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Oh, thank you! I was a bit confused since I went to your site and couldn't find any evidence of a Japanese version. :)

If you have the time, would you mind elaborating a bit more on the following? I'm always curious (as an American living in Japan) about small/independent developers who split across two or more cultures.

1. How much of your userbase is Japanese vs English-speaking?

2. Do you find that the goals the users work toward are different based on the language/culture? Are there any things that are language-specific?

3. Do you find that one set of users is stickier than the other?

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1. About 50%-50%

2. Since my app target is developers, their goals look basically same. But some users are designers, directors, etc. Japanese tend to tweet their thoughts on Twitter and English speakers tend to post their thoughts on our forum or to email me. In a nutshell, Japanese make indirect reactions on social media and English speakers tell me directly.

3. Those who have too many suggestions usually quit using my app soon in my experience because their problems are different from mine. You don't have to please everyone.

Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. :)

> 3. Those who have too many suggestions usually quit using my app soon in my experience because their problems are different from mine. You don't have to please everyone.

I'm sorry, I phrased my question a bit unclearly. "sticky" for me means "easy to retain." So I was wondering, do you have a better retention rate among Japanese users, English users, or is it about the same?

Ah okay. I don't see any difference in the retention so far.

Hi Takuya, glad you are doing well with your app. I feel honored that I'm one of 3 feature users on the frontpage :). Even though I don't use inkdrop currently. I may try it again after v3 is released though

I have been following your development blog for some time (v3), I agree with your priorities in better image support and tables. I made a similar plugin with image resizing support on a different notetaking application, using a jquery slider. I use it everyday. It might be of interest to you. http://vincentmtang.com/2018/06/29/adventures-in-writing-a-t.... The implementation I made is significantly less maintenance too, setting image sizes per image upload is time consuming IMO. It uses a `max-height` and `max-width` property initialization you set, and goes up from there. It is (3) on your blog. It does make it difficult to make responsive image size between devices, but you could always let the user define custom media queries in settings and set a `max-width` or `max-height` property for mobile devices. It really depends on information density of images.

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