Socratic.org website will close to new contributions

Five years ago, Socratic set out on a mission to make learning easier. We began with a Q&A website, and a few years later, built an app. The app has been our primary focus over the past three years, because we believe phones are the future of where students will make great strides in learning.

Now, we have decided to focus 100% on our app, which we deeply believe will help us to execute our mission in the most accessible way. By being mobile-first, we’re meeting students where they are. In order to accomplish this, the website will close to new contributions and transition to a read-only version of itself, with no logins required and a simplified experience designed for reading the website’s content. This means that as of today we are no longer accepting new accounts and as of August 15, 2018 we will no longer be accepting new contributions.

The website began with an idea and a few fiercely passionate folks, and has exceeded our expectations in so many ways. We humbly acknowledge and thank the incredible community of contributors who made the website what it is today: a free, open learning resource for the world. We are so proud of the way your contributions will continue to serve students, and want to maintain the website in this read-only version precisely because of its value to students everywhere.

For details about what will change in the transition, please see our meta post. For guidelines about the website’s content, visit the Help Center. As always, get in touch with us anytime at socratic-feedback@google.com.

You can continue to follow Socratic’s progress here on our blog, as we continue on the journey toward making learning easier.

– The Socratic Team