We’re looking at adding “theme” colors to traditional and simplified characters, both to help with prompting and in other planned features in the site. So we’re asking you: do you have color associations for those? Are traditional characters just red, or do simplified have to be green? Or does it not matter? Let us know what you think.
We’ve fixed a lot of bugs, and tweaked a lot of things. There’s a cooler way to select between words, characters, and tones in the vocabulary viewer, which is also now on its own page. You can now choose to not practice tones in your vocabulary options, if you just want to learn characters (and already know spoken Chinese, perhaps). I’ve made a lot of hacks to the recognition, especially on strokes with the 女, ⺄, 乙, 辶, and 西 radicals. The drawing has been updated somewhat, too. Let me know how that’s working for you, yes.
I was bothered by Skritter thinking that I didn’t know a tone when I’d put the normal tone in and it’d be different in a vocab word, so it now accepts either as correct. In a similar fashion, to prevent you from missing a character just because you didn’t know it was that character in that word, you can now hover over where the character’s definition would be, and it shall be revealed.
I’ve also made the stroke order pulses brighter. Do you like them? Would you rather preserve the ancient tradition of dimmer pulses? Please, you will comment upon it.