We’re nearing the end of the month, and if you still have a SKULL in your account, don’t forget to give it to your favorite story. SKULLs help surface great stories and give more visibility to writers in the community.
I’m also excited to share a few new features that are either live now or coming very soon:
Reader Name Feature (Coming Soon)
You’ll be able to let readers add their own name into your story, so when they read it, they actually become a character in the story. This should be a really fun way to make stories more interactive.
Story Ratings / Trigger Tags
I’m not personally a big fan of rating systems, but several people mentioned that certain topics can be triggering for them. So now, when you publish a story, you’ll be able to add content warnings or trigger tags so readers know what to expect.
Series Feature
You can now create story series and link stories together so readers can follow your characters and storylines more easily.
Author Subscriptions
Readers can now subscribe to you as an author and get notified whenever you release a new story.
Comments
Readers can now leave comments on stories. I’ll be moderating comments and removing anyone who abuses this — the goal is to keep this community supportive and fun for writers and readers.
One Last Thing
Please don’t create extra accounts to give your own stories additional SKULLs. I’ll be understanding if it happens once, but repeated abuse will lead to account removal. Same goes for creating accounts just to give extra SKULLs to someone else.
Thanks again to everyone writing and reading stories — this platform keeps getting better because of you.
DTA