September Update 2026

This passing summer was very productive at URS!

World Studio Release and Testing

Recently to this post the World Studio saw a huge update which brought it past the 90% finished milestone. This means now when a world is built it can be hooked directly into the writing rooms, and your books. By using the `@` character, you can look up tags, titles, and more. This allows any writer to link into the encyclopedic nature of the World Studio; linking important lore directly to your readers.

As always our intention is to create tools for everyone and in that spirit free forever users can use the World Studio.

In the coming months we're monitoring the stability of the World Studio and look forward to hearing your feedback!

Book Studio 2.0

The Book Studio has seen significant improvement and attention. Now with World linking you can enrich your readers with deeper understanding of the lore. Equally we've enhanced the user interface and expanded the writer options within the book studio.

Books require a user to support URS with at least 1 month; though we're experimenting with adding the ability to create books for free users. The only issue we're solving with this is how to handle limits and possible spam risks when Free users can access such a broad area of the site.

A significant portion of our time on the site's back-end for this release saw to early detection systems to help us moderate books. Since no system is perfect, we also have linked in our advanced Reports and Trust Center into Books and hope that will help us catch and remove any illegal contents being published.

Site-Wide Improvements

Notable improvements have been made to our server and the back-end. We're hoping these improvements translate into scalability for the future. We'll keep a close eye on this as we continue forward.

• Faster loading speeds on all discovery queues and listings.

• Less server requests overall.

• Optimized writer room notification system overhaul.

Better Direction

The new 'Help' section features many tour style walkthroughs which encourage intuitive understanding of the site and how to use it.

We've also set up some back-end metrics that help us track simple milestones (like if a user has ever opened the character creator screen) or earned achievements. These help us understand our website and how to improve it without invading users privacy, which is our number one priority.

As We Continue

URS is managed by a small team of developers and our biggest goal in the coming months through winter will be to engage our community with the development process. We believe that is the best way to build a product which actually solves for what the users want.

Thanks to everyone so far who has helped in the process!