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Every update, feature, and fix — from launch day to today.

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A surprise on every click

  • browse

Two new dice, one rule: no regrets.

  • The Surprise me button on the home page jumps you to a random novel from the catalog.
  • The same shuffle lives in the site header, so a detour is always one click away.

The random pool is precomputed at build time from the full 1,494-novel catalog — no server round trip, instant page load.

Request & vote — the community queue

  • catalog
  • community

The catalog is reader-driven now. On the new Request & Vote page you can paste any webnovel.com book link and queue it for the catalog — then upvote the requests you most want to see.

  • Each signed-in reader gets one vote per request.
  • Top-voted requests are synced into the catalog first on the next scrape run.
  • Already-cataloged links are caught and rejected politely.

Find the form on the Browse page too — “Can’t find it? Request it.”

Trending time windows

  • rankings

The Rankings Trending panel now splits into This week and This month windows, so you can see what’s hot right now versus what has held momentum all month.

  • All-time popular ranks by total library adds since launch.
  • This week counts fresh library adds within the current week.
  • This month counts adds within the current calendar month.

Windowing is handled on the client with per-window counters, so the Spark plan needs no scheduled functions — the counters rotate themselves on the first add of a new week or month.

XP, levels & streaks

  • gamification
  • leaderboards

The community loop is now a game. Every meaningful action earns XP:

  • +10 adding a novel to your library
  • +5 following a novel or a reader
  • +15 rating a novel
  • +25 publishing a review
  • +10 submitting a catalog request
  • +5 for every day you read (daily login streak)

Levels climb on a triangular curve — 100 XP for level 2, 300 for level 3, 600 for level 4 — and carry eleven titles from Rookie to Archivist of Worlds. Your current level, progress bar, and day streak live in the header of your library, and on your public profile.

A new Leaderboards page ranks readers by XP, reviews, ratings, library size, and followers. Streaks reset only if you miss a day — miss nothing.