Our DNS provider was under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack yesterday. Skritter was inaccessible. I hope the inconvenience was small. I doubt it will happen again; our provider is normally great, and it’s not their …
Your Very Own List and More
Just made a few changes to the item list in the Vocabulary tab. The left most column now has links to pages giving you various information about that particular character or word, and when you …
Peep pit
The three of us raised an important issue today at lunch, and it is this: if you had a pit full of marshmallow Peeps, and it was infinitely deep, how would scientists determine its infinitude? …
Your Very Own List; Numbers May Be Off
All right, the user item list is up and running on your Vocabulary tab. Check it out to see what you’re scheduled to learn, what you last studied, and what you know the least. This …
Sorry for Kirbies
Several bugs made it through today; apologies if you witnessed them. For brief periods, characters weren’t loading; for the length of the movie Logan’s Run, tone recognition was whack, with what I thought were impossible-to-occur …
Large kraken pancake
I’ve started a user’s guide to explain what the buttons do and such, until our demo video can show their tiny glories. Check it out, and please let us know how easy it was for …
Fixes, Choosing What To Learn
Fixed a few things today. Nick got the demo to work once again, and also removed the red strokes so they shouldn’t cause confusion anymore. Also, the lists you choose now determine what characters you …
Testing at Western Reserve Academy
We spent several hours yesterday beta testing at Western Reserve Academy, courtesy of Ms. Kathryn Mueller, Chen Laoshi, and the Burton D. Morgan Foundation. The students that used Skritter liked it, but had a whole …
Ludicrous Speed
We made some significant improvements to the speed of the app today. First we fixed the program so that it no longer slows down over time. Before it would always slow down gradually, especially on …
Improves children’s attractiveness by up to 20%!
I’ve uploaded what should be a fix for the intermittent freezes of the Flash app that require a reload, like when it pauses and won’t load the next word, or when you write a squig …
