https://blog.writersgrove.net/Recent content on Writers GroveHugoen-usSun, 18 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0300https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/release-updates/v0.8.0-community-features/Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0300https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/release-updates/v0.8.0-community-features/<h2 id="building-a-community">Building a Community</h2> <p>Since v0.4.0, we&rsquo;ve shipped 43 commits focused on one goal: making Writers Grove feel like a community, not just a reading platform. This release brings social features, accessibility improvements, premium subscriptions, and the foundation for everything we need before going live.</p> <hr> <h2 id="follow-system">Follow System</h2> <p>Stay connected with the authors and stories you love.</p> <h3 id="follow-authors">Follow Authors</h3> <p>Click the follow button on any author&rsquo;s profile to get notified when they publish new content. Your followed authors appear in your library for easy access.</p>https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/release-updates/v0.4.0-author-dashboard/Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0300https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/release-updates/v0.4.0-author-dashboard/<h2 id="writers-can-now-write">Writers Can Now Write</h2> <p>The Author Dashboard has landed. You can now create series, add books, write chapters, and publish your stories directly on Writers Grove.</p> <hr> <h2 id="author-dashboard">Author Dashboard</h2> <p>Switch to Author Mode and you&rsquo;ll see your new command center:</p> <h3 id="stats-at-a-glance">Stats at a Glance</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Ranking</strong> - Your position among all authors</li> <li><strong>Series, Books, Chapters</strong> - Content counts</li> <li><strong>Words</strong> - Total word count across all your work</li> <li><strong>Reviews &amp; Average Rating</strong> - Reader feedback</li> <li><strong>Follows &amp; Comments</strong> - Engagement metrics</li> </ul> <h3 id="series-management">Series Management</h3> <ul> <li>Create new series with cover images, descriptions, and keywords</li> <li>Mark content as NSFW or AI-generated</li> <li>Toggle between Draft and Published status</li> <li>Delete series you no longer want</li> </ul> <h3 id="book-management">Book Management</h3> <ul> <li>Add books within each series</li> <li>Each book gets its own cover, description, and keywords</li> <li>Same draft/publish workflow as series</li> <li>Delete individual books</li> </ul> <hr> <h2 id="rich-text-editor">Rich Text Editor</h2> <p>We&rsquo;ve integrated Quill, a powerful rich text editor, for writing chapters:</p>https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/2025-roadmap/Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0300https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/2025-roadmap/<h2 id="where-we-are">Where We Are</h2> <p>Three months ago, Writers Grove was just a landing page and a newsletter signup. Today we have a functional reading platform with user accounts, AI protection, and the foundation for everything to come.</p> <p>Here&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s working on <a href="https://beta.writersgrove.net">beta.writersgrove.net</a>:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Reading experience</strong> - Browse series, books, and chapters with keyboard navigation</li> <li><strong>User accounts</strong> - Magic link authentication and username claiming</li> <li><strong>Reader/Author toggle</strong> - Switch between modes (Author dashboard coming soon)</li> <li><strong>AI protection</strong> - Rate limiting designed to make scraping impractical</li> </ul> <p>The reading side is solid. Now it&rsquo;s time to build the writing side.</p>https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/release-updates/v0.3.0-user-accounts/Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0300https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/release-updates/v0.3.0-user-accounts/<h2 id="writers-grove-gets-personal">Writers Grove Gets Personal</h2> <p>This release brings user accounts to Writers Grove. You can now sign in, claim your username, and switch between Reader and Author modes. But the biggest addition? <strong>Protecting your work from AI.</strong></p> <hr> <h2 id="protecting-creator-content-from-ai">Protecting Creator Content from AI</h2> <p>This is the feature we&rsquo;re most excited about. Writers Grove is built with content protection at its core.</p> <h3 id="the-problem">The Problem</h3> <p>AI companies are scraping the web at unprecedented scale, harvesting creative works to train their models. Writers are finding their stories, styles, and characters reproduced without consent or compensation. Most platforms do nothing to stop it.</p>https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/release-updates/v0.2.0-beta-reading-experience/Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0300https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/release-updates/v0.2.0-beta-reading-experience/<h2 id="a-big-week-for-writers-grove">A Big Week for Writers Grove</h2> <p>This week marked a significant milestone for Writers Grove. We&rsquo;ve moved from a simple landing page to a functional reading platform on our beta environment. Here&rsquo;s what changed.