We've been super busy this week, annnnd here's some new things you'll find in Ellipsus: 👾 GIF support in comments 📱Mobile comment redesign 📀 New themes ⌨️ Granular styling Let's go!

It’s coming... ThemeThursday! Four versions of the future we were promised (+ the one we’re writing ourselves). ⛓️‍💥 Wasteland - the poetry of ruin. 🫧 Aero - a shiny glint of optimism. 💾 Retrograde - the computer room, and one overly helpful paperclip. ❤️ Kudos - iykyk. Check em out next week!

Hey team, a routine upgrade broke the Ellipsus client for a short period. Things should be up and running again after a refresh. Please reach out in the support form if things are amiss. Apologies for interrupting the flow!

Just a reminder that @ellipsus.com exists and is absolutely anti-AI 🥰

We're fully online! Thank you for your patience and apologies for interrupting the flow! (Looking at the third-party using AWS US-East-1 🙄). status.ellipsus.com

Early signs of life—our team is able to log into the app. Can you all check yours?

Just reminder when you pop the hood of the internet this is what you'll see: 🐍🐍🐍

The thing I'm most upset about this outage is the student in the Phillippines needing to submit their exam paper written on Ellipsus. 😭 If you're in this position let me know (via the support chat when it's back online) and we'll write a note to your professor/teacher.

We're affected by the AWS outage (US-East). For the record we don't store your data in the US, but one of our third-parties relies on it so here we are... www.theverge.com/news/802486/...

We’re currently experiencing server issues related to a third party. The team is actively investigating.

We're back online. Thank you for your patience and apologies for interrupting the flow. Write on 🫡 status.ellipsus.com

We're currently experiencing difficulties—our engineering team is investigating. We'll update you as soon as we fix the issue. status.ellipsus.com

New feature alert… Invite by Link! You can now create a link with a specific role (like Can View, Can Comment, Can Edit, etc.) and share it anywhere - no email input required!

🍂 It’s Theme Thursday... October edition!! Maple: golden-hour sun shining through leaves 🍁 Pumpkin Spice: autumn dusk, novels thick enough to get lost in 🎃 Wicked Fog: spellcraft and séances, smoke curling from cauldrons 🔮 Fig Espresso: dark roast, old books, plotting by candlelight ☕️

Hey hey Ellipsus fam! We added 10 brand new fonts to Ellipsus for ✨Font Friday✨ - with vibes cool and unusual, cute, clean, romantic, redacted, pretty, futuristic, and more! ⌨️ Try them out and let us know which ones are your faves!

It’s that time again... new themes just dropped in Ellipsus! 🎨 This #ThemeThursday, we're serving: 🌅 Afterglow 🧈 Custard ☢️ Radioactive 🌸 Petal They're live in the tool right now! Go give your doc a glow-up. 💅🖌️

Theme Thursday is live! This week, we have: Lilium - a midnight garden 🥀 Love Letter - a secret romance 💌 Cinéma Vérité - greyscale shadowplay 🌫️ Cotton Candy - dreamcore pastels 🍬 Find them all in the themes picker - and let us know what you think!

#ThemeThursday is almost here! This week, it's all about light and shadow (and waxing poetic in full color): A garden in midnight bloom Bright, fluffy daydreams Stolen glances and unsent confessions A wash of ink and celluloid. Four new themes drop in Ellipsus this Thursday. See you then! 🎨 👀

You can now set a password for your Ellipsus account—no more digging for login codes in your inbox every time you sign in. Code login is still around if you prefer it, but this update makes it way faster (and easier!) to jump back into your writing. Set whatever weird password your heart desires.

Ellipsus services are back online. Team is continuing to monitor. Syncing might be slower for a period of time. Please check your work and reach out to support if you need any assistance. status.ellipsus.com

Due to unforeseen traffic is Ellipsus is temporarily down. The engineering team is actively working on a fix. We’re very sorry and hope to get our services back up and running ASAP. Ellipsus saves to the browser before it syncs to the server, so any work written previously should still be there.

Due to unforeseen traffic is Ellipsus is temporarily down. The engineering team is actively working on a fix. We’re very sorry and hope to get our services back up and running ASAP. Ellipsus saves to the browser before it syncs to the server, so any work written previously should still be there.

The end of an era. 🫡

Annnnd we’re back! The login fix is live! We’ve officially migrated to our new login provider, and the rate limit drama should be history. Existing users should be able to login as usual... and new sign‑ups are open again! ✨

Heeeey y’all 👋 We’re seeing a wild wave of signups this weekend (yay!)—but it’s also pushed us into a rate limit with our login provider. ​ Good news though! You can use this link to sign in as a workaround: write.ellipsus.com/api/auth/wor...

