Hey guys and gals~

Big apologies to those who don’t feel like they’re getting enough :( As MisterM suggests you do, always more than happy to give refunds if you don’t think what you’re getting is worth your money. No real set time on the refund either – so even if you’ve been using TextFugu for a year, hit me up and I’ll be more than happy. Unfortunately I can only do as much as I can do, and I do as much as I can do, and although I’m sure the redesigns seeem like all I do it only really lasted for 3 days + 1 day of bug squashing, and then I went right back to writing content again. In fact, the updates were meant almost solely for the new content stuff, including the sentences deck which I thought would be particularly helpful for the more advanced folks :/

I know it can be a rocky ride and I know it can be tough using an unfinished product … especially with someone like me who’s constantly excited to make changes (happens a lot because it can happen a lot, I suppose… not something that big companies with finished products can do – you guys are always emailing me feedback and I’m making changes based off that feedback). Most of the changes here content-wise (Sentences Deck, Better Vocab study, Practice Pages, Why Pages) were because I was getting a lot of emails from people having trouble with Vocab… so I spent some time researching and spent some times coming up with ways to make vocab learning less painful and am adding it in w/ everything else. I mean, to be objective here… I probably do spend half my time trying to make old things better and half my time working on new stuff… I understand that people want new stuff (understandably). But… I don’t work on old stuff to get more new members (when MisterM said all of the income comes from new members he’s kind of right… though I’d give it a 60-40 new-old split these days, so it’s not quite “all”).

But anyways, I work on old stuff because it makes the new stuff better… and it will make it more likely that new people make it to the old stuff, Forever membership and monthly membership alike. When the advanced stuff has the sentences deck… the better vocab study… and the practice pages… it’s going to be so, so good, I think. I’m really excited about it, but I forget that most people don’t have the same thoughts in my head all the time for some reason :p

So dang, yeah. I’m sorry things feel so volatile and I’m sorry to those of you who think there aren’t enough updates (remember the old days of once-a-month updates, though? I do way more than that these days!). Really, though – you know you guys can email me individually too, yeah? Happy to help sort out any problems, give you a refund if you’re unhappy, and more. Happiness > Money any day of the week. If I wanted more money, I’d stop paying people to help me with work (designer/programmer starting next month, fyi… some of you will be particularly happy to hear about that so I stop trying to touch the stuff), I’d stop helping people individually on email for free and create some dumb “pay the teacher to ask questions” program, and I’d raise prices and not offer to let monthly people upgrade to Forever while subtracting what they’ve paid so far. Seriously not like I’m rich or anything :/

P.S. Also sorry it too me so long to respond to this thread… If I’m in the forums, it probably means I have extra time :) If I’m not, it probably means I’m feeling overworked at the moment, almost certainly working on TextFugu content stuff.

P.P.S. Flip them tables! （╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

P.P.P.S. If I really wanted to get nitty-gritty and spend a lot of time on redesign I would have fixed these input forms for the forum… damn they’re ugly. What’s up with the indented “reply” and “tags” headers?

definitely not planning on shortening anything! Just wanted to make each individual season a little more individual. Smaller bites, better reviews, similar/related content within each season, etc! Mostly just made those changes to make the new practice pages moh’beddah!

consistency… and so much of it. :’(