Updates

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

Help page tabs and a 15-day grace period

Version 1.0.14 · September 8, 2026

Releases 1.0.12 to 1.0.14.

The Help page has Writing and Billing tabs with collapsible topics. Billing explains what happens when you cancel: your writing stays, your subdomain switches off, your tiers are hidden and existing subscribers keep their access.
After a failed payment, premium stays on for 15 days while Stripe retries up to four times and emails you a link to update your card. A cancellation you asked for simply runs to the end of the paid period.

Version 1.0.11 · September 8, 2026

Releases 1.0.6 to 1.0.11.

Signing up with a referral code starts you on premium for the number of free days the code carries, and the referral is recorded on your account.
At checkout, Stripe shows the full promised free period.
If a card payment fails, premium stays on while Stripe retries the card.
Admins manage referral codes and grant free days from an admin page, linked from their user menu.
The dashboard subscription buttons are grouped, and the free time line disappears once you subscribe.

Version 1.0.5 · September 7, 2026

Releases 1.0.1 to 1.0.5.

The sign-in modal returns focus to where you were, on desktop and on the phone.
Escape closes the phone menu and returns focus to the menu button, which now has the site focus outline.
The "log in to continue reading" prompt on a chapter preview is readable and opens the sign-in box.

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.