Good morning! It's been a rough day, with Quizlet experiencing its first major downtime ever. Quizlet is now back and rolling as normal. I believe the problem started around 6 AM, and has just been resolved at 12:45 PM. My sincerest apologies go out to everyone who couldn't use Quizlet this morning.…

How often do you crack open a dictionary when you see a word you don't know? Probably never. So, what can Quizlet do about that? More than you can possibly imagine. Muahahaa Friends, meet the awesome that is THE QUIZMARKLET: (to clarify, 'awesome' is a noun in colloquial teenage slang these days) (…

This past week I've been working on a lot of little things, fixing bugs and tweaking some text stuff. Thanks to everyone who has sent in bug reports - they've been very very helpful. But I'd like to take the opportunity to give a quick demonstration of a new game I'm working on for Quizlet - codenam…

So it's spring break. And I've been filming a zombie thriller instead of doing my homework! My bloodiness looked a lot more realistic when it was first applied, so that picture doesn't really do it justice. Anyways, I can post a link to the video when it's finished :). But that's just my day job. I…

I have some exciting things coming up for you guys. Forums! Each group on Quizlet will have its own private forum, and there will be several global forums. The current global forums are: Quizlet Suggestions and Vocabulary Help. There will be no casual hangout forum spot. Here are some screenshots I'…

I'm so relieved to have finally sent my Davidson scholarship application. It was a lot more work than I thought it would be...The UPS package I shipped contained 43 pages of juicy Quizlet secrets and documentation, plus a ~10 minute video of me prattling on about Quizlet. But that's not all - each o…

Quizlet is humming along as usual. Here are some cool announcements: Quizlet reached 10,000 users on Wednesday, March 16. Not too bad for 56 days of existence. I just added a wave of new improvements to Quizlet. Read on. I'm entering Quizlet for the Davidson Fellows scholarship. So far, I've writte…

Hey again. I'm working on a super-slick new preference for customizing your accents and symbols. Any language you enter will be supported. Click on the image below for a preview: You can enter as many symbols as you want, and they can be anything you want. If you want to enter a Japanese alphabet,…

After the serious philosophical contemplations in my last post, I thought I might freshen the mood with some fun statistics on how Quizlet is doing. But before I dive in I'd like to thank everyone for the huge flow of ideas coming in through the blog and the feedback box. It's a little overwhelming,…

A number of teachers have contacted me recently expressing concern about the Discussion and Private Message features. The recent poll also roused some complaints about the potential of a forum feature. So I'd like to take a moment to discuss the general social atmosphere of Quizlet and how I envisio…

Hi. There was a bug in learn mode this morning that was causing it to fail terrifically . Sorry, it was completely my fault. Not that it matters to anyone, but the problem was one character in my 30,000 lines of code. I found the right character to fix though :) It's fixed now. Thank you to the 17 p…

Because of the all the big changes listed below, many of the files on Quizlet have changed (71 of them, in fact). If you have any issues with Quizlet's looks or functionality, you probably don't have the right files. To make sure you have the latest copy of all the files, you'll need to empty your b…

Bugs are a fact of life for software programs, and Quizlet is no different. The extended 450-day testing cycle I put Quizlet through before it was launched to the public helped get rid of a vast majority of them, but there will always be those that get through. The feedback feature at the top-right…

I was browsing the database statistics this evening and noticed that there are now more than 20,000 discussion messages logged in the database. That's very surprising, considering there have only been 4,300 sets created. So I dug a little further and discovered 3 sets with over 3,000 messages each.…

This afternoon, the file for Learn mode get mysteriously wiped. I've restored it from my code repository and it should function fine now. I'm looking into the cause of this problem, and if you notice any other issues, post them here. I was making some small updates to Quizlet today, and some saving…

More than anything else, people are missing Menstrual Cycle. It's the most missed term on Quizlet, with 188 incorrect scores logged. That's just funny :) Also near the top of the list, is Jefferson City → Missouri. I guess we can call that the least well-known of the US State Capitals. Sorry, Jeffer…

I've got a sweet little demo video of a new feature I'm working on. Using 5 random terms of a set, the game scatters words and definitions all over the page and has you drag correct pairs onto each other. It's a game similar to Memory, but more fun. To compete with yourself, the game includes a time…

Quizlet passed 5000 registered users Monday night, all in just 19 days since launch! As I write this post, the current count is 5327 users, and 290 in the last 24 hours. Thank you to everyone who has blogged about it, referred their friends, and added their contributions to the rapidly growing datab…

A lot of people have been asking for some way to hook into Quizlet on other sites to use its data and functionality. This is, of course, a great idea. So I'm in the process of gathering ideas on what an API for Quizlet might do. So far, I think: Embeddable lists: JavaScript embedded code that displ…

Quizlet users - this is a technical post about the wonders of mootools, a programming framework I used to build Quizlet. Feel free to move along. Short story: Mootools is awesome because:- Above all, it's intuitive. You can read mootools code and it makes perfect sense. The code is compact. With e…