Changelog

One-Click Add, Charts, Self-Fixing Reports & a Cleaner Reader

v3.25November 6, 2026

v3.25 lets you add a novel from one box: paste a DaoSearch link, a source link or a title and it's requested for you. Reports now fix far more chapters by themselves, duplicate and mixed-up chapters are cleaned up across the catalogue, and the reader's tools move into two small menus on a calmer bar. New Charts rank our novels by Qidian's, Fanqie's and the other Chinese sites' own figures, and Browse can filter by those sites too.

Festivals, Better Google Translate & RandomLord (Bot)

v3.24November 3, 2026

v3.24 brings festivals: the menu dresses up for 16, each with a title to earn. Every signed-in reader can now use RandomTranslator in Claude and ChatGPT and make an API key, Reader members can download any range offline, and Google Translate gets a better engine that keeps glossary names.

More on Every Tier, Novel Alerts & Names That Hold

v3.23October 28, 2026

v3.23 gives every tier more. Free accounts get a preview and more searches, Reader can request novels, and Translator: Base can write wikis. You can ask to be told when a novel you want is added, and mute one novel's updates. Signed out, the site keeps your place on this device. Names hold better: a new name reaches only the chapters that miss it, a new fandom or genre fixes the chapters it touches, and web-novel slang keeps its literal form.

English Covers, the English Titles You Know & a Smoother Site

v3.22October 21, 2026

v3.22 gives novels English covers and the English titles readers already know them by, and fan fiction now uses each franchise's own terms. You can link your account to DaoSearch so your library stays the same on both sites, and a new Account page gathers your settings in one place. You can like your own posts again. Layouts on phones, tablets and wide screens are reworked, sections open and close at once, and a Library bug on iPhone is fixed.

Free Google Translate Past Chapter 50, a Home Page of Your Own, Recaps & Daily Rank Movement

v3.21October 13, 2026

v3.21 gives free readers a fast, stored Google Translate past chapter 50, a home page of your own when you're signed in, and a status on every bookmark. Every chapter now has a summary, with recaps for each arc and volume, and Popular shows daily rank movement. It also adds a page for every fandom, genre and tag, a rebuilt Stats page and a Stats tab on every novel, a Membership page, DaoSearch links on the Request page, JJWXC for fully free novels, and plain-words reasons when a chapter has no text. You can ask for a source site's junk paragraph to be removed, keep private notes on glossary terms and hide genres on Browse, and moving a novel to another source now keeps its comments, ratings and your place.

New Genres, Achievements v2, Library Management, a Free AI Voice & a Site-Wide Fix Pass

v3.20October 4, 2026

v3.20 finishes upgrading every older translation, redoes genres and reclassifies every novel, replaces the achievement catalogue, and adds Library Management, a free AI voice for read aloud, and full keyboard use of the site. It also brings a fix pass across the whole site: safer translations and renames, better wiki images, steadier reading, and hundreds of smaller fixes.

The App, Offline Reading, Progression & a More Personal Site

v3.19September 22, 2026

v3.19 makes RandomTranslator installable as an app with offline reading, improves the reading experience, community profiles and progression system, and makes responsive pages more stable.

A Rebuilt Site, Public Profiles & a Smarter Glossary

v3.18September 18, 2026

• •The whole site has been rebuilt so pages arrive fully formed from the server. Novel pages, chapters, wiki pages and browse lists appear straight away instead of assembling piece by piece, and they now show up properly in search results and link previews
• •Moving around no longer reloads the page — the sidebar, pagination, filters, sorting and account pages switch in place without a flash or losing your scroll position, with a thin progress bar at the top
• •Lighter pages — the novel page only loads the chapters it shows, fonts are served by us, and static files are cached for longer

