We need to update our database. The forums, trainer and language courses will be down for an estimated duration of two hours:

• Estimated start:2018-06-22, 17:00 (CEST), 15:00 (UTC)
• Estimated end:2018-06-22, 19:00 (CEST), 17:00 (UTC)

The dictionaries will be available as normal. However, please note that you will not be able to save words in the vocabulary trainer during the downtime.

We will try our best to keep the interruption as short as possible and apologise for the inconvenience.

We’ve been working hard on a new version of our forum and are thrilled to launch the test phase on https://tdict.leo.org. Please note: Posts submitted on tdict will be deleted once the test phase is over as the new forums require a different database.

We have been listening to your suggestions for improvements and new features and have implemented a fair few of them (although by no means all of them, yet):

• When using the forum search you can now return to your search results by clicking on your browser’s back button.
• We have made changes to the text input in the discussions.
• The filter function is available again.
• You can filter discussions by date.
• The forum is now faster in many places.
• Error messages now indicate where you may have forgotten to enter information.

Further major or minor changes have been introduced in other areas; the most important are:

• We have fine-tuned the spaced-repetition algorithm in the trainer.
• Video tutorials are now available for the trainer (with more to follow).
• Dialogues in the language courses will stop playing when you leave the page or start an exercise.
• A wider range of account setting options is now available.
• You can enable site-wide alerts about new private messages or new follow-ups as well as reminders about outstanding vocabulary assignments.

Over to you now – how do you like the new version? Is there anything that needs our further attention? We’re looking forward to your comments by e-mail.

Yours,
LEO team