20 posts tagged “the linguist”
I just wanted to let everyone know about a few more updates we have made lately. Some of you have probably seen some of these things yourselves already.
First of all, we have now built our Member-Guest coupon program into the member area itself. This way you will be able to invite your friends for a free month on the system directly, without having to email us. You will see that when you click on the "Invite a Friend" button in the member area you will be able to input your friends' names and emails and they will be instantly mailed a link for a free month of Basic Membership. What is more, we will know that you recommended your friends and when they become an active paying member we will give you one free month for recommending your friends.
A few other small things we have done include adding a way for you to edit your Skype name in "my account" and additional statistics in your Progress Report. As usual, we hope you like these new features and make sure to "invite your friends"!
On a happy note, we have finally added a search field in The Linguist Library. It will search by content title and by keywords that are in the system. It is on the front page of the library and on the category pages as well. Let us know how you like it!
I realize my last post was on the same theme but I hope this is not going to become a habit! The login problems many of you experienced today were actually a different problem than the one that happened last week. Both problems are related to increased traffic to our site, however, and the need for us to better deal with this situation.
We have made adjustments to the site which should help in the short term. We are also planning to add an additional server at the end of next week which should help even more. I am very sorry for the inconvenience and I do appreciate your understanding.
Thank you to all of you who sent emails to let us know.
I just wanted to apologize to all of you who were unable to log in and were inconvenienced when our server went down yesterday morning. For some reason an error occurred in the database and the database shut down. We were able to repair the problem yesterday and everything is working fine now. Sorry for the disruption.
Many of you have been asking for us to add "next" and "previous" links to the bottom of our Discussions list so that you don't have to scroll all the way to the top of the page to see them. We're sorry it took so long to do this obvious thing but we have finally done it! Enjoy!
Just a quick post to let you know that we have now included all of our Linguist bloggers in the Member Blogging list on our home page including those of you in Japan who we were unable to add before. Again, if you don't see your posts in the list, make sure to send us your blog URL.
Here's a really neat addition to our Front Page. It's a list of all recent posts from The Linguist blogging community. You will find posts from Vox bloggers and non-Vox bloggers, from Linguist members and staff. If you don't see your posts in our list please let us know and we can make sure to add your blog feed into our aggregated list. We are currently having trouble adding some blogs from Japan but we hope to add these blogs soon. Let us know if you have a blog we don't know about so we can add it to our list!
Shashi posted this photo on his blog and was trying to identify our office.
You were close Shashi! I have circled our building in the thicker red line here.
Miko let me know about this nice review of our site. She also lists other interesting sites for learning Spanish.
I have a couple questions to ask you all about the system.
First of all, I wanted to ask about the blue buttons we added a few weeks ago. Do they make it clearer what steps to take or do they make it more confusing? On the one hand they stand out more but on the other hand we now have two different types of buttons on the site. Please let me know your thoughts.
Also, you'll have noticed that we changed the banner on the front page to the one with Humberto featured in it. We also reduced the number of links on the left side of the page. How do you like the banner and do you feel it is better or worse than what we had before? What other suggestions do you have for us that might make our page more attractive to first time visitors so that they will join and try the system?
Thank you for any thoughts or ideas you have. We know that if we can just get people to try the system, a majority will stay.