Rebuilt Tags, Sharper Overrides & a Faster Glossary

v3.17August 14, 2026

• •Tags are now sorted into nine groups — Genre, Relationship, Protagonist, Power System, Worldbuilding, Beings & Factions, Socio-Political, Narrative and Story Element — instead of one undifferentiated pile. The chips are legible on light backgrounds now too
• •Romance and danmei tags exist at last — Boys' Love, Girls' Love, Heterosexual, Omegaverse, Sentinel and Guide, Enemies to Lovers, Slow Burn, Yandere and more. Orientation is applied only on real evidence of the central pairing, and never changes the protagonist's gender
• •Also added: Quick Transmigration, Transmigration into a Book, Cannon Fodder, Time Loop, Multiple POV, a full Socio-Political set (Palace Intrigue, Kingdom Building, Politics, Royalty…), protagonist-personality tags (Cunning, Pragmatic, Hiding True Abilities, Strong Female Lead…), plus Medical, Cooking, Sports, Music, Parenting, Zombie, Dungeon and Bloodline

Source Search, Reliable TTS, Faster Pages & Smarter Codex

v3.16August 11, 2026

• •Search by novel name directly on the Request page instead of finding and pasting a source URL yourself
• •Results from different websites are grouped under the matching novel, with title and author checks helping filter out unrelated books
• •Search allowances — Translator Base 160/month, Translator Pro 480/month, plus 5/month for free accounts to try it. Repeat searches are served from cache and don't count against your allowance

Better Translation, Codex Wiki v2, Entity Likes & the Tier Refresh

v3.15July 16, 2026

• •Simpler round pricing — tiers are now $5 / $12 / $25 (Reader / Translator Base / Translator Pro), and existing patrons are being moved to the updated prices too (Translator Base $9.99 → $12)
• •AI Text-to-Speech now on Translator Base ($12) and up — unlimited. Previously Translator Pro only
• •Wiki generation is now a Translator Pro ($25) exclusive — 60/month

Paragraph Retranslation, Background Translation & a Faster Reader

v3.14July 2, 2026

• •Retranslate a single paragraph in place instead of the whole chapter — tap a paragraph's action widget and just that line re-runs through the AI, "sandwiched" with its neighbours for coherence
• •Available to Reader tier and up, with its own daily quota
• •A soft "breathe" animation marks the paragraph while it re-translates; toasts auto-dismiss

Free Machine Translation, Free Browser TTS, Saved-Search Alerts & Protagonist Gender

v3.13June 9, 2026

• •Read any chapter for free — original chapter text is fully public now; no account, key, or tier needed, and no 50-chapter cap
• •In-browser machine translation for free/non-patron readers past chapter 50; chapters 1–50 stay AI-translated and free for all, AI past 50 stays subscription-only
• •Patrons get an AI / GT toggle on every chapter, and the choice persists

Hands-Free Reading, Pull-to-Next & Smarter Translation

v3.12May 15, 2026

• •TTS auto-advance — when narration finishes a chapter, the reader automatically slides into the next chapter and keeps reading without you touching anything. Binge a whole novel hands-free
• •The player stays alive across the chapter swap (a manual navigation still closes it, as before) and resumes from the top of the new chapter
• •Gapless audio — the next audio is now prepared in advance, so there's no more audible hiccup between paragraph groups. The gap was worst at high playback speed; that's gone

@Mentions, Mid-Story Overrides & Mod Power Tools

v3.11May 7, 2026

• •Type @username anywhere you can write a review, review reply, chapter comment, or nested reply — autocomplete pops up while you type, showing username and avatar
• •Mentioned users get a rich notification with the novel/chapter context and a quoted excerpt of what was said
• •Mentions are tied to the account — once you mention someone, the link survives even if they change their public username later; @username mentions show as clickable links inside reviews and comments

Faster Translations, Smarter AI, Monthly Limits

v3.10April 15, 2026

• •New parallel pipeline — the first part streams live while the rest translates in parallel in the background. Big chapters finish in seconds instead of minutes
• •Chapters the AI refused to translate now come back fully translated instead of showing "content omitted" placeholders
• •Upgraded the whole translation stack to a newer AI, which now powers translation, entity detection, chat, and wiki generation

