All of a sudden all of the forum links show up blue in my browser, as if I'd never read those forum posts. The URLs now say "commonts=7" etc. instead of "comments=7". Is this part of some clever scheme to defeat enemy hackers?

Fixed in under a minute!

Now this page has three cormorants.

I like the new front page, but you could do away with "...from X lists". It's pretty meaningless, and just adds another number to confuse things.

You already understand the idea of "the words you have to review come from your lists". But that was a big misunderstanding for a long time, so we're trying to reinforce the idea in every place that we can. What do you think; does it convey the idea that the words to review are the same as the words due from all your lists?

@scott Thanks!

two things with the new "xy wrote 熊猫"
1. I don't see it, no idea why
2. I think Americans are more relaxed about online privacy related concerns, but 熊猫 could be anything...maybe you don't want everyone to know...

"1. I don't see it, no idea why "

This.

I also don't see it. And am undecided on wb's 2nd point.

And Nick, I still think it's a bit of unnecessary gobbledygook. I like the way you have "my words" at the top. That's simpler still, and is a lot more meaningful.

I don't see the "items reviews" widget either in Chrome or Firefox.

Whoops, another slight bug. It should be visible now.

I actually like seeing what everyone is doing, it's pretty cool.

@wb: Hmm, you bring up a valid point. We three think it's pretty cool, but we're biased since we always like seeing the site used a bunch. But if there are privacy concerns we could figure out ways to mitigate those. What do you guys think, do you mind having the characters you're learning whizzing by on the home page?

An new bug that's just popped up, I'm adding words from a list, but am unable to delete words I don't want. They just keep on appearing as "new words" even after I'm supposedly rid of them.

My main problem with "xy wrote XY" is that it's quite distracting. Marquee, animations and other stuff like this is a big no-no. Not on the home page, please.

Ah, that's due to a tweak I made to ensure that words just added from lists actually get added (there's a very very small chance a word will get skipped in a list if you happen to leave the practice page at the wrong time in the middle of adding a word). I'm disabling that safety check until I can figure out a better way to do it.

I can't see a link to the general forum page, http://www.skritter.com/forum, on the new homepage. Am I missing it, or is it not there? If it isn't, I think that it definately should.

I really like to see the characters people are studying on the homepage, but it would be much more useful if it was bigger and stopped on a mouse-over so you could add new characters or words directly to your queue.

Maybe the characters alone (without the user name) would allow for a larger font?

it would be pretty cool if they character displayed the way it was drawn, for those who use raw squigs, this new feature is a nice touch

thomas' idea is good

And maybe without adding characters in real time, just the list of the characters that have been studied until the page was loaded?

I dont like Right now on Skritter, is not useful and is dizzying.

Agree with jlm2jlm2. Otherwise, the new home page is fine. Need a little time just to adjust to it.

I agree about the dizzying effect.

Real time with all going through Skritter is just too much to handle in any useful way. Would 'Recently on Skritter' be more appropriate?

How about a filter for 'word toughness level' and show recently studied words or characters in a slower slide-slow?

Animated, as g1itch said, would be awesome, but not essential (and might be too much like nciku's homepage).

I agree with the recent comments about Right now being dizzying. Does it really need to show every single item that's being studied? The total number of items studied doesn't seem like a useful number to me either.

If it were slowed down and the text made big enough to read comfortably, that would be great.

Otherwise, the new home page looks good.

"I really like to see the characters people are studying on the homepage, but it would be much more useful if it was bigger and stopped on a mouse-over so you could add new characters or words directly to your queue." (Thomas)

Exactly. The widget is great, but a mouse-over stop is almost essential.

And, for all the poor fellows who do not use the Chrome "Zhongwen" extension yet, make the characters clickable.

Let me be a dissident here. Since the widget doesn't appear on the study page, why does it matter if it's distracting? I think it's potentially quite motivating to see other people working hard. In a perfect world I would prefer to see leaderboards for this purpose, but the widget is a step in the right direction.

But really I spend such a small fraction of my time on the home page that it doesn't really affect me one way or another. (I usually go directly to the study page or the forum with a bookmark.)

James

Would it be easy to filter the "Right now" by one of wrote/toned/etc.?