What’s new

Ignored the social API key file so a generated key never lands in the repository.

Added the native apps plan: milestones for Swift and Kotlin clients that reuse the web engine, with the engine contract gated on talk mode being validated.

Recorded the experience-strategy document and the design committee's reviews of the Home, Browse and Library repositioning.

Recorded the one-chapter story audit: which pilots exist, what finishing them takes, and how batches are chosen.

Measured what a serial opening asks of its reader, finding the licensed serial library's first chapters follow one template.

Refreshed the Discord poll statistics from the October 10 deploy.

Decided the walala-style pivot and built its intake: a decision record in reports/, and the offline drafting tool that turns a source text into a .story pilot.

Chartered the serial-completion committee: the standard for finishing all 488 one-chapter serials, the audit, and the writer queue.

Updated the launch operations guide with a capacity-monitoring plan for the existing hosting tier and a threshold for considering an upgrade.

Drafted launch-day social posts and image descriptions, including AI disclosure. These were prepared posts, not a record that they were sent.

Updated launch-guide account details and recorded that the Product Hunt launch had been scheduled manually. Public visibility was still awaiting the scheduled launch.

Added limited reporting of browser script failures to help diagnose reading problems, excluding unrelated injected scripts and removing email-like text from reports. Updated the privacy disclosure accordingly.

Recorded publication and live verification of browser-error reporting and its privacy disclosure.

Expanded the Product Hunt materials into a submission and launch-day guide, including checks for the classics-only experience and accurate descriptions of complete and unfinished stories.

Prepared a phone-reader image for the launch materials and recorded a planned September 30 launch. This was launch preparation, not confirmation that the launch had occurred.

Improved muted text contrast in the light theme and enlarged the footer's theme-switch target for easier tapping.

Added an introduction to the Pregnancy tag page describing the stories on that shelf, with copy suitable for its search preview.

Recorded verified publication of the light-theme contrast improvement and Pregnancy shelf introduction after interrupted publishing attempts, followed by search-engine notification.

Created dedicated Discord story-discussion threads for selected classics, with descriptions, artwork, genre tags and spoiler guidance.

Added blog guides to H. G. Wells and queer classics, and updated the Holmes guide to explain and link the available six-chapter arcs.

Connected new-story announcements to automatic discussion-thread creation and added a link from each announcement to its thread when available.

Recorded publication of complete in-app story blurbs, reading-time estimates and end-of-story sharing. Live checks confirmed the updated story page.

Added internal Search Console reporting to assess discovery of story, genre, tag and blog pages, including careful handling of failed inspection requests.

Recorded publication of the Wells and queer-classics blog posts, the revised Holmes guide and links back to those articles from relevant story pages.

Corrected the IFDB and itch.io listing drafts to state that the extended chapters were AI-written and had not received human prose editing. These remained draft submissions.

Updated Discord's welcome post with linked channels, the current poll, its closing time and story discussions, with automatic refresh when a new poll starts.

Added internal tracking of community-invite use and daily membership snapshots to understand whether site links lead to Discord joins.

Drafted a Show HN introduction and checked hosting capacity before a possible launch. The draft disclosed AI-generated text and art and distinguished complete works from unfinished arcs and openings.

Added a subdued story-art background beside the desktop reader. The name dialog gained accessible labels and an Escape shortcut to continue without a name.

Added More like this recommendations to story pages and Read next recommendations after a story ends, using shared themes and genres and respecting age-rating boundaries.

Made the end-of-story community card link to the story's actual discussion thread and current poll when available, replacing unsupported claims about community activity.

Added keyboard shortcuts: / opens visible search, and number keys 1–9 select the corresponding story choice. Choice numbers appear on devices with a keyboard-style pointer.

Merged the updated end-of-story community card into the active development branch.

Added a desktop navigation tagline explaining NetFable's free interactive stories, and included chapter reading-time estimates on public story landing pages.

Reorganized the classics page to lead with stories extending beyond their first chapter. Clearly distinguished complete works, continuing serials and opening chapters, and directed Start reading to that section.

Recorded publication of the desktop tagline and landing-page reading times, along with preceding reader-art, recommendations and community-card updates.

Preserved the authored capitalization of scene locations in the reader header, so place names such as London and Baker Street remain correctly written.

Recorded publication of the classics Start here section and the corrected scene-location labels, with the live classics page verified.

Extended one-tap speaker turns to scene chapters. Character entrances, exits and off-camera messages now end a turn appropriately so different voices are not grouped together.

Extended The Time Machine from one chapter to six, through the future world, Weena, the Morlocks and the dark wood. The adaptation was checked against the source text and remained an unpublished continuation at this record.

Extended The War of the Worlds from one chapter to six, through the cylinder, flight from the invasion and the collapsing house. The adaptation was checked against the source text and remained an unpublished continuation at this record.

