After a few months of sweat and tears from developers and support from a dedicated community, we are proud to announce that we are now finally out of beta!

What does this mean? Well for starters, we have squashed a majority of bugs that existed during the initial site launch and are now closer than ever to being bug free (but not completely). Many of these problems were discovered by site users, and we'd like to thank all of you for helping us out in that area. In addition to this, we have made a few tweaks to the way voting works to ensure a balanced system. More specifically, we shrunk the vote weight of registered users by a value of two, therefore making votes that were originally worth +4 to +2. This will not affect the overall value of articles on the site.

As previous users can see, we have created a new layout to accompany the update. Aside from being cleaner and easier on the eyes compared to the previous theme, it also makes it much easier for us to add new features due to the simplicity of the code, so expect to see a new features and updates much more frequently than previously.

We'd like to hear more suggestions from users; not only new features, but ways to improve your site experience. If you have any, please feel free to post them in the Suggestion Area forum.

We're glad to see all of you submitting great articles and hope you continue to stick with us as we expand. Keep up the good work!

It's been nearly a month since the launch of the site, and an exciting one at that. We've received a surprisingly large number of submissions, as well as many additional members to the community. I haven't release an update to the community in quite some time, so here are some things that are in the works at Papertank.

First off, I've replaced the old article formatting tags with a very easy to use and flexible markup language. This new markup is similar to the formatting that some of the more popular sites on the internet use, so the learning curve shouldn't be too difficult for most users. The new language supports text aligns, headers, indents, bullet lists, and a few other options listed in the About Section. If you have any ideas for additional useful formatting options, feel free to give us suggestions.

Along with the new formatting system, I've made some slight adjustments to the user ranking system by increasing the amount of reviews required to acquire a new rank by one (for example, Level 3 requires 11 reviews, Level 4 requires 18, etc.). This will allow for a more balanced system by preventing users vote weight from getting too powerful.

I'm also in development of a system that will allow users to upload and embed images into their articles, which will hopefully be finished by the end of the week.

Welcome to Papertank!

After over a year in development, we are finally live. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this site, Papertank is the ultimate source for writers, providing the tools necessary to expose their talents and improve upon them through means of helpful criticism from readers and other writers. Essentially, its a place for both people who enjoy writing pretty much anything, as well as people who enjoy reading original content. If you would like more information about the site, be sure to check out the About section as well as the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Through the next month we will be in an open beta, which means there will be frequent changes in the site, and there may be a few bugs here and there. If you find any bugs, you can help us out by either posting them in the Suggestion Area forum or emailing us at admin@papertank.com.

Also, if you were a member of The Shadow Sun, be sure to check out the Guide for The Shadow Sun Users to get up to speed on the updates made. If you lost an article that was submitted to the previous site, you can access all of the articles submitted to the previous site by heading over to http://www.theshadowsun.net.

Have fun writing!