Updates New Relationships, Inbox

Updates New Relationships, Inbox Were always trying to improve italki, and weve recently made a few important changes. Heres they are: New Friend Relationships Were changing how friends are handled on italki to an asymmetrical system. Youre probably already familiar with this type of relationship through services like Twitter, Weibo, and Google Plus. What this means that you can follow anyones updates. When the other person follows you back, then its just like the old friends or language partners relationship. When youre both connected, youll be able to write messages and chat with each other. We made this change to simplify our previous system, which had aspects of both symmetrical and asymmetrical systems. Dont worry all of your existing friends will automatically transition to the new system. We think the system, in particular, will benefit new users who may have a hard time getting connected with people. Inbox Messages Weve also changed our inbox to be less like email, and more like a chat conversations. This should make it easier to pick up where you left off in your conversations. It should also help us transition to a more robust chat system in the future. We hope these updates (and smaller ones we havent mentioned) will make italki easier and more fun for you to use. What weve learned is that italki is not a traditional social network, and language partners are not your typical friends. Your language partners on italki almost always start off as strangers. Moreover, language partners share a complementary interest. This is the basis for language exchanges, and the relationship between teachers and students for language teaching. As always, were interested to hear what you think. Please send your ideas and suggestions to support@italki.com. Were going to have more changes coming up, so stay in touch! The italki Team Updates New Relationships, Inbox Were always trying to improve italki, and weve recently made a few important changes. Heres they are: New Friend Relationships Were changing how friends are handled on italki to an asymmetrical system. Youre probably already familiar with this type of relationship through services like Twitter, Weibo, and Google Plus. What this means that you can follow anyones updates. When the other person follows you back, then its just like the old friends or language partners relationship. When youre both connected, youll be able to write messages and chat with each other. We made this change to simplify our previous system, which had aspects of both symmetrical and asymmetrical systems. Dont worry all of your existing friends will automatically transition to the new system. We think the system, in particular, will benefit new users who may have a hard time getting connected with people. Inbox Messages Weve also changed our inbox to be less like email, and more like a chat conversations. This should make it easier to pick up where you left off in your conversations. It should also help us transition to a more robust chat system in the future. We hope these updates (and smaller ones we havent mentioned) will make italki easier and more fun for you to use. What weve learned is that italki is not a traditional social network, and language partners are not your typical friends. Your language partners on italki almost always start off as strangers. Moreover, language partners share a complementary interest. This is the basis for language exchanges, and the relationship between teachers and students for language teaching. As always, were interested to hear what you think. Please send your ideas and suggestions to support@italki.com. Were going to have more changes coming up, so stay in touch! The italki Team