Just migrating my data, and looking forward to seeing all the changes. Thanks for all of your hard work: it really is impressive.

Hooray! We were all freakin' out, thinking something had broken in all of 5 seconds. :) Scott went to his server logs, Nick was arming his emacs, and then your blog post was so uplifting and positive!

PS I love the status reports whilst migrating. Reticulating Splines????!!!

Reticulating splines but no smoothing? (Or Yet More Smoothing?)

Anyway. The big button marked "MIGRATE" is still a link to study, and thus does not work if you have not migrated. As I found out the hard way.

Also, YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS.

Further reflections:

-Inkblot is nice.
-What is "eccentric flavor"? I didn't notice a difference.
-How did Skritter know my school?
-You'll want to update the FAQ now that you have custom lists.
-I think Google is having issues. My migration keeps stalling and it throws up an alert of the raw HTML of google's servor error page.


I'll probably post more when the migration finishes.

Doesn't "eccentric flavor" just add those little congratulations messages to the skritter pane? I tend to leave it off.

My migration is throwing up a few HTML alerts as well, but I'm persisting.

We're not sure what's going on with the HTML alerts; we're trying to trap errors, but some are getting through somehow. I guess yeah, just persist. Maybe tomorrow we'll have a stroke of insight and fix it, when we're less tired.

eleraama, I think you must have told Skritter your school at some point--it's not quite that smart. Also, inkblot was the first design and has been around forever.

We've fixed the link to /migrate, and re-enabled the code that's supposed to prevent one from practicing before migration is complete.

Yes, currently "eccentric flavor" is just extra messages when you finish a prompt in the Flash window.

From our logs, it looks like all migrations thus far have completed successfully (eventually) and people are practicing without visible errors. Scott and I are finishing a last-minute data transform that I forgot to do last week, and then we're going to go to bed. When we awaken, we'll again tend to our herd of bugs. Thanks for your patience, everyone!

It's so incredibly fast I feel like it's putting the stroke up before I even finish drawing it!

The home page looks a little funny to me now, I wonder if it loaded correctly. Everything's all piled up on the left of the screen, nothing but blank space to the right.

hi guys,

great upgrade, migration worked fine, the character drawing is really fast, thx. can't spot the "discussing chinese" vocab list, will uses as soon as available.

@Nicki,

This is the same for me too. What browser are you using? I find that it piles in Chrome, but worked fine in Firefox 3.

@nkdamatic Looking forward to using Discussing Chinese too! I'm using this book in my class.

You're right, I'm using Chrome.

The piling up happened to us too, but reloading while clearing the cache fixed that right up. Try using the shortcut Ctrl-F5 for that.

And the Discussing Chinese textbook is one of the lists we will put up today. Nick and I found out we needed to do one last bit of processing through all the lists, and we got through most of them before we hit a part we knew we couldn't finish before dawn. So we had to temporarily disable a handful of the lists late last morning (5am!) when we went to sleep. Once Nick wakes up (he is better at sleeping in than I ) he'll get right on that.

When skrittering a multi-character word, you used to be able to mouse-over the (initially blank) definition of the individual character if you couldn't remember which character it was supposed to be. Was that feature intentionally retired or will it be coming back? Or have I missed the new way to trigger it?

Yes, that's gone. Since multi-char words are more emphasized in this version, you can't know a word just by knowing the characters in it any more.

I haven't quite implemented the functionality
whereby a character isn't marked very wrong if you get the word that it's in wrong. Once I straighten that out, it should be okay to miss a character within a multi-char word when you forget the word, even if you know the character.

What will probably happen is that you'll be able to check the character definition, and it'll mark the word wrong and keep the character fine.

Skritter flies now, great work guys.

like they say in guilin: "Wo zai!!" no idea what the character for that zai is hehe. very fast

it only seems two of my lists don't appear anymore below the flash box although their characters since come up for reviewing.

two seconds of practice and i am already ecstatic thanks guys!!

Great upgrade !
I can't believe how fast it works.
Good job guys. It's impressive.

as my father-in-law just taught me: 比光速还快。
great job!