I arrived back in the command center on Saturday the 27th and have been cleaning and organizing with grandmotherly fury. All of the cups have been washed, I dusted, I vacuumed, I did laundry, and …

I’m flying to Massachusetts in the morning to see my sweetheart, and I shall be the last: George and Scott have already reached their ancestral homes. The Skritter development complex is unmanned until George returns …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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!

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …