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When I read what you wrote about being "pressured by the tutorial", I had an "a-ha!" moment, I know what you mean.

The site's first users came from language classes who learn English as their second language (at beginner and pre-intermediate level) and teachers send new flashcards to them after every class -- that functionality of the site (teacher/student accounts, sending flashcards etc) is not shown to the public atm. These beginner English students had problems navigating the site and after introducing the "aggressive tutorial" student retention became a lot better. That's the story, this is a result of a pretty hectic development and there were just no time to really think about these issues.

I'm in the process of redesigning the site aesthetics (I'll try to do a better job this time), I will really rethink the tutorial too, thanks.

You said you were a little bit confused during practice because you thought you needed to type the answers, I see and I'm sure this will bite other users too so I will do something about it sometime next week. When you think about it you'll find that thinking about the answer is enough (and it is fast), typing is unnecessary most of the time.

There is no clear/professional business plan for this thing so it may be destined to fail from a business perspective, we will see. Don't worry the site will be up because some friends and I need it daily.:) I absolutely want the application to be a usable (non-crippled) tool for free users, also one will be able to increase their free limit even further by inviting friends. <salespitch>I want FaW to show people that flashcards aren't just crutches for cramming things anymore, computer assisted flashcards is by far the best lifelong learning method.</salespitch> I hope when people see that they will reach the free limit pretty fast. I plan adding some features to paying customers only, like images inside flashcards, but free users will always have every feature that is crucial for learning.

Thank you for trying out the site, I appreciate it!