Hey everyone! Here’s a quick late month update to go over some of things we’ve done over the past week or two.
Creatonaut 1.1
I’m glad to announce that Creatonaut 1.1 is out and rolling out now! We’ve added some new features and made a bunch of bugfixes but most importantly of all, you can now create each skill’s respective guidebooks – much like the tips or notes section of other apps.
The guidebooks were originally going to be .pdf files within the app but we’ve decided to opt for a built in guidebook creator and editor that’ll have fixed formatting to ensure that guidebooks will look and feel similar across Lingonaut instead of being down to each volunteer and specific pdf or word processor they might be using which would lead to inconsistencies when it came to fonts, sizing, how vocabulary lists and tables are presented, text and background colours along with other issues like accessibility.
Compared to Microsoft Word or Pages or Google docs or whatever else, Creatonaut’s guide editor is also built with ease of use for the purposes of teaching languages in mind, with easy access to accents and special characters. Attaching each guidebook to each skill is done automagically in the background so volunteers won’t have to worry about doing it themselves anymore.
We’ve also laid the groundwork for Creatonaut 1.2, which will add lesson and guidebook previewing so you’ll be able to see just how your guides and lessons are displayed within lingonaut as if it’s running on a phone right from within Creatonaut! This will let you make changes accordingly if it turns out that formatting or questions which might have looked fine in the editor don’t actually work so well in practice.
You can find Creatonaut on launchpad, until its shiny new page is ready!
Of course, learning how to use the new guide editor will be explained within…
Wiki entries
We’ve had a wiki system available on lingonaut.app ever since the launchpad update, but haven’t had any articles up. We talked about it in previous blog posts but as a quick refresher, the wiki will contain articles not just about Creatonaut, but technical info on Lingonaut, explanations on how different apps and parts of the Lingonaut project and platform work, and will serve as a central knowledge repository to go to when you find yourself stuck on something.
We’ve got our first wiki entry up for the guidebook editor in Creatonaut! Go have a look !
We hope to add more wiki entries for every aspect of the Lingonaut project as we get closer to launch.
Reddit AMA
I’m sure you’re already aware and probably learned about us from the AMA we held on /r/duolingo ! I’d like to thank the moderators of the subreddit for allowing us to hold the AMA and to keep the peace within the thread. I’d also like to thank our own Community managers and ambassadors on the /r/lingonaut subreddit and discord for handling all the influx of new members!
I hope that those of you who had questions answered found them satisfactory and those who didn’t get a chance can always find us on our discord and ask there! It’s great to see all the new faces, we passed 1000 /r/lingonaut members, and now have over 2300 discord members, as well as recently surpassing 400 forum members too. It’s great that the community is growing and I hope to continue to see it do so.
New Patrons
Thank you to all the new patrons who’ve pledged to help us continue our mission! Without all of you none of this would be possible. If I’ve forgotten to add you to the discord channel, please DM me and I’ll get your role assigned.
If you haven’t yet pledged but are able to do so, you can find us at https://patreon.com/lingonaut , anything you can send our way is appreciated and sorely needed to keep The Lingonaut Project afloat.
That’s all for now! We’ll see you here next month!
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