🎉 RedQuill Updates - Week of March 8, 2026

# New Features

* 🎨 **Refreshed Homepage** \- A big cosmetic change. Your home page now features personalized category recommendations, trending content sections, and quick preview modals so you can browse stories without losing your place.
* **🔭 Kink Explorer on Mobile** \- The Kink Explorer is a new feature to help you go down productive rabbit holes and learn about new concepts. Discover new interests, then write stories about them.
* **Clearer story loading and generation experience**
* Added "Planning your story..." overlay that indicates the story is processing if your new story page does not immediately open
* While your story is generating, you'll see more helpful notes about progress and whether things are taking longer than usual
* **Smoother chapter generation**
* Less shaking
* Story actions don't open up randomly on the side when stories generate

# Updates/Fixes

* **Story Ideas Missing** \- Story ideas now show up properly for everyone, fixing an issue where some users couldn't see all their saved Ideas
* **Mobile Navigation** \- Made a fix around redirect behavior for logged-in users on mobile devices

# Community - March contest to earn Quills

**From March 15 - 31, we are running a contest to earn Quills for stories that get the most increase in story views! For more contest details, see** [https://www.reddit.com/r/redquill/comments/1rqwx17/march\_1531\_contest\_quills\_for\_story\_views/](https://www.reddit.com/r/redquill/comments/1rqwx17/march_1531_contest_quills_for_story_views/)

*Grand Prize (Cumulative for the entire period)*

The Top 3 RedQuillers by # of story view growth from other users (on 1 story) will receive the following:

* Top 1 = 1000 Quills
* 2 and 3 = 750 Quills

*Weekly Prizes*

We’ll also award smaller weekly prizes to create more chances to win and keep the competition active. The top 5 RedQuillers by story view growth from other users each week (March 15-21 and March 22-28) win 100 Quills.