Nifty is being completely overhauled with a modern architecture, preserving tens of thousands of stories for future generations.
This site is completely volunteer run, supported solely by your donations and contributions.
Are you interested in helping build out the site? We're looking for volunteers who have experience with AWS, Typescript, React, or ElasticSearch. Reach out here.
Can't volunteer? No worries. Any support you could offer through a donation is deeply appreciated. If you have the means, you can donate here. Thank you for your consideration.
Upcoming features
- Author portal with self-service story publishing and editing.
Jun 2026: Refreshed search experience
We've made some significant upgrades to the search engine UI, with a focus on bringing the most powerful controls to the front and center.
We're still cleaning up the tag taxonomy, so some exciting features are still to come. Stay tuned.
Check it out at /search and let us know what you think.
Apr 2026: A more personable UI
We've made some UI improvements across the site to be a bit more personable and engaging.
- A new "pushable" button design that offers physical interactivity when hovered, held, and pressed.
- Some new moments of delight, like a hand-drawn underline when hovering over some links, or a fun animation when rating a story 4+ stars.
- Improvements to the design, consistency, and behavior of the reader controls interface
- A new "Reader Width" control for tablet and desktop, making it easier to read stories on larger screens.
We hope you enjoy. Happy reading. ~ Coyote
Mar 2026: Improved caching
We've rebuilt the caching system of the site to make it faster and more efficient. This should result in a noticeable improvement in page load times.
If you encounter any issues with stale content on the site, please let us know by clicking here.
Mar 2026: Infinite scroll for story lists
This has been a very commonly requested feature - browsing stories by category or tag will now scroll indefinitely, rather than needing to click through to the next page.
A few new tags have been added to include other popular groupings now previously covered.
Finally, category pages now show the top 50 tags for that category, making it easier to find stories by specific topics.
Feb 2026: More account self-service features
We've added more self-service features to the account page, including the ability to delete your account.
We've also cleaned up the account settings page for better readability and organization.
Feb 2026: Enhanced email privacy
As requested by some authors, we've added the ability to hide your email address from your public profile. You can change this in your account settings.
Do you have feedback or ideas for Nifty? Reach out here.
Jan 2026: Multi-factor authentication
We've added multi-factor authentication. You can now use an authenticator app (Like Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password, etc.) to improve your account security.
Jan 2026: Chapter sorting
We've added a new feature to the site that allows you to sort chapters based on your preference. You can now sort chapters by chronological order or newest first.
As the classic Nifty sorted chapters by newest first, we've added this feature to help users have a similar experience.
We've improved accessibility across the site, following WCAG 2.2 AA standards. Part of this involves improving the color contrast ratios for some elements, especially for light mode.
December 2025: Story updates
This month has been a busy one - we've released two major updates to the site:
First, a big one: Incest is back 🎉
At long last, we've built a new moderation system that can automatically sort incest stories to allow us to partially host them on the new Nifty. This means that you can now read incest stories again, albeit with some limitations.
As before, some incest stories cannot be hosted on the new Nifty. Please see the new content guidelines for more information on why this is. These stories will continue to be hosted on the classic Nifty site for the indefinite future.
Second, new story blurbs and tags
Readers: Ever been looking for something specific and don't have the patience to sit and figure it out?
Well now we've added story blurbs and descriptive tags to stories. Now you can get the gist of a story with these new features. They're now visible on the story page, search results, and some story lists.
This is a slow-rolling release, so not all stories will have blurbs and tags yet. Authors will be able to manage their own story blurbs once the new author portal is released.
If you're an author and you see a blurb on your story that you don't like, please reach out to us here and we'll be happy to help you update or remove it.
We've also integrated this new data into the search engine, so now searching should be more accurate and relevant. If you aren't seeing results that you expect, we'd really appreciate some feedback so it can be improved. Click here to provide feedback on search.
Happy reading.
~ Your committed community Coyote
Nov 2025 Part II: Refreshed author pages
This update is all about our authors.
We've refreshed the author pages to make them more modern, with more statistics and information about the author. A new "badge" view allows authors to express their own identity a bit more. You can change your badge colors on your author page.
In addition to the existing author tiers, we've also included new "top percentile" statistics to celebrate the most accomplished authors on Nifty. Thanks again to all the authors who have contributed to Nifty over the years.
Nov 2025: New search engine features
Another highly requested feature is finally here: the search engine now shows which chapter the search results are from. It seems silly, but this required a big rewrite of our search index to make it happen.
Additionally, we are working on some new search query features behind the scenes to make results more relevant and helpful.
Thanks for sending in your feedback, it really does help influence the roadmap and make Nifty better for everyone.
Aug 2025: Passwords and Story Lists
- One of the most requested features is finally here: passwords (what a time to be alive). You can now choose to optionally log in to your Nifty account with a password, or continue to log in with the email OTP like before.
- We've also added story lists. You can now create lists of stories, and share them with the broader Nifty community. If you prefer to have some of your own private lists just for yourself, you can do that too.
Story lists are intended to be a community-driven way to discover stories deep in the archives. We're hoping to see some great lists created by the community, and we're excited to see what you come up with. Check out Story Lists here to get started.
