Server’s undergoing maintenance tonight (Tuesday) at 8:00 PM EST. It’ll last for up to an hour. You might be able to get to a few pages, but for the most part Skritter will be down. If you do get the practicing itch during that hour, though, I’d suggest checking out something from the list of Chinese radio and other media resources our users put together in this forum thread.
Or you can go check out ChineseTeachers.com, a friend site of ours. They’re running a promotion for November where you can get free lessons with Annie, one of their teachers. So if you’re interested in one-on-one lessons, check ’em out and let them (and us) know what you think.
We’re hard at work tidying the new version of the practice page this week. Even after the bugs are fixed, there’s a bunch of optimization needed before it’s fast enough to put live, but if you don’t mind some bugginess you can use it for Chinese now.
Scott and George have also been making dozens of tweaks to the vocabulary pages, making them easier to use. That’ll also continue this week. Then we’ll do another round of usability testing and see how well we did.