{"id":394,"date":"2018-09-17T05:40:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T09:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2018-09-15T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T15:49:31","slug":"september-2018-site-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/17\/september-2018-site-update\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2018 Site Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK! The test drive has been working fine — I’ve been posting a mix of content types via immediate- and delayed-action posts, and from desktop and mobile apps. Everything seems to work more or less as it should. Finally!<\/p>\n

(I’d still like to tune the site appearance, but that’s far less important than just getting all the parts working.)<\/p>\n

I’m hoping to have at least one new item posted every day, from here on out. I don’t know how that will go, but that’s the goal.<\/p>\n

I’ve been experimenting with voice-to-text apps, as a way of speeding new content production, especially when I can’t be physically present at a keyboard. But — just like every other time I’ve tried it — voice-to-text still comes up short, and requires more time in cleaning up transcription errors than if I’d just typed the text in directly, from scratch. There’s a story there, especially about the shortcomings of Win10’s built-in dictation function. (Android\/Google’s text-to-speech is far, far superior!) Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

In the next week, I’ll be emailing those who requested notification when Langa.com was live and stable; I believe I’m far enough along now that I won’t be wasting readers’ time.<\/p>\n

And, if you’ve read this far, you might find these very early stats about your fellow readers interesting:<\/p>\n

I was very surprised what countries you all are coming from:<\/p>\n

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Most of the early visitors to Langa.Com got here by directly typing the URL, or as the result of a search for “langa” or “fred langa” or some such. But a nontrivial number are referred from other sites, some a surprise to me:<\/p>\n

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Another surprise: Most of you are visiting here via desktop\/laptop PC.<\/p>\n

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I really thought the mobile contingent would have been higher. It doesn’t matter one way or the other, but it’s interesting.<\/p>\n

It will be fun to see how the site stats change in the coming months, with the site finally running smoothly.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Once again, thanks for your patience. Glad you stopped by!<\/p>\n

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