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What changes are currently pending?

DaXia   March 12th, 2011 4:48a.m.

Hi!
It would be interesting to see what changes/updates that you are working at atm, and also some sort of timeframe.
A feature that have been requested many times would an "updates" page, where you could write what updates that you guys working at right now, and plan to do in the future. This way we could check that page first before suggesting features here, since a lot of the bugreports etc reported here are stuff that someone else already has pointed out.

It wouldn't have to be anything fancy, just something like:

Within 2 weeks:
*Adding the ability to write your own example sentences.
*Adding a word search feature for vocab lists.

Within 1 month:
*Making skritter an addon for firefox
*Adding support for Playstation3

Within a year:
*Making skritter the only viable way of studying Chinese.

In the future:
*World domination

etc etc

This would take skritter.com to a whole new level, making it even more professional. It would also make us users more happy, looking forward to the pending changes. And it would save you the time of answering requests that you've already answered 10 times before.

nick   March 12th, 2011 8:49a.m.

We've gone back and forth about whether we want to do this, and we might do something like it. The problem with giving a roadmap is that our time estimates are usually pretty terrible (like most developers'). So in order to not disappoint, we'd have to give super extra long time estimates, which might also mislead or be not very useful. And in order to list most of the features which are on the to-do list, they'd have to not have time estimates at all, since we can't possibly do all the things on the list--we just don't know which ones we'll get to yet.

So we might do a public issue tracker, which covers known feature requests and bugs, as opposed to our current private one. We're not sure yet.

For specific features which users ask about, we are soon to start automatically pointing users asking about them to relevant FAQ entries. This should help with the problem of not knowing about previous feature requests.

shinyspoons   March 12th, 2011 9:10a.m.

Since feature requests are so common having a request page like anki's - http://anki.uservoice.com/forums/63835-general -would be good.

If you cant put a date on it at least you could have working on it now, high priority etc.

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