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Any line of chat can be \"promoted to a question\" which gets its own, new chatroom with…",{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Japanese language learners","inferred",[56,57],{"id":50,"by":10,"text":51},{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"24026775","abnercoimbre","Review of Japanese Complete: I used it for two months. I caution people to use a Privacy card [0] when subscribing to this service. There was no clear way to cancel or pause my…",{"value":62,"source":63,"evidence":64},"About $50 per month, criticized as too expensive","commenter",[65,66],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"24026917","asutekku","I looked quickly through the site and I love the fact you’re using verbs instead of adjectives, as japanese does not really have them. This already made me consider subscribing.…",{"value":71,"source":47,"evidence":72},"Combine chat rooms with Q&A; no existing platform does this",[73,76],{"id":74,"by":10,"text":75},"24031313","There are general chat rooms where you can promote chat to a question, I think HiNative is more of a Q&A site (but not sure). These questions are not necessarily \"how do you say…",{"id":77,"by":10,"text":78},"24028480","Mainly the fact that there is nothing that operates on the same model: chat as a fundamental component, elevation to \"question pages\" and answers after that. Plus, it's great…",[],"unknown","beta",{"praise":83,"objections":95,"requests":136,"questions":158,"alternatives":172},[84,88],{"value":85,"source":63,"evidence":86},"Unique ideas such as animal stories and Iroha poem lessons",[87],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"value":89,"source":63,"evidence":90},"Chat-as-core Q&A model is novel",[91],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"24025466","yesenadam","That sounds great! I can't see any chat-line type questions without signing in, but it sounds a very nice idea. I got an enormous amount from wordreference.com when learning…",[96,109,113,121,125],{"value":97,"source":63,"evidence":98},"Subscription price too high",[99,100,104,105],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"24026934","krimeo","$50\u002Fmonth to use a website for learning Japanese especially when you are English speaker sounds like a ripoff. From my own experience, it's way more effective to have good old…",{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"24027686","wst_","I don't want to discourage the author but, to be honest, what I see is nowhere close to what I figure would help me to learn Japanese. 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Thank you so much for your support. I have been thinking about open-sourcing the code because it could be useful for many other domains.",[159,165],{"value":160,"source":63,"evidence":161},"How is this different from HiNative?",[162],{"id":163,"by":164,"text":160},"24029219","plumeria",{"value":166,"source":63,"evidence":167},"Why build custom forum software rather than NodeBB?",[168],{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"24026149","julianlam","May I ask why you decided to roll your own forum software instead of using something off the shelf like NodeBB (disclaimer, I own NodeBB)? It may seem like a good idea at first…",[173,177,188,192,199],{"value":174,"source":63,"evidence":175},"HiNative",[176],{"id":163,"by":164,"text":160},{"value":178,"source":63,"evidence":179},"italki and HelloTalk tutors",[180,184],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"24028690","lunchables","Agreed, just go buy Genki 1 and 2, sign up for wanikani for kanji ($10\u002Fmo). Then spend the remainder of that $50 the months after that on hellotalk or italki sessions with a…",{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"24028716","akg_67","Where do you get classes for $50\u002Fmonth. I have several friends who are going to Japanese language school in Japan and cheapest is $500\u002Fmonth. 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