Hey all 👋

We're back with another big update that we've been working on over the past week. This update introduces more stability improvements as well as our referral program, affiliate program, and some quality of life changes.

In addition to what students see, we've been doing a lot of work on the code that runs everything to make it more efficient and easier to work with moving forward. This is an investment that will continue to happen as we move forward, resulting in more stability for students along with quality of life improvements and new features.

Let's dive into the changes!

Bug Fixes

Billing

• Students can now update their payment method without canceling their subscriptions
• Students are now presented with a questionnaire when cancelling their subscription so that we can make the platform better

Dialogues

• Fixed an issue where completed dialogues could not be re-visited on iOS

Flashcards

• Fixed an issue where custom flashcards could not be uploaded
• Fixed an issue where certain mnemonics would not be recognized (such as rice field on 番).

General

• Rewrote modals across the site to fix various instances of a blurry screen getting stuck (as well as the pesky keyboard shortcuts modal)
• Updated the lessons in the activity log to show when they were completed rather than which category they were in

Lessons

• Fixed an issue where the author popup in lessons would go off of the screen in certain circumstances

Streaks

• More behind the scenes work on the streak system, it's not ready for primetime yet :shark_sad:

Billing history rework

Billing history has been notoriously confusing looking to date. And students have been unable to update their payment methods on their own. No longer is this an issue!

We now have a lovely billing history view where you can see if a charge is upcoming, and if previous charges succeed or failed, and you're now able to update your payment method whenever you'd like.

Referral program

If you want to share NativShark with someone and be a part of their learning journey, you can now do so with your own link. You'll be able to see how many students have subscribed after clicking your link and to how many units and hours studied it has led to.

If you have any unique ideas for referral rewards, let us know!We're open to hearing what students have in mind. Most programs are kind of generic so we opted to just build in base functionality first so that we can expand on it later as we get feedback. Looking forward to growing it!

Affiliate program

If you have an audience or a sizeable platform, we now have an affiliate program; reach out to us via email, we'd love to chat. https://www.nativshark.com/contact