Changelog
Major updates across VN Club, from the website to our Discord bots, all in one place.
June 2026
- vnclub.org
Changelog
Added this page: one place to follow major updates across the site and the club bots.
- vnclub.org
Higher or Lower game
Guess which of two visual novels ranks higher by VNDB votes, rating, or release year, and build a streak.
- vnclub.org
Events calendar
New calendar page showing VN of the Month and Season, Movie Night, and other club events.
- Ichijou
Movie Night
Nominate films and vote any time, right in Discord. Winners are announced and published to the events calendar.
May 2026
- Muramasa
Jiten.moe on VN logs
VN log embeds now link to jiten.moe and use its covers when the VN is on jiten.
- Muramasa
VN of the Month moved to Hikaru
The legacy monthly commands were retired, including the pool, completions, and leaderboard. The feature now runs on Hikaru as part of the reading club overhaul.
- Hikaru
Reading club overhaul
Voting cycles with nominations, image-rendered banner, profile, club stats, badges, and season overview cards, per-guild scoping with manager grants, and deeper jiten.moe and VNDB integration.
- Muramasa
Monthly banner
VN of the Month announcements now include a rendered banner image with covers and reading stats.
April 2026
- Muramasa
Kizuna auto-logging
Reading sessions from the Kizuna texthooker are logged automatically as VN reads.
- vnclub.org
FAQ page
Answers to common questions about learning Japanese with visual novels.
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Word of the Day
A daily Japanese word with VN example sentences, on the site and posted to Discord by Ichijou.
March 2026
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Roulette
Add VNs to a wheel and spin to pick your next read, with a group mode for club picks.
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Level 1 vocabulary page
Vocabulary practice for absolute beginners, alongside the kana quiz.
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3x3 Maker, Tier List, and Beginner VNs
Build VN cover collages and tier lists you can share with a link, and browse a curated list of beginner-friendly VNs.
February 2026
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NSFW uncensor setting
A new settings-menu option shows NSFW covers uncensored site-wide, remembered across visits; click-to-reveal stays the default.
- vnclub.org
VN of the Day and Random page
A daily featured VN and a filterable random VN picker.
- Ichijou
Daily Discord posts
Ichijou posts the daily featured VN and a summary of the day's VN news to Discord.
- vnclub.org
Public API
The backend API behind the stats browser is documented and open for third-party use.
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Safer browsing defaults
Sexual tags and traits are hidden by default on VN and character pages.
- vnclub.org
External links on VN pages
VN pages now show official site and store links in the sidebar, pulled from VNDB release data.
- vnclub.org
Site-wide VN search
The top search bar now returns VN results directly.
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VN language stats tab
VN detail pages gained a language stats tab.
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VN stats tab and jiten links
VN pages gained a stats tab with rating insights and comparisons, plus links to jiten.moe. Browse pages added a random button.
- vnclub.org
Stats browser launch
Browse VNs, Recommendations, VNDB Stats, VN News, and the Kana Quiz, plus a homepage redesign. Powered by a new backend fed by daily VNDB data dumps.
- Ichijou
Ichijou launched
A new Discord bot for vnclub.org, launched alongside the stats backend.
- vnclub.org
Yomitan and Bottles guides
Two new guides shipped alongside the stats browser launch: the Yomitan pop-up dictionary, and playing VNs on Linux with Bottles.
- Muramasa
VN news feed retired
The in-server VN and eroge news feed was removed. News coverage moved to the vnclub.org news page.
January 2026
- Muramasa
Per-title log totals
Log views now show per-title totals: total time, characters, and log counts.
December 2025
- vnclub.org
Android play guides
New guides for reading VNs on Android: GameHub Lite, Kirikiroid2, and a mobile texthooker setup.
- vnclub.org
Site redesign on Next.js
The site was rebuilt from the ground up on Next.js with a new design and navigation. Five new guides launched with it, covering Anki, Meikipop, Magpie, NP2, and ShaderGlass.
- Hikaru
Logging quality of life
Title autocomplete with VNDB IDs, a log update command, and improved undo.
- Muramasa
Quiz verification on Sakura
Sakura, the anime sub-bot for LJTA, now supports quiz verification.
- Muramasa
Log overview
A new log overview command with server-wide and global immersion stats: activity timelines, media breakdowns, and top readers and titles.
November 2025
- Muramasa
VN news feed
A VN and eroge news feed channel for the server.
- Muramasa
Character counts on profiles
Profile cards show total characters read alongside time stats, and use your server avatar when you have one set.
- Muramasa
Log library and heatmap
Added a log library view and reading heatmap, and improved log stats and profiles.
- Muramasa
Pin by ping
Pin a message in a thread by replying to it and pinging the bot.
October 2025
- Muramasa
Logging overhaul
Game logging, comments on logs, detailed log views, an undo button, sticky messages, and tighter date handling.
- Muramasa
Multi-server logging and Sakura
Logging now works across servers, and Sakura launched as an anime-focused sub-bot for the LJTA server.
- Muramasa
Highlights channel
Messages with enough unique reactions are reposted to a highlights channel.
- Muramasa
Immersion tracking
Time-based immersion logging with a reader role and level system.
September 2025
- Hikaru
Profiles and pagination
Added user profiles, paginated leaderboards, and a help command.
August 2025
- vnclub.org
The Guide released
The core guide to learning Japanese with visual novels, plus a community page.
- Muramasa
Verification quiz levels
Member verification now uses leveled quizzes.
- vnclub.org
OwOCR guide
A guide to OwOCR for extracting text from VNs that regular texthookers cannot hook.
July 2025
- Muramasa
VN of the Month
Monthly VN feature for VNCR: suggestions, monthly picks, completions, and a points leaderboard.
- Hikaru
Hikaru launched
Adopted as our reading club bot, with VN logging, ratings, server leaderboards, and role rewards. Hikaru started from the open source VN_Club_Bot project, which we took over.
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More tool guides
New guides for the Agent texthooker, JDownloader, and a VN time tracker, one week after the guides section opened.
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First setup guides
The guides section opened with JL and text hooking guides.
- vnclub.org
vnclub.org launched
The site began as a resource collection: where to get VNs, discovery tools, and utilities.
June 2025
- Muramasa
Muramasa launched
VNCR's server bot went live with welcome messages, a guide command, Confirmed Reader role management, and Anki leaderboard info.