Updated the two expanded Wells stories' blurbs and tags and prepared their evaluation record. These changes were awaiting deployment with the new chapters.

Made the Discord announcements channel followable from other servers and enabled publication of new announcements to those followers.

Added shelf introductions to in-app genre and tag views, matching the descriptive text already available on their public landing pages.

Added a real opening story choice to eligible Discord discussion starters, inviting readers to explain their decisions. Updated existing threads where a suitable short choice was available.

Reduced the Discord joining delay for newly created accounts while retaining verified-email and moderation requirements.

Defined an evaluation plan for the new reading beats before interpreting their results, with minimum evidence requirements and a scheduled review. This was research planning, not a claim of improved retention.

Revised that evaluation plan to compare the reading beats with the immediately preceding reader behavior rather than pooling older designs. No improvement claim was made.

Corrected date boundaries in the evaluation plan's historical comparison table so its rows account for the same period.

Improved diagnostics for where reading stops when a page is hidden, feedback-form openings and broad device type. Updated privacy and storage disclosures to match the information actually recorded.

Recorded publication of the two six-chapter Wells serials, their blurbs and tags, shelf introductions and the diagnostic and privacy updates.

Changed the AI-authorship label to “Generated by AI,” removing the unsupported claim that a person had edited every adaptation. Applied the same wording in the reader, public pages and related launch copy.

Prepared a Product Hunt launch kit and removed an outdated completion-rate claim from launch drafts. The kit documented unresolved submission-policy questions rather than presenting them as settled.

Updated Product Hunt launch guidance after checking the available submission tools and written rules. The launch still required manual website submission.

Prioritized the homepage's first large image and loaded the catalogue earlier, delaying competing thumbnails and slides to improve the first screen on slower connections.

Added a skip link and main-content landmark, enlarged small navigation targets and fixed keyboard handling so focused links open correctly from the reader.

Added a classics-only view for visits arriving from Product Hunt, consistently filtering browsing, search, recommendations and direct story lookups for that visit.

Integrated the product branch into the main branch through pull request 5. This is a repository integration record, not evidence of a separate public release.

Prepared author pages for frequently adapted classic writers, links from stories to their tags, and consistent author spellings on an alternate branch. This work is outside the current product branch; its deployment is not established by this record.

Integrated the product branch into the main branch through pull request 4. This is a repository integration record, not evidence of a separate public release.

Integrated the product branch into the main branch through pull request 3. This is a repository integration record, not evidence of a separate public release.

Improved page titles, adaptation credits, related-story links and blog links, and corrected duplicated author information. Duplicate genre-like tag pages were removed from search indexing; this update was not yet deployed in this record.

Made unsuccessful searches retry without filler words such as “story” or “romance,” while clearly telling readers which shorter search produced the results.

Added a Pregnancy tag and improved Steamy tagging and search aliases, with selected stories corrected by reading their premises.

Moved the reader-name question to the first line that actually uses the name. Stories without a personalized name no longer interrupt readers with that question.

Stopped deployment early when the authored-story source folder is missing or empty, preventing an accidental publication without the adaptations.

Recorded publication of improved search, new tags, the delayed name prompt and search-metadata changes. Live checks confirmed that the intended searches and name prompt worked.

Rewrote the ten expanded serial blurbs to describe their six-chapter arcs, improved short hooks and corrected several misleading tags. These copy changes were not yet deployed in this record.

Adjusted the serial-evaluation start date to when all ten arcs were available, and updated authoring and publishing notes. No deployment was made for this documentation update.

Made story cards actual links, preserving in-app opening while supporting keyboard navigation and opening stories in another tab.

Moved Orlando and The Well of Loneliness to Out & Proud and aligned their genre descriptions. The move was awaiting a later deployment.

Recorded publication of linked story cards and revised serial blurbs and tags. The build also temporarily included a broader reading-beat change; the two genre moves were not included in this deployment.

Prepared a temporary A Study in Scarlet homepage feature through October 2. The pin was committed but not yet deployed in this record.

Drafted listings for the ten expanded serials on the Interactive Fiction Database, including play links, cover references and AI disclosures. These were prepared submissions, not a record of publication there.

Added tailored introductions to 28 tag pages and excluded very small tag shelves from search indexing. Also cleaned up genre and tag page titles.

Updated Discord genre tags, onboarding choices and catalogue wording to match the site's shelves. The changes were applied to the community server.

Prepared automatic Discord announcements for new stories and chapters after deployment, excluding adult-rated stories. The announcement history still needed initialization before automation would run.

Initialized the announcement history after the expanded classics were announced manually, enabling future deployments to announce only new material.

Added the already published Winked catalogue to announcement history so it would not be mistaken for a batch of newly released stories.

