What would you change on Italki?
Italki has helped me in many ways since I found it, but I think Italki is full of potentials that hasn't been explored yet.
1. I'd add a chat to it: messages are fine, but not enough. Sometimes I don't want to take the conversation to other social media and yet I'd like to have a proper and instantaneous conversation here.
2. I'd allow audios and videos to be sent. Learning a new language it's only not about reading and writting, but talking and listening as well and it would be very cool if we could record audios or videos and send it to other people to help us with that.
What do you think about it? What would add as well?
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Hi Thayna, not sure if you wanted your writing piece corrected:
What would you change on Italki?
Italki has helped me in many ways since I found it, but I think Italki is full of potentials that hasn't been explored yet.1. I'd add a chat [you could also use 'a chat function'] to it: messages are fine, but not enough. Sometimes I don't want to take the conversation to other social media and yet I'd like to have a proper and instantaneous conversation here.
2. I'd allow audios and videos to be sent. Learning a new language it's only not is not only about reading and writting, but talking and listening as well, and it would be very cool if we could record audios or videos and send it to other people to help us with that.
What do you think about it? [It's much more common to just say: 'What do you think?' But 'What do you think about it?'is still okay] What would you add as well?
I agree with your suggestions, although I wonder if the site would experience bandwidth problems with your added features.
I think italki needs to add sub-forums to the Discussion page, eg a sub-forum for introductions/language exchange requests, a sub-forum for language learning discussions, and a sub-forum for off-topic discussions.
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*Writing.
One annoying bug with the website as it currently stands is that there's some delay between messages being received/notifications being sent, and the website updating the received messages log. So, if you're exchanging messages at the pace of an actual conversation (pretty quickly), you'll frequently click on the newest message and then have to click out of it and refresh the page to see your newest messages. This is a fairly minor inconvenience, except that italki slows to a crawl if you've sent dozens of messages back and forth in a relatively short space of time. This issue can be reset by logging out and logging back in again, but still. A chat interface that updated in real-time like an instant messenger would solve that problem. I don't know how easy that would be to implement, though.
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You are entirely right
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