Hi, I don't know what to call it but are there any plans to extend any more 'social utilities' in skritter web?
Now you can show someones profile but not much more, there could be just simple functions like to add someone to a 'friends' list, so you can check out each others progress, study settings etc, maybe a message system, I don't know..
Not that I have many 'friends' nor is it too important to me but as a facebook user I'm just curious ;)

take care

I believe they did a poll on this a while back; around 80% didn't really care or downright didn't want them.

(I'm in the "Don't want" group myself.)

http://www.skritter.com/polls?limit=1&offset=19
http://www.skritter.cn/polls?limit=1&offset=19

Yes, we eventually want to play around with more social features like leaderboards, but none of them are high priority right now.

You can share your progress on Facebook and Twitter from the iOS app, in case you have an iPhone/iPad. I suppose you could give your twitter and/or Facebook IDs on your profile, and connect and follow other Skritter users that way.

Thanks, yes alanmd, although I dont want to spam friends on facebook who don't care anyway, a bit like spamming with 'runkeeper' and such ;)

No problem Nick, better work through the bugs list :)

Maybe set up a second Facebook account just for learning Chinese, and only add and spam other people who do care. Of course if you end up with zero friends on that account, then zero is probably the number of others who want these social features.

Ok.

@ mats from a Swede to another, can agree that it gets lonely to study Chinese in Sweden:-) A social activity that would be nice to have is something like Chinesepods groups. There you can start a group that members can join. Those groups covers topics such as grammar, study strategy, etymology etc. On Cpod this is very active and some of them produces a lot of very informative posts. On the other hand, you can get similar activity from QQ, 人人 etc. The activity on skritters forum is not as active as on e.g. chinese-forums, cpod etc. I am rather amazed that there are so very few grammar, word, etymology questions on this forum. Seems most of us are to shy to ask much about it or we use other sources. Have seen some on Chinese-forums that i believe are also skritter users. Same on Cpod.

When you come to this forum page and you see there is no sub forums, you quickly draws the conclusion that it is only for skritter related queries, I think that was the case for me.
But then I have not had much to ask yet, I'm just starting to get into grammar ;)

@Mandarinboy There is also the issue of duplication - why should Skritter forums attempt to fill a niche which a few other forums are obviously already handling decently? No shortage of good posts on Chinese-forums related to grammar and other Chinese/China miscellanous... I come here just for Skritter!