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FORUMS!

I’m super excited to announce that I’ve launched forums on Quizlet. I announced my intention to build them back in March, but never got around to finessing the administration parts of it until recently.

Why forums? Because they’re oh-so-useful. They can provide communication in a way that discussion can’t. Last week, during my finals, I wished Quizlet had forums when my entire French class was studying at the same time, and we needed to talk about which words were going to be added to our test at the last minute. Before forums, we had to do kludges like this.

Each group has its own private forum, only viewable to members of its group. Group admins can delete individual posts and whole threads in their forums, as well as make stickies and close topics. These forum threads will be displayed in the group page as well as well as the main forum section.

There are also public forums, accessible to anyone. The goal with these is to become a language forum, where users can ask vocabulary questions and discuss usage. These forums will be closely moderated by myself and NeilKelty. Note: there is no “Lounge” forum, and I currently have no intention of making one.

By the way - I’m going to “soft launch” them today, meaning that they’re a little green and not thoroughly tested. So you can only get there through your group page or by a direct link to http://quizlet.com/forums … In the next few days — possibly tomorrow — there will be a link among the “My Dashboard” and “Create Set” links.

The more feedback you all have on this the better. Send in your comments!

P.S. Perhaps you’re wondering about the new Learn mode. Well I was using it to study for my finals this past week and it’s very sexy and all but it just isn’t as useful and functional as the current one. The current one has problems, sure - it can get very stop-and-go when a lot of people are online - but it’s proven to work well. I just want to make sure the new one is better than the old one.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm by Andrew and is filed under New Features. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

60 Responses to “FORUMS!”

  1. January 27th, 2008 at 7:11 pm Anonymous:

    Thank you for spending so much of your free time to put new features into Quizlet. It´s really appreciated.

  2. January 27th, 2008 at 8:01 pm mickey:

    i’d just like to say thanks so much for doing all of this; you have no idea how much Quizlet has helped me. im also really impressed with the way youve improved this and made it so big. in addition, i kind of like the way the learn mode is now better than the other idea you had…it just didnt seem practical(except for the accents part). thanks again!

  3. January 27th, 2008 at 9:03 pm :):

    Andrew, you’re the best!

  4. January 28th, 2008 at 6:36 am Rachel Carson:

    Hey, guys whats up?

    -Rachel

  5. January 28th, 2008 at 12:07 pm Anonymous:

    Awesome!

  6. January 28th, 2008 at 1:05 pm BananaizaFunnyFruit:

    That’s so cool!!! good work I’m so excited for the new learn mode and the forums are amazing!

  7. January 28th, 2008 at 4:37 pm laxboy:

    how about a link in the general forums to language forums so we can have Japanese, Latin, German, Chinese, etc.

  8. January 28th, 2008 at 5:03 pm Cheese person:

    i found it plus where is mit?

  9. January 28th, 2008 at 8:32 pm Andrew:

    Just made some small upgrades:

    • Now features “On” icons just like on other parts of Quizlet.
    • Ads! :twisted:
    • Access to your symbols next to the post box.
  10. January 28th, 2008 at 9:33 pm micah:

    booo :( ads are evil :PP glad to see they aren’t all that visible and nice upgrades and features =]

  11. January 29th, 2008 at 4:18 am jahleel page:

    ummm okayy?

  12. January 29th, 2008 at 11:02 am michelleawawn:

    think u all 4 sending and posting these commentsn on my page

  13. January 29th, 2008 at 4:11 pm Cheese person:

    bad ads plus WHERES MIT

  14. January 29th, 2008 at 6:00 pm humphycoconut:

    I really like quizlet it helps me learn
    my spelling and other stuff
    i’ve been typing wierd stuff to though,
    only a few though for the past days.

  15. January 29th, 2008 at 6:39 pm James:

    Yay! Forums~
    Social networking next :D

  16. January 29th, 2008 at 7:37 pm Bungalo:

    What the **** are froums

  17. January 31st, 2008 at 8:38 am sophie:

    “it’s very sexy and all ” of course because any time of studying is sexy

  18. January 31st, 2008 at 1:35 pm Nick:

    very sweet! I would suggest maybe not replacing the current learn mode, but instead perhaps adding a secondary learn mode?

    [Learn - Classic]
    [Learn - Sexy]

    or something?

    thanks!

  19. January 31st, 2008 at 4:15 pm Morgan:

    i wanna chat

  20. February 1st, 2008 at 5:27 pm RJ:

    For those of you who don’t know where MIT is, stands for “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” so, I think MIT is in Massachusetts.

  21. February 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 pm Anonymous:

    Uh, Andrew, can you please give a more detailed description of the forums? Well, what I mean is I don’t quite understand the whole idea. And, what does it mean when a forum is sticky?

