Slowburn Update v1.71.0 Patch Notes

✨ New

Live Audience

• A new feature, born from a late night conversation with my friend- I realized I really like it when people react to parts of the chat in my stories. Now everyone can feel a bit of that, too! Maybe it's your cup of tea, as well. (This is a bit pricey to have on all the time, so this is a premium quality of life/for fun feature!)
• It is basically an artificial audience giving their unfiltered thoughts on your chat- comments coming through with every reply :slight_smile: It's a bit experimental, but let me know if you like the idea.

Storybook

• Our newest feature- the new home for Moments, Journal Entries, and ongoing scene-by-scene summaries!
• The Storybook's scene-by-scene breakdowns also contain an Audience section- each story now comes with its own artificial fanbase, giving their unfiltered opinions on the story- or telling you just how spicy it is to read.

In the chat

• The Story Info panel has received a small UI update- some of the buttons and their contents may have been moved elsewhere (probably to The Narrative menu)
• Narrative menu, rebuilt & simplified.
• Logic for quests improved.
• Portrait/Gallery Mode on desktop updated- The character art fills the background behind the chat.
• Large improvements made to Slowburn's emotion engines, improving character depth and nuance across all chats.

Calendar & world

• Improved calendar functionality and ease of use.
• Improved 'Events'- they can now also last several days.
• Improved automatic event seeding in calendars.

Memory

• Improved memory retrieval, and merging, along with the memory review process - it is now more active
• Memories tab reworked / simplified

UI/UX

• Slowburn has received large simplifications on some screens/pages to make the website easier to use, and reduce the learning curve for the platform
• Faster loading times on certain pages and components
• Improved mobile accessibility
• Proper 404 error pages
• Better Lorebook editing and bulk actions

Fixes & Changes

• Improved logic and scene continuity
• Improved memory recall (short term)
• Improved reliability of memory consolidation
• Less 'characters reading thoughts' moments
• Fixed broken XML appearing in responses (most of the time)
• Improved character emotional depth
• Location tracking and awareness improved
• Upgraded time tracking
• Improved relationship progression / slowburn pacing
• Fixed Settings page failing to load sometimes
• Fixed an issue with character creation quality (AI Enrichment)
• Made some Card UI changes

also been playing with image generation stuff- learning it from the beginning. please enjoy this cute image. accepting ideas and propositions for what slowburn's mascot could look like (if any). a motif I like is 'phoenix' and 'flowers', and. . . well, fire.