Okay, so we probably should have seen it coming, but geez, you guys definitely went above and beyond expectations on this last challenge! In last month’s newsletter we challenged everyone to study for at least …
Baller Progress
What a difference a few months make! Ever since Roland’s post on German definitions in February we have been making massive progress on our dictionary definitions. The April newsletter calling for more ballers helped too; …
Skritter May Newsletter
In case you missed it, we sent out the Skritter May Newsletter yesterday (China link). It contains the monthly stats, mnemonic puzzles, four new features to dazzle the eyes, a project to use Skritter to …
Site Speedups
Over the past couple months, we’ve been working deep within the heart of Skritter’s client-server communications engine, trying to speed things up and improve reliability. While we haven’t yet solved every problem with occasional slowdowns, …
Last Day to Enter Contest
Just a reminder: this is the last day for you to enter this month’s extreme challenge. You can read the details in the blog post we posted 5 days ago, and for further information you …
Skritter Extreme Challenge Started
In the April Newsletter we announced a new and more extreme learning challenge for all the dedicated learners out there. As per our description in the newsletter, we wanted to alert the community that as …
Add API Updates
The page you use to add words from other services, such as MDBG or the Bookmarklet, has gotten some upgrades! Sometimes when you add a word with one of these tools, it turns out we …
Forum Upgrades
I’ve been working slowly but surely on the latest version of the list system. But it’s a rather large project so I put my procrastination tendencies to good use by blazing through my long list …
User Profiles
The Skritter community has come a long way since our site launched more than two years ago. The heart of the community, the forum, is always buzzing with language learning advice, discussions on how to …
Darlie (Black People’s Toothpaste) 黑人牙膏 (hēirén yágāo)
In 2010 there was a court case in China where Black People Toothpaste (aka Darlie) sued Whitemen Toothpaste for copyright infringement. The claim was that consumers could not tell the difference between the toothpastes because …