughly half of the stories now that were hidden should no longer be hidden by default.

Update Please post feedback for this change in this forum thread.

Today the website is updated with an oft-requested feature: stories that have 10 reports or more as well as a low votes to report ratio, are hidden by default and can be shown with a small "Unhide" link.

I hope this improves the experience in the Study pages. It's one of these features that I had lying in an "experimental" branch and procrastinated on. Thanks to Jonathan for reminding me about it today!

What's up next in kanji land? I am working on refresh/redesign! Granted there are a lot of things I could work on, but one issue that always come up when I consider a new feature is "Where do I fit this in?".

Here is a concept that illustrates a few things I'd like to introduce with a new design, and what I am trying to solve. Please note the icons, fonts and colours may still change, this is mostly to get a feel for what the layout will be like (click for fullsize image):

• Responsive layout: I want to rethink the structure from the ground up, so that I have a consistent layout to use when adding new pages or sections to a page. The content will be elastic but a maximum width will be set for desktop so that it looks ok when maximizing the browser on wide screens.

• "floaty layout": I want to remove the "boxed" design. The problem with boxes, is that they are often tricky to align. If you want for example to have 50/50 columns, the boxes often end up with different heights due to how HTML pages flow. It leaves empty spaces that look odd. The padding and spacing between boxes also add unnecessary space that makes it difficult to scale down properly. Using a plain background with no"boxed in content" is cleaner, and also easier to scale down to smaller screens.

• Menus: this is a big change. Using drop down menus will make it much easier to add new pages. The idea here is to feature the most used pages in the navigation first, while the "More" tab with a "hamburger" icon features a drop down menu that can hold secondary content. Clicking Study or Review will go to the main page, but clicking a subpage in a dropdown can take you directly to sub-content (like the Detailed Flashcard List), without clicking through multiple pages. These menus will be mobile friendly: they will also work with a single click/tap so they will work on mobile or tablet.

• Mobile support: I can not remake all the content to fit on mobile phones, as that is a huge amount of work and it probably doesn't make that much sense to do everything on mobile anyway. With that said, the navigation is designed so that it can scale down to very small screens (screenshot below). As the resolution gets lower, we can hide the labels, and we can even hide the main "koohii" logo. The icons will be different, so the user can identify the main content.

Mobile friendly navigation (concept) (click for fullsize image)

That is quite a lot of work and I am currently planning how to make this into incremental updates. The first update will feature mostly identical pages, with a little bit of flexible content. It will probably not fit at all on mobile, but the new navigation and theme should be in place.

You can now add flashcards, and customize the keyword, for all the CJK Unified Ideographs characters!

To add characters that are not part of Remember the Kanji (ie. they don't have a "frame number"), use Add Custom Flashcard Selection. For example try adding "spider" by copy/pasting 蜘 in the box.

Now if you go to the Detailed Flashcard List you will see that those characters have a frame number between 20000 and 40000 (roughly). Put simply when you see index numbers that are in the five digit range, these are the actual unicode number for the Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) characters.

For bugs/suggestions
... please post in this forum thread, thanks!

For those learning Chinese
All the characters in Remembering Traditional Hanzi, as well as Remembering Simplified Hanzi are now supported on this website. It is also possible to import keywords for all these characters. If there is interest, I am sure someone will put up a simple list to copy/paste into the site to get you going with the RTH/RSH books.

The next significant update will remove the flashcard and custom keyword limits, so that you can add flashcards for characters not included in Remembering the Kanji !

More specifically I will be updating the database so that all characters in the "CJK Unified Ideograph" (U+4E00 to U+9FAF) are covered. That is ~20900 characters, covering chinese characters in addition to the ~12000 from KANJIDIC which the site supported until now.

You can see some of these characters such as 蜘 ("spider") already have shared stories. With the upcoming update you will be able to add them to your flashcards as well as edit the keyword!

Thank you!
Thanks to everyone who showed support in 2014 ! Last year was a bit of a low for me, but things are looking better! While I do not reply individually to each donation, I assure you they are very helpful and meaningful to me.

It seems I am gaining a little grit lately, and am really hoping to keep the ball rolling throughout this year. Something I'd love to do is completely refresh the site's design and layout so it is more flexible across devices, as well as add options to customize the flashcards. And if you can think of something else you'd really like to see on this site let me know!