<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.1.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en-US" /><updated>2026-03-07T20:47:53-05:00</updated><id>/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Collaberotica News</title><subtitle>Collaberotica news</subtitle><author><name>Collaberotica</name></author><entry><title type="html">2026 Changelog</title><link href="/log-2026/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="2026 Changelog" /><published>2026-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2026-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>/log-2026</id><content type="html" xml:base="/log-2026/"><![CDATA[<h2 id="march-7">March 7</h2>

<ul>
  <li>We support images now! Please see the <a href="https://collaberotica.org/stories/592-site-things/chapters/33810-images">announcement chapter</a> for more details.</li>
  <li>Made emails look nicer?</li>
  <li>Added a daily engagement email - this can be turned off via the “Daily Likes/Follows/Comments” Email settings on your Account Settings.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="february-24">February 24</h2>

<p>Redesigned the Dashboard page.</p>

<ul>
  <li>It’s easier to see all the content and activity you’ve created. Stories, chapters, likes, comments, etc.</li>
  <li>You can filter your likes and follows by stories, chapters, etc.</li>
  <li>It’s easier to see all stories shared with you. For example, if you can see a private story, or if you edit a story.</li>
  <li>It’s easier to see whether you have any chapters to review.</li>
  <li>And more!</li>
</ul>

<p><a href="https://collaberotica.org/dashboard">collaberotica.org/dashboard</a></p>

<p>This was the final page slated for a major redesign. There are still some pages I want to tweak, but nothing as major as this.</p>

<h2 id="february-16">February 16</h2>

<ul>
  <li>HUGE changes to forms - the pages where you write stories, write chapters, add things to collections. I’ve overhauled the appearance of pretty much all forms to make them easier to use. If you run into issues, don’t hesitate to leave <a href="https://collaberotica.org/tos/contact">feedback</a>. Thank you!</li>
  <li>The site redesign effort is nearly finished. The last big change is coming to the Dashboard page, which needs to be updated to the new design ethos of the site and made more useful. I think this might actually be the only page left that hasn’t changed much since the beginning of the site.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="february-11">February 11</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Some layout changes.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="february-1">February 1</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Revamped how conversations appear. DMs should be a much nicer experience all around</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="january-25">January 25</h2>

<ul>
  <li>On desktop, the chapter side navbar now auto-hides</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="january-22">January 22</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Improved the chapter/story navbars on mobile</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="january-17">January 17</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Fixed some tooltip issues on mobile</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="january-10">January 10</h2>

<ul>
  <li>A whole bunch of performance improvements</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="january-2">January 2</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Changed the mobile layout of the home page slightly, and added a link to our example interactive there.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="january-1">January 1</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Added a “following feed” page, accessible from the dropdown after you click your profile picture in the top navbar. This is essentially a bookmarkable version of the “Following” tab on the home page, but it also shows more items per page.</li>
  <li>Did some database updates</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>Collaberotica</name></author><category term="devlog" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[March 7]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">2025 Changelog</title><link href="/log-2025/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="2025 Changelog" /><published>2025-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2025-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>/log-2025</id><content type="html" xml:base="/log-2025/"><![CDATA[<h2 id="december-20">December 20</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Added text to the like/follow buttons</li>
  <li>Brushed up how the story/chapter navs look</li>
  <li>Per announcement <a href="https://collaberotica.org/stories/592-site-things/chapters/31294-some-news-and-some-proposed-changes">here</a>, the “micro” genders have been removed. See that post for reasoning. Stories/Chapters that had micro gender categories have been switched to the normal gender categories. They have been given the “size difference” and “smaller male/female/(etc)” tags as appropriate.</li>
  <li>Additionally, the “Q” gender has been removed, because it has seen virtually no use. The 4 chapters using it have been switched to NB.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="december-15">December 15</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Fixed an issue with tag search (searching for multiple tags wasn’t filtering correctly)</li>
  <li>De-emphasized the story updated time on story cards</li>
  <li>De-emphasized the chapter created time on chapter cards</li>
  <li>Updated how comments look</li>
  <li>Added a clearer error message when attempting to add a chapter to an author-restricted story you aren’t an author of.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="december-10">December 10</h2>

<p><strong>Introducing: Collections</strong></p>

<p>Collections are a way for you to organize stories and chapters you like, and share them with the world. Everyone can now create collections and add stories/chapters to them.</p>

