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 messages and story fetch problems for users of some internet providers.

The chatfic ecosystem now is a home for more than 150 chatfics. Chatficlab.com has more than a thousand members. And we are just getting started.

I left my daytime job a while ago (Mostly because they went from being a supporter of remote work to being against it). So Chatfic Lab is now basically my only source of income, covering my living costs. This is why, your support means even more for me. This also means I'll have even more time to work on Chatfic Lab now, especially on the open-source elements :)

There are some big feature ideas I have on my mind. But the most exciting of them all is:

### The Chatfic Lab Offline.
The goal of this project is simple: Encouraging more people to become writers/authors on Chatfic Lab.

All the premium features will be unlocked and free on this offline version. The links to the authors and models will be more prominent. Users will get asked to support the author even more frequently.

When ready, I plan to publish it on F95zone. So this will be a huge advertisement and my way of saying thank you to all the authors who decided to publish their stories on Chatfic Lab. Building an offline version of Chatfic Lab will take maybe around 50 hours or even more depending on several factors. I should also take the "size" of the program into consideration. So I will only be able to add a small list of stories. The consent of the authors is the most important part of it. So if you want your story to be included, you will need to contact me directly and request it.