Jan 2025: A New Frontend
We've been hard at work over the last few months to bring you a new frontend, and with that, a bunch of new improvements.
- A completely rebuilt frontend that improves reliability and stability. Stories are now instantly synched with the classic Nifty site.
- A new CSS framework that's lighter-weight for older clients
- Improved accessibility across the site
- A refreshed design that's easier on the eyes (especially in dark mode.)
- User reading preferences are now synced to your account - a highly requested feature.
This new frontend will make it much easier to introduce new improvements as Nifty continues to grow. Please stay tuned, and happy reading.
May 2024: A New Search Engine
Finally, Nifty has a new search engine. This one takes advantage of our new modern database technologies and brings with it more accurate and relevant results, as well as offering brand new filters and sorting methods.
Preview the new search engine here
Please note, this search engine is in it's early stages and still needs some tweaking. If you aren't seeing results that you expect, we'd really appreciate some feedback so it can be improved. Click here to provide feedback on search.
If for any reason, you miss the old search, it's still available at any time by clicking here.
April 2024: Story Recommendations
Now that users are starting to rate and favorite stories, we can flex our statistical muscles a bit and start recommending stories to you based on what everyone else is reading. The more stories you rate and favorite, the better your recommendations will be. Check out your recommendations in your account. This feature is early-stage, so feel free to provide any feedback on the recommendations by clicking here.
Feb 2024: New Logo
To celebrate the next chapter of Nifty, we have a new logo. This logo aims to embrace the digital age while preserving the queer identity that has driven Nifty over the last three decades.
Jan 2024: 🎉 Reader and Author Accounts 🎉
This is a big one, folks. At long last, Nifty now has accounts. This has been a long time coming, but building the system in a way to keep the costs reasonable for the size of Nifty has been a challenge. Nevertheless, here are a bunch of new features released today, with more juicy ones coming soon. 💦
Please note, this update includes a BIG overhaul to Nifty's backend. While we did our best weeding out the bugs, please notify us if you spot any more by clicking here). Thanks for your help.
New Features
- 🎉 Favorite and Rate stories
- 🎉 Follow your favorite authors
- 🎉 In-site Notifications
- Get notified when your favorite story is updated
- Get notified when authors you follow publish new content
- 🎉 A new author portal to see who is interacting with your stories
- See how many people viewed and rated your stories
- See how many people are following you
- Improved display of story cards - tightened up the presentation so more is visible on the screen
- Easier to use chapter dropdown on mobile devices
Please let us know what you think of the new goodies. Also, here are some new features coming soon as we start getting new data in from these new features:
- Coming soon: Self-service publishing. Reach out here if you'd like to be a beta tester
- Coming soon: Top rated stories lists
- Coming soon: Recommended stories based on your ratings
Happy reading.
~ Coyote
Dec 2023
- We've been working on a lot of behind the scenes revamps that will bring some big new features to the new Nifty soon. Stay tuned.
- Fixed all stories with chapters in the wrong order
May 2023
- Visual updates to the collection pages
- Improved support for legacy redirects
May 2023
- Viewing a story with many chapters now has a "Jump to latest" that makes it easy to get to the latest chapter in the series.
- The compact story list view now renders better on mobile devices.
- Story publish dates now take up less space and have less verbosity when appropriate.
April 26 2023
- New donation site which matches the modern design of the new Nifty.
April 25 2023
- New "trending stories" section, highlighting the most popular stories of the last 7 days.
April 22 2023
- Visual improvements to the reader interface.
- New clarified content guidelines page, with updated submission guidelines for the new site.
March 20 2023
- New "compact" story list view, for those that prefer the classic Nifty design.
- Previously visited links now change color, making it easier to see which stories you've read before.
- Style improvements for story elements, like line breaks.
- Authors list is now sorted alphabetically inside each letter breakdown.
Jan 20 2023
- Accessibility improvements across the site.
- Added publish dates to chapter overview page.
- Added new text indent, line height controls.
Jan 7 2023
- Show total word count on author page.
- Author tiers are more fairly ranked based on total word count, rather than story count.
Jan 1 2023
- Lots of under-the-hood improvements to deliver the latest stories to you faster.
Dec 28 2022
- Add support for certain nested subcategories, like WWF and Boy Bands.
- Improve loading performance of pages.
- Fix flashing issue on initial page load.
Dec 25 2022
- Improved performance of filtering stories on /new.
- Improved support for older browsers.
- Include publish date in recent stories list.
Dec 19 2022
- Improve support for redirects coming from legacy m.nifty.org site.
- Improved chapter overview layout.
Dec 14 2022
- Backend stability and performance improvements.
- Improved coverage for redirections from the legacy m.nifty.org site.
Dec 11 2022
- Global style consistency improvements.
- Improved layout of story lists.
Dec 4 2022
- New author tiers system, designed to celebrate the most prolific authors across Nifty.
- Improved experience across the site for users who don't have javascript enabled.
...and much, much more. Thanks for taking the time to read. Now go discover some stories.