Levels, On-Demand Translation & Quality

v3.9April 8, 2026

• •New leveling system — earn XP from reading, bookmarking, rating, reviewing, editing entities, uploading novels, and more
• •Levels displayed next to usernames in reviews, comments, community rankings, and activity feeds
• •XP breakdown on your profile showing contributions across all categories

Images, Glossary & Performance

v3.8April 5, 2026

• •All 3900+ novels now use real cover images from source sites instead of AI-generated art
• •NSFW novel covers automatically blurred in browse and popular pages
• •Images served faster

The Community & Quality Update

v3.7March 31, 2026

• •Glossary names are applied more naturally, with correct capitalization and grammar
• •Fewer hallucinations in translations
• •Better quality on long chapters

The Polish Update

v3.6March 27, 2026

• •Translation algorithm updated with improved pipeline
• •"Find original" feature for source text lookup
• •Entity detection limit removed

The Foundation Update

v3.5February 17, 2026

• •Switched to a faster AI
• •Improved entity detection
• •Entity update triggers auto-retranslation

Platform Upgrades & Speed

v3.4December 15, 2025

• •Documentation site launched
• •Site hosted on dedicated server
• •Major platform upgrades

TTS, Prefetch & Codex Improvements

v3.3September 2, 2025

• •New homepage with trending fanfics, latest updates & arrivals
• •Display Settings overhaul — cleaner, more concise look
• •Fixed white background flashes when overscrolling in dark mode

Translation Previews

v3.2July 27, 2025

• •Request translations as Previews — translates up to 40 chapters as a trial
• •16 Preview requests/week for $10 tier, 32 for $25 tier
• •Convert previews to full translations from the novel page

Codex Initial Release

v3.1July 8, 2025

• •AI-powered Fandom Wiki style knowledge base for novel entities
• •Wiki generation with character summaries, relationships, and chapter citations
• •Image generation for character illustrations

Official Launch

v3June 12, 2025

• •Translate page — free AI-powered text translation using our framework, supports all major languages
• •Tag Inclusion/Exclusion in Browse Page
• •Entity Additions — click glossary highlight button to add new entities from chapter text

Multi-language Phase 3

v2.9June 2, 2025

• •Korean, Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, English and French added as original supported languages
• •CJK-specific fix for untranslated characters remaining in translation
• •Entity filtering fixes — no longer uses common or irrelevant terms

Multi-language Phase 2

v2.8May 24, 2025

• •Novel translations now available in Russian, German, Portuguese, French, and Spanish
• •Language translations count the same as novel requests (same rate limits)
• •DDoS recovery fixes

Multi-language Phase 1 & Codex Beta

v2.7May 23, 2025

• •Site interface translations in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian
• •Codex Beta Version 1.0 released with wiki and image generation
• •Content processing finished, version 1.5 under development

Major Site Overhaul

v2.5April 30, 2025

• •DiceAI novel recommendation integration on novel pages
• •Community Stats and Activity pages
• •AI-powered tag and category standardization

System TTS & Bug Fixes

v2.4March 31, 2025

• •Added Basic System TTS accessible in the $10 tier
• •Bug fixes

DiceAI Novel Search & Recommendations

v2.3March 28, 2025

• •AI-powered search with knowledge of all novels in the database
• •Personalized recommendations based on reading data, ratings, bookmarks, and reviews
• •Full privacy control — activate/deactivate personal data usage anytime

AI Text-to-Speech

v2.2March 20, 2025

• •AI Text-to-Speech with 27 voices and adjustable speed
• •Premium feature for $25+ tier users
• •Fixed chapter refresh

Translation Improvements

v2.1March 15, 2025

• •Upgraded to better translation model
• •Major speed improvements
• •Fixed irregular formatting issues for system texts

Beta Launch

v2March 10, 2025

• •Full site launch at randomtranslator.com (migrated from geriatrictranslations.com)
• •Novel request system — add novels by pasting source links
• •Patreon login integration