Updates

From the WritingNepal team

Product updates and announcements — for what everyone else on the site is writing, head to Catch instead.

Aug 2026 · Announcement

We’ve restored our old user database

If you had an account with us from before, it’s back — the old WritingNepal user database has been restored. Because of how the migration works, your old password won’t carry over. Head to Forgot Password and reset it using the email your old account was registered with — that’ll get you straight back into […]

Aug 2026 · Announcement

We’re getting close to a full launch

WritingNepal has been live in a limited way for a while now, but we’re closing in on opening it up properly — real payments, real payouts to writers, a real community. Over the next while you’ll see the site tighten up: stronger terms and account protections now that real money moves through the platform, better […]

Aug 2026 · Announcement

You can now mention people in your writing

Type @ in a status update and start typing a name — a real person, pulled from an actual search, not a guess. Mention someone and they’ll get a notification, same as a like or a follow. It’s a small thing, but it’s the difference between writing into a feed and actually talking to the […]

Aug 2026 · Announcement

Reporting, blocking, and keeping WritingNepal a good place to be

As we get closer to a full public launch, we’ve been filling in the parts of the platform that don’t show up in a demo but matter a lot once real people are using something every day. You can now report a Catch that shouldn’t be up, and block another user outright — blocking hides […]

Aug 2025 · Announcement

Pay-Per-Post is live (and why we didn’t build a subscription)

We looked hard at the usual model — readers pay a monthly fee, writers get a cut. It’s a fine model in places with easy recurring billing and cards on file. It’s a rough fit here, where card failures are common and asking a first-time reader to commit to a subscription is a much bigger […]

Aug 2025 · Announcement

Meet Akshar — and a new way to spend it

Akshar (अक्षर, “letter”) is the reward system tied to your WN Digital Card — earn it by reading, rating, writing, and generally being active, and redeem it for book credit. As of this update, you can also redeem Akshar directly to unlock a paid Catch instead of paying cash. It’s in Beta while we watch […]

Jul 2025 · Announcement

WritingNepal is back

Nepal’s first online book catalog is live again — rebuilt from the ground up, with the same mission we started with in 2010: a proper home for Nepali literature online. More on how we got here is on our About page.