Added chapter progress, adjustable reading text size, story sharing, clearer chapter lists and a more accessible mobile Read button. Search gained typo correction and more room on phones, and smaller poster thumbnails reduced image downloads.

Clarified how catalogue genre overrides work and updated the internal status of the serial campaign, proposed listings and homepage feature.

Recorded publication of the reader controls, sharing, search and thumbnail improvements from a clean source snapshot. The preceding temporary broader reading-beat version was replaced by this build.

Started weekly Discord polls based on real story choices, with a first Carmilla poll and later result summaries. Adult-rated stories are excluded from these polls.

Changed chat chapters so one tap reveals the current speaker's short run of messages, pausing when another speaker responds or the screen fills. Scene dialogue retained its existing behavior at this stage.

Recorded publication and live verification of the chat-only speaker-turn reading change.

Corrected the deployment record to confirm that A Study in Scarlet's temporary homepage feature and the two Out & Proud genre moves had gone live with the earlier reader-controls release.

Added full blurbs and estimated reading times to in-app story pages, plus sharing at a story's end. Desktop reading hints now mention clicking or Space, and the mobile error-page buttons have clearer spacing.

Drafted ten itch.io story listings and three blog changes for the expanded serials. The blog copy was deliberately kept outside the publishing source until reviewed.

Integrated the product branch into the main branch through pull request 2. This is a repository integration record, not evidence of a separate public release.

Fixed missing records for genre and tag browsing, added reader-build identifiers to diagnostics, and added checks before publication to catch missing event support. Deployment tooling can now build stories from a chosen source snapshot.

Corrected internal reports to count distinct devices rather than calling them sessions, exclude development traffic and flag samples too small for reliable comparisons.

Documented the limits of the available usage evidence and corrected earlier unsupported claims about discovery, ranking and referrals. This was an internal analysis correction.

Prepared a ten-story serial-development shortlist, reporting tools and tagged links to help decide which openings to extend. This changed no reader behavior and was not deployed.

Extended A Study in Scarlet from one chapter to six, following the Brixton investigation through the second crime scene and Jefferson Hope's name. This remained an unfinished serial and was not yet deployed in this record.

Recorded publication of the five-post blog and the six-chapter A Study in Scarlet arc, with related catalogue pages updated.

Fixed a reporting error that interrupted analytics processing when community links had been clicked, and added coverage for every report section.

Extended The Castle of Otranto from one chapter to six, through the underground escape and sanctuary to the enormous sword. This remained an unfinished serial and was not yet deployed in this record.

Extended Pinocchio from one chapter to six, covering Geppetto's arrest, the cricket, new feet and the puppet theatre. The arc ends with Fire-Eater and was not yet deployed in this record.

Allowed reader credit names to use letters from any writing system, accents, hyphens and apostrophes, while retaining safeguards against misleading or invalid names.

Recorded publication of the six-chapter Otranto and Pinocchio arcs and the improved handling of reader names.

Extended The Sign of the Four from one chapter to six, through Pondicherry Lodge and the trail that identifies the Aurora. This remained an unfinished serial and was not yet deployed in this record.

Extended The Invisible Man from one chapter to six, following the stranger's arrival through the revelation at the inn and footprints left behind. This remained an unfinished serial and was not yet deployed in this record.

Extended The Island of Doctor Moreau from one chapter to six, taking the narrator to the island, the forest and Moreau's explanation. This remained an unfinished serial and was not yet deployed in this record.

Removed duplicate blog URLs from the sitemap and made blog update dates respond to changes in the full article, rather than only its title and description.

Improved referral attribution for links carrying source labels, including links opened without a referring-page header. Updated privacy and cookie descriptions to match.

Recorded publication of the corrected blog sitemap and the six-chapter arcs for The Sign of the Four, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Prevented simultaneous deployment runs from overwriting the same build folders and risking an incomplete publication.

Marked the project's authored adaptations as AI-generated while leaving the licensed stories' text authorship unspecified. The label then available also claimed human editing; that unsupported wording was corrected in a later update.

Added the missing AI-authorship declarations to Orlando and The Well of Loneliness after their scripts changed during the preceding update.

Recorded publication of authorship labels across the catalogue. The historical label included a human-editing claim that was corrected later.

Prevented publication of refreshed reading statistics from overlapping a site deployment, while allowing the underlying reporting work to continue.

Made story-page update dates track the rendered page so changes to credits, descriptions and other visible content are reflected in search-engine notifications.

Made analytics downloads replace the saved file only after a complete successful write, protecting reports from empty or partial data.

Recorded publication of the new story-page date tracking and a one-time search-engine refresh of the existing story pages.

Applied the same complete-write protection to published reading statistics, preventing readers and deployments from seeing a partial statistics file.

Added AI-generated cover-art disclosures throughout the catalogue, including licensed stories whose text authorship remains unspecified.

