Every update to Plot Warren, newest first.
0.7.0 (2026-09-29)
New
- Search. Find works, chapters, posts, members, tags, universes, lore, forum threads and events from the search box at the top of every page.
- Maps for universes. Upload a map of your world and pin places on it. Link a pin to a lore entry, add a note, or mark it as a spoiler. Everyone who edits a universe can work on its maps, and a place’s page links to its spot on the map.
- Posts in universes. Set a blog post in a universe when you write it, just like a work. Universe owners approve posts the same way they approve works, and the universe page lists them.
- @mentions everywhere. Write @someone in a post or a comment to let them know. Their name becomes a link, and they get a notification.
- “Create now” for events. Events with an entry tag have buttons to start a work or write a post with the tag already filled in. Works entered in an event now appear on the event’s page.
- Fanfiction is a genre.
- Alt text for comics. Add a short description under each image in an image chapter, for readers who use screen readers.
- Email notifications (coming soon). Choose which notifications you’d like by email in inbox settings. They’ll arrive as one short digest at most once an hour, with a one-click unsubscribe. Emails start once our mail service is switched on.
- A version number and this page, so you can see what changed and when.
Fixed
- Clicking a notification takes you to what it’s about. New-chapter and new-post notifications used to open your inbox instead, and comment notifications now scroll to the comment and highlight it.
- If a moderator removes something and then reverses the decision, it comes back exactly as it was. Before, a removed comment was gone for good.
- Forum lists, the inbox and other lists keep their rounded corners when you hover over the first or last row.
- The universe entry form explains “Belongs to” and “See also” (formerly “Related entries”), groups the choices by kind, and doesn’t show an empty faction list.
- Posts show their real reblog count everywhere. Some pages used to say “0 reblogs”.
- A form that fails to save no longer loses the arrangement of your comic’s images.
- Links to a member’s Warren work with any capitalization of their handle.
- Replies to your forum threads and comments show the actual problem when something can’t be posted, instead of always saying “Write something first.”
Behind the scenes
- Every setting the site depends on is now required, so a mistake in its configuration stops it from starting instead of quietly doing the wrong thing.
- Images are processed the same way on every machine.
- Reordering chapters or timeline events in two tabs at once asks you to reload instead of mixing the orders up.
0.6.0 (2026-09-29)
- Inbox: notifications for comments, replies, reblogs, follows, friend requests and new work from people you follow. A bell in the header shows what’s new.
- Direct messages, with a setting for who can message you, blocking, and reporting.
- Events: Plot Warren events, and community events that members propose and the team approves.
- News from the Plot Warren team on the front page.
- Forums, including community forums that members can ask for and then run.
- Universes: shared settings with characters, factions, places, lore and a timeline, plus collaborators and sharing terms.
- Scheduled posts: save posts as drafts, or schedule them like chapters.
0.5.0 (2026-09-28)
- Pasting from Word or Google Docs keeps your formatting, and single line breaks become paragraphs.
- Reblogs of reblogs show everyone’s comments in order.
- Pages load much faster under heavy traffic.
- Draft Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Copyright pages.
0.4.0 (2026-09-28)
- Bug reports now show you what the team decided, and you can follow up on them.
- Image chapters for comics and webtoons: a strip of up to 50 images in reading order.
- Comments on posts, shared by every reblog of the post.
0.3.0 (2026-09-28)
- Shuffle and Travel on the front page show fresh picks every time.
- A writing toolbar with preview, and images you can drop, paste or upload into posts and chapters.
- You can delete your account and everything in it.
0.2.0 (2026-09-28)
- Report posts, comments, chapters, works, members and tags to the moderators.
- A “Report a bug” button on every page.
- Genres, and a page listing every tag.
- A light, dark or automatic color theme.
0.1.0 (2026-09-28)
- The first version of Plot Warren: sign up, set up your Warren, follow creators and make friends, blog and reblog, and publish works with scheduled chapters for readers to discover on the front page.