Cheaper Subscriptions + more updates!

We've got another big website update, and this one's changing something I've wanted to make better for a while: how much it costs to read ahead.We're replacing subscriptions for individual novels with memberships that cover every series on the site, starting at $5 a month.Qi Condensation | $5/monthThe next 5 advance chapters on every series, plus EPUBs of currently free chapters.Core Formation | $20/monthThe next 10 advance chapters on every series, plus EPUBs of currently free chapters.Nascent Soul | $50/monthAll currently released chapters on every series, including paid chapters, plus EPUBs that include all paid chapters.And just to be very clear, that's 5 chapters ahead on EACH novel, not 5 chapters total or 5 unlocks for the month. As chapters become free, your window moves forward with them.If you follow ten novels with enough advance chapters, the $5 membership lets you stay five chapters ahead on all ten. One subscription, $5 total. These subscriptions will also have more and more features added to them as time goes on and development moves forward, we already have a small highlight on subscribers in comments for the time being.But what I really want is for you guys to feel comfortable trying something new. We've picked up a lot of novels, and you shouldn't have to decide whether each one deserves another subscription before giving its advance chapters a chance. Come for your favourite, have a look at something else, and if it isn't your thing, try another. Your membership already covers it :)This is a pilot, and I want to see whether making things more affordable brings more people in. If it works out, we plan to lower coin prices too. That hasn't happened yet, but it's something I'd like this to make possible.You can find the memberships in the site's store!A few things about the subscription changeThe old per-series plans are being retired from new signups. If you're already subscribed to one, your existing subscription keeps its benefits for now till the month for it expires. We're not cutting off access you've paid for or automatically moving you onto a different plan.If you're planning to switch, please check your existing subscriptions under Profile → Subscriptions and cancel any you no longer want. Don't assume an old subscription has stopped billing just because it no longer appears in the store.The new memberships are monthly, and the prices are in USD. Card payments are available; PayPal currently isn't working.Free chapters are still free, and coins are still an option if you prefer unlocking individual chapters or want to read beyond your membership's window.EPUBs have had a rework tooYou can now request an EPUB from a series page, including for ongoing novels. You don't have to wait for a novel to finish anymore.The $5 and $20 memberships include EPUBs containing the chapters currently available for free. The $50 membership includes the currently released paid chapters too. For ongoing novels, that means everything available so far, not chapters we haven't released yet.They're generated when requested, so the first request may take a little time. Existing one-off EPUB purchases are still honoured.There's quite a bit beyond subscriptions too, and some of this deserves its own introduction.Titles and achievement badgesYou can now earn titles and badges through your activity on the site and choose a title to display next to your name. Your profile finally gets to show a little more of the reader behind it.The earned ones are separate from membership cosmetics. Subscribing gives you a tier-coloured profile ring and a subtle gradient on your comments and reviews, but achievement titles and badges are things you earn. You don't need to pay to take part in that.I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys choose to show off :)Reviews now show how far someone has actually readThis is something I've wanted for a while. A review can now show “Read X of Y chapters”, based on the account's recorded reading progress, so you have more context for the opinion you're reading.Someone reviewing the opening and someone reviewing 300 chapters in can both have useful things to say, but those are very different perspectives. Now it's easier to tell where they're coming from. This respects your privacy settings, so it won't display if your reading history is private.We've also made the Write a review button easier to find, improved the editor on phones, and raised the review limit to 10,000 characters. If you've been waiting for enough room to explain why your favourite novel deserves more readers, there you go.Profiles have a lot more personality nowYou can customise your accent colour, crop your avatar and banner, add links, and feature your favourite novels. Your reviews appear on your public profile too, alongside your titles and badges.Have a look through the reorganised settings while you're there. You can control your profile visibility and what you share.We plan to add a bunch of more titles and badges as we get more ideas hahaAnd then there's the stuff you notice when it stops being annoying:Comments: bold, italics, spoilers and line breaks should behave properly now. Drafts save, long posts can be expanded, edited comments are labelled, and you can copy a direct link to a comment.Library: search, filters, sorting and clearer reading progress. You can mark chapters read up to a point, undo it if you picked the wrong one, and remove novels from Continue reading.Reader: the next-chapter button should stop randomly throwing you back to the series page. Light theme and font previews are fixed, and the reading progress bar is back as an optional, subtle monochrome setting.Footnotes: supported in the reader and EPUBs, so notes have a proper place without interrupting the chapter.Finding novels: genre and tag filters, including exclusions, plus chapter-count sorting. Series pages also have shortcuts to the latest free chapter and first advance chapter.Illustrations: galleries now follow the images' proportions instead of forcing everything into squares. There's a Reveal all option too.Notifications: replies, mentions and upvotes have separate controls.General fixes: faster loading, clearer error messages, improved signup and login handling, and a page for browsing older announcements.A lot of this came directly from your feedback. If something's still broken or awkward, keep telling us in discord. It clearly works.Please give the team some love in ⁠the comments too. There's a lot of work behind all those little things that should “just work”.Have a look through your profile, try the new features, and give a novel you haven't heard of a chance.As always, thank you for the support and enjoy reading!P.S. there's a cache bug right now preventing loading for some pages, try requesting desktop site on your phone browser and then switching back and it should fix things for now.