Recorded publication of the cover-art disclosures across the catalogue and additional serial content present in that build.

Extended She from one chapter to six, through the voyage, the Amahagger and the audience with Ayesha. The unfinished arc was already live from the preceding deployment when this commit was recorded.

Extended Great Expectations from one chapter to six, through the stolen file and pie, Satis House and the secret benefactor's offer. The unfinished arc was already live from the preceding deployment when this commit was recorded.

Integrated verified team notifications for saved reader feedback, while retaining submissions if notification delivery fails. Updated the privacy page to disclose that transfer.

Made About, Privacy, Terms and Cookies page dates reflect edits to the rendered page, allowing search engines to be notified of policy changes.

Recorded publication of the updated policy-page tracking and privacy disclosure, with the four affected pages submitted to search engines.

Merged the five-post editorial blog into the active site while keeping the newer feedback flow. Resolved duplicate form, database and outdated privacy-copy conflicts during the merge.

Corrected the classics page's catalogue count and earliest-author attribution. Added a public catalogue guide for automated readers explaining that the classics are interactive adaptations.

Added limits on sign-in email requests to protect delivery availability and reduce unsolicited messages. A known reservation-recovery limitation remained documented.

Made the classics page's sitemap date and search-engine notifications respond to edits to its actual text. The changed page was subsequently submitted successfully.

Added a footer feedback form with saved submissions, abuse controls and a privacy disclosure, plus a team-notification integration. Real notification delivery was not verified in this branch record.

Separated chapter-update email sending from sign-in email and added retries to unreliable database and publication steps. The publication retry succeeded after earlier connection failures.

Documented that preview builds can alter stored sitemap dates, and recorded the restoration of dates changed by trial builds.

Redesigned browsing with searchable trope tags, rotating story selections, shorter mobile artwork and a Most read row based on reader activity. Added dedicated tag pages and replaced the misleading longest-stories-based Top 10.

Recorded publication of the redesigned front page and 35 tag pages, with search engines notified of the new pages.

Stopped failed or empty analytics downloads from replacing previously collected data, protecting reports and the statistics shown to readers.

Moved trope tags into the empty search screen and no-results screen, and added Browse by tag to the footer. The front page gives more space to stories and artwork.

Added the editorial blog and its first two posts, plus chapter information in story pages' search metadata. This created no separate public page for each chapter.

Preserved published choice statistics and Most read rankings across deployments instead of replacing them with an empty placeholder.

Added three blog guides covering where to start with Sherlock Holmes, short classics for an evening, and the Brontë sisters.

Added visible ways to leave the search-tag suggestions screen, including All stories, the clear button, Escape and clicking outside its controls.

Added illustrated share previews to blog posts and linked the blog from the homepage's fallback content. Also documented how blog pages are built.

Fixed stale search-tag screen state that could leave the clear button visible or unexpectedly return readers to the library.

Added internal reporting tools to compare website usage with search referrals and infrastructure traffic, helping distinguish readers from automated requests.

Added IndexNow notifications so search engines can discover changed and removed pages after publication. The integration was deployed and its first submission was accepted.

Updated the application gate to permit Singapore and Taiwan. A separate network rule still required an update, so this commit alone did not fully restore access there.

Prepared optional email requests for new serial chapters, with confirmation and unsubscribe controls. The code was deployed with the feature switched off pending further reliability work.

Hardened the disabled chapter-email feature against simultaneous requests, improved failed-send responses and expiry handling, and updated its privacy disclosure. This deployment kept the feature switched off.

Changed reading from one tap per narration line to short narrative beats that continue until dialogue or the screen's space limit. This reading change was deployed.

Corrected the deployment command for IndexNow so automatic search-engine notifications can run after publishing.

Added protection against overlapping chapter-email sends and reserved sending capacity before delivery. This work was not deployed in this record, and the feature remained disabled.

Prepared routine cleanup of unconfirmed chapter-email requests and corrected the wording around their retention period. This work was not deployed in this record, and the feature remained disabled.

Improved retry guidance and request limits for readers following several serials, avoiding an unconditional promise that a confirmation email was sent. This work was not deployed in this record, and the feature remained disabled.

Improved recovery when a chapter-email request fails after reserving sending capacity, allowing later retries to work. This work was not deployed in this record, and the feature remained disabled.

Added checks to reject chapter-email requests initiated by unrelated websites. This change was not yet deployed.

Added similar protections to email sign-in, age confirmation and sign-out requests. This change was not yet deployed; further sign-in email limits were still outstanding.

Added reviewed posters and banners for all ninety-three Winked storylines. Improved banner cropping to keep faces in frame and retained originals for future recrops.

Recorded 401 classic-serial posters and banners as live on September 19, with all 802 served files checked against their prepared images.

