[Discussion & Feedback] Prefectures of Japan

Thank you, it’s perfectly readable :grin: If anything, you can reduce it a little bit if you wish to
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Maybe there would be a better font for the kanji too? :man_shrugging: I’m fine with this one, just a suggestion.

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It’s certainly a huge improvement, so thank you for that :smiley: The kana is easily readable now, but I still think the kanji is hard to read. If it was maybe 5-10% bigger I think that could be enough. If you don’t wish to increase the size of the font on that, perhaps a different font altogether would help, as JP suggested.

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I finished it :heart_eyes:

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Just a quick update, I was working on a deck for the US region and I got an alpha deck in Anki format compiled. There are still a few fights with Pandas left, but the next deck may be release relatively soonish.

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I’ll definitely do that deck :ok_hand:

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Are the black dots the capitals of the prefectures or something? I’m seeing them on firefox (first time using this deck there).

But they’re not there on Chrome :thinking:

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It shouldn’t be there, I set the circle style to not display them, it looks like Firefox is ignoring the style information. I changed the radius of the circle to zero for now, until I actually use the capitals (and figure out how to hide them properly).

@Neicudi I tested it on Firefox, strange things happened, for example only editing the back side changed the front side preview for the circles, not sure if it is a Firefox+SVG specific problem or the previewer.

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Also finished! Loved the deck, had next to no issues. Can’t wait to see how it develops in the future regarding capitals etc. My one outstanding inconvenience is not being able to hit enter to progress through the cards sometimes but I believe that is a Kitsun thing that’ll be fixed eventually rather than a problem with the deck.

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Hi, glad you liked it!

I will see what to do with the cities, maybe I add large cities instead of capitals. Often they are just named after the prefecture, so it’s like “What is the capital of Aomori? Aomori”, “Click on Aomori”, “Click on Aomori, the capital of Aomori” …

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How big would the clicking zones be?

For capitals I was thinking to just keep the prefectures as clicking zones and show a marker for the city.

But the markers could also be made clickable, and get bigger on hover for example.

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The hover concept I quite like. I also wondered what it would be like (and if it would be even possible) to have an option to disable the prefecture border lines when being tested on capital cities? Maybe that’d be a different layout. It might be extra hard, but just an idea.

Making the borders invisible is no problem, but having the user change the options needs support by Kitsun. For example having layouts that are disabled by default, or decks that can define on/off switches in its deck settings.

More things for the every-growing feature pile :slight_smile:

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I just think this would be a great feature overall. Creators could have a “default study deck”, but will having other layouts available for learners that want to tackle their learning in more ways. The most common example would be making EN -> JP available, even when most don’t do it.

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Yeah, I think it would be a good feature. I already disabled the EN -> JP on the N5 Kitsun deck as that was enabled by default.

I love the design, but would it be possible to make a Kanji-only version? Thanks for the deck.

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No idea if it’s possible, but for mobile users it’s a bit complicating to click on small prefectures. Is there any way we could zoom in on the map so that it would be easier to answer? Or is this something Kitsun doesn’t support? :thinking:

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For some reason it doesn’t seem to accept any answer for me?

I tried 関東地方, かんとうちほう, kantou region, and kanto region, but all of them seem to not work

Edit: I guess “kantou” seemed to worked without including the region, but it was kind of annoying.

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This deck is not necessarily for Japanese learners. That’s why the answers are only accepted in romaji. I guess it would be nice to be able to insert the kanji/hiragana :man_shrugging:

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@MegaZeroX
Just add the Kanji answer as a synonym (and turn off the map-clicking layout for better memorization (recall instead of recognition)).

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