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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Last week we started alpha testing a new social feature for the site, public user profiles, which could be accessed through the forum. They display your country, when you joined Skritter, the posts you made …

Having to wait for us to answer your email is a drag. Mostly it just takes too long, but having to actually ask us questions has the result of discouraging question-asking in the first place. …

A while back a Skritter user wrote some code to generate these really cool vocabulary lists that combine the HSK word lists and the Heisig Remembering the Hanzi character lists. The HSK lists (for the …

We’ve broken ten thousand characters in our database this month! George has been adding big batches of character lately, and he’s finished all the requested characters and gotten caught up at long last. I’m not …