Welcome to the WNWL 2! A monthly wrap-up of all the things that have happened this month with The Lingonaut Project!
Wave 4 is out and the beta opens up!
After plenty of testing and re-testing along with continued development that meant we allowed access to the Translatonauts first; I’m proud to say that the Lingonaut is now open for everyone!
That’s not to say that we’re slowing down, big patches will continue to drop every few days that address bugs, unlock new features and add new languages. A revamped Czech and brand new Finnish course will be the first up!
We currently have 1000 slots available for everyone which will increase to 5000 and then finally uncapped once we’re comfortable that the infrastructure can handle it.
We’ve already had to upgrade our server hardware to handle all the new Lingonauts!
Please visit the beta page for up to date details and the testflight link or you can take a look at the roll-out table below*:
| Date | Wave | Eligible Testers |
|---|---|---|
| 12/05/2025 | 1 | Venus Tier Patrons (1 key) Terrestrial/’Super’ Parity Patrons (1 + 1 key for a friend) Max Parity/O.W.L Buster Patrons (1 + 2 keys for friends) |
| 01/06/2025 | 2 | Mercury Tier Patrons |
| 13/06/2025 | 3 | Translatonauts |
| 20/06/2025 | 4 | First come first served up to 1000 people |
| 10/07/2025 | 5 | First come first served up to 5000 people |
| 24/07/2025 | 6 | Everyone can join! |
*Subject to change at any time depending on state of development.
One month and 16 builds later:
The number of installs can only be surpassed by the number of crashes! But do not be fooled by the number, people are helping us squash the bugs that appear before we launch fully for a perfect bug-free and polished experience.
Our friends with iPhone SE or iPhone 12/13 mini in particular will be pleasantly surprised by the fixes made to accommodate the smaller screen size!
You can view the changelogs for this month’s updates below:
Lingonaut BETA 1.0 Build 16 Changelog:
- Audio 1, 2, 3 recording replaced with actual words,
- Blank answers can no longer be submitted,
- ImagePick questions now have a maximum size on iPad/Mac,
- PickOneAudio fits on iPhone SE,
- PickWords has fading mask to better indicate the options are scrollable,
- Added audio to PickOne question type,
- Reduced padding around submit buttons and reduced size on iPhone SE,
- Timer stops as soon as Lesson is finished,
- Fixed streak fire Lottie not playing,
- Fixed unnatural text like “The Jim is speaking”,
- Added show recently searched on Search view,
- SpellingPick progress bar fits on iPhone SE and iPhone mini models,
- Added mascot scaling to fit on smaller screens,
- Completed lesson progress persists between app launches,
- XP now shows in leaderboard,
- Stats like XP will save now,
- Inappropriate display names will now be rejected,
- Uses our own subdomain to route authentication handlers instead of just the free google one,
- Setup stages now scale on all screen sizes,
- Padding scales on all screen sizes,
- And more!
Lingonaut BETA 1.0 Build 15 Changelog:
- Home Screen scales correctly on iPhone SE,
- More questions fit on SE/mini,
- Buttons scale for SE/mini,
- Lingonaut compiles for Mac via Catalyst rather than running iPad version with compatibility mode,
- All questions work again,
- Significant progress in Profile view,
- All users signing up will get the early adopter pin in their trophy case,
- Pins can be viewed in 3D upon tapping
Lingonaut BETA 1.0 Build 12 Changelog:
- Fixed crash during lesson,
- Fixed newsroom,
- Entire setup flow now fits on iPhone SE
Lingonaut BETA 1.0 Build 11 Changelog:
- AudioMatch question type should have correct audios matched to correct buttons,
- User can no longer continue to edit answer after submitting on PickWords question type,
- User can no longer continue to change answer after submitting on PickOne question type,
- Newsroom links valid links,
- User can no longer continue to change answer after submitting on ImagePick question type,
- Newsroom shows latest posts.,
- User can no longer continue to change answer after submitting on PickOneAudio question type,
- PickMissingWord shows mascots,
- PickMissingWord shows correct question text,
- PickOneMeaning shows mascots,
- PickOneMeaning shows correct question text,
- ‘Speaker’ replaced with character’s name.,
- Forgot Password option works now,
- Lingonauts for all image on sign up/register page fits on iPhone SE,
- Sign in with Google button doesn’t stretch.,
- Sign in And Register views fit screen on all phone sizes.,
- Keyboard no longer crushes view,
- News view fits on screen
Lingonaut BETA 1.0 Build 10 Changelog:
- Fixed exploit with FlashCard questions awarding unlimited XP,
- Characters now show up in the WriteWords questions,
- Answer rectangle shows up for WriteWords questions,
- Fixed incorrect audio playing for WriteWords questions,
- Fixed text taking up multiple lines for WriteWords questions.,
- PickWords lets you play audio of question,
- Spaceman Jim has entered the chat!,
- Broken image on LessonFinishedView fixed,
- Colours on text in LessonFinishedView changed from black to white,
- LessonFinishedView navigates to StreakStats correctly,
- If an already incorrect question is incorrect again it won’t prevent lesson from completing anymore.,
- Audiomatch questions will play audio when waveform buttons are tapped,
- Fire loads properly on streak view
Discord Shake-up and glow-up
If you’re a part of our Discord (and you should to get all the latest updates first and participate in the community!) you may have noticed a bit of a change courtesy of our resident discord-onauts Fyai & ChadGuru.
First of all we now have a server tag you can use to rep the Lingonaut project and help spread the word:
There’s a new Community category with channels for people to talk and share not just about languages but all sorts of fun topics or things they might be interested in, such as:
- Pets
- Art
- Music
- Studying
- and more!
Drop by and say hi, we’re eager to have you here! 😁
Launchpad is blasting off!
Launchpad, our home for the Translatonaut teams and the courses they’re creating to help you learn is now taking its first steps and working on dozens of languages!
The entire effort is led by Adrian, our Translation Teams liaison and leader of Launchpad. If there’s a language you think you can contribute to please don’t hesitate to contact him on discord or join launchpad here: https://discord.gg/gp9tDeTghy
Our brand new Launchpad hub will be live soon too to replace the outdated launchpad web page so you’ll be able to get up to date, well, updates on our courses whenever they arrive!
Creatonaut 3 voices its surprise
Users of Creatonaut 3 may have noticed new changes rolling out every day or two, the latest and greatest of which is powered by ClearVoice! This means that Translatonauts recording audio for their courses will be able to record their voices in crisp and clear audio regardless of their equipment or background noise.
With the new enhanced audio and plethora of other changes we’ve made, Creatonaut 3 is more powerful than ever! I hope we can see its new capabilities shine through in the courses we’re making.
We’ve become more social
Through the hard work of our newly minted social media team we’ve created a presence on most well known social media platforms and we’d love for you to follow us there! It’l help us get the word out and keep the project alive.
Help keep Lingonaut alive!
Lastly, with the surge of traffic both to the Discord/Reddit but more so to the Lingonaut platform infrastructure and servers we could always use your help keeping The Lingonaut Project alive.
If you’re interested in participating in the early access and want to support our mission please sign up to our Patreon here: https://patreon.com/lingonaut.
Every penny counts, though with the Mercury tier more of it goes to Patreon than us – I hear Venus is pretty nice this time of year, though 👀
And that’s all for this month, keep an eye out for all the updates!
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