A great deal of the month was spent on indexing every language on the site in order to implement our new ‘native’ search engine. Up until now, searching for a word or phrase in the Bible, in any language, would result in Google search engine results of our pages. From now on, the results are from an indexed page produced for each language, thus much more effective and concise. You may try it here [https://www.wordproject.org/bibles/kj/search.html], in English, and here, [https://www.wordproject.org/bibles/gb/search.html] in Chinese. It needs some fine tuning for each language but it is there and working for all 70 languages. PTL!
We have experienced a considerable increase in daily users of our main site this month. We registered an increase of almost one million in page views. It is encouraging to see how the Lord has matured Wordproject for such a time as this. So many are blessed with the Word of Life, at a time when fear, uncertainty and death is everywhere and there is very little encouragement in the information and disinformation of the great confusion that is upon us. The truth is the first casualty in any war – as the saying goes, but in Jesus we have not only the Truth, but the Way and the Life too.
Considering that the internet is working at peak demand and it would not be a total surprise that it will get disrupted in certain parts of the world, we have renovated our download page – this is a page where anyone can download the whole Bible in their respective language for use with a browser, but offline – It is here:
https://www.wordproject.org/download/bibles/
We have improved our audio service considerably with the use of the new cloud service. Although slightly more expensive it is definitely a huge improvement as we continue to optimize it. This solution has come a time when we have received complaints from one of our service providers, who are concerned of our over use of their servers…we have obtained a concession of time to ease out the load and we are working on it.
The new WP plus Android App is growing as users seem happy with its useful interface and new features (4.8 approval rate). Reading and listening to the Bible has never been so easy – so different from the cumbersome cassettes we used 40 years ago, many times jamming inside the players, often braking and patched together again with scotch tape. We are blessed. We reached 2500 users this month for this app. Since only 6 languages are included, we have been working on expansion and have started with audio indexing for Italian and German, while Korean and Swahili are on the horizon. This process takes some knowledge of the language and about 100 hours of work per language, a bottleneck that will keep us searching for solutions in months to come.
One of the new users, this month, said this: (Translated from Spanish)
“It is excellent, we can educate ourselves daily and turn to God, the only one who can protect us from this pandemic. See Psalm 91 and Joshua 1. 8 and 9 and their lives will change“
Almost every day we receive requests for improvements and many offers for help in correcting or improving different things on the website and the apps. Thus, Wordproject has become a network of people working together and contributing in different ways to bring the Word of God to the people in many languages in many regions of the world. We are coordinating some of these efforts and praying for the wisdom to bring it all together for the Glory of God.
Two (of many) comments received at our mail box this month:
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ – I take this time to thank everyone for the blessings in need of God’s word that can make me and my ministry seek God with the knowledge of Christ [O.S.]
“it seems there is something wrong with the audio version of the english KJV bible. none of the books will play. please look into this for me. I use this site a lot. I am dying with ALS. and I cannot move anymore .i use a special computer that allows me to use yourvsite to hear the bible.” [K.] (fixed)
Thank you so much for coming this far.
Stay safe. Wash and Pray!