Chatfic Lab

Week 38 - Story Voting System, Mobile Improvements, and What's Next!

Hello everyone!

I'm excited to share a few major updates that will make your Chatfic Lab experience even better:

1. Story Voting System is Here! 🎉

The most requested feature is finally here. you can now vote on your favorite stories! This new featureallows you to:

• Upvote or downvote any story (well, not individual episodes, but the series as a whole)

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WEEK 32: VISUAL NOVEL MODE, LAYERED CHARACTERS, SENTIMENTS AND MORE!

Hi! If you were in the latest Patreon tier, you already had early access to the initial version of the new feature "VN Mode". But if you were not, then you are in for a big surprise!

Starting today, the new Visual Novel mode features 2D (actually 3D-ish) characters representing each character in a story, with support for various facial expressions like "shy," "naughty," "happy," "sad," "a...

Week 31: EARLY ACCESS FEATURE

Hello everyone! Today I'm introducing a feature that will hopefully make some of you feel this way: 🤯

For now, this new feature is only available to the patreon supporters on "Glass Of Wine" tier. Think of it as a beta test, as there are still some development needed before full release.

Users can now experience chatfics in the Visual Novel mode! I had to implemen...

GIVEAWAY Chatfic Lab NEW Giveaway - Get one of 3+1 premium accounts for free, FOREVER!

Duration: 6 days End date: August 4th

The previous one we made on January was really fun. It takes a lot effort on my part but I think it is about time we have another giveaway (or sweepstakes idk).
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Week 30: Stories Index, Tag Filters, Project Status and Goal

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all doing well. I have some great news for you.

Until today, on chatfic server pages (accessed from "Find Stories" section on chatficlab.com ), you could only see and access the last 10 series. This is obviously not enough, since, for example, there is this one chatfic server with approxim...

What to expect from this project

 July 19, 2024

1. What is Chatfic Lab? And what is a chatfic?

Simply put, Chatfic Lab Browser let's you "play" the stories that are written in the style of text message conversations. We call these stories "chatfics".

Messages appear on the screen one by on...

Week 14 - Global Variables, Model Attributes, Author Handles, And Much More

Hello everyone!

As you may have realized, for the last two or three weeks, I have been getting lots of feedback from the members of our Discord Server on how to improve Chatfic Lab.

What you probably didn't know is that I am also getting many messages from both our community members who love to read chatfics, AND the chatfic authors themselves.

I've developed a lot of new ...

Week 13 - Character Customization is now free for everyone!

Hi!

Character customization will be a really important feature in the future for Chatfic Lab. There will be a lot of new features built on top of it too. Therefore I've decided it will be much better if everyone can access it freely. You can now use the character customization feature even if you are not a patreon supporter.

Give it a try!

(If it doesn't work, try refreshin...

Week 12 - Current State of Chatfic Lab

Hello, Chatfic Lab community!

As you probably realise, the last two weeks were quite busy!

Our community has experienced significant growth(hundreds of new members!), with new content being added daily. And the 'unofficial' Afterdark Server now has close to 10.000 subscribers on Reddit.

This week, several long-lasting, annoying bugs were fixed. These included repeating text...

Week 10 - Weekly Programs, October Calendar, Sponsorship

Hello, Chatfic Lab community!

I hope you've been enjoying the recent updates and features on chatficlab.com . As we enter Week 10, I'm excited to announce some exciting developments and improvements:

New Feature: Weekly Chatfic Program Guide!

With the latest update to the ChatficDB open-source project, users now have the opportunity to see the current week's chatfic program...

Week 9 - Bug and UI fixes, Mode Switcher, Profile Management

This will be a quick update since most of the work I've done for the last two weeks was about improving existing functionality and fixing bugs.

You may realize slight differences in the UI here and there. The layout of the login information and logout button, background colours of submit and discovery pages, and fixes for long usernames overflowing, to name a few.

There is now a "...

Week 7 - New Design, Dark Mode, Subreddit Ban and more

[2023-11-21]

Hello everyone!

1. New Design

As you probably already know, when I published the Chatfic Lab, it wasn't a completely finished product yet. My focus was releasing the core features without issues, fixing critical bugs and enhancing the overall experience.

As a result, Chatfic Lab's UI wasn't the best and had some issues with both readability ...

Week 5 - Customizations, Discovery Page, Chatfic Servers, New Stories

[2023-10-25]

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all doing well. I'm excited to share some big news with you this week.

Character Customization

Now you can use the premium Customize Characters feature to change the names of the characters of a story. Since this feature is quite new, the customizations you make are not persistent. This means your custom characte...

A huge update is on its way!

(Using placeholders images for now.) For the last 10 days, I was working on a big update that will let you discover chatfics from the chatfic servers you have already visited. Obviously, this required me to invent a thing called "chatfic servers" first, and yeah, I did that too.

Actually, the software that I designed to let anyone create their own chatfic servers in the future is almost ...

WEEK 3 - Updates: Discord Channel, Video Player, Persistent Login

[2023-10-03]

Hi everyone!

I hope that you've been enjoying your time on chatficlab.com
It's been another exciting week of growth and development for chatficlab.com . I've discovered several critical bugs preventing hundreds of people from accessing chatficlab.com stories.

I spent half the week trying to fix things and transform the software into a much more stable state. Th...

POLL - Which feature should have the most focus during October

Chatficlab Browser was published just two weeks ago. And there is a lot to do. There are certain features we need to ship to guarantee the project's success in the long run.

Features besides performance improvements, bug fixes, and some quality-of-life improvements. Usually, it will take more than a week to work on these milestones; they won't usually be finished in a week. So, from now ...

WEEK 2 - Updates: Reveal entire chat & reset stories and more

[2023-09-23]
Hello there! I hope you're doing well. I wanted to share some exciting news with you about Chatficlab.com. Since our launch last week, there is an incredible response from the users(not many patrons, but the usage stats are crazy). Chatfic Lab Browser has received over 18,000 requests.

I'm working hard to make sure that Chatficlab.com is the best it can be(it is still a bi...

WEEK 1 - First Steps

Chatfic Lab (browser, subreddit, format, and the editor), was published yesterday. I wanted to share ...

What to expect from this project

Simply put, Chatfic Lab Browser let's you "play" the stories that are written in the style of text message conversations.

Messages appear on the screen one by one. While many stories are not interactive, some stories may ask you to choose from a set of options to let you decide the outcome of the story.
The Chatfic Lab is a browser for discovering chatfics hosted in different chatfic ...

Chatfic Format v1 is here.

Chatfic Format is a simple yet very powerful format for creating chatfics of all sorts. It is published as an open standard along with an open sourced web editor for creating, importing and exporting chatfics with ease.

The Chatfic Lab will fully support chatfic format.