<p>This is a new top-level feature! On the “Collections” page, you can see the collections people have created:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/collectindex.png" style="border:2px solid black; border-radius:15px;margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></p>

<p>While reading a story/chapter, use the new “Collect” button on the navbar to add it to a collection:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/colecbutdesk.png" style="border:2px solid black; border-radius:15px;margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
	(desktop)
</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/colecbutmob.png" style="border:2px solid black; border-radius:15px;margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
	(mobile)
</p>

<p>From here, you can add it to any collection of yours.</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/colecwork.png" style="border:2px solid black; border-radius:15px;margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></p>

<p>Of course, you can also create a collection. You can create a public collection, which other people can see, or you can create a private collection:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/colecworknewcolec.png" style="border:2px solid black; border-radius:15px;margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></p>

<p>A couple empty collections are already created for you, for ease of use.</p>

<p>To see your private collections, go to your user page:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/colecyours.png" style="border:2px solid black; border-radius:15px;margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></p>

<p>This is the first time that readers will really able to promote and share works within CollabErotica, so I’m excited to see how people use collections.</p>

<p>Some ideas:</p>

<ul>
  <li>A collection of works that you think deserve more recognition</li>
  <li>A private collection of works you want to read, but haven’t read yet</li>
  <li>A collection of works that really scratch your particular itch ;)</li>
</ul>

<p>By the way, this is an “MVP” or “first draft” of the collections feature. There are a couple things I want to add, including a way to see which collections a story/chapter has been added to. Also, for now, only public works can be added to collections.</p>

<p>As always, you can leave feedback <a href="https://collaberotica.org/tos/contact">here</a>.</p>

<h2 id="october-13">October 13</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Paths have been upgraded. For interactives, you can now easily read the whole story up to any chapter.</li>
</ul>

<p>From any interactive chapter, if you select the Path button, this new UI will appear:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/path1.png" style="border:2px solid black; border-radius:15px;margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></p>

<p>This will take you back to chapter 1, with the choice leading to the original chapter highlighted.</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/path2.png" style="border:2px solid black; border-radius:15px;margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></p>

<p>As you continue reading, every choice leading up to the original chapter will be highlighted.</p>

<p>The highlights also appear on the Outline:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/path3.png" style="border:2px solid black; border-radius:15px;margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></p>

<p>You can also start the path up to 10 chapters before the selected chapter.</p>

<h2 id="august-30">August 30</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Fixed how pasted text is formatted. If pasting text into chapter bodies or story descriptions doesn’t work as you expect, <a href="https://collaberotica.org/tos/contact">please let me know!</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="august-28">August 28</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Redesigned the user profile page</li>
</ul>

<p>I’m planning on doing a couple more redesigns for some other old, inconsistent pages. Behavior and usability won’t be changing very much, just the way things are presented. When will they be done? Who knows :)</p>

<h2 id="august-7">August 7</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Improved tag page performance</li>
  <li>Squashed a search page bug</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="july-31">July 31</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Added a footer link to a friend of CollabErotica, <a href="https://sizefiction.net/">SizeFiction.net</a>, a site specializing in size kink fiction.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="july-26">July 26</h2>

<ul>
  <li>New, more modern logo!</li>
  <li><a href="https://collaberotica.org/stories/">Explore all stories!</a> You can filter by new, popular, imported stories only, and more</li>
  <li><a href="https://collaberotica.org/tags">Explore all tags</a>, including search!</li>
  <li><a href="https://collaberotica.org/users">Find users</a>, including search</li>
  <li>The tag page has been redesigned, for easier exploration of tagged works. Click on any tag to see its tag page</li>
  <li>Mobile navigation is especially improved!</li>
  <li>Searching and exploring search results is also improved!</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="may-31">May 31</h2>

<ul>
  <li>significant visual changes to many things, in particular:
    <ul>
      <li>stories and chapters</li>
      <li>the home page</li>
      <li>comments</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>You can now sort searches by:
    <ul>
      <li>longest and shortest (by word count)</li>
      <li>most/least liked</li>
      <li>“most/least popular” was renamed to “most/least viewed” for clarity</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>likes are now hearts ❤️</li>
  <li>view counts should ignore most web scrapers now</li>
  <li>updated the Terms of Service, particularly the content policy</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="may-5">May 5</h2>

