Trina has brought upon us a harbinger of baby-ness. Miles, the baby infant, is super effective at distracting George and Scott. He also stops crying when you play the soothing lullaby of “vacuum cleaner,” as …
The Rearchitecturization is Underway
We’re heavy into rearchitecturization right now, almost completely reworking most of how data is stored, how characters, words, and tones are differentiated, how vocab lists work, the vocab list page, how loading words is done, …
Chagrin Falls and Refactoring
Last Friday we visited Chagrin Fall’s Gurney Elementary School to get some younger users trying Skritter. It turns out that their elementary school students don’t learn characters, which we might have predicted. Apparently the focus …
Forum is up!
I’ve mauled most of yesterday and today on the forum, which is now up (if not completely done). Check it out and let’s start some discussion!
Bugpocalypse
We’ve heard a lot of feedback from many excellent new users over the past week, since John Pasden mentioned us on Sinosplice, which is very exciting. Many bugs have been quashed, many more have been …
New Login System
Just finished building a new authentication system; you can now sign into Skritter with a password instead of through Clickpass. You can also create an account with a password from the login page and if …
Increasing shininess
A few more updates to the way things are drawn. Squigs fade out evenly, instead of with circular blotches. They should also be a bit more even when drawing. Completed characters have a 3D look, …
Shouldn’t have left me alone
I’ve changed the way strokes animate, so that they start snapping into place as you write them, rather than all at the end. This should help with writing more complex characters, because you won’t run …
Back and hungry
The two days of conference were more of a blast than the two days of 17-hour driving were a drag. Almost immediately after getting back and suiting up to accept the Innovation Fund award, we …
Live from CLTA!
We’re here in Florida conferencing it up. Things are going very well and we’re enjoying the lack of snow. We’ll be back next week, with a long drive back on Sunday. Too bad we’ll have …