Committed the conversion, verification, gated-storage sync, and image-generation tools already used by the deployed site, making the existing build reproducible from its source history.

Recorded the September 19 deployment of a consistent NetFable mark and icon family, generated from one master shape across browser and app icons.

Recorded changes deployed during September 16–19: Winked stories, remembered story values, conditional follow-up branches, and variable text. Adult chapters moved to separate gated storage while retaining their age check and private response behavior.

Recorded the September 19 deployment of titles, descriptions, and genres for ninety-three Winked stories, plus updated genre descriptions.

Recorded prompts and cast counts for an earlier artwork batch, preserving how existing licensed-story and classic-serial covers were prepared.

Recorded the September 19 live artwork set for 291 stories: 291 posters and 290 banners. Uncle Tom's Cabin had a poster only in this batch.

Documented how the 401 classic-serial cover pairs were generated and reviewed, including checks for appropriate characters and readable titles. Added safeguards against unintentionally regenerating a whole batch.

Reorganized catalogue records, artwork, and operations tools into clearer folders. A comparison build verified that the reorganization itself did not change the generated site or gated story files.

Corrected two tool usage examples after the folder reorganization so their documented paths still work.

Recorded the September 19 deployment of improved handoffs from public landing pages into the reader, reducing duplicate search URLs. Older story links, browser history, and age checks continued to work.

Added descriptions for the 400 new serial openings, checked against their actual chapters to avoid promising later events or optional scenes as guaranteed.

Rewrote twelve genre descriptions whose story counts and examples had become outdated after the classic-serial expansion.

Synchronized titles, genres, ratings, sources, and provenance with all 556 committed story scripts, adding the missing metadata for the new serials.

Prepared 400 additional one-chapter classic serials with checked ratings, unique identifiers, and reviewed genre placement. This commit explicitly preceded deployment and the completion of their story descriptions.

Prepared ninety-nine one-chapter classic serials, an ask-for-more action, and new Coming of Age and Social Protest shelves. The Tale of Genji remained held; a later record explains that the initial deployment did not include these scripts.

Added chapter-specific descriptions for the ninety-nine classic serials and corrected singular chapter and scene wording. Descriptions focus on what the available opening actually contains.

Moved the ninety-nine serial scripts into the source location used by deployments, fixing the earlier build that had reported success without including them. The held Tale of Genji stayed excluded.

Improved browsing and search performance as the catalogue grows, and limited very broad search rendering to sixty results. Strengthened authoring checks against duplicate story IDs, missing ratings, and inconsistent genres.

Replaced thirty-three unintended Chinese chapter copies with the available English versions and removed coin-price badges from free choices. Chapter identifiers were preserved for existing progress.

Added fourteen reviewed MeChat storylines with editorial ratings, titles, descriptions, and genre placement. Updated genre descriptions to match the enlarged selection.

Protected adult chapter text and community branches with a server-checked age-confirmation cookie instead of relying only on a browser dialog. Removed stale public chapter copies and prevented shared caching of gated text.

Restored daily rotation of the featured story and added automatic expiry for editorial pins. Rotation follows the reader's local date and refreshes when an open tab returns on a new day.

Made nested choices playable and returned readers to the surrounding branch afterward. Hidden outfit checks now resolve automatically instead of displaying empty buttons, and text cleanup reaches nested branches.

Recorded the addition of 180 further MeChat stories after editorial and content review, with adult titles placed behind the age gate. Twenty-three other entries remained held or excluded.

Recorded page-change dates for the 180 new story landing pages so the sitemap reflects the expanded catalogue.

Added ways to request the next classic from the footer, completed adaptations, and classics page. The standalone request form also works without JavaScript.

Added public credit for readers who requested a story, shown on its detail page, landing page, and classics listing. Also fixed light-theme credit visibility on phones.

Excluded recognized testing and crawler sessions from reader-choice statistics and reports, reducing the chance that test selections appear as reader preferences.

Changed the reader to tap-to-advance, with keyboard support, and converted waiting gates into story-time cues. On phones, featured stories use readable posters, and teasers draw from written descriptions.

Added the classics directory with authors, years, and source editions for public-domain adaptations. The commit records that this change was part of the tested and deployed site.

Added optional exit reasons, end-of-chapter reactions, and a free-text feedback box that does not require an account. Updated privacy information and improved attribution of how readers reach the site.

Excluded machine-specific development-session files from version control so local launch settings do not enter shared project history.

Recorded the live revision of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz's opening, with decisions about preparing for the approaching storm. Corrected Brontë source credits on the classics page.

Gave the classics page the same shared social-link footer used across the rest of NetFable.

Enlarged social-link touch targets to 44 pixels while keeping the icons visually compact and aligned on phones.

