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Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

italki — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:38:46 -0000

Hi Lana -- if you want to post for arabic lessons -- we recommend posting on the "Arabic help offered" group.
http://www.italki.com/group...
If there are students of Arabic looking for help, they'll definitely see it there.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

italki — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:36:05 -0000

Hi Pritamlama -- we've been trying to deal with this issue. Some countries and email providers seem to have problems with receiving italki emails. We're trying to resolve this issue. The only other suggestion we have is to sign up with another free email provider (like gmail, yahoo, etc.).

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

lana_l93 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:42:31 -0000

hi i am new arabic teacher if anyone intrest with arabic learning please feel free to contact me on italki.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

kaiwending — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:22:47 -0000

I feel there have many chinese peoples want to join your group,but its difficult to find your website and we can not talk with language change person directly,there have not some information like MSN,SKYPE,.......

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

RnRfreakz — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:56:18 -0000

-Regarding to this concern

RnR, Eventually we plan to make your homepage even more of an aggregator of your italki activity, like a lifestream of all your italki actions--that's why the Blackboard and Q&A have been integrated, because we've started moving in that direction. If you think they should be separated, please explain why.

-in my opinion it would be more comfortable to separate them to be more organized and easily to be read all comment board in it's own stream as of the Q&A. Thanks for replying to this concern.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

pritamlama — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:36:40 -0000

italki doesn't support all e-mail providers. it doesn't send confirmation emails to some sites, 4 examlpe www.inbox.com

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

Guest — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:12:18 -0000

Mike, In order to see which of your language partners are online, you only need to click "Friends" on the top pink menu and the ones listed at the top, with the green light next to them are online.

I think over time you'll get more comfortable with the new site design and find that it helps to focus on the goal of the site: learning foreign languages. The menu change is intended to direct you to what you language you're trying to learn and the resources available on italki to help you learn it.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

Guest — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:07:02 -0000

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

Guest — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:02:01 -0000

Troy, Connecting to the chat server is going very slowly. But if you're still having problems and its not connecting at all, please email: feedback (at) italki (dot) com for help troubleshooting the Chat problem.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

Mike — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:17:39 -0000

Personally ... I like the older version better , it was easier to see which one of your language partners were online , also it was easier to navigate through the site , although some of the changes are more convenient , I think overall the older version was a little more suitable , now if you could figure out a way to combine the two , I think it would make the site much less complicated .

Thanks , Mike J.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

RnRfreakz — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:18:44 -0000

The changes was quiet good, however the blackboard and the Q&A were mix together, hope you could re-organized the blackboard part and the Q&A part. Thanks

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

Troy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:15:22 -0000

I can't seem to get the chat feature to connect to the server. I have tried it in Firefox and Chrome, both very popular browsers, on Windows and Linux, on different machines and networks. It seems like there's definitely something wrong here.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

叶巧巧 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:01:59 -0000

I want to use it to make more friends .

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

tel3 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:27:00 -0000

An excellent site! Good luck ...

Take care of yourself!

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

sinem — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:11:17 -0000

italki is getting better day by day but i advise to be made one thing too, i think there should be a place to find friends by their e-mail address. i know we can find them with the e-mail but if its in ur friend list, or if u are in its friend list. it should be general of the site, not in the friend list.
we are able to find the friend by writing the name around the general side of italki, but we want to find them by writing e-mail adress without add to list.
i hope you can do something to fix it.

best regards

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

Cecile — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:03:03 -0000

Very nice revision

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

Cecile — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:59:40 -0000

I like the new design..very classy and convenient to use. Please keep up the good work.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

shimab — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:27:08 -0000

Hey can u pls also look the funtionality of this site like if user not online from last some minutes but in laguaues partner it show me online and when u click on it then u find it users just offline before some times(or some minutes) this is totally not fare....

When user sigg out out or user session expire just show offline (not show online on laguaues partner)

And oner more points calcualtion of time like last login is also not correct..

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

Maria — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:53:01 -0000

Thank you very much for the changes, the site became more comfortable and more understandable. But this is a little discomfort — I cannot see that somebody has added me as a friend, if I am not at the main page at the moment.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

italki — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:56:12 -0000

Give it a try, and let us know if you still feel this way...

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

italki — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:55:49 -0000

If you're still running into this problem about defaulting on other languages, please let us know. In general, the default will change if you change what type of language resources / partners / teaches you're searching for. In general, the default should be the language that you're learning (based on your profile). Let us know if you continue to run into this.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

italki — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:54:27 -0000

Hi Stephen --- we'll look into the video option on the profile page. We'll be modifying that as well in the coming weeks.
We thought there were a lot of functions that were being obscured in the previous version. Try using the new layout, and let us know if you still think it is worse than before. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

italki — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:52:37 -0000

We think that should be a CSS cache issue. If you can force a reload of the page, you should be able to see the new layout.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

Stephen Jones — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:23:18 -0000

I also preferred the older look. I can't understand why there is a need to change things that already work fine. Also, it's a pity we can not offer a video option in our profile page.

Re: Site Redesign – Focusing on Languages

tuyung — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:37:52 -0000

The site redesign looks like a little strange. And it's not so easy to use.