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 your existing profile, follows, and history.

If you get stuck anywhere in that process, send us your questions from the Feedback page and we’ll help you sort it out.

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 people reading it.

Notifications also got smarter this update — several likes or follows landing close together now show up as one grouped notification with everyone’s photo, instead of a long list of near-identical lines.

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 their writing from your feed, stops them from messaging you, and unfollows in both directions automatically.

Every report goes to a real queue we actually look at, not a black hole. It’s a small feature, but it’s the kind of thing that decides whether a community stays worth being part of.

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 ask than asking them to pay once for one thing they actually want to read.

So Catch works differently: writers set a one-time price on a piece, readers pay once via eSewa, Khalti, or a mobile wallet, and it’s unlocked for good. No renewals, no surprise charges, no subscription to cancel. Writers keep 90%.

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 how people actually use it, but the math is simple: 100 Akshar = Rs 1, same rate either way.

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.