  22. February 2nd, 2008 at 3:26 pm hottgirl:

    hey whatz up? does anyone wanna send me a message? i’ll talk to u about anything and i mean anything! :)

  23. February 2nd, 2008 at 6:39 pm Chris N:

    Thank you so much! I so wish I had forums for my Latin midterm. Quizlet ROCKS!

  24. February 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 am kate:

    how do u do em

  25. February 4th, 2008 at 12:15 pm MayMay:

    This site is amazing! It really helps with my grades. :D

  26. February 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pm Cheese Person:

    chris n alex has something to say

  27. February 4th, 2008 at 1:41 pm Cheese Person:

    ill tell u on the bus

  28. February 4th, 2008 at 4:36 pm Anonymous:

    ok, Andrew please show me all the smileys on quizlet it would be much easier if i knew’em

  29. February 6th, 2008 at 10:05 am invader_zim:

    quizlet rox! vocab help and discussion places, what more could i want?

  30. February 6th, 2008 at 10:25 am snoopy boy:

    yo quizlet iz da funnest web eva! yo u should go todis website iight

  31. February 6th, 2008 at 1:31 pm Anonymous:

    You all rock!

  32. February 6th, 2008 at 1:38 pm sportgirl123:

    cool forums!
    :) :cool:

  33. February 7th, 2008 at 5:42 am elmiragirl92:

    Hey im bored ne one wanna talk????

  34. February 7th, 2008 at 1:54 pm emo 101:

    you are all odd

  35. February 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pm VJ:

    forums are what make a website!!

  36. February 7th, 2008 at 6:59 pm Roxy:

    Yay, i guess……….i don’t really care

  37. February 8th, 2008 at 7:16 am forgotten emo angel:

    life suxs

  38. February 8th, 2008 at 2:08 pm XXyerdzXX:

    this is awsome

  39. February 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am dumbdrops:

    quizlet is awesome! Thanks Andrew!

  40. February 10th, 2008 at 5:20 am Anonymous:

    hey andrew sorry to bot her u but culdyou make it where you can see how many peoples have viewed your set thanks KiCKER

  41. February 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm Anonymous:

    sorry its typed mistakly

  42. February 12th, 2008 at 3:01 pm quizlet rocks:

    i <3 quizlet

  43. February 12th, 2008 at 4:56 pm kat:

    wat r forums?????

    wat do they do?????

    :)?
    kAt

  44. February 12th, 2008 at 7:28 pm peter:

    why did quizlet randomly go down today?

  45. February 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pm VJ:

    Hey all join my group, the forum group!

  46. February 13th, 2008 at 5:51 pm Drummer:

    hi

  47. February 14th, 2008 at 6:00 am KKK:

    hola people!!!!!!!!

  48. February 14th, 2008 at 7:16 pm Nik:

    Fantastic, Andrew! As usual, you’ve put a lot of time and thought into this, and I’m sure it’ll be great.

  49. February 16th, 2008 at 9:16 am Anonymous:

    hey andrew, can u make it so that people can’t go looking in your dashboard and viewing all o’ ur groups and sets + stuff. thanks loads

  50. February 16th, 2008 at 9:17 am Anonymous:

    can u make a new game?

  51. February 16th, 2008 at 1:59 pm I'd rather keep that personal!:

    Forums are so useful-if something is changed like the date of the big history test I’d rather not spend the day before the test studying my butt off only to find out its been delayed! Being able to poste is a life-saver!
    Thnx :)

  52. February 20th, 2008 at 6:54 am Meriina.!:

    Yay i love the forums!

  53. February 21st, 2008 at 3:38 pm Mad:

    hi what are forums from shcs come on what are foums tell me NOW!?:?::!:

  54. February 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm :) Smile!:

    FORUMS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT JOB ANDREW! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK :D :) :lol: :mrgreen:

  55. February 21st, 2008 at 6:08 pm AJA01:

    OMG!! Thanks SO much- LUV IT!! You’re the best!!

  56. February 22nd, 2008 at 6:04 am Mad:

    what are forums ppl!!!!!

  57. February 23rd, 2008 at 3:39 pm :) Smile!:

    Ok, people for the last time. Forums are like digital bulletin boards-to post news, events, etc. They are commonly used to get the word around when a date like big test is moved it helps everyone know instead of having to make into an inconvient set thing-y (see “kludges like this”). Instead you just make a forum for your group, type in what you want to say, and I’d probably put a discussion message that says to look at your new forum for updates or something so your group members know. Does that clear it up for ya??? :) :p :D :lol: :mrgreen:

  58. February 23rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm :) Smile!:

    BTW-for an example see “forums” in the article Andrew wrote above! :) :P :D :lol: :mrgreen:

  59. February 23rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm :) Smile!:

    It is in the first sentence-I’m super excited to announce I’ve launched *forums* on Quizlet.

  60. March 9th, 2008 at 4:23 pm Anonymous:

    i still dont get what the point of them is!

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