Improved spacing and placeholder text in the mobile feedback form so the name field and Send action remain clear.

Directed community entry points to a permanent Discord welcome-channel invite, giving new members a clearer place to begin.

Recorded a repeatable community-server setup and its supporting brand assets so channels, roles, and onboarding can be maintained consistently.

Consolidated community and platform branding assets into one directory and corrected the setup tools' paths.

Prepared community introductions and discussion forums with clearer onboarding and moderator-managed status tags. Improved setup reliability and preserved existing forum tags and invites.

Corrected community role ordering so displayed roles and the automation permissions match the intended hierarchy.

Included story descriptions, chapter names, and genre copy in page-change tracking so meaningful editorial rewrites update sitemap dates.

Removed scene-count badges from poster artwork because they could obscure painted titles. Chapter and scene counts remain on story detail pages.

Added visible authorship and artwork declarations, including an explicit “Authorship not stated” label, and documented outside-story submissions. An initial human-written filter was introduced here and removed later the same day.

Added the first account and credited community-branch infrastructure, initially with Discord sign-in support. Community branches could be entered editorially; automatic branch generation was not part of this phase.

Removed the newly introduced human-written browse filter while keeping individual authorship labels. Cleared its saved preference so readers could not remain stuck in a hidden filtered view.

Hid sign-in controls when no provider is configured, avoiding a button that leads to an unavailable service. Existing signed-in readers could still sign out.

Added Google sign-in alongside the then-supported Discord option and let readers choose their public display name. Signing in again preserves the name chosen on NetFable.

Configured Google sign-in and expanded repository safeguards for downloaded provider credential files.

Replaced the account icon with a clear Sign in label; signed-in readers see their chosen name on the control.

Replaced the sign-in dropdown with an accessible dialog presenting the available providers, their logos, and readable terms and privacy links.

Replaced Discord sign-in with an email-link flow alongside Google. The email option was initially dormant pending delivery setup, while Discord remained available as the community destination.

Required a configured, deliverable email sender before offering email sign-in, preventing a misleading inbox prompt when no message could arrive.

Turned email sign-in back off after a live test showed the initial mail service could not deliver to new readers. Google remained the available sign-in option at this point.

Replaced the initial mail integration with Resend for sign-in links. Delivery failures now produce a service error and release the failed request's temporary throttle.

Kept email sign-in hidden while the replacement mail service awaited domain verification. This was a recorded hold, not an available email-login release.

Enabled email sign-in after a delivery-simulator test confirmed that the sending domain was authorized to send through Resend.

Shortened the sign-in explanation so the dialog states the benefit of an account more directly.

Fixed browser navigation to sign-in, administration, and artwork routes being intercepted as missing static pages. Sign-in links now reach the intended application handlers.

Documented the difference between browser navigation and ordinary API requests that caused the sign-in routing failure, improving future deployment checks.

Added tools for preparing community-choice writing sheets and validating submitted branches against the current story, cast, and choice positions.

Made the writers' room preparation and branch-import workflow repeatable, including regeneration of choice references before accepting submissions.

Removed the analytics consent banner and made analytics load by default at that time. Updated the cookie and privacy pages to describe the actual analytics and account behavior.

Redesigned the small NetFable icon for clearer visibility on dark browser tabs and applied the same favicon across landing pages, genres, and the app.

Corrected the nighttime sequence in The Prisoner of Zenda and clarified two setting labels and narration passages in The First Men in the Moon. Saved chapter positions remain compatible.

Added official social links as one consistent footer row across the site, alongside the existing Discord community entry.

Revised The First Men in the Moon to keep narration closer to the reader's character without moving saved chapter positions. Regenerated A Little Princess's poster so its full title fits inside the image.

Added What the Archive Kept, a sixteen-chapter original mystery in which the reader is a documentary sound editor assembling evidence about research misconduct.

Moved What the Archive Kept's preliminary disclaimers to its closing notes so the opening begins with the scene. Its chapter identities and reading progress remain compatible.

Added a story-specific description for What the Archive Kept, explaining its opening situation and the reader's role.

Recorded live poster and banner artwork for What the Archive Kept, drawn from its opening sound-editing scene. The then-current catalogue had matching posters and banners for all 225 stories.

Prepared a five-story featured carousel with dots, desktop arrows, phone swipes, keyboard controls, and motion-aware autoplay. The commit explicitly recorded that this locally checked feature was not yet live.

Added measurement of visible story shelves, search attempts, and browsing exits to help distinguish discovery problems from early departures. Repeated rendering no longer inflates shelf impressions.

Completed written descriptions for all 225 stories then in the catalogue and added descriptions for all eighteen genres, based on their actual contents.

Expanded search to include story identifiers and casts, so queries such as “pirate” or “vampire” can find stories with less literal display titles. Improved prefix matching and handling of editorial title changes.

