Domain name change, and new updates

Domain name change

After years of deliberation, we have finally acquired www.royalroad.com and changed our official domain name.

If you promote your fiction with or shared our previous domain link, don’t worry - all old links will redirect to our new domain. However, we would prefer if you used royalroad.com for all future linking and refer to the website as such.

We are very excited for this change, and accordingly for this day, we have decided to release many things that have been in the works for quite some time.

Due to how the web works, this change also means that all users have been logged out - credentials and cookies are domain bound, and we apologise for this inconvenience.

Author premium

As promised, the author premium is now ready to roll with many features.



The Author Premium will have the following features:

Additional analytics, including daily pageviews, reader retention rate, referrers, analytics for individual chapters and daily/weekly rating breakdown

Push notifications for new reviews - you can disable these for individual fictions if you don’t want them in a new pane on the settings page

Chapter page customizations, including pretty ornaments to replace the Horizontal Ruler and custom header artworks

A search feature to find all mentions of a term in all chapters in a fiction

The ability to also replace the matching terms across your entire fiction

Autosave in the chapter editor as a draft until it is published so that you will never lose your work due to connection issues

Export your book as an ePub directly from Royal Road

Additional features may be released in the future, and we may make some of the premium features available to the general public over time. Additionally, premium authors will have the option to sign up for Early Access, which will allow them access to features as soon as they are released for public testing.

We have also negotiated a 25% off of Blasty for our premium users for those who sign up for Blasty before December 31st, 2018 and have an Author Premium subscription. What is Blasty, you ask? “Blasty continuously monitors your digital products online. As soon as a suspicious copy is found, it is added to your dashboard and an alert is emailed to you.” So, now if you wish to sign up and monitor all of your content online in a more serious manner, now you can at a discount!

For non-premium authors, you can sign up for the 10% discount - read more about it here:

https://www.royalroad.com/blog/14/plagiarism-copyright-infringement-and-content

In addition, we would like to thank our beta testers who have contributed to finding bugs and suggesting improvements to our features:

For those with Reader Premium

If you have an existing Premium subscription, don't fret - we have implemented a seamless upgrade system which should allow you to upgrade to Author Premium by paying a pro-rated difference between your left-over premium time, and your first renewal payment after that will happen on the date when your original premium would have expired.

To subscribe or upgrade, simply click here.

Webshop

We are also releasing our own webshop to sell Royal Road merchandise. This includes t-shirts, hoodies, phone cases, and more.

Look forward to seeing a notification about it going live in the next few days.

Redesign sneak peek

As we mentioned in our status and plans for this year in Q1, we are working on the site’s UI and UX. If you are active on our Discord, you might have already voted on some design plans to help us decide the direction. Now, we are in the process of finalizing the design, adding minor adjustments and then implementing them. Here is a sneak peek for some of the new designs