The feedback is delicious

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Thanks for all the feedback, brilliant beta testers! The way you all are catching bugs and thinking of stuff we haven’t, well, it warms my heart. 谢谢,你们! For stroke recognition problems, please, just keep writing …

Beta!

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We’re now in beta! We’re telling our friends, you can tell your friends–they’ll probably kiss a baby, they’ll be so happy. There’s a lot of Skritter yet to come, but it works now and we …

Internet Explorer fixed

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I fixed Internet Explorer 7. Scott “fixed” IE 6 — it isn’t pretty, but it works. Other browsers should all be golden, too, and you can finally use keyboard shortcuts in IE, Linux, and Mac …

Oh man, I guess I need lunch now

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There, there’s the Oberlin first-year vocabulary. I’ve also fixed the way a lot of strokes draw, so things should be prettier. Please, send feedback if there are strokes still being drawn uglily.

New Everything

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Lots of changes! The site’s been redesigned and there are new front and home pages. The site’s new look, ‘Bluey’, was designed by George, as have been all our designs. The old styles Inkblot and …

New Lists

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I grunt happily, producing new vocab lists! We now have the first level of the 汉语水平考试 (HSK) characters, which is a general-purpose character list you can study if you’re not using a specific textbook, or …

Squigged out

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We mauled on the new strokes today, generating enough squigs so that the burritos can swarm again; the kitten is back. Thanks, everyone!

Up

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Well, I didn’t get any extra reading before Google fixed their end, and we got back online early. The new burritos need squigs on which to swarm, so we’ve turned squigging back on for now. …

Down today

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I went to take the practice page down today because I’m uploading about 1800 new characters and many new strokes, recognizer updates, and stroke order fixes… …only to discover that Google, always eager to help, …

Kitten Upgrade

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The system for choosing words and characters to study (aka Kitten) has had some needed tweaks done to it, now that it’s gone through a bit of testing since it went live a couple weeks …