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Blog / August 2018

  • 31 August 2018In the works

    I am currently refactoring the "Edit Story" portion of the Study page to a Vue component. This means it will be easier to improve or make more interactive.

    • First, the Save button will no longer cause a page reload (unless I missed something important). This should improve performance a bit. This isn't strictly necessary now, but in the longer term the idea is to turn the Study page in a mini "single page app" : when the user clicks Prev / Next story, it should refresh the personal story & shared stories without reloading the page.

    • Then I can finally implement Display amount of characters left in real time when editing a story. This is a small usability improvement.

  • 25 August 2018It's München, not Munchen! (a very minor fix)

    The "Location" field in the user profile has been fixed today to accept non-english characters. This is a rather silly bug that has been there forever. Quite often new signups bump into this issue while trying to enter "México" or "München" for example, and would have to change the spelling to complete registration.

    Long story short, if you were annoyed by that you can update the location in Account Settings > Edit Account.

    The "Location" field is entirely optional. It is only seen on the "Who's Reviewing?" page. It's just nice to see where people are from. -- This fixes issue #141 on Github.

  • 13 August 2018Blast from the Past - December 2006 !

    Found an old screenshot dated December 8, 2006. With browser chrome for full nostalgia effect!

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    Apparently saturated yellow and blue was all the rage those days. I chuckle to myself sometimes that each year I made the background color a little less saturated. If you look at the screenshot in this post from January 2015 you can see how the background color was still quite yellow! It took us 10+ years to get to where we are now! ... And look at that blue! What was I thinking?

    Were CSS gradients and drop shadows even a thing in those days? I remember we used tricks with small images to make small rounded corners. Internet Explorer 6 was still a thing, and at work I had to make websites that displayed properly on IE 5.5! (to be fair 5.5 was practically identical to 6).

    As you can see the index page used to feature a list of members reviewing flashcards that day. If you look carefully in the list you can spot member CharleyGarrett, who is still currently a patron (cf. patron list). My hat off to you sir! -- I can also spot at least one other member who was active on the forum yesterday ;)

    I have another screenshot from August 2007, with 199 members in the list and quite a few more names I recognize and still active on the forum today. Maybe I will post it later.

    Ah, I almost forgot. As you can see the website was originally named "Reviewing the Kanji". It was obviously a little nod at "Remembering the Kanji". I changed the name in March 2015, at which time the site got a nice refresh with a more muted header bar and background color we're seeing now.

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