Small improvements to the site

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Clarence Olivier

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Aug 27, 2011, 6:07:01 AM8/27/11
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Hi,

I think Langolab is a fantastical idea, thanks for creating it!

That being said, I have a couple of suggestions.

First, let a logged in user change his native language, because he
might have forgotten to set it at the beginning, or he might have 2 or
more (Not sure if setting more than one native language is even
possible, but it should possible).

Second, I suggest clicking on the Langolab logo leads to http://www.langolab.com/,
as it's standard practice on many websites.

Third, let user change the language they want to speak in on the
conversation interface.

I'm trying to get the word around about langolab (so far I've gotten a
few English speakers wanting to learn Japanese and viceversa). Let's
have as many people as possible know about this possibility!

Clarence Olivier

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Aug 27, 2011, 8:10:51 AM8/27/11
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I believe in the current implementation of LangoLab one IP address can
count as many visits. I think this should be changed too.

Adam Duston

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Aug 27, 2011, 2:39:13 PM8/27/11
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Clarence, Thanks very much for your message!

> First, let a logged in user change his native language, because he
> might have forgotten to set it at the beginning, or he might have 2 or

Okay, we have a ticket for this: https://github.com/8planes/langolab/issues/5

> more (Not sure if setting more than one native language is even
> possible, but it should possible).

Okay, got it: https://github.com/8planes/langolab/issues/7

> Second, I suggest clicking on the Langolab logo leads to http://www.langolab.com/,
> as it's standard practice on many websites.

Just did this and redeployed.

> Third, let user change the language they want to speak in on the
> conversation interface.

Can you please be more specific about this? Do you mean that this
screen http://grab.by/aNGa should ask you what language you want to
speak? (I'm guessing you think this will be useful for people who
specify multiple native languages).

> I believe in the current implementation of LangoLab one IP address can
> count as many visits. I think this should be changed too.

Are you talking about these numbers on the landing page? http://grab.by/aNGc

> I'm trying to get the word around about langolab (so far I've gotten a
> few English speakers wanting to learn Japanese and viceversa). Let's
> have as many people as possible know about this possibility!

Thank you very much! I'm adding a scheduling system today or tomorrow,
I think. This should increase the chances of collisions occurring.

Thanks again for your feedback/support.

Adam

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Clarence Olivier

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Aug 27, 2011, 3:34:00 PM8/27/11
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It's great to see another developer passionate about his creation!

> Can you please be more specific about this? Do you mean that this
> screenhttp://grab.by/aNGashould ask you what language you want to
> speak? (I'm guessing you think this will be useful for people who
> specify multiple native languages).

I'm talking about this screen: http://i.imgur.com/WDQBR.png. If
someone wants to change the language they are practicing, they don't
have to change their current page, just choose the next language they
want to speak in that page, whereby they will automatically switched
to connect with native speakers of that language

>
> > I believe in the current implementation of LangoLab one IP address can
> > count as many visits. I think this should be changed too.
>
> Are you talking about these numbers on the landing page?http://grab.by/aNGc
>

Yes. Although I guess at the beginning is good to have those numbers
to encourage newcomers to keep checking the site ^_^.

> > I'm trying to get the word around about langolab (so far I've gotten a
> > few English speakers wanting to learn Japanese and viceversa). Let's
> > have as many people as possible know about this possibility!
>
> Thank you very much! I'm adding a scheduling system today or tomorrow,
> I think. This should increase the chances of collisions occurring.
>

Sounds great, I can't wait to see how that works!

I'm happy to give feedback on software I believe has potential to
become a powerful language learning tool.

Kind regards,

Clarence

Adam Duston

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Aug 27, 2011, 4:49:14 PM8/27/11
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> It's great to see another developer passionate about his creation!

I'm way more excited about you -- the users.

> I'm talking about this screen: http://i.imgur.com/WDQBR.png. If

Okee, cool, made ticket for this: https://github.com/8planes/langolab/issues/8

Adam

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