<ul>
  <li>added word counts to stories</li>
  <li>added word counts to author contribution pages on stories:</li>
</ul>

<p><img src="/assets/img/authpga.png" width="300" style="margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" />
<br />
<img src="/assets/img/authpgb.png" width="500" style="margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></p>

<ul>
  <li>added chapter contributions to the user page, chapter tab:
<img src="/assets/img/authcontrib1.png" width="500" style="margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" />
<br />
<img src="/assets/img/authcontribb.png" width="500" style="margin:auto;display: block; margin: auto;" /></li>
  <li>adjusted the appearance of likes, follows, and comments on story/chapter cards</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="april-26">April 26</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Author profiles include the total number of likes they received on their chapters, stories, comments, etc</li>
  <li>Story pages list the total number of likes on all chapters</li>
  <li>Table of Contents pages include view and like counts for each chapter</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="march-2">March 2</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Adjusted the appearance of tags, tag icons, and chapter/story cards</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="february-25">February 25</h2>

<ul>
  <li>You will now receive emails when someone adds a chapter to your content. Specifically, when:
    <ul>
      <li>A chapter is added to your story, or a story you edit</li>
      <li>A chapter is added after any chapter you wrote</li>
      <li>Note: these emails are opt-out. You can adjust your chapter email preferences here: <a href="https://collaberotica.org/users/edit">https://collaberotica.org/users/edit</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>We would like to know what other kinds of emails you want like to receive. Let us know here or at: <a href="https://collaberotica.org/tos/feedack">https://collaberotica.org/tos/feedack</a></li>
  <li>Adjusted how views are counted. They should be more accurate now.</li>
  <li>Made the age gate/cookie consent banner a bit friendlier</li>
  <li>Added a secret</li>
</ul>

<p>As always, feedback can be left <a href="https://collaberotica.org/tos/feedack">here</a>
Or on <a href="https://collaberotica.org/discord">discord</a></p>
<h2 id="january-5-2025">January 5, 2025</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Bots and Admins now have badges everywhere to make them more easily identifiable</li>
  <li>Adds a chapter tags copy button for writers/editors</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="january-4-2025">January 4, 2025</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Liking and following don’t refresh the page</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="january-3-2025">January 3, 2025</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Donor badges no longer expire</li>
  <li>Various performance improvements</li>
</ul>

<p>As always, feedback can be left <a href="https://collaberotica.org/tos/feedack">here</a>
Or on <a href="https://collaberotica.org/discord">discord</a></p>]]></content><author><name>Collaberotica</name></author><category term="devlog" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[December 20]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">2024 Changelog</title><link href="/log-2024/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="2024 Changelog" /><published>2024-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2024-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>/log-2024</id><content type="html" xml:base="/log-2024/"><![CDATA[<h2 id="december-31-2024">December 31, 2024</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Dislikes have been removed. Thus far, we have seen:
    <ul>
      <li>Over 3000 likes across stories, chapters, users, and series</li>
      <li>15 dislikes</li>
    </ul>

    <p>It is not a popular feature, and in our opinion, it is not a productive way of leaving feedback for authors, nor does it help people filter out content they might not like.</p>
  </li>
</ul>

<p>As always, feedback can be left <a href="https://collaberotica.org/tos/feedack">here</a>
Or on <a href="https://collaberotica.org/discord">discord</a></p>

<h2 id="august-29-2024">August 29, 2024</h2>

<ul>
  <li>When adding or editing tags, you can now copy and paste a list of tags separated by commas to add them all at once
    <ul>
      <li>For example, copying and pasting  <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">aa,bb,cc,dd,ee,ff,gg,hh,ii,jj</code> into the tags field will add those ten tags</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Memory leaks that had been causing the site to briefly go offline every few days have been fixed</li>
</ul>

<p>As always, feedback can be left <a href="https://collaberotica.org/tos/feedack">here</a>
Or on <a href="https://collaberotica.org/discord">discord</a></p>
<h2 id="february-2-2024">February 2, 2024</h2>

