Hello everyone and thank you so much for caring about Jappleng by reading this post! This week marked the first week when there was user activity since Jappleng was a blog/forum many years ago. For that, thank you and I hope you will all stay and participate even more as I work extra hard to make this project feel more useful and like a second home.

I can\'t believe it\'s Thursday already which means I only have today and tomorrow to add new updates until the new week begins on Monday.  With that said, there\'s a lot to do for the remainder of the month but instead let\'s look at what\'s happening immediately until next Friday.

Content Related

• New news items (If you want to publish news, please do!)
• Editing of existing Lessons, improvements, new attachments and grammar fix
• Addition of a new lesson or two or three (they are mostly done)

New Features

• Implementation of User Relationships (You can be in a relationship with anyone who approves of it)
  
• Comment posting from the News section itself (instead of just from J-Spot)
• Comment posting from the Culture section itself
• Culture section will integrate itself with J-Spot for new posts and comments
• Forum posts and replies will be integrated with J-Spot
• Login Bonuses
• User Rank List (And personal rank tracker based on EXP)
• Education: About Teacher Module and Teachers Page
• Education: Education Forum for individual Courses
• Education: Assignments List Page will be implemented
  
• Tag Search Completion
• Password Reset / \"I forgot my Username\"
  

Site Improvements

• Improved editor for the Forum Posts
• Improved editor for the Forum Replies
• News in Japan will be updated with an improved design all around
• Various buttons around the site will be modernized
• Culture Section will be modernized a bit
• Gallery (Image Boards) will also be modernized
• Personal Galleries will also be modernized
• Other miscellaneous improvements
• Modernize Login page and results after logging-in
• Modernize Registration page and results after registering
• Modernize Notifications page
• Modernize Saved Items page
  

Bug Fixes

• Resolution of all J-Spot Post related issues (I hope)
• Fix issue where notifications aren\'t displayed on all pages
• Friend count is not displayed in the Menu
• Notification count is not displayed in Menu
• Saved items count is not displayed in Menu
• J-Mail Message count is not displayed in Menu
• \"New Thread\" button doesn\'t work when user is viewing a thread
• Reply and publish new thread stopped displaying the new thread information

New J-World Items

• (Winter Only) Snowball Avatar Emblem
• Bag of Experience (10xp, 25xp, 50xp, 100xp, 200xp) * Not for sale, these are meant for other things*
  

End Notes

While I wish I could update even more in a week, there\'s only so much time in a given day that I can put forth into improving the site. I will do my very best to follow this thread as a guide in hopes that everything will be completed on time. Again, welcome everyone to Jappleng University! Please tell your friends! (Let me know who you invited and you will get something special! This only applies if the person you invited is an active member and posts on Jappleng though.)

Once again, this page is from a old section called News in Japan which hasn't been a thing since about 2016. But Jappleng has a lot more to offer such as:
- Entertainment section for Anime lineup, news, reviews and more (over 14,000 anime titles!)
- Education section to learn Japanese and about Japan for free
- Club Jappleng to create and join fan clubs, study groups etc...
- Travel Guides to learn more about Japan, immigration and tourist attractions
- Community forums, dedicated chat system, J-Spot social network
- Japanese practice games and other fun stuff like Yokai Trainers
- Massive Japanese <> English dictionary with over 500,000 words
- Achievements, unlockables and more!

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