I know, I know. It was literally just a week ago that I launched the new Chatfic Lab. But I just can't stop after all the positive feedback I got after that announcement. Starting today, all Glass of Wine tier patrons can:
Hey! I want to say thank you for being here. even if you’re just reading, it means a lot.
Chatficlab has grown a lot lately, especially with the new features like locations and apps. That’s more than I could ask for… but it also made things more expensive to run. I’m doing my best to keep it mostly free for everyone, but I could really use a little help right now.
In a few days, I’ll be raising the prices of the support tiers.
But here’s what I really wan...
2025-05-19 02:25:54 +0000 UTC
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Words can't express how happy I am to finally share what I've been pouring my heart and soul into. This isn't an update anymore. Today, what's possible with Chatfic Lab is redefined.
I am working on these features for many months. And today, all of those features are LIVE!
1. New Chatfic Lab Browser
Introducing "Apps": Add Instagram posts, snaps etc to your stories
2025-05-12 01:05:37 +0000 UTC
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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)
See the community's votes right on the Find Stories page
View detailed vote c...
2024-11-20 02:12:16 +0000 UTC
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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," "annoyed," etc. In addition, you can turn on background music(it has a bug tho) and sound effects for ...
2024-08-16 20:49:03 +0000 UTC
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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 implement an entire "layered character engine" for this to work, but it definitely worths the effort.
2024-08-12 14:49:48 +0000 UTC
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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).
## HOW TO JOIN & DETAILS
You can see the reddit post for more information:
2024-07-28 14:15:10 +0000 UTC
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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 approximately 100 different series with at least 260 different episodes!
2024-07-19 02:03:36 +0000 UTC
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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 one just like in a chat app or visual novel.
2024-07-19 01:25:00 +0000 UTC
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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 features and worked really hard to make them as easy to use as possible. I've published them under t...
2024-02-27 18:45:31 +0000 UTC
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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 refreshing the page)
2024-02-05 15:52:43 +0000 UTC
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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 ecosyste...
2024-01-14 10:13:03 +0000 UTC
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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, similar to a handy TV guide. Take a look at this post's image for a peek at what's in store from t...
2023-12-30 17:25:59 +0000 UTC
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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 "reset password" functionality. It was embarrassing not to have this during the launch, but the commu...
2023-12-07 17:56:48 +0000 UTC
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[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 and the user experience. Today, I introduce a new design, including both a dark mode and a light mod...
2023-11-21 18:54:25 +0000 UTC
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[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 character names won't be remembered when you close and reopen a story. But this will hopefully change in the...
2023-10-25 12:04:28 +0000 UTC
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(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 ready. I've published the current working version as an open-source project to help the chatfic ecos...
2023-10-17 21:25:33 +0000 UTC
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[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. There are still several issues, but the critical ones are mostly fixed. I've also enabled several secu...
2023-10-03 14:16:17 +0000 UTC
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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 on, Our supporters will help determine which significant feature to prioritize for the future month....
2023-09-26 19:52:43 +0000 UTC
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[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 bit early tho). I've been listening carefully to feedback from my Patreon supporters and the feedback ...
2023-09-23 10:53:30 +0000 UTC
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Chatfic Lab (browser, subreddit, format, and the editor), was published yesterday. I wanted to share the planned changes with you.
I'm working on fixing some minor bugs, and will try opening an ...
2023-09-17 08:39:16 +0000 UTC
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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 servers around the world. It supports the chatfic format (currently v1).
If this is the first ...
2023-09-13 20:30:03 +0000 UTC
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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.
2023-09-13 19:52:40 +0000 UTC
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