Devlog

Creator discount codes

The admin panel can mint codes — percentage or fixed amount — scoped to a specific credit pack or to the first Shiku+ payment, with an expiry date, a total-use cap, a one-per-account limit and an optional creator to credit them to.

Grant roles from the users list

Shiku+ and the Verified badge can be given or taken back straight from Admin → Users, with a confirmation step before removing a perk somebody is paying for.

Download your character card

Creating or editing a character now offers a one-click PNG of the real card — border, artwork, name, bio and tags — rendered at 3× so it holds up when posted anywhere else.

One place to enter a code

Stripe's own promo field only recognised codes created in the Stripe dashboard, so it rejected every code made in the admin panel. It has been removed — codes are entered on the pricing page, which is the only place scope and usage limits can actually be enforced.

Fully discounted checkouts now deliver credits

A 100%-off purchase skips the payment step Stripe normally reports back, and the credits were silently never granted.

Creator Dashboard

Six sections — Overview, Characters, Analytics, Content Review, Earnings and Goals — behind their own sidebar, with glass cards that lean toward the cursor.

Earnings and payouts

Creators now earn on every message their characters receive (never on their own chats), tracked against a live progress bar toward the next payout.

Goals

Twenty tiered badges to chase, all editable from the admin panel.

Mobile layout, rebuilt

Both dashboards moved to an off-canvas drawer instead of a desktop rail squeezed onto a small screen. Tables, charts and cards now scale properly instead of forcing the page sideways.

Readable charts at any width

Analytics labels no longer scale up with the chart — they stay at their authored size.

Site announcement bar

A scrolling strip across the top of the site, written and toggled from the admin panel — and kept off the pages where it would get in the way, like chat and the login screens.

Banner builder

Seven animated background presets plus a fully custom mode, with optional titles, text colours, alignment and adjustable overlay strength.

Rewind a roleplay

Deleting one of your own messages now clears everything that came after it, so a scene can restart from any point instead of only losing a single line.

Banners are no longer cropped on upload

Uploads were being force-cropped to 1500×400, so a 3000×700 banner lost most of its height before it ever reached the carousel. The full image is kept now.

Sidebar

Real avatars instead of initials, a shortcut to credits, and a gentle nudge on My Personas until you've set one up.