On 23 July 2026 Infinite Stories became reachable by anyone. 0.6.0 is the release that opened the doors: a real domain, terms to agree to, free premium for the duration of the beta, and enough to read on arrival that an empty account was not the first impression.The days right after launch went into the things a public app needs and a private one does not: guides, discoverability and a hard look at security.
Public beta. The app went live on its own domain, open to anyone.
Free while in beta. Premium features are switched on for every account for as long as the beta runs, no payment involved.
Classic stories to start from. A seeded library of public-domain short fiction, including Doyle, Wells, Chekhov, Maupassant and Poe, split into chapters and badged with their authors.
Guides for everything. An illustrated help section covering the app feature by feature, with real screenshots rather than mockups.
Videos without the tracking. Embedded guide videos load only after you ask them to, so nothing reaches a video host before you have opted in.
Findable. Public pages are server-rendered with proper titles, descriptions and previews, and the site publishes a sitemap.
A security hardening round. An external-style review of the whole codebase, with every confirmed finding fixed: file path handling, request forgery in the research fetcher, two pattern-matching denial-of-service vectors, several access checks and the way visitor IP addresses were trusted.
Creator addresses stay private. A story's creator IP is no longer exposed to people viewing it.
Themes cannot phone home. Background images referenced by a theme are proxied and restricted, so a shared theme cannot be used to track who viewed it.
Language on every story. Stories and research briefs record the language they are written in, shown on the story and available as a filter.
Longer research briefs, same price. Briefs are stitched from several grounded passes to reach far greater length, with the sources resolved to real links and marked when they expire.
Uploads normalised. Animated uploads are flattened to a still image, closing a gap where only the first frame had been checked for content.
A theme for gifting. The embeddable reader gets a dark preset intended for sharing a single story with someone.
Owner-only controls stay hidden. Buttons that only a story's owner can use are no longer shown to everyone else.