We’re Back!

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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)

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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!

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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?

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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 …

Yookoso!

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Some more textbooks for you Japanese students! I just uploaded Yookoso!: An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese, and Yookoso!: Continuing with Contemporary Japanese. These are beginner textbooks like Genki and Nakama, so we have a fair …

Definition (and Reading) Practice

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As many of you have noticed, definition practice has been added! We put it up a few days ago and have been ironing out some of the bugs. It’s still in testing but if you’re …

New Practice Interface

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For the past year, and some odd months, the practice page had remained largely the same. Every time you would go to practice, you would be greeted by the following screen: It was great, but …

Super Simple Custom Search

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I just uploaded a very straightforward search engine for the custom lists. I’ve been unable to coax Google Custom Search to index our custom lists properly, so I made this to hold us over until …

Help us Pick a Tagline!

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So for the past few weeks we have been trying unsuccessfully to come up with a tagline for Skritter. We were wondering if our users might have some more shiny brain nuggets. So we propose …

Brushing dirt off

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In the past couple days, we’ve fixed many bugs with adding words, the space bar, review scheduling, audio clipping, session time when left on overnight, multiple pinyin display, Linux text alignment, and a bunch of …