<h3 id="new-changes-">New Changes ✨</h3>

<ul>
  <li>Big Browse page revamp!
    <ul>
      <li>Now called “Read page”</li>
      <li>Now a feed style with two feeds: things you follow, and all recent items</li>
      <li>Stats, story popularity, rankings, etc. have been moved to separate pages</li>
      <li>The page should load faster</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>The Following page became redundant and was removed in favor of the Following feed</li>
  <li>Certain types of notifications became redundant and were removed in favor of the Following feed</li>
  <li>On your User Profile page, it is now clear whether your likes/follows are private</li>
  <li>“The End” no longer appears on ending chapters automatically. A story’s final words should be left to the author</li>
  <li>Page titles are less big</li>
  <li>Fixed some UI issues on Safari</li>
  <li>UI improvements to Polls, Chapters Stories, Search Results, and general consistency</li>
</ul>

<p>As always, feedback can be left <a href="https://collaberotica.org/tos/feedack">here</a>
Or on <a href="https://collaberotica.org/discord">discord</a></p>]]></content><author><name>Collaberotica</name></author><category term="devlog" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[December 31, 2024]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">2023 Changelog</title><link href="/log-2023/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="2023 Changelog" /><published>2023-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2023-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</updated><id>/log-2023</id><content type="html" xml:base="/log-2023/"><![CDATA[<h2 id="september-1-2023">September 1, 2023</h2>

<h3 id="new-changes-">New Changes ✨</h3>

<ul>
  <li>Direct Messaging Privacy
    <ul>
      <li>You now have control over who can message you:
        <ol>
          <li>Nobody</li>
          <li>Mutuals (you like and follow each other)</li>
          <li>Everyone</li>
        </ol>
      </li>
      <li>Check out the options under Your User Page -&gt; Edit</li>
      <li>Does not affect existing conversations</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Layout changes to story and chapter pages:
    <ul>
      <li>Navigation links now appear differently between mobile and  desktop:
        <ul>
          <li>Mobile nav links are now in a sticky bar at the bottom</li>
          <li>Desktop nav links are now in a sticky sidebar</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>A gap has been added to the bottom of these pages for eyeline consistency while reading</li>
      <li>Various consistency adjustments</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>View counting
    <ul>
      <li>You can no longer rack up views on your own chapters</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>When registering an account through Twitter, Discord, etc, names and pictures are no longer imported. This respects privacy and prevents name collisions</li>
  <li>Removed the likes/dislikes green/red bar</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="may-28-2023">May 28, 2023</h2>

<h3 id="new-features-">New Features ✨</h3>

<ul>
  <li><b>Import Stories From Writing.com</b></li>
</ul>

<p>You can now import interactive stories from Writing.com to our site!</p>

<p><a href="https://collaberotica.org/import_a_story">
Import A Story
</a></p>

<p>From the site, you can get there under the “write” button on the top navbar:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/528write.png" width="328" /></p>

<p>Then click the new “Import a Story” button:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/528import.png" width="397" /></p>

<p>And follow the instructions on the page. You must own the story to import it.</p>

<ul>
  <li><b>Completed Tag</b></li>
</ul>

<p>Stories are now marked as “completed” if they are:</p>

<ol>
  <li>Linear stories</li>
  <li>With an ending</li>
</ol>

<p>Here is how it appears:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/528finished.png" width="589" /></p>

<p>You can also search by completed stories, or chapters from completed stories. The toggle is under “Advanced Filters” on the search page:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/528comps.png" width="566" /></p>

<h2 id="may-19-2023">May 19, 2023</h2>

<h3 id="new-features--1">New Features ✨</h3>

<ul>
  <li><b>Tag pages!</b></li>
</ul>

<p>Every tag now has an overview page. The pages include information like related tags, recent stories/chapters with the tag, as well as stats relating to popular stories/chapters.</p>

<p>To go to a tag page, click on any tag. Tag pages also exist for the red gender pairing tags like “f/m”, although not for the other colorful story property tags like “additions open”, “interactive”, “linear”, etc.</p>

<h3 id="upcoming-features-">Upcoming Features ⏰</h3>

<ul>
  <li><b>Import stories from external sites</b></li>
</ul>

<p>Have you noticed the interactive stories that were imported from writing.com? This is a new feature we’re working on! If you are the owner of an interactive story on writing.com, you’ll be able to import it to Collaberotica. Other sites may also be available. We’re currently working on a way to import stories from the site itself. But if you want your story imported now, <a href="https://collaberotica.org/conversations/new?users%5B%5D=4">contact Swai</a> and ask for your story to be imported.</p>

