I see some small changes to the right sidebar and right navigation for the Chyoa Web UI as of June 2026. They look like good and useful ways to bring links closer (example: Edit Story) and to make the sidebar less busy (example: fold-down containers for story tags, conspicuous in a story like Slut World which has many many tags). Thanks to the site maintainers for a little freshening up.
(Feel free to transfer to Site Feedback if that's a happier home for this discussion thread; I only noticed after posting; "needs to read to the end of the list" is a problem of mine)
Thank you! I’m really happy you noticed. I updated the game system last week, and I’m now working on a few other features and UI improvements around the site. Thanks for taking the time to say something!
It means a lot to me as a longtime contributor that UI usability is getting better. I'll pay more attention to the site updates here as well! As a writer of many many chapters, I have my own pet feature ideas about new chapter list views, but mostly I can't complain! Overall, I am pleased with the site being solid, and with the continuity in the writing community. The forums have their own special strengths, like the RPG sections. Appreciations to the Appreciable, Worth to the Worthy, Endurance to the Enduring. Thanks again.
I was looking for a thread on this. All the random minor improvements in the last month or so, especially allowing the dark theme on the home page and the enhancements to author page view, have been really appreciated. Thank you!
Big fan of the changes too! Especially dark mode everywhere on mobile. One thing I’ve noticed is that selecting a tag while inside a story now brings me to a “chapters tagged (tag) in this story” page. If there was some way to also navigate from there to “all stories tagged with (tag)” that would be amazing; I used to use in-story tags like that all the time.
One functionality I would love to have, but am not sure how to implement, is the option to split a chapter in the middle to add a branch. Sometimes you have a spot where you want to branch but it's right in the middle of an existing chapter, so you have to either not do it or ask to copy half the chapter from another author. It would be great if there were a way to ask the author or story owner if you could add a branch point in the middle of their existing chapter. It also would have to ask the author to provide a split name and title for the second half of what was once one chapter and move everything down one level. Should probably not send people a new post notice for the split (only for the new branch).
Suggestion: likes on comments should be put in the same bucket as likes on chapters. (Right now, as far as I can tell, they are not listed on your profile at all).
I didn’t do that because it would essentially treat a chapter and a comment as being on the same level. Writing a chapter takes much more effort than writing a comment. Not sure though what's best.
Agreed the site update is quite nice. If you were looking at something to work on, I would say that viewing the Story Tree needs to be improved. Quite a few of the larger and longer stories practically crash the webpage when using it. Also if there was a way to quickly sort the branches within the story tree by most recently updated linked chapter or by branch with chapter depth, it would be nice. I realize that both of those might actually be quite tricky to implement on the back end.
I would say in the profile pages limiting the number of followers/followed you can see is a bit clunky. Especially as it takes you to another page (and potentially multiple pages) I often use that list to remember which commenters I like to follow to find mutually enjoyable stories.
While we are on the topic of updates, stories need to be ordered ignoring "the" in the title. A good 1/3rd of stories are subsorted under "the" and it makes everything bunch up on the later pages.
