Jappleng is pretty big already, and it supports so many amazing features but it's not yet complete. In fact, it's only about 50% towards its final goal but that doesn't mean that I'll be waiting until then before spreading the word around. In fact, the next major milestone is on April 5th.Jappleng at a glancePresently, Jappleng supports the home page, news in japan, Japanese culture, educational videos, the forums, JPLearn, registration/login, and the online chat. There are other misc features that are already implemented such as homework notifications, comment notifications, jpoints, queued article system, and the complete LMS system.It doesn't seem like a lot but if you go through each section one-by-one you will notice that there's a lot of detail into everything and all of it was coded from scratch. It's not easy but it's doable as you can tell.What is next for Jappleng?What's important next is to finalize some community features, overhaul much of it, and implement the remaining Learning Management System features (JPLearn), implement the new JSpot, and prepare for Achievements and the Redeemer. This is going to take a lot of time and it's not going to happen in just one week, but my goal is April 5th to complete all of it. What will happen after that? New content, the travel section will open up, more bugs will be fixed, and features like Redeem / Achievements will make their way to the site.What about milestone #3?This is the final milestone, the big daddy of milestones, the time when I can happily say Jappleng is ready to walk and talk without fear of people saying "oh it doesn't work" because it definitively will! Everything on Jappleng will work as intended, the design will be updated for everything that needs it (especially the educational videos section), and in general there's not going to be any worries. This will basically be Jappleng University v1.0 if you consider this version 0.5b.When will Jappleng become active?This entirely depends on how people take Jappleng, but it seems that it'll be popular in no-time! There are many new members that register each day and learn from the site, but not many are active in contributing content such as news, forums, comments or chat. You can blame me for not really advertising the site but i think once the new forumview / thread view pages are implemented, you're going to see a whole lot of new activity on the site. I'll be asking favors around to promote the site so when I feel ready to do so, I'll ask some JVloggers to promote it. Until then, feel free to tell all your friends about Jappleng and explain to them that it's new and it's about to get a whole lot of amazing updates, and design overhauls for things that look and work bad.What's happening on April 5th?The release of the 2nd major milestone (70% absolute completion) with an online party like last time, except it'll happen at 11am JST AND at 11am EST. That way both sides of the world can enjoy the party!Until then, please be patient, enjoy what's currently available and don't lose hope! For every thing I dish out, I've put a lot of heart and soul into it to make sure that you can enjoy it at your fullest. Remember, Jappleng is FREE! How many things out there are free with no catch? It's hard to say no to that. And have you seen ads around the site? See? No catch!

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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