Updates

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

Lore entries are written in the editor

Version 1.20.0 · October 6, 2026

Releases 1.19.1 and 1.20.0.

A lore entry's body is now written in the same editor as a chapter, with the toolbar and the shortcuts that format as you type, instead of a plain text box. Links to other entries still go in as [[Name]] or [[Name|shown text]], and the entries you have already written open in the editor as they are.
Renaming an entry still updates every link to it, and Mentioned in still lists the entries that link to one, whether the body was written in the editor or in the old text box.
The notification status box stays in place, says Scheduled, and fits the phone (1.19.1).

Version 1.19.0 · October 6, 2026

Release 1.19.0.

Authors can post a notification: a short message of up to 300 visible characters, with links, one a day, from the new Notifications tab of the author area. It is emailed once to everyone who follows the author or one of their series, shows at the top of the author's page, and can be scheduled for a later day, edited or deleted.
Every author's page carries a calendar of their scheduled chapters, for every visitor: one entry for each tier that gets a chapter early, on its day, and one for everyone.
Readers have a Notifications tab in the Read row, between Home and Calendar, listing what the authors they follow have posted. A red count on the tab shows how many are new; opening the tab clears it.
The Release Calendar is now called Calendar.
The Settings tab of the Read row lists every author you follow, directly or through a series, with switches for their notifications and new series, and under each author the series with switches for new books and new chapters. These replace the four notification boxes that were on the Account page.
Follower emails are now sent as HTML with a plain-text copy, and every one ends with a link to those switches.
Books are no longer followed on their own. Follows are of an author or a series; anyone who followed a book now follows its series.

Version 1.18.0 · October 6, 2026

Release 1.18.0.

Series, book and chapter pages show when the work was published, under the byline, and when a chapter's text was last changed after it went public.
The book page's chapter list shows the date each chapter was published. A chapter still to come keeps its "Public on" date.
Authors can hide the last edited date on the Settings tab of the author area with the "Show the last edited date" box. Published dates always show.
An edit means a change to a chapter's title or text. Reordering chapters, changing a public date or editing a description does not count.
From 1.17.1: Subscribe on an author's page is the same height as Follow, and a long chapter title on a home page card wraps instead of cutting off the chapter's age.

Version 1.17.0 · October 6, 2026

Release 1.17.0.

Signed in, the home page has a Following shelf right after Continue Reading: one card for every series you follow or whose author you follow, newest chapter first, with the chapter's title and age on the card.
Latest Updates is now a shelf of series cards like the others, each showing its newest chapter and when it was published, instead of a separate list. The genre chips are gone from the home page; the Genres tab has them.
The Read menu now reads Home, Calendar, Following, Subscription, History, Genres, Settings. Classics stays reachable from its shelf on the home page.
Subscribing to an author's tier follows the author as well, so their new chapters reach your Following shelf and notices. Readers who already subscribe have been followed once; unfollowing afterwards is up to you.
An author's page shows Subscribe only when they have a tier to subscribe to, and the button now matches Follow.
A new Support page, linked in the footer, points to Help first and then to support@writersgrove.net.
Reading settings opens with a Fonts area that takes you to the font settings on your Account page. The Links rows on Edit Profile keep their Remove button inside the box.

Version 1.16.0 · October 6, 2026

Release 1.16.0.

Every setting on the Account page and the Reading settings page is saved the moment you change it. The Save buttons are gone, and a short "Saved." under the section tells you it took.
The theme (dark, light or match my device) and the reading font are on the Account page now, under Theme and Reading Font, with the text size, paragraph spacing and line height beside the font. These apply to the whole site, not only to chapter text. The "font installed on this device" choice and the column width are gone; the uploaded fonts stay, with a ? beside Upload that shows what is accepted.
Reading settings keeps your own text and background colours for chapter text, under Customize Reading Colours with a preview, and the content preferences.
A sun and moon button in the header, left of your username, switches between dark and light at once. Signed in it is saved to your account; signed out it is remembered in your browser.
Every chapter has a full-screen button at the top. It shows the chapter title, the text and the previous and next chapter links alone, stays on as you move between chapters, and the button or Escape brings the page back.