Things around the Skritter base are humming with activity. Blair and Garrett are mauling through assignments like hungry bears looking for kidsnacks in the woods. So here’s what’s new: Changing the Challenge Reward If you’ve …
Passwords and Autocomplete
Hey all, minor note. We’ve changed the way logging in works for security and speed purposes, but it might break some of your guys’ autocompleted passwords. Basically for all browsers except Firefox (because of the …
Newsletter, T-Shirt Winners, Forum Emails
The Skritter January Newsletter has just gone out! If you aren’t subscribed and want to be, or vice versa, you can change your email settings. We’ll be emailing the 43 T-shirt winners tomorrow. (43!) The …
Hidden Readings, Progress Bars
Today, we uploaded two new features. One is a new prompt mode for writing prompts, where the reading (pinyin or kana) is hidden at first. This lets you key off the definition (and sometimes sound) …
JLPT 2,3 and 4 Are Up
I’ve just uploaded a new set of vocabulary to study: the Japanese Language Proficiency Test Lists! These are the Japanese version of the HSK lists, except the numbers are reversed (4, most basic, 1, most …
A New Look and more Detail
Well, as you might have noticed, we’ve changed the look of the site. Several of you had mentioned that the grey background looked a little … Atari circa 1989 … desktop computer circa 1994 … …
We’re Back!
Well actually, we’ve been back for a few days, but Scott returned earlier this afternoon, which means that the trifecta is complete and we can resume operating at full tilt. Two updates from the Skritter …
And … we’re out (for the holidays)
Just to let everyone know, the Skritter team is about to leave the building for our homes, hearths, and eggnog. Nick left for home yesterday, Scott left earlier today, and I’m out of here tomorrow. …
Tagline Winners!
As promised, we have made our determination for the Skritter tagline, and the winner was actually submitted by two users: Emily ImhoffAlex Blackwelder Both of them receive 2 years of free Skritter time for their …
First Newsletter! Thoughts?
We just sent out the first ever Skritter newsletter! In this issue we included a summary of last month’s work, coming features, a short interview with one of our first ever involved users, thinkbuddha, news …