How the library works.

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That's the only way. TaleForks does not store passwords. Each session is opened by clicking a fresh magic link and is then held by a signed cookie until it expires.

This is intentional. The "writing in the dark" surface dims the rest of the page so you focus on continuing the parent — not on matching the whole story's voice, which is the reader's job to evaluate. Coherence emerges from voting, not from forcing every contributor to read the whole tree first.

Up to 280 characters for a regular paragraph. The end-the-story paragraph (when story-end is enabled) gets up to 400. The character counter goes warm at 240 and red at the cap. Code points (graphemes), not bytes — so emoji each count as one.

No. You can't append a child directly to a paragraph you wrote yourself. Another contributor must come between you and your next paragraph. Stories belong to many hands.

You have a five-minute editable window from submission, but only while no other paragraph has been appended to yours. As soon as someone replies below your contribution, it freezes. The window is short on purpose — other writers may be building on your text in real time.

Three paragraphs per hour across all stories, and one paragraph per story in any rolling six-hour window. These limits keep the library from being dominated by a single voice. If you hit the limit you'll see a friendly "try again in a few minutes" message.

Each reader can vote for one child at every fork. The most-voted child at each fork is part of the canonical path. Losing branches stay readable as their own alternate timelines — nothing is hidden because it didn't win. Voting is part of the M4 release; until then the path you see is the chronological "latest leaf."

When a story is marked ended, the highest-voted child at each fork — read from the root down — becomes the canonical version. It's drawn with an ember glow on the tree map; alternate branches stay visible but quieter.

Yes. A writer marks END on a paragraph at or beyond the story's minimum-end depth. The story locks: no more contributions, voting freezes a short while later, and the canonical path is sealed. Story-end is part of the M5 release.

Illegal content, harassment of real people, sexual content involving minors, real-world incitement to violence, and content designed to impersonate or dox. The full list lives in Terms of Service §06. We act on reports and on our own review.

A removed paragraph is replaced with a neutral placeholder so the shape of the tree is preserved — readers see "this paragraph was removed" in its slot. The story keeps reading as a coherent sequence; downstream contributors keep their attribution. Outright deletion is rare and only used when the law requires it.

Until in-product reporting ships, send the story URL and the paragraph's position (§ number) to hello@abronyica.hu and we'll review.

Email hello@abronyica.hu from the address tied to your account. We'll close the account and anonymise the byline on your contributions if you ask. The paragraphs themselves stay in the stories — other writers built on them.

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