<h2 id="april-22-2023">April 22, 2023</h2>

<h3 id="new-features--2">New Features ✨</h3>

<ul>
  <li><b>Add cover art to your stories!</b>
    <ul>
      <li>Cover art is visible on the intro, table of contents, and story previews (in browse, search, etc.)</li>
      <li>Don’t forget to add it to your current stories!</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<p><img src="/assets/img/cov2.png" width="474" /></p>

<ul>
  <li><b>You can now see who liked and followed things!</b>
    <ul>
      <li>Although private likes/follows won’t be shown, and neither will dislikes</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<p><img src="/assets/img/likes2.png" width="289" /></p>

<ul>
  <li>Added a feedback link to the navbar, so if you see something wrong, it’s easy to let us know</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="bugs-fixed-">Bugs Fixed 🪱</h3>

<ul>
  <li>Quality of uploaded images is really, finally fixed
    <ul>
      <li>(If your avatar looks pixelated, try reuploading it. It should be good now.)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Removed some unused code to speed the site up a little</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="design-changes-">Design Changes 👩‍🎨</h3>

<ul>
  <li>Cleaned up stories and story cards to accommodate your new cover art</li>
  <li>Also made view counts more visible there too</li>
  <li>Made user profile page look cool</li>
  <li>Links to some social media are on the browse page</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="april-17-2023">April 17, 2023</h2>

<h3 id="-new-changes-">✨ New Changes ✨</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Added Twitter login. You can now register and log in with your Twitter account!</li>
  <li>Fixed avatars uploads - newly uploaded avatars should look a lot better than before</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="april-13-2023">April 13, 2023</h2>

<h3 id="-new-changes--1">✨ New Changes ✨</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Added the <a href="https://collaberotica.org/about">About Us</a> and <a href="https://collaberotica.org/donate">Donate</a> pages</li>
  <li>Added links to your unpublished stories on the Write Something page, in case you forgot about them</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="-design-changes-">🌈 Design Changes 🌈</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Adjusted login, register pages</li>
  <li>Enwidened the browse page</li>
  <li>Chapter choices look much better on mobile</li>
  <li>Experiment: removed the tags icon</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="april-8-2023---new-editor">April 8, 2023 - New Editor!</h2>

<p>This is a big one. After careful consideration, we changed the rich text editor used throughout the site.</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/tinymce.png" width="700px" alt="editor after)" /></p>

<p>The new editor, <a href="https://www.tiny.cloud/tinymce/">TinyMCE</a>, gives you way more style and formatting options than before, so it will be much easier to get your story to look the way you like. Also, copying and pasting content from other editors, like Microsoft Word or Google Docs, should be much more accurate.</p>

<p>This is a very big change across the site. The way rich text content is presented has been changed everywhere. Of course, we’ve taken great care to ensure that anything written with the old editor was not changed. <strong>If you run into any issues, please don’t hesitate to <a href="https://collaberotica.org/tos/contact">contact us</a></strong>. 
Community discussion, as always, will be on our <a href="https://collaberotica.org/discord">Discord</a>.</p>

<p>Thanks again for choosing Collaberotica. We’re thrilled to grow with you!</p>

<p>- DragonRhea &amp; Swai</p>

<h2 id="april-4-2023">April 4, 2023</h2>
<h3 id="-changes-">✨ Changes ✨</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Lots of quality-of-life changes for Search
    <ul>
      <li>Search text is now optional (<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">*</code> is no longer used)</li>
      <li>You can now search for exact phrases</li>
      <li>The results section now has a description of what was searched for</li>
      <li>Search-dropdown sections (tags, stories, users, series) are bigger</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Added a simple, dedicated “recent chapters” page for stories. The link is in the recent chapters section when you look at a story’s introduction page</li>
  <li>Some CSS adjustments</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="-bugfixes-">🐞 Bugfixes 🐞</h3>

<ul>
  <li>Searching for chapters limited to your follows now works as expected. (Unless you expected it to not work. Then it’s broken!)
    <ul>
      <li>Results will filtered to chapters either: written by authors you
follow, or within stories you follow</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>fixed some icons on mobile</li>
  <li>performance issues</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="march-31-2023">March 31, 2023</h2>

