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You're halfway through The Well of Ascension. A character appears whose name you half-remember from a hundred pages ago. You want to know who they are, what their deal is, where they fit into the story. So you open a browser tab. And immediately close it again.

OpenFiction has been in beta for a while now, and if you've visited recently you may have noticed things feeling a little sharper, a little more considered. Over the past few weeks we've added a significant batch of improvements across the platform - some visible, some invisible, all of them making OpenFiction more useful for readers and more reliable under the hood. This post covers what's changed and why.

When we added Sherlock Holmes to OpenFiction, it became clear quickly that mystery fiction has a fundamentally different relationship with spoilers than epic fantasy does - and that the existing filtering system, built for series like Stormlight Archive and Wheel of Time, wasn't quite the right tool for the job. This post explains what we've built, why, and how it works.

Today's update is a mix of visual and structural work - some of it immediately obvious, some of it quietly fixing things that have been a low-level annoyance since launch.

One of the most common frustrations with character encyclopedias and wiki-style references is that they're essentially unusable if you're not fully caught up. Look up a character you've just met and you'll likely see exactly how their story ends. OpenFiction was built to fix that - and today's update takes it significantly further.

OpenFiction started as a spoiler-safe character reference. But the more series we add, the more it becomes something else too: a genuinely useful way to explore who's in a series, how they're connected, and where they show up. Today's update adds to that.
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