Jappleng 7.5 Update –
"Massive and Subarashii"
This update is tremendously large and begins to shape Jappleng
into what it should be. The release date is not yet set but the
progress is coming along nicely. Because 7.5 is so massive, I had
to put some fo the practice games on hiatus until I get this
completed. Please remember, I am the only one working on Jappleng.
I would like the beta test to be available to willing participants
by the end of the first week of May.
The New
Entertainment Section
- New Entertainment section will contains over 10,000 anime,
thousands of staff members, thousands of voice actors, thousands of
anime characters, episode guides, fan lists, reviews, media, clubs
integration, j-spot integration, anime lineup, comprehensive search
system including tags, alternative anime titles, genres/themes and
more. You'll be able to keep track of anime you have watched, want
to watch, abandoned, like, don’t like etc… Trending features,
release calendar and more. So many features to list you won’t want
to miss it! Also coming up next for the entertainment section is
more features, data in current listings, manga, j-pop and k-pop
sections. However, before expanding beyond anime, the anime section
will be polished first.
The Chat
System (IMChat)
- Various updates on the chat system including new drawing mode
where you can draw things and send them to your friends or
in-chat!
General
Changes:
- Uploading animated gif works now for thumbnails. Hundreds of
reaction gifs added.
Over 200 kaomoji added including borders, emoji and more!
(This is complete
already and uploaded!)
- Ability to embed images on J-Spot threads and replies that have
already been uploaded (like on imChat). This is a test and it will
be possible to embed images from most places where you can write
stuff on the site. (This is already possible in new
J-Spot Threads and live!)
- Many bugs have been fixed around the site. Let’s just keep it
at “many” because it’s quite a bit.
- Made various optimization improvements throughout the
website.
- Sending friend requests will no longer display the “joining
club” response. This was due to copy and pasting without actually
changing the wording.
Education
- JPLearn! 4th Edition will make its debut with 3 lessons out of
the box. New JPLearn lessons will be added on a regular basis. Most
lessons for the first 10 chapters are complete already and need a
final review.
- New Japan Life! Lessons. Already there are many new Japan Life
lessons. More lessons will be added for this update.
- Various bug fixes will be implemented including the issue where
you can't track how much time you spend on certain lessons and how
you get redirected as a logged in member but not as a guest if you
are not subscribed to the course.
Patch 7.4.1
This patch will be exciting as it will be the introduction of
various automated caching tools that will be used throughout the
site to give it a more “live feel”. For example, the top clubs,
club of the day, top contributors of a club etc… Those will all be
done through an automated script. Likewise, other parts of the site
will be improved to support these things. This will continue on
until patch 7.5.
Moving foward after patch
7.5…
At this point Jappleng will be fairly comprehensive in size but
there are some issues that needs to be addressed. The goal between
7.5 and 7.6 will be polishing the website and adding more lessons.
Jappleng is currently buggy and it is not very good to use on
mobile or tablets. Whatever bugs exists will be squashed for 7.6
and whatever feature is supposed to exist but is either broken or
doesn't exist yet. In other words, 7.6 will effectively be polished
and stable.
I hope you look forward for patch 7.4 “Massive and Subarashii”
and patch 7.5!
