I… don’t understand what you’re trying to say. April Fools’ day isn’t for months yet, and I certainly haven’t seen any flying pigs.

Yeah, I was being facetious. Because TextFugu never gets updated. =P

As I understand it, it’s not really an update, but a completely new product.
It was supposed to be in alpha testing now, but the site is still just a “coming soon” page.

You haven’t seen much excitement about it here because we’ve all become jaded skeptics.
We’ll see what it’s like when it gets put out.

The previews for the new site look nice, but, despite what Koichi et al. might think, the problem with Textfugu has never been poor design of missing features; it’s been the lack of content.
What I’m afraid of is the new site, when it does become available, will drive a lot of new students to sign up and pay for what they are told is a “zero-to-fluency guide” and only find out later that it’s patchy with coverage, that it’s 95% English exposition and only 5% actually Japanese, that the downloadable content doesn’t match the lessons well, that errors that go unfixed for years, etc.

Of course, when the site does open up for alpha, it will only be for Textfugu lifetime members at no charge. So you get to test the site out for free (by which I mean you get to work as a tester/reviewer for Tofugu for free) to help make it better for others later (assuming it ever actually leaves alpha/beta). Originally, they said that only lifetime members who joined in 2013 would be able to participate. Now, unfortunately, it seems to be open to everyone.

I say “unfortunately” not because I think that only us old timers deserve the chance, but because having it limited would prevent people from signing up for Textfugu (a dead site) just to test for Eto Eto (an unfinished site). Now, there is an advertisement for a sale that essentially reads “Hey, here’s your chance, if you pay us some money now, we’ll let you work for us later for no pay.”

There are people on this site who are willing review and provide constructive feedback (a service most companies would have to pay people to do) for free, because we actually (somehow) still believe that this could be an amazing resource for others and are willing to put time into improving it.