Pring Blog

When we started Pring, we designed the whole system in plain English keeping the popularity of English websites like Orkut, Google, Youtube etc. When you send one of our shortcodes an SMS the response from Pring is in English. Same is true for any other command.

After running Pring in the wild for sometime, we’ve noticed that 90% of our users use some form or the other of Urdu written in English (or Roman Urdu). So, starting from today, we’re introducing Urdu for Pring over SMS.

You can SMS URDU or ENGLISH and we will change the system language for you accordingly. To find out what your current interface language is, SMS ZABAAN. In the coming days, we will make Urdu as the default system language for SMS in Pakistan. Ofcourse, this does not effect the actual messages from fellow Pringers, they will remain the same.

We’re also working on supporting Nasta’liq Urdu support for our interface language in a way that does not limit Pring. We hope you enjoy using these new features as much as we had fun writing them!

Happy Pringing!

by @Nash