I’ve been collecting more textbook lists and am working on processing them, disambiguating their variant characters, adding missing words, and getting them online. In the next week or so, I’ll be uploading all of those, …

Thanks to the sinoknights over at ChinesePod, we now have a new set of Mandarin syllables. They sound great and are complete (except for neutral tones, which are hard to do in isolation, and erhua). …

The Genius is done and in final testing. I won’t upload it until the new front page goes up, possibly tomorrow or Saturday, but I’m excited so I’ll describe how awesome it’s going to be. …

I’ve just fixed most of the problem stroke recognizers. This includes tweaks to tone recognition, and you can draw a circle to do a neutral tone (or any shape that ends near where it starts, …

As suggested by Ge Daozhen, Ximeng, and ZachH, you can now click anywhere in the practice window to go to the next character when done, instead of having to go for the “next” button. The …

This week has been sort of slow. I returned back from a Colorado ski with my father and brother last Saturday. Nick has been taking a much needed rest the past few days, and Scott …

You may have noticed your avatar looks a bit different. We got tired of the old default avatar and have replaced it with 18 shiny new ones. Thanks to George for collecting them for us. …

Preliminary reports indicate that the Great Firewall has just taken things a step further and blocked skrit.appspot.com as well (all Google App Engine hosting) instead of just www.skritter.com (external App Engine domain). We’d set up …

Hear ye, hear ye! For many a week we have spread word throughout the land of a coming update, an overhaul of such magnificent proportions that it will satisfy all your feedback suggestions and all …

So, we were trying to put the new version up tonight, but we smashed into two brutal crabs. The first: extended App Engine downtime. I say downtime because after the scheduled maintenance was completed, it …