Changes in March, 2023

March 31, 2023

📣 Changes 📣

• The like, dislike and follow buttons look better and more button-y
• Added a “Recent” section on the browse page, to let you switch between new stories, chapters, and even polls
• Added a cute sunrise to the beta tester badge

🐞 Bugfixes 🐞

• You can’t like/dislike/follow yourself or your work
• Liking comments is fixed!
• The profile page button that lets you message that user is also fixed
• Author names on chapter choices no longer wrap strangely when they’re long

March 30, 2023

✨ Minor things! ✨

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

Donor badges preview:

March 24, 2023

✨ Stuff Added✨

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

🪲 Bugs Swatted 🪱

• Some caching issues have been fixed

March 21, 2023

Stuff Added

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

Bugs Swatted

• Changing your avatar should no longer occasionally result in a 500 error
• Fixed the visual appearance of some notifications

March 16, 2023

Single-chapter stories now sync tags with their chapter

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

March 14, 2023

Separated first-chapter creation from story creation

• First-chapters no longer have arbitrarily fewer options available

Updated search result design

• Before:

• After:

March 10, 2023

Registration opened

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