<h3 id="-changes--1">📣 Changes 📣</h3>
<ul>
  <li>The like, dislike and follow buttons look better and more button-y</li>
  <li>Added a “Recent” section on the browse page, to let you switch between new stories, chapters, and even polls</li>
  <li>Added a cute sunrise to the beta tester badge</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="-bugfixes--1">🐞 Bugfixes 🐞</h3>
<ul>
  <li>You can’t like/dislike/follow yourself or your work</li>
  <li>Liking comments is fixed!</li>
  <li>The profile page button that lets you message that user is also fixed</li>
  <li>Author names on chapter choices no longer wrap strangely when they’re long</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="march-30-2023">March 30, 2023</h2>

<h3 id="-minor-things-">✨ Minor things! ✨</h3>

<ul>
  <li>Added a basic share button to stories and chapters</li>
  <li>Added an example story to the intro page</li>
  <li>Existing user profile badges look cooler</li>
  <li>Added donor badges, although these can’t be acquired yet</li>
</ul>

<p>Donor badges preview:</p>

<p><img src="/assets/img/badge_preview.gif" width="600px" alt="search after" /></p>

<h2 id="march-24-2023">March 24, 2023</h2>

<h3 id="-stuff-added">✨ Stuff Added✨</h3>

<ul>
  <li>The old What’s New page is now the Browse page, with lots of toplists and featured stories. Check it out!
    <ul>
      <li>The Dashboard page has also been redesigned to match the new Browse page</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Added a basic Tags page - you can sort through tags alphabetically, or by popularity
    <ul>
      <li>More to come on this page in the future!</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Tag limit is now 35, and stories’ short descriptions are now limited to 400 characters</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="-bugs-swatted-">🪲 Bugs Swatted 🪱</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Some caching issues have been fixed</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="march-21-2023">March 21, 2023</h2>

<h4 id="stuff-added">Stuff Added</h4>

<ul>
  <li>Ability to log in with Discord
    <ul>
      <li>(We plan to add Twitter support, but our developer account hasn’t been approved yet)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Adds <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/collaberotica">BuyMeACoffee</a> link in the footer</li>
  <li>Links have been “slugified” 🐌
    <ul>
      <li>before: <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">/stories/123/chapters/654</code></li>
      <li>after: <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">/stories/123-story-name/chapters/654-chapter-name</code></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Chapters can now have gender pairing tags separate from the story</li>
  <li>You no longer need your password to change your profile information</li>
  <li>Author names now appear on:
    <ul>
      <li>Chapter links in the table of contents</li>
      <li>Chapter links on interactive choices</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>For linear stories, a “next” button appears aside the “previous” button in the chapter navbar</li>
  <li>“What’s New” page now lists items by creation date
    <ul>
      <li>(A redesign for this page is planned)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Removed herobrine</li>
</ul>

<h4 id="bugs-swatted">Bugs Swatted</h4>

<ul>
  <li>Changing your avatar should no longer occasionally result in a 500 error</li>
  <li>Fixed the visual appearance of some notifications</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="march-16-2023">March 16, 2023</h2>

<h5 id="single-chapter-stories-now-sync-tags-with-their-chapter">Single-chapter stories now sync tags with their chapter</h5>

<ul>
  <li>Otherwise they could have different tags</li>
  <li>This only applies when: the story is linear, it has only one chapter, and the chapter is designated as “the end”</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="march-14-2023">March 14, 2023</h2>

<h5 id="separated-first-chapter-creation-from-story-creation">Separated first-chapter creation from story creation</h5>

<ul>
  <li>First-chapters no longer have arbitrarily fewer options available</li>
</ul>

<h5 id="updated-search-result-design">Updated search result design</h5>

<ul>
  <li>Before:</li>
</ul>

<p><img src="/assets/img/323s2.png" width="400px" alt="search after" /></p>

<ul>
  <li>After:</li>
</ul>

<p><img src="/assets/img/323s1.png" width="400px" alt="search before" /></p>

<h2 id="march-10-2023">March 10, 2023</h2>

<h5 id="registration-opened">Registration opened</h5>

<p><img src="/assets/img/yay.png" width="200px" height="200px" alt="party popper" /></p>

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