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 …

We’re almost ready to start the data migration. It will take a while, though, and we’ll need to test it online ourselves. Getting close! Scott will have more migration details when it’s ready for you. …

I’ve been breathing vocab definitions and seeing traditional variants when I close my eyes for just under a month, now. I’m tantalizingly close to finishing all the data preparation needed before we push the new …

My right ring finger, that is. Why? From typing on 6524 definitions in the past two weeks. Excluding the 3544 entries in HSK4, which I’ll correct later, that means I’m 86% done fixing up all …

Over the last few days, we’ve had Skritter slow down markedly every so often, and it looks like it’s due to Google App Engine being slow for long periods of time during the day. This …