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☰ Posted: 5h

July 18 Updates!

Enabled Jappleng Development ClubUpdated older articles on the Jappleng wiki
Added Previous and Next month buttons to the Calendar system
Event counter for current month events has been added
Club Treasury has been removed as it is no longer a focus for the time being
Various improvements have been made to the clubs settings
The Quizzes menu option is no longer available until this feature is completed (Clubs)
Resolved issue where if Clubs we like did not have any result it did not display anything at all.

The following Club features and customizations have been added:

Enable Club Wiki
Enable Club Forums
Enable Club Polls
Enable Club Albums
Enable Club Caelndar & Events
Enable Clubs We Like

These new options can be found in the Club settings. Disabling sections will make it imposible to access the sections however, it will not remove any content that was placed there. The ability to directly share images is still possible even when the albums are disabled. You must click on Finish & Save Your changes if you wish to see your changes saved.

Create new club has changed visually, includes new setting options
Removed the "We're small but tell people" text from the club header zone
Issue with Club Title, description and URI length has been resolved
"Your club description must be between x and y" has been fixed, this also means that the user will not get to type anything passed 250 characters
The Clubs sub-menu now permits users to go back to the main club page (View other clubs)

Tomorrow I will try to give it more updates to hopefully finalize the base club system.

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☰ Posted: 9h

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I'm almost done with the new calendar / event system. I'm just now polishing it to make sure that it works under all conditions and that it has a reasonable set of features to make it useful.

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All clubs will be deleted in effort to revitalize the club system.

Reasons:

1. Current clubs / the entirety of the website is dead from views / activity

2. There hasn't been any club activity in at least 3 months

3. It deters people from actually joining / participating (the dead activity)

4. I am making great changes to the club system

5. I will be promoting Jappleng once these changes are made

If your club is deleted, you can recreate it after today (7/15/2019)

Thank you for your participation, I hope that together we can make your new club popular smile

If you have any questions, please let me know here, on discord or via Jappleng DM.

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☰ Posted: 7d

Greetings everyone! Guess what? I've updated the site finally~

Everything was smooth sailing this year until Jappleng development hit a brick wall. Almost nobody used it, search engines stopped really caring for it, and almost nobody ever mentioned it anywhere. It felt miserable, so miserable that I went into a deep depression over it. I mean, how much time did I spent working on the project? More than you can imagine, I'm sure....

So have I figured it out and became motivated to work on the project? Sure... I hope! Well, it's hard to tell but I have a pretty good idea on what worked and what didn't work. Why search engines didn't like Jappleng and why people weren't talking about it. There's a lot to do and I've posted some updates already.

What kind of updates?

The dashboard has things removed. So references to pets, forums, and a few other things have been removed.
The pet project is cancelled, I will no longer work on a pet app to teach Japanese.
Battle-coins are disabled and removed from the site. They were relating to the pet system.
The community forums are now gone. Nobody used them, it's an old thing that nobody likes to use. Why clutter the site with sections people don't use?
I updated the invite links to the discord channels. Previously there was a lot of spam entering it, so the links were old and disabled.
I wrote another lesson, which adds to the pile of unpublished lessons. This pile is growing and I look forward to publishing it.
The achievements section has been updated with a placeholder. It's no longer stickers.
Fan Clubs section has been updated with visual tweaks.
Latest polls and "click here to create your own fandom" has been disabled from the front page of the club page
'J-Spot Social' as the sub-menu item has been renamed to 'J-Spot Social Network'
'Main Forums' has been removed as a sub-menu entry under Our Community
Reviewed many aspects of the site to determine what should be updated next.

Please accept my sincerest apology as I did not intend to leave you guys high and dry like that. I really hope Jappleng can be an exciting place to explore the Japanese culture together. Please consider posting every day to show your support, I will be here working on the project. smile

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☰ Posted: 7d

Hello and welcome to Jappleng! Sorry for the site inactivity as of lately. You arrived just as when I had stopped updating the project. There were hiccups and issues that needed to be addressed and it took months of reflection and trying to motivate myself to get back to the project. I've gotten a good idea on how to make Jappleng great and active and am happy to say that our discord is full of supporters!

If you want to chat with us, check it out at https://discord.gg/UtV3qAY

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☰ Posted: 15d

Oof, this is the first time I've loggedin in quite some time. As we've been discussing on discord, Jappleng is in a difficult spot to move forward from.

I've been trying hard to think on what I did wrong with this project. While it is an experiment, it comes at a cost. The site is full of sections and features and while that's all great, much of it are antique ideas from the mid-to-late 2000s and that just won't do. The site is enormous which may be confusing to people, most particularly the non-Japanese gen-z people whom aren't accustomed to the design style.

The features are there, the sections are there, most of the site works fine. But, how to rectify this situation? How do I convince people that Jappleng is THE place to hang out and have fun? What sections and features should I be removing? There are so many questions and I am only but one person on this project, the rest are people following along for the ride on discord.

I wish people were on-board to helping this project but at every attempt, they didn't like the idea of a free project produced by volunteers. If anyone has any suggestion you can post it here, send a DM via the Jappleng DM system, use discord or twitter me.

Hopefully Jappleng can continue moving forward.

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☰ Posted: 64d

Hello everyone!

I hope you are all having a great day!

What's that? Updates on on their way?

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