Added twenty adaptations, including Little Women, The Secret Garden, Herland, and The Moonstone, and introduced a Young Readers shelf. The unchanged Boats of the Glen Carrig submission remained held.

Prepared story-specific poster and banner prompts for twenty uncovered adaptations, with varied framing and recognizable characters. This record queued artwork; it did not itself add the finished images.

Added regional access restrictions for mainland China and a clear unavailable-in-your-region response. Unknown location results were allowed through.

Extended regional access restrictions to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, and redesigned the explanation page in NetFable's visual style.

Updated cover-art standards and automated checks to emphasize larger faces, readable titles, genre cues, and appropriate casts at mobile card size.

Recorded live artwork for the last twenty-one uncovered stories, bringing the then-current catalogue to 224 posters and 224 banners. Prompts were revised to improve character and title visibility.

Added prepared story descriptions and chapter names across the catalogue, expanding editorial copy without replacing existing entries.

Recorded an analytics baseline for comparing later reading changes. This was an internal measurement record, not a new reader feature.

Added a repeatable way to apply regional restrictions at the network edge, reducing unnecessary application-server work.

Added a safe verification path for the regional restriction setup and expanded protection against accidentally committing local credential files.

Restored direct serving of static pages and chapter files after the regional rule was verified at the network edge. Application routes kept their fallback protection.

Accepted revisions to ten classic adaptations, tightening prose and updating chapter labels while preserving every chapter identifier and saved place. The unchanged held Boats of the Glen Carrig submission remained excluded.

Kept the homepage artwork and its text readable in light mode by using a consistent dark overlay, with a smoother transition into the shelves.

Rebuilt the embedded-reader export from current site data and enabled standalone story bundles. Chapter wording now follows each story's setting instead of assuming every story is a romance chat.

Made the waiting-scene wording gender-neutral so it also fits stories whose lead character is not a man.

Preserved The Boats of the Glen Carrig's prepared copy outside the active catalogue while the story remained held, avoiding misleading build warnings.

Improved reading reports to distinguish recognized crawlers from readers and to measure sessions rather than misleading raw event totals. Only a bot flag is stored from this check.

Made fast-forward stop at each choice or skipped wait so later branches no longer rush past automatically. Applied the same behavior to embedded readers.

Selected The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as the featured story and refreshed recorded page-change dates.

Simplified waiting scenes with readable durations and moved the skip action into the reader's normal choice area.

Skipped empty opening and closing wait gates and presented completed waits as story-time transitions. In-scene waits still paused at this stage of the reader's development.

Changed deployments to rebuild story data and pages from clean output directories, preventing removed stories from lingering. A failed build keeps the previous complete site intact.

Changed poster loading to fetch artwork only near the visible area. Measurements on the live mobile site confirmed a substantial reduction in unnecessary image downloads.

Moved the homepage featured artwork clear of navigation so its painted title remains readable at phone, tablet, and desktop widths.

Added more posters and banners, including artwork prepared for a held story. Strengthened artwork checks for visible faces and legible titles; artwork alone did not release a held story.

Revised The Blue Castle with clearer chapter titles, more varied narration, and improved scene transitions and dialogue continuity.

Added the seventy-six-chapter Anne of Green Gables adaptation and written descriptions for all thirty-seven adaptations then in the catalogue.

Added Anne of Green Gables poster and banner artwork featuring Marilla and Matthew, with Anne remaining the reader's role.

Added seventeen classic adaptations, including Treasure Island, Pride and Prejudice, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Boats of the Glen Carrig remained held for a pacing rewrite; duplicate submissions were reconciled and genre shelves consolidated.

Added twelve posters and ten banners for recently added adaptations. Titles still awaiting artwork kept their generated covers.

Added the poster for The Blue Castle to complete an image omitted from the preceding artwork commit.

Adjusted story banners to show their full image and painted title, with reading controls beneath the frame. Story pages also stopped placing the search field over the artwork.

Refined desktop story banners to avoid colored side bars and overlapping controls. Removed repeated homepage branding and softened the transition into the story shelves.

Moved desktop story controls onto a darkened section of the banner and kept their text readable in both themes. Mobile controls remained below the image.

Expanded story banners across the screen, using a blurred copy of the image to fill wide side areas. Added a top fade to protect navigation legibility.

Reduced the blur used behind wide banners to lower rendering work and help the artwork appear sooner.

Put the selected story in the browser address so bookmarks, shared links, refresh, Back, and Forward preserve the story destination. Refresh opens its detail page with reading progress.

Shortened desktop story banners so the chapter list sits closer to the reading controls, while keeping painted titles at the top. Mobile banners retained the whole image and cleared the fixed navigation.

Removed the extra rule beneath the final chapter row and added clearer spacing before the footer.

