Updates

What has changed on Writer's Grove, newest first.

Star ratings on books, comments everywhere, and a plainer accessibility page

Version 1.0.103 · September 15, 2026

Releases 1.0.99 to 1.0.103.

Ratings are now stars on a book rather than on each chapter, and written reviews are gone. A chapter page shows its book's rating at the top, and the home page and shelf pages show each book's rating on its card.
Comments are open on series pages and book pages as well as chapter pages, with replies, reporting and deletion working the same way on all three.
A series page now shows its follower count and the average rating across its books under the title.
Links are stripped from comments and other user content, so a comment cannot carry a reader off the site.
The accessibility page says plainly what standard the site is built and tested to, how it is tested, and how to tell us when something does not work.

Version 1.0.102 · September 15, 2026

Release 1.0.101 and 1.0.102.

The home page shelves and the Trending shelf page had come back empty after ratings moved to books; they are back.
The Accessibility page now follows the W3C's structure for an accessibility statement: our commitment, the measures we take, our conformance status with WCAG 2.1 level AA, how to give feedback, the browsers and assistive technologies we test with, the technologies the site relies on, and how we assess it.

Version 1.0.100 · September 15, 2026

Release 1.0.99 and 1.0.100.

Star ratings are now given to a book, on the book page, not to each chapter. Chapter pages show the book's average at the top. Written reviews are gone: a rating is stars only, and words go in comments.
The series page shows the average across its books, weighted by how many ratings each book has, along with its follower count.
Chapter ratings given before this release were removed rather than carried over, because ratings are now on books.
You can comment on a series and on a book, not only on a chapter. Each comment shows where it was made, and replies and reporting work the same everywhere.
Links are no longer part of chapter text, descriptions or comments. A pasted link keeps its plain text; the links on an author profile are the place for your website and social accounts. Links already saved in chapters were turned into plain text.
Book descriptions are shown as the text you typed.

Version 1.0.98 · September 15, 2026

Release 1.0.98.

Rating a chapter now tells a screen reader what was chosen and the new average, and the star you picked reads as pressed. Before this the stars only changed colour.

Version 1.0.97 · September 15, 2026

Release 1.0.97.

The focus fix for sending forms now works in Chrome, which had not yet moved focus off the disabled button at the moment the fix ran.
The previous and next chapter links are named "Previous" or "Next" followed by the chapter's title, matching the words on screen, with the arrows left out of the spoken name.