Skritter is now on Twitter: you should follow us at SkritterHQ! The feed will keep you up to date on our goings on, and in the next few weeks we will be starting Twitter-only contests. More on that later, but for now, feel free to listen to our Twitterings and see what we’re doing between blog posts.
In other news, the tee shirts for last month’s contest winners arrived this last Tuesday and I was busy for a day or so packing and shipping them all over the world. Congrats to everyone who qualified for that! We hope that you get ample opportunity to amaze and astound your friends with your hard-won Skritter apparel. This month’s newsletter contest continues on till the end of the month so that we can better feature winners in next month’s installment.
Nick and Scott have been destroying bugs like rampaging, angry rhinoceroses in a field full of flightless flamingos. Scott fixed a problem with the manual move to next section feature. When you are manually moving through words you will no longer get the next section’s material before you actually study it. Nick squashed a sly little bug that caused prompts to be skipped if users pressed the arrow button while the next prompt was loading. Contrary to previous behavior, the section progress bar that drops down in the flash now only appears when a new word is being studied, and it’s a lot less of a performance drag (nice). Nick fixed the show button so that it now unpresses when the phantom fades out, as opposed to just staying depressed until its next usage. Nick also fixed a bug with manually adding words so that those words actually show up right away when you press the button. Scott fixed a problem that was forcing people to learn Chinese if they logged in via Clickpass.
Between all of this flamingo/bug stompin, Scott has been hacking away at a new Japanese textbook that will be up soon, Nick has been working on reading practice, and I’ve been doing a lot of customer support. Into the next week, and beyond!