We’ve seen a number of writers sharing stories about suddenly losing access to their Google Docs today.

YIKES!!!!!! thank you for sharing this wlswarts! copying this from the tumblr post for reference

✨ New in Ellipsus... You asked (nicely, persistently!) - we listened... And after a little reshuffling behind the scenes, we’re stoked to bring you one of our most requested features: Highlighter colors are here! Color-code the chaos, flag what needs fixing - whatever works for your brain! xo

Looking to #degoogle, but don't know where to start? We've updated our list of up-and-coming alternatives over on the blog: ellips.us/4gIabn4.

Authors. What's your preferred writing software? 🤔 youtu.be/4PxQrhSABS4 #BVM #AuthorSky #WritingCommunity

Know a notebook, laptop, or bathroom stall that could use a good zhuzhing? (It’s not vandalism if it’s ✨aesthetic✨) We’ve got just the thing: merch.ellipsus.com 50% of proceeds this month will go to @trevorproject.bsky.social, @aclu.org, and @translifeline.org. 🌈

This #Pride, we’re thinking about the power of queer stories—and the creative communities that make them possible. ellips.us/43VhNQ1

We don’t just celebrate Pride in June—we live it every day. As a queer-founded company building a space for our very, very gay (🙌) creative community, we know how much this month matters.

"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."

Every few weeks we highlight relevant news adjacent to writing and freedom of expression. This week: the return of KOSA, and a new (horrible) challenger to internet freedom; AO3 scraped by AI (again); AI copyright denied; a wave of DOGE firings, and some inspiration from the phenomenal “Andor.” 👇

For @ellipsus.com, I wrote about people using genAI to produce fanfic. As with any kind of writing, genAI proponents often miss that the act of writing is the point—but with fic, written for free and with no barriers to publishing, using AI is *truly* missing the point: ellipsus.com/blog/generat...

For fanfiction writers, it can feel like generative AI is closing in on all sides. #AO3 has been scraped multiple(!) times, readers are using AI to finish authors’ fics … But isn’t *writing* the whole point? The incomparable @elizabethminkel.bsky.social shares her take: ellips.us/3RM407F

For the wonderful folks at @ellipsus.com, I wrote a guest post about fic and generative AI! As people yank archives for LLMs or "finish" others' work with these tools, we're increasingly seeing AI used to create fic, too. But if you outsource the act of being a fan to AI, what does that leave you?

Every few weeks we highlight relevant (and sometimes rage-inducing) news adjacent to writing and freedom of expression. Our latest edition👇

Writing a 100k slow burn and they still haven’t made eye contact? 🙈 Planning a fix-it fic with world-altering consequences? 😵‍💫 We have 3 new templates to help you wrangle those canon-bending storylines. ellips.us/3Gk3dbo

If you’re a visual thinker, a fan of fan art, or want to keep a map/reference pic handy, you'll love our latest update. ✨ 🖼️ Illustrations, inspo, cursed memes—now you can upload them all (or any other image) to your docs and drafts.

Censorship isn’t always enforced with bonfires. In a moment when language itself is treated as subversive, words are becoming dangerous again. Which is to say: powerful again. In our latest blog post, we look at what’s at stake, and what it means to write in a time of erasure. ellips.us/3DSxgGx

Where does your story begin? What’s holding it together? And what is it really trying to say? Ideas are easy—stories are a lot harder. That’s why we just dropped four new templates to help you turn sparks into structure, tension, themes, and meaning. ellips.us/4jnlYt5

Creating complex, real characters means going a few layers beneath the surface ... and that's where character development templates come in! We’re releasing 3 new templates to help you discover your characters' emotional arcs, relationships, and backstories. ellips.us/3DtkxtO

New project alert! 🌊💙 What happens when private pages become public? When you're not writing into the void alone, but with a friend, an audience? Mooring Pages is a living document, fluid & ever changing—searching for an anchor that frees us to drift. write.ellipsus.com/edit/e395e8a...

Ready, set, write. ⏳ Start a timer and track your progress directly in Ellipsus.

Ellipsus now has a built in sprint timer??? 😍😍😍😍

The internet was supposed to be a place for connection & creativity. But it’s being flooded with AI text, algorithmic hostility, and platforms turning against the creatives who made them vibrant in the first place. 🧵

Just in time for Valentine’s Day. 💔  Ready to #degoogle your life? We’re rounding up a handful of privacy-forward alternatives for: 📧 Email 🔍 Search 🌐 Browsers 📝 Writing tools 💼 Office suites 🗺️ Maps Check out the full list here: ellips.us/4gIabn4

Project 2025 is unfolding. What does it mean for creative freedom and free speech? The future is uncertain—but the intent is clear. The spaces where we write, connect, and publish are already under pressure—and some may soon be actively hostile to the stories we tell.