Reorganized the footer, added a contact entry point, and fixed stale theme-control labels. Browsing home from its footer link now avoids an unnecessary page reload.

Added dedicated pages for all seventeen genres, with story artwork, counts, and links back from individual stories. Genre navigation was also exposed in the footer.

Fixed genre deep links being replaced by the full library when newer artwork settings finished loading.

Added a dedicated Browse by genre page and an All genres return link. Genre colors now match between the app and static pages.

Improved homepage sharing and search metadata, breadcrumbs, working search links, and no-script navigation. Sitemap dates now change when the corresponding page changes instead of on every build.

Gave genre views their canonical page addresses while preserving older query links and browser history. Fixed chapter downloads when a reader starts from a genre page.

Improved page headings, search descriptions, missing-page navigation, font loading, and HTTPS protection after a site audit. The record also noted redirect behavior still controlled by the hosting layer.

Fixed the server route so missing links display NetFable's useful 404 page with navigation while retaining the correct not-found status.

Added editorial story descriptions and chapter-name overrides that appear consistently in both landing pages and the reader. Seed descriptions were included for four stories.

Added the seventy-six-chapter Mary Barton adaptation. The Boats of the Glen Carrig remained held for revision, and stale generated copies of the held story were removed from the build.

Documented a build-output problem that could leave removed or held stories in generated files, together with the requirement to rebuild from an empty output directory.

Removed obsolete sitemap-date records during full builds and protected those records from changes during partial test builds.

Removed the theme toggle from the compact reader bar, keeping theme settings in the footer and respecting the device preference by default.

Changed the adult rating label from “18+” to “Rated 18” throughout the interface. The same stories continued to require age confirmation.

Standardized story-card badges around scene counts and moved rating details to story pages. Also corrected inconsistent scene-count wording.

Added editorial display-title changes across story cards, featured stories, detail pages, reader headings, and search while preserving saved-progress identifiers. Static landing pages receive the new title on their next build.

Added consistent editorial character renaming across speaker labels, dialogue, and narration. Name matching avoids changing longer names or unrelated words accidentally.

Moved theme controls out of crowded top navigation and into the reader and footer, giving mobile search more room. The reader copy of the control was removed in a later update.

Added artwork to story landing pages, social-link previews, search metadata, and image sitemaps. Public previews for adult-rated stories retained safe generated artwork.

Added a local artwork manager with upload, crop previews, missing-art filters, removal, and deployment controls to improve cover preparation.

Added a hosted artwork management panel and verified it on production. Updated covers can reach the reader without rebuilding the whole site.

Added a twelve-chapter adaptation of A Scandal in Bohemia and introduced the Mystery shelf. Fixed a compiler issue that ignored the author's declared maturity rating.

Added the eighteen-chapter fictional drama My Girlfriend Tessa Lin. Names, locations, and disclaimers were revised to establish a fictional cast and setting.

Connected supplied poster artwork to the site build. Stories without an illustration continue to use a generated cover.

Added separate landscape banners for featured stories and story pages, with readable text in both themes. Posters and banners can be supplied independently.

Added editorial featuring so a shorter story can lead the homepage instead of relying solely on the rotation of longer titles.

Removed artwork from generated output when its source image is deleted, so taking an image down also removes the old publicly addressable file.

Added sixteen adaptation installments covering thirteen public-domain works, including seasonal presentations of Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Replaced the earlier Carmilla and A Scandal in Bohemia prototypes with fuller adaptations and organized the new titles into established genres.

Added title, genre, and teaser search with ranked results. Story landing pages gained chapter contents, while mobile search kept the home link visible.

Added Discord community entry points in navigation, story endings, waiting scenes, and page footers. Tapping a link inside a story no longer accidentally activates fast-forward.

Added a plain-text authoring and checking workflow for NetFable stories, with a four-chapter Carmilla prototype. Scene arrivals use neutral wording, named locations display correctly, and story teasers avoid stray speaker labels.

Let stories describe chapters as letters, investigations, memories, or other scene types instead of inheriting romance-specific labels. Carmilla's letters chapter demonstrates narration mixed with an exchange.

Introduced an experimental prose-page presentation alongside the conversation view, plus named transitions and character arrivals. The prose renderer was removed in the following update; named chapter kinds and transitions remained.

Removed the experimental prose renderer and returned Carmilla to the shared thread presentation. Stories retained their own chapter labels and written transitions.

Recorded the first NetFable interactive-fiction reader, already live at netfable.com, with a chapter-at-a-time library, story ratings, and an age-confirmation flow.

Added a repeatable build-and-deploy command so site settings, analytics configuration, and age-gate policy stay consistent between updates.

Added NetFable's own reading-event collection to understand chapter starts, choices, and completions. Event delivery runs without making readers wait, and malformed or oversized submissions are rejected.