This update introduced one of Story Thyme’s biggest community features yet: collectible badges, hidden fairies, titles, and the Secret Garden. It also expanded profile customization and added more rewards for exploring the site.

New

• Added 72 collectible badges
• Added 50 hidden Thymiera fairy spots across the website
• Added badge display on user profiles
• Added a page to browse all available badges
• Added a page to browse collected fairies
• Added the Secret Garden page
• Added user titles that can display beside usernames
• Added badge display beside usernames in comments
• Added a setting to toggle title display
• Reintroduced the Tutorial and Tour pages
• Added a Badges Manager to the admin dashboard

Improvements

• Expanded site-wide progression and collectible features
• Improved the overall reward and discovery experience across Story Thyme

Fixes

• Fixed profile controls appearing on other users’ pages
• Fixed some broken asset images in the story editor
• Fixed issues with unpublished story titles not displaying correctly
• Fixed metadata color issues for some assets
• Fixed duplicate ad slot display on some resource pages