Hi Duke!

Your video and your new site look amazing! It was probably working when you posted this, and you're probably aware of this, but the site won't show me the example (its not public). Then I looked for more content in french, and that's not public either. The first document (when I looked) was "not found". I was about to overgeneralise, but then I noticed most other docs do work. Well, some of the guys have said that bugs follow me like the plague &8-P (they may not be bugs, they could be legitimate error messages, though).

I'm thrilled that you might be testing. I agree that the testing should not depend on some future features, theres more than enough there to test. Besides, if you guys wanted to test the site with chating, I wouldn't recomend adding it to your site for that, there must be plenty of public fora that you could use. The user accounts you'll need eventually, I guess, if you're going to be accepting public submissions on the site. (I didn't create one, but I did see the user creation form, so I guess you're getting there.)

Hugs, Jergas

• some twexts are now hiding by duke on Thursday August 06, @08:38AM

  Glad you like it. Just last week we blocked a lot of public access. Maybe a mistake. One of many. Why block public access? "If this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?" Exactly. Twext wants to be free, but the reality is that it is not free. We have user accounts, but we don't have tools to rate translation quality; suggested improvements; "ownership" parameters; tools to help users interact, etc. Such will be useful when both student and more expert translators use twext. We'd love to build such tools in response to testing what we have now. You're absolutely right that Skype etc can solve the chat problem. 3rd party Translation and pronunciation tools might also help our users/testers kick ass. BTW, we have some great news that Rodrigo Pera Ramirez is starting to add some "d'iiste" twexts (in Zapoteco language). Like China and India, México has 60+ languages. We are so very close to a good enough UI where they can all get twext =) And they can all get twext freely. But for the moment, many of "my twexts" need to hide, so they can help me take care of business. So Jason and I can keep the project alive. Many thanks to you, it is here, now.

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• fixed links (again and again and again) above by duke on Friday August 07, @02:55PM

  Also, it's Rodrigo Perez Ramirez, who has also added some Mixteco and Otomí twext. Very welcome news, as twext wants to serve between the many languages in México.

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