Thats true, I keep forgetting how much it costs (advantages of early sign-up, eh? :D )

I haven’t been here for very long but I feel the price is worth it. I can see though where it might be very frustrating to those who are more advanced since it doesn’t keep up with your level (thought reviewing can be a good thing too). With all the projects that the Tofugu/Textfugu crew is working on I can see why it takes time.

I thought of an idea and forgive me if someone else as already mentioned it or if it is not a possibility. Do you think that perhaps it might help if Textfugu offered an advanced area that they build on at the same time as they build up the basics? As I said I don’t know if that would be possible for the Textfugu team since I don’t know how far out their general outline of the Textfugu textbook and tools goes, but I thought this might be a solution that could appease everyone.

I’ll shut up now and go curse at my RTK book for awhile.
すみません

I think Koichi’s just prettying up the beginner’s end to entice people in – once you’ve settled in your nice lavish quarters, ready for a magical journey ‘cross the Seaven Seas, you’re taken and thrown in the cold, dark brig. Once Long John Silver *ahem* Captain Koichi has taken your “Forever” dubloons, there’s no getting them back, so it doesn’t matter how you’re treated… down in the brig. I know that’s a little over-dramatic, and some would say “harsh”, but that’s what it feels like; once you’ve paid your money, that’s Fugu Corp. all fine and dandy. Oh wait, there’s the 110% money back guarantee, isn’t there: well since I got my subscription for so cheap I may as well stick around to see how everything pans out; if you’re paying the full $120/£? for yours though, I’d recommend asking for it back (+10%), if that’s even still possible.

Am I just having a bad day? Yes, quite.
Is there still a little truth to my words? Yes.
Would it be funny to see Koichi’s disgusted face when he sees his crew mutiny? Yes ;P
It’s cool though, he’s a businessman (despite what he says): he knows what he’s doing.

(Zap Brannigan: “Throw them in the brig!
Kif: “But this is just the boiler room.”
ZB: “From now on, this room shall be known as “The Brig”)

EDIT: While this stuff has to be said, I don’t think it’s going to make a difference. He makes all his money from new customers, and I think that’s going pretty well just now so nothing will change. If you were writing a book, wouldn’t you want to make as much money as possible? It sucks for us right now, but we all know we’d do the exact same thing in the same position.

EDIT 2: And don’t think I don’t appreciate all the help he’s given me and the push to learn Japanese in the beginning; still grateful and glad I took the plunge. I appreciate how good he is to beginners, but this textbook is supposed to be for post-beginner/intermediates too.

EDIT 3: Also glad that people are agreeing with me :) Well, with what I said before at least; let’s see how this post goes down :P

• This reply was modified 13 years, 2 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].
• This reply was modified 13 years, 2 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].
• This reply was modified 13 years, 2 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

Half way through season 2 and this is my first forum post. Hello everyone! Does anyone else use a smartphone to visit TextFugu? There seems to be a problem for me with having the season buttons on top open a second scrolling box; mainly that I can’t scroll the new box when it opens. Makes it pretty hard to do a lot away from the computer.

Hey guys and gals~

Big apologies to those who don’t feel like they’re getting enough :( As MisterM suggests you do, always more than happy to give refunds if you don’t think what you’re getting is worth your money. No real set time on the refund either – so even if you’ve been using TextFugu for a year, hit me up and I’ll be more than happy. Unfortunately I can only do as much as I can do, and I do as much as I can do, and although I’m sure the redesigns seeem like all I do it only really lasted for 3 days + 1 day of bug squashing, and then I went right back to writing content again. In fact, the updates were meant almost solely for the new content stuff, including the sentences deck which I thought would be particularly helpful for the more advanced folks :/

I know it can be a rocky ride and I know it can be tough using an unfinished product … especially with someone like me who’s constantly excited to make changes (happens a lot because it can happen a lot, I suppose… not something that big companies with finished products can do – you guys are always emailing me feedback and I’m making changes based off that feedback). Most of the changes here content-wise (Sentences Deck, Better Vocab study, Practice Pages, Why Pages) were because I was getting a lot of emails from people having trouble with Vocab… so I spent some time researching and spent some times coming up with ways to make vocab learning less painful and am adding it in w/ everything else. I mean, to be objective here… I probably do spend half my time trying to make old things better and half my time working on new stuff… I understand that people want new stuff (understandably). But… I don’t work on old stuff to get more new members (when MisterM said all of the income comes from new members he’s kind of right… though I’d give it a 60-40 new-old split these days, so it’s not quite “all”).

But anyways, I work on old stuff because it makes the new stuff better… and it will make it more likely that new people make it to the old stuff, Forever membership and monthly membership alike. When the advanced stuff has the sentences deck… the better vocab study… and the practice pages… it’s going to be so, so good, I think. I’m really excited about it, but I forget that most people don’t have the same thoughts in my head all the time for some reason :p

So dang, yeah. I’m sorry things feel so volatile and I’m sorry to those of you who think there aren’t enough updates (remember the old days of once-a-month updates, though? I do way more than that these days!). Really, though – you know you guys can email me individually too, yeah? Happy to help sort out any problems, give you a refund if you’re unhappy, and more. Happiness > Money any day of the week. If I wanted more money, I’d stop paying people to help me with work (designer/programmer starting next month, fyi… some of you will be particularly happy to hear about that so I stop trying to touch the stuff), I’d stop helping people individually on email for free and create some dumb “pay the teacher to ask questions” program, and I’d raise prices and not offer to let monthly people upgrade to Forever while subtracting what they’ve paid so far. Seriously not like I’m rich or anything :/

P.S. Also sorry it too me so long to respond to this thread… If I’m in the forums, it probably means I have extra time :) If I’m not, it probably means I’m feeling overworked at the moment, almost certainly working on TextFugu content stuff.

P.P.S. Flip them tables! （╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

P.P.P.S. If I really wanted to get nitty-gritty and spend a lot of time on redesign I would have fixed these input forms for the forum… damn they’re ugly. What’s up with the indented “reply” and “tags” headers?

Sweet, first couple of practices pages are up with sentence decks, less than a week after I posted complaining I couldn’t find any useful sentences decks…yay coincidences! Also on the price thing, I must have like…£350 worth of different books and what-not, maybe more, of Japanese learning books and they ain’t taught me a damn thing…whereas fugu has taught me about 85% of what I know… so yeah…

@kyle: Hooray for continuous analogies! :D First pirate ships, now houses. Let’s just call TextFugu a houseboat; then *everyone’s* right! :D

Oooh, dem tables… B¬E

Appreciate the apology Koichi, but I still have one question: when is Season 3 going to finish and Season 4 going to start?! XD Oh wait, the Seasons are all different now – FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-!!! I don’t care though, I’m gonna refer to them as 1, 2, 3 and 4 for evermore >:)
But anyway, I assumed you paid Hashi in slaps to the face, so how would cutting his salary benefit you at all? :D I say give him a raise!!

I don’t care about waiting for stuff like て-form or が(but) because I just went ahead and learned them myself; all I care about is what happened to メアリー！！あの人が「タイム・ツ・ダイ！！」を叫んだぞ！