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Writer's Grove 1.0

Version 1.0.0 · September 7, 2026

The first production release. The BETA badge came off writersgrove.net.

Readers who rate a chapter can write a review of up to 2,000 characters, edit it, or delete it while keeping the rating. Authors can remove review text on their own chapters.
A Reading History page in the user menu lists every series you have opened, newest first, with a Continue link or a caught-up note.

Sixteen genres, one per series. The Genres page lists them with counts, and each genre pages through its series.
Search and genre pages filter by status, length and the content warnings you hide, and a warning on a series also hides its books and chapters.

Bullet lists in the chapter editor stay bullet lists, links inside chapters are readable, and a username change shows in the menu straight away.
Thirteen accessibility fixes from a full pass over every page: a clearer focus outline, readable tags and badges, a dark editor theme, Tab moving between fields, named buttons and menus for screen readers, and working Go Back buttons on blocked screens.
Cover uploads work on the create-a-series and create-a-book forms, replaced covers are deleted, and oversized images are shrunk if an account drops off premium.

Version 0.13.25 · September 6, 2026

Releases 0.13.17 to 0.13.25.

Continue Reading on the home page, and a Continue Reading button on each series page that takes you to the chapter you stopped on.
A Classics page with free public-domain novels, linked from the top menu.
An author's subscription tiers have a proper page at /u/username/tiers with Subscribe buttons, and a Support button on the profile. A Subscriptions page lists what you subscribe to, with a Cancel button for each.
Series can be marked Ongoing, Complete or on Hiatus, and the Completed Series carousel fills up.
Profiles can carry up to ten links.
Followers get an email when an author publishes a new series, book or chapter.
AI-generated and mature flags carry down from a series or book to the chapters inside it.
Shared links point at the right address, and signing out of all devices signs the others out.

Subscription tier fixes: schedule assignments can be removed, book-level overrides created, plan deletion asks for confirmation, tier renames and deletions are mirrored in Stripe, and the Create New Tier button works.
Disconnecting Stripe keeps your Stripe account, so reconnecting reuses it.
Layout fixes on the tiers page, the maintenance countdown and the chapter editor on phones.

Rate limiting on the content delivery network, and the BETA badge shows only on the beta site.

Version 0.13.16 · September 5, 2026

Releases 0.13.7 to 0.13.16.

A Following page lists the authors, series and books you follow.
Reply to a comment, one level deep.
Every page has a descriptive title in the browser tab, and error pages look like the rest of the site.

The username picker says as you type whether a name is free.
Notification preferences moved onto the Edit Profile page, and the newsletter signup fills in your address when you are signed in.
Your username shows in the phone menu with a link to Following.

Premium is on for everyone, with no feature switch, and beta offers the same 30-day trial as the live site.
Stripe Connect onboarding is live, and a rejection from Stripe comes back with a readable reason.
Payments made during a maintenance window are applied straight away, and cancelling through Stripe's billing portal shows on your dashboard.
Author subdomains work on beta, and the dashboard shows the exact address.

Dashboard buttons and the search box fit a phone screen, the Save Changes button and the chapter editor's branch buttons stay on screen, the text-to-speech panel opens fully, form fields have labels, heading order is right for screen readers, and links use the site colour.
Cover and avatar uploads: 2 MB on free accounts, 5 MB on premium.
Open redirects were closed.

Version 0.13.6 · August 15, 2026

Releases 0.13.1 to 0.13.6.

Content preference overrides, follower counts and chapter navigation fixed.
New styles and scripts are picked up right after a deploy, and the footer year updates itself.
Signing out clears every sign-in cookie.
Following a series no longer fails, and the Trending query was repaired.
The Stripe integration was upgraded to the current API version.
The classics author biography no longer carries a Project Gutenberg credit.

Version 0.13.0 · August 12, 2026

Writer's Grove now runs on AWS behind a content delivery network, so pages and images are served from locations near you.
Every release is a tagged deploy, with database changes applied automatically as part of it.
Requests that bypass the content delivery network are rejected.
A book or series can only be published once it has at least one published chapter.