Updates

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

Reading a classic before it is published

Version 1.0.90 · September 15, 2026

Release 1.0.90.

  • For admins: a book imported into the Classics Library can now be read before it is published. The Series link in the Library table opens the draft series, book and chapters for an admin, with a notice at the top saying it is a draft preview. Readers still see nothing until the book is published.

Author rankings, calendar links and two admin tools

Version 1.0.89 · September 15, 2026

Release 1.0.89.

  • The Ranking figure on your Stats tab and on each series dashboard now shows a real number: your place among the site's authors, and the series' place among published series, by how readers follow, review and comment. It is recomputed every hour. The book dashboard no longer shows a ranking, since books are not ranked.
  • Chapter links on the release calendar are now the site's link colour, so they can be read against the dark background.
  • Subscribing to the newsletter after moving around the site in place sends one signup, not three, so it no longer uses up your daily signups.
  • For admins: the Classics Library table now has a search box that finds a book from a partial or misspelt title, author, series or ebook number, shows 25 imports a page, and refreshes itself only while an import is queued or running.
  • For the main admin: the Users page can now make an account an admin and take that back, with a confirmation, and each change is recorded.

An accessibility statement and a way to report a barrier

Version 1.0.88 · September 15, 2026

Release 1.0.88.

  • The site now has an Accessibility page, linked from the footer beside the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. It says what standard the site is built to (WCAG 2.1 AA), how the site is tested, and when it was last reviewed.
  • If something on the site is hard or impossible for you to use, you can now tell us in two ways: by email to accessibility@writersgrove.net, or with a form on the Accessibility page for anyone who cannot use email. We reply within two to three working days.

Classics imports are checked one book at a time

Version 1.0.85 · September 14, 2026

Release 1.0.85.

  • A classics import now lands as a draft book rather than a draft series. A book brought into a series that is already published stays hidden until an admin publishes it, and a new series is published with its first book. Unpublishing the last published book in a series takes the series off the Classics page with it, and any draft book can be deleted from the admin page.

The admin Users page manages accounts, and Analytics has tabs

Version 1.0.84 · September 14, 2026

Releases 1.0.78 to 1.0.84.

  • The admin Users page now spans the whole window and shows each account's referral code. The search finds an account by its code as well as its email or username, and the list can be narrowed to premium, admin or disabled accounts and sorted by join date in either direction.
  • Each account has a View page with everything on record: the account fields, premium and billing, content counts, the referral code, every account that signed up with that code, and the referrer's commissions and payouts.
  • Each account has an Edit window with the actions an admin can take: disable or re-enable, grant free premium days, delete, and create or change the referral code, its free days and whether it is active. Every action asks for confirmation first. Changing a code's text carries the accounts that signed up with the old text over to the new one.
  • Deleting an account from the admin page is the same 30-day deletion an account holder can start for themselves: subscriptions are cancelled first, the account is signed out and hidden, and it is removed for good after 30 days. The View page shows the date and offers Cancel Deletion during those 30 days.
  • The Referral Codes admin tab is now the referral payouts alone. Codes and free premium are managed from each account's Edit window. Referral codes cannot be changed by their owner once set; the Referrals page says to contact support if one needs to change.
  • The admin Analytics page is split into tabs: Overview, New Accounts, Total Accounts, Paid Premium and Top Authors. Total Accounts is a running total by month. Paid Premium counts only accounts with a paid subscription, never free premium, and its history is recorded daily from this release on.
  • The Classics Library admin page is split into Import and Library tabs, the Library tab spans the whole window, the imports table refreshes on its own every 30 seconds with a Refresh button beside it, and a finished import's note can be cleared.
  • Every in-page navigation now opens the new page at its top instead of part way down.

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