Ah yes… Back then, we had 2 logins - one for the website to use the lessons and maintain our subscriptions, and a separate one to use the forum. This was one of the reasons we moved away from the old, old forum. I’m not sure if anyone here who was previously a moderator on that forum can lift the restrictions on the members portion of the site or authorise a login for you? You can only ask… @aran
Mine always defaulted to Cornish (not sure what that was about…)! Now it offers me a choice of which language I want to learn by default.
Thanks for the heads up! @Kinetic - I think the best solution for this would be to pull the text out of that thread and stick it on a static page on the new site, unless you have any better ideas?
Thanks for the comments about the practice sessions - we’ll have to give that some thought, because it’s a result of the overall navigation (and the approach to practice sessions has changed for the new courses)…
Okay, a bit more poking about leads to the following:
In the FAQ, under “How Do I Type Welsh Characters?”, there is a link to an old forum page that gives the same behavior as I described earlier (need to log in). However, under “What If I Have a Question?”, there is a link to the old forum, and that does work - I can see the old forum, and read threads. And, I discovered that on the old forum you had threads for questions for the different lessons. I read the one for Course 1 Lesson 20, where I currently am, and found answers to a few questions I had. I am happy to have discovered that resource!
@aran I’ve done a tiny bit of very simple website design, so I can understand the issues around overall navigation on the website. I don’t think it’s a big deal, I just thought I’d point it out. I’m ready to start daily practices, and I’m sure most people don’t use just the weekly practices for very long…but it’s always nice to eliminate confusion where possible. Also, you are planning to make Level 1 the default at some point, so that will eliminate the issue, too.
I can’t imagine other thing for that as that one that on old forum some threads were meant to be viewed only to those who were registered in so this is possibly the isue itself (as you never registered there if I understood you correctly).
Yah, you can quickly miss out something or point it differently and the isues occur especially if you do things from scratch, coding by yourself.
Well I don’t know if you pay some kind of subscription but as far as I can know daily practices are accessable only to those who pay subscription. Only weekly practices are available for free (at least it was in my ancient era when I was still “free user”. (as that I’d be subscribed for such long time. - hehe)). Oh and we’re speaking of old course daily practices of course.
And we’re very, very, extremely grateful to everyone who takes the time and trouble to help us troubleshoot this kind of stuff - it’s hugely valuable - diolch o galon!
@aran Happy to be of service, it is nothing compared to what you have done for all of us in creating SSi. I’m so happy to have found this place- I never ever thought I’d be able to learn to speak Welsh, but I really am! (Although right now I must admit that “Wnaethoch chi enill yn hawdd” is making me cry…my tongue needs to go to the gym But I’m not worried, and I’m certainly not giving up )
@tatjana Yes, it’s still the same, Course 1 weekly practices are available for free, daily require a subscription. I was thinking that when a learner reaches a certain point, he/she would likely want more than just the weekly practices. At least this is true for me…I’m just hungry for more listening practice that is material I can actually understand. And I like hearing the words/structures I’ve learned put together in ways that are both the same as, and different than, in the lessons. Radio Cymru is great, but it’s a different kind of listening practice since I can only pick out words and phrases but have no hope (yet) of real understanding. But I’m determined to get there.
I’m admiring you and all of you the rest because of this. I’m shattered more and more each day. It’s like I’m the only one who feels this way on here though and this way something HIGHLY ANNOYINGLY special (in bad not good manner though). So keep going. Do never stop. Knowing you are fluent in Cymraeg one day, it’ll be my reward aswell something what I am not hoping (at the moment) to reach at all.
Now, I’ve found the issue which I think is good I report on here. While cruising Northern Level 1 I found at the challenges where there are listening practices incorporated there are 3 tracks but one of them is empty (no sound at all).
That one at Challenge 5 is OK on both sides, Northern and Southern but from then on it’s where this occurs.
At Challenge 10
At Challenge 15
At Challenge 20
And at Challenge 25
I presume the spaces (empty tracks) were “reserved” for southern listening practices but coded into the wrong site and showed publicly despite there’s nothing to be listening to.
I don’t know why I’ve got into the search of “The Story of SSiW” to read it again and found out that new design has a broken link to it. In FAQ section where it says “Why SSiW exists” the link is actually set (at least it appears so) but it leads nowhere. So, I had to switch to old layout to find it and re-read it again (as I said for unknown reason though)
I’m not sure if this seams of any importance to management but I still thought you’d want to know the missing thing on new layout (which I believe is still not available to everyone).
Yes - we’ll be off mob-handed in the fairly near future - but if @kinetic happens to see this in the meantime, he could put the magic button in your profile…
But I’m not worried, and I’m certainly not giving up 