</p> <hr> <h2 id="database-migration-postgresql-on-neon">Database Migration: PostgreSQL on Neon</h2> <p>We migrated from Turso (LibSQL) to PostgreSQL hosted on Neon. This gives us:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Better tooling</strong> - PostgreSQL&rsquo;s mature ecosystem and excellent full-text search capabilities</li> <li><strong>Simpler queries</strong> - Native support for the features we need without workarounds</li> <li><strong>Scalability</strong> - Neon&rsquo;s serverless PostgreSQL scales with our needs</li> </ul> <p>The migration included setting up proper URL slugs as indexed database columns, making our URLs cleaner and lookups faster.</p>https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/release-updates/v0.1.0-release/Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:00:00 +0300https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/release-updates/v0.1.0-release/<h2 id="our-initial-release">Our Initial Release</h2> <p>Not much to see yet</p> <ul> <li>Email News Letter Signup <a href="https://writersgrove.net">WritersGrove.net</a></li> <li>Blog Released <a href="https://blog.writersgrove.net">Writers Grove Blog</a></li> <li>Company Foundations Set <a href="https://github.com/WritersGrove/">Github.com/WritersGrove</a></li> <li>Discord Setup <a href="https://discord.gg/vd9RWGm6AP">Discord</a></li> </ul>https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/welcome/Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:00:00 +0300https://blog.writersgrove.net/posts/welcome/<h2 id="i-have-always-had-a-passion-for-the-written-word">I have always had a passion for the written word</h2> <p>I&rsquo;ve loved books for as long as I can recall. My mother used to read to me when I was young, that small spark turned into a lifelong passion. In elementary school I was the kid who got into trouble for reading too much in class.</p> <p>Writing professionally was something I always wanted to do, but never made the leap or put in the effort. Instead I followed my other passion, that for computers and became a Software Engineer.</p>https://blog.writersgrove.net/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.writersgrove.net/about/<h2 id="-our-vision">🌱 Our Vision</h2> <p>Writers Grove exists to give authors and readers a true home — one place to create, share, and enjoy stories without juggling multiple platforms.</p> <p>The writing world has changed dramatically in recent years. NaNoWriMo has shut down, Kindle Vella has closed, and many authors are left trying to stitch together solutions across Royal Road, Patreon, Ko-fi, and blogs. We believe writers deserve better.</p> <p>Writers Grove is being built to bring <strong>community, publishing, and monetization</strong> under one roof.</p>https://blog.writersgrove.net/archive/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.writersgrove.net/archive/https://blog.writersgrove.net/elements/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.writersgrove.net/elements/<p>A paragraph looks like this Globally incubate standards compliant channels before scalable benefits. Quickly disseminate superior deliverables whereas web-enabled applications. Quickly drive clicks-and-mortar catalysts for change before vertical architectures. Credibly reintermediate backend ideas for cross-platform models. Continually reintermediate integrated processes through technically sound intellectual capital. Holistically foster superior methodologies.</p> <hr> <h2 id="headings-by-default">Headings by default:</h2> <h1 id="h1-default-styles-for-headings">H1 Default styles for headings</h1> <h2 id="h2-default-styles-for-headings">H2 Default styles for headings</h2> <h3 id="h3-default-styles-for-headings">H3 Default styles for headings</h3> <h4 id="h4-default-styles-for-headings">H4 Default styles for headings</h4> <h5 id="h5-default-styles-for-headings">H5 Default styles for headings</h5> <h6 id="h6-default-styles-for-headings">H6 Default styles for headings</h6> <hr> <h2 id="lists">Lists</h2> <h3 id="ordered-list-example">Ordered list example:</h3> <ol> <li>Poutine drinking vinegar bitters.</li> <li>Coloring book distillery fanny pack.</li> <li>Venmo biodiesel gentrify enamel pin meditation.</li> <li>Jean shorts shaman listicle pickled portland.</li> <li>Salvia mumblecore brunch iPhone migas.</li> </ol> <hr> <h3 id="unordered-list-example">Unordered list example:</h3> <ul> <li>Bitters semiotics vice thundercats synth.</li> <li>Literally cred narwhal bitters wayfarers.</li> <li>Kale chips chartreuse paleo tbh street art marfa.</li> <li>Mlkshk polaroid sriracha brooklyn.</li> <li>Pug you probably haven&rsquo;t heard of them air plant man bun.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2 id="table">Table</h2> <div class="table-container"> <table> <tr><th>Header 1</th><th>Header 2</th><th>Header 3</th><th>Header 4</th><th>Header 5</th></tr> <tr><td>Row:1 Cell:1</td><td>Row:1 Cell:2</td><td>Row:1 Cell:3</td><td>Row:1 Cell:4</td><td>Row:1 Cell:5</td></tr> <tr><td>Row:2 Cell:1</td><td>Row:2 Cell:2</td><td>Row:2 Cell:3</td><td>Row:2 Cell:4</td><td>Row:2 Cell:5</td></tr> <tr><td>Row:3 Cell:1</td><td>Row:3 Cell:2</td><td>Row:3 Cell:3</td><td>Row:3 Cell:4</td><td>Row:3 Cell:5</td></tr> <tr><td>Row:4 Cell:1</td><td>Row:4 Cell:2</td><td>Row:4 Cell:3</td><td>Row:4 Cell:4</td><td>Row:4 Cell:5</td></tr> <tr><td>Row:5 Cell:1</td><td>Row:5 Cell:2</td><td>Row:5 Cell:3</td><td>Row:5 Cell:4</td><td>Row:5 Cell:5</td></tr> <tr><td>Row:6 Cell:1</td><td>Row:6 Cell:2</td><td>Row:6 Cell:3</td><td>Row:6 Cell:4</td><td>Row:6 Cell:5</td></tr> </table> </div> <hr> <h2 id="quotes">Quotes</h2> <h4 id="a-quote-looks-like-this">A quote looks like this:</h4> <blockquote> <p>Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.</p>https://blog.writersgrove.net/contact/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.writersgrove.net/contact/