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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.