Story Thyme 1.8.0 is a major platform update focused on expanding Story Analytics with full Choice Mode Analytics support while continuing to improve the editor, preview generation system, resource management tools, and overall platform usability.

This update introduces persistent analytics tracking for reader choices, improved preview rendering for choice layouts, redesigned resource management pages, centralized ad management tools, and additional responsiveness and dark mode improvements across the platform.

Choice Mode Analytics

• Added full Choice Mode Analytics tracking during Theater playback
• Added visual choice response graphs to the Story Analytics page
• Added support for tracking multiple choice modes within a single story
• Added persistent choice IDs for stable analytics tracking across story edits
• Added historical snapshot recording for choice prompts, option text, frame IDs, frame indexes, and next frame targets
• Added support for analytics surviving frame reordering, rewritten choices, unpublished stories, and deleted choice modes
• Added support for anonymous analytics tracking
• Added total response counts for each tracked choice mode

Editor & Preview Improvements

• Improved preview image generation for Choice Mode frames
• Added support for rendering choice buttons inside generated preview thumbnails
• Improved visual consistency between Theater layouts and saved preview images
• Improved vertical alignment and layout rendering for choice previews
• Added additional mobile editor responsiveness improvements
• Added additional dark mode improvements for editor and Theater interfaces
• Improved dark mode readability for dialogue and UI elements

Resource System Improvements

• Added support for changing resource icon images directly from the preview gallery
• Added visual icon image badges to resource preview thumbnails and main previews
• Added redesigned individual resource image deletion page
• Added support for deleting dialogue box images and pointer assets individually
• Added dialogue box integrity validation for missing required assets
• Added warnings for incomplete or broken dialogue box resources
• Improved upload navigation flow when managing existing resources

Platform Improvements

• Added centralized ad management system using reusable ad rendering functions
• Added automatic ad slot ID generation for easier page management
• Improved layout stability by replacing float-based two-column layouts with CSS Grid layouts
• Improved typography spacing and paragraph readability across public pages
• Added redesigned About page matching newer Story Thyme layouts
• Improved staging cache invalidation behavior for JavaScript assets
• Added cache-busting versioning support for JavaScript files

Fixes

• Fixed Choice Mode Analytics not recording correctly during Theater playback
• Fixed preview thumbnails missing choice buttons
• Fixed preview renderer ignoring overridden frame data
• Fixed incorrect positioning for choice dialogue and buttons in preview images
• Fixed duplicate analytics cards caused by mismatched choice IDs
• Fixed story authors being unable to delete their own bookmarks
• Fixed bookmark deletion confirmation behavior
• Fixed staging cache issues affecting updated JavaScript files
• Fixed ad slots overlapping uneven two-column layouts
• Fixed resource upload back buttons returning users to the wrong page
• Fixed missing resource delete links on redesigned resource pages
• Fixed icon image updates after the resource page redesign
• Fixed responsive About page layout issues on medium screen sizes