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 …

Even the best internet connections have hiccups, and our servers occasionally do, too. It’s not always easy to tell when there’s been a connection slowdown or interruption while practicing on Skritter until a few reviews …

Here’s another recent upgrade to the site: the My Words search now includes words that have a given character in it. If you search for a single character, you’ll get back not only the character, …

As an alternative to typing the pinyin to answer Chinese reading prompts, we’ve now added the grading buttons to those prompts. This allows you to use a more flashcard-like style if you don’t want to …

New feature just added last week ago: you can now export your starred words. This has been asked for a few times, has been on the to do list for a while, and is finally …

春节快乐! (chūnjié kuàilè, Happy Chinese New Year!) Happy year of the Rabbit! Did you have a chance to check out this years’ CCTV New Year’s Evening Gala? Every year hundreds of millions of Chinese people …

Sometimes you just want to do writing prompts for a while, without having to switch gears and think about tones or definitions. Or maybe you want to minimize switching between keyboard and pen/mouse, so you …