CHANGELOG
A record of the features and improvements that shaped StarCafe.
Version 2.1.0
Membership, rewards, reader experience, and announcement updates
- Updated memberships to Stardust, Star, and Galaxy with refreshed shard, freeze, ticket, and early-access benefits.
- Membership redemption now works from the Support page and through codes, including shard bonuses, badges, and ad-free access.
- Membership expiry is surfaced to readers and expired memberships can be redeemed again.
- Removed the ad gate from daily shard claims and improved automatic streak-freeze handling.
- Changed fan-translation collections to one-time whole-novel purchases while keeping original novels chapter-based.
- Converted the rewards leaderboard to a monthly board with shard prizes and spending-based payouts.
- Added chapter progress indicators showing public, early-access, and untranslated chapters.
- Improved novel platform visibility, profile navigation, badge status display, and support documentation.
- Added an announcement home preview and a full announcement page.
Version 2.0.0
The foundation of the current StarCafe platform
- Introduced the current StarCafe reading experience for fan translations and original novels.
- Added account profiles, bookmarks, follows, comments, reading preferences, badges, and streak rewards.
- Added the shard economy, daily claims, streak freezes, rewards, memberships, and novel collections.
- Added early-access scheduling for fan translations and chapter-based purchases for original novels.
- Added ad-supported reading and ad-free membership benefits.