A Better Platform: What We've Been Building
OpenFiction Team13 April 20266 min read
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.
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Spoiler filtering now supports mystery fiction
OpenFiction Team9 April 20264 min read
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.
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Portraits, a rebuilt reading profile, and cascades that actually make sense
OpenFiction Team6 April 20262 min read
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.
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OpenFiction now has 500 characters
OpenFiction Team27 March 20262 min read
It is a number that felt abstract until it arrived. Five hundred characters tracked across the universes, series, and standalone novels on OpenFiction - their descriptions, relationships, occupations, first appearances, and fates recorded and linked to the books they live in. It has taken longer than expected and moved faster than expected, in the way these things tend to do.
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Cormac McCarthy is now on OpenFiction
OpenFiction Team27 March 20263 min read
OpenFiction started, as these things often do, with the books we knew best. Science fiction. Fantasy. The universes that reward obsessive tracking - the ones with twenty named characters in a chapter, a magic system with seventeen rules, and a reading order that genuinely matters. It made sense to begin there. Those are the books that need a platform like this most.
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We're Looking for Beta Testers
OpenFiction Team16 March 20264 min read
OpenFiction is live and we need readers to help us test it. Browse characters, set up spoiler filtering, and tell us what's broken.
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