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We hope all of our fellow Literotica members are enjoying the spring weather (or autumn, depending on your hemisphere).
It's been a while since we made a State of the Site post, so we wanted to share a brief update to let you all know what's going on and what's coming up.
There are several Author Events and Story Contests either in progress or soon to be. Please Follow the Official Literotica Account for news on all of our Author-related special events.
On the subject of Stories and Authors: Literotica's community has continued to grow into 2025! There have been several days in recent weeks where we've seen over 400 Stories submitted for publication. These are incredible numbers for our community and we're working hard behind the scenes to make sure that the increase in submissions doesn't lead to a longer wait time for Authors. If you're a Reader noticing the increase in new Stories being published, remember to Follow your favorite Authors to make sure you don't miss any of their new works. If you want to make sure you're not missing any Stories in your favorite kinks/niches, the Literotica Tags Portal allows you to browse Stories by any combination of Keywords and Categories.
In design news: we are very excited about the upcoming and long-promised launch of the new mobile-friendly Literotica Front Page. We've tested numerous versions of the design and after lots of tweaking we've received enough positive feedback to share the new Front Page with you soon. With the Front Page and Category Hubs going fully mobile-friendly soon, we'll be able to support more font customizations, dark mode, personalized story feeds, and other requested features.
Speaking of new features: over the last few years, we've rolled out several new features on Literotica that include visual elements. Those features include the Series Cover Art and the Author Profile Header Images. Those features all had one thing in common: a content guideline of "no nudity in any images". This policy grew out of feedback from the Literotica community.
Many Literotica readers (and authors) shared with us that they visit the site on their phones and would prefer not to have NSFWs images on the screen while someone else is looking over their shoulder. Other members told us there are so many sites on the internet with photos and videos that they would prefer Literotica remain a haven for text - the original intent when the site was launched more than a quarter century ago.
Anyone who's been around a while knows that we've always supported the free speech rights of individuals and websites to publish adult videos, photographs, and artworks. Over time, we've also become more and more aware of Literotica's unique identity as a community dedicated to storytelling via fantasies shared through writing and reading.
A few years into our experiment with the "no nudity" image policy for new features - and with overwhelmingly positive feedback during the experiment - we're planning to expand the policy to more of Literotica's existing features with images over the coming months. The obvious place where it will make a difference is in User Avatars, though we plan to expand the policy to the Literotica Forums as well as to the Illustrated Stories and Artwork in the future. We understand that these changes may have an impact on some members' already-published avatar images, forum uploads, illustrated stories, and artworks - but the total number of images involved should be tiny compared to the total number of images, stories, and other works shared on Literotica.
If you're a forum poster or author who has shared images (photos or artwork) that include nudity, you can prepare for the changes by editing/replacing those images yourself proactively - or you can wait until we have time to review all of the visual works and request changes to those that need to be updated. Again - our research shows that the total number of items impacted by these changes will be very small (this only applies to images, not text), but we understand that each member's work is important to them. While the change might require a little extra effort in the short run, we're confident that it is the best move for the community in the long run. Please feel free to send us any feedback or questions you might have, as always.
One of our newest features, mentioned above, is the Member Profile Custom Header Image. This was in BETA last year (thanks for all of the feedback from early adopters), and it's now available to all Literotica members. Customize your Member Page with your site-wide avatar and a large header image to make your Literotica profile totally unique. See the Member Profile header image FAQ for more info on how to upload your own header image.
We've got more new features, story events, contests, redesigns, and other fun things planned for this summer and beyond. Thank you all for being part of this amazing community! We're looking forward to your feedback, feature requests, bug reports, and suggestions.
It's been a while since we made a State of the Site post, so we wanted to share a brief update to let you all know what's going on and what's coming up.
There are several Author Events and Story Contests either in progress or soon to be. Please Follow the Official Literotica Account for news on all of our Author-related special events.
On the subject of Stories and Authors: Literotica's community has continued to grow into 2025! There have been several days in recent weeks where we've seen over 400 Stories submitted for publication. These are incredible numbers for our community and we're working hard behind the scenes to make sure that the increase in submissions doesn't lead to a longer wait time for Authors. If you're a Reader noticing the increase in new Stories being published, remember to Follow your favorite Authors to make sure you don't miss any of their new works. If you want to make sure you're not missing any Stories in your favorite kinks/niches, the Literotica Tags Portal allows you to browse Stories by any combination of Keywords and Categories.
In design news: we are very excited about the upcoming and long-promised launch of the new mobile-friendly Literotica Front Page. We've tested numerous versions of the design and after lots of tweaking we've received enough positive feedback to share the new Front Page with you soon. With the Front Page and Category Hubs going fully mobile-friendly soon, we'll be able to support more font customizations, dark mode, personalized story feeds, and other requested features.
Speaking of new features: over the last few years, we've rolled out several new features on Literotica that include visual elements. Those features include the Series Cover Art and the Author Profile Header Images. Those features all had one thing in common: a content guideline of "no nudity in any images". This policy grew out of feedback from the Literotica community.
Many Literotica readers (and authors) shared with us that they visit the site on their phones and would prefer not to have NSFWs images on the screen while someone else is looking over their shoulder. Other members told us there are so many sites on the internet with photos and videos that they would prefer Literotica remain a haven for text - the original intent when the site was launched more than a quarter century ago.
Anyone who's been around a while knows that we've always supported the free speech rights of individuals and websites to publish adult videos, photographs, and artworks. Over time, we've also become more and more aware of Literotica's unique identity as a community dedicated to storytelling via fantasies shared through writing and reading.
A few years into our experiment with the "no nudity" image policy for new features - and with overwhelmingly positive feedback during the experiment - we're planning to expand the policy to more of Literotica's existing features with images over the coming months. The obvious place where it will make a difference is in User Avatars, though we plan to expand the policy to the Literotica Forums as well as to the Illustrated Stories and Artwork in the future. We understand that these changes may have an impact on some members' already-published avatar images, forum uploads, illustrated stories, and artworks - but the total number of images involved should be tiny compared to the total number of images, stories, and other works shared on Literotica.
If you're a forum poster or author who has shared images (photos or artwork) that include nudity, you can prepare for the changes by editing/replacing those images yourself proactively - or you can wait until we have time to review all of the visual works and request changes to those that need to be updated. Again - our research shows that the total number of items impacted by these changes will be very small (this only applies to images, not text), but we understand that each member's work is important to them. While the change might require a little extra effort in the short run, we're confident that it is the best move for the community in the long run. Please feel free to send us any feedback or questions you might have, as always.
One of our newest features, mentioned above, is the Member Profile Custom Header Image. This was in BETA last year (thanks for all of the feedback from early adopters), and it's now available to all Literotica members. Customize your Member Page with your site-wide avatar and a large header image to make your Literotica profile totally unique. See the Member Profile header image FAQ for more info on how to upload your own header image.
We've got more new features, story events, contests, redesigns, and other fun things planned for this summer and beyond. Thank you all for being part of this amazing community! We're looking forward to your feedback, feature requests, bug reports, and suggestions.
