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A New Home for AgapeVerse — and a Lot Is New
Deno Deploy Classic was scheduled to shut down on July 20, 2026. That gave us the push to rebuild AgapeVerse on a new platform — and while we were at it, we shipped some features that had been on the list for a while.
Hi everyone,
If you've been using AgapeVerse for a while, you might notice a lot looks different. The heart of it is familiar — you describe who you're writing for, you get a poem, you share it — but nearly everything around that is new: a fresh visual design, genuinely new tools, and a completely different platform underneath.
Here's the honest story of why.
Before and after
Here's the old home page and the new one, each split down the diagonal — light mode on one side, dark mode on the other. The graphic matches your theme: reading in dark mode, it leads with the dark side.
Before — the old home, in light and dark.
After — the new home, in light and dark.
The whole visual identity changed too — new logo, new palette, new type. The idea behind it: a poem is a letter written for one person and closed with a drop of wax. So the design is built around warm paper, sepia ink, and a single sealing-wax red reserved for love.
Why we moved
Deno Deploy Classic — the platform AgapeVerse has run on since the start — was scheduled to shut down on July 20, 2026. That's not a crisis. Deno gave us plenty of notice, and they've built a path forward on their new platform. But AgapeVerse was built on an older version of their framework (Deno Fresh), and this wasn't a case where you just update a dependency and keep going.
So I took the opportunity to rebuild using NebulaKit — an open-source starter template I've been working on, publicly available at nebulakit.starspace.group. If you're looking to build something similar yourself, it's all there. AgapeVerse became the first real project built on it. The new stack is SvelteKit on Cloudflare Pages, with Cloudflare Workers handling the backend — database, AI routing, scheduled jobs, and everything in between. Cloudflare is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here alongside NebulaKit, and it's been a solid combination.
I want to be clear about something: the old site has served us well. The poems it generated are just as real and meaningful as anything the new site produces. This is a platform migration that became an opportunity — not a rescue from a broken system.
What's genuinely new
A new visual design. The site has a fresh look — a warm, letter-inspired design built around the idea of a sealed letter: ivory paper, sepia ink, and a single sealing-wax red kept for love. There's a new pen-nib logo with a small hidden heart, and updated typography. Light and dark themes both have proper support now.
The Workshop. This is the feature I'm most excited about. The Workshop is a new space where you can iteratively refine a poem with the AI — generate a revision, compare before and after, keep what you love, and keep going. Every revision is saved, so you can always scroll back to an earlier draft. And because edits stay in draft until you're ready, what your readers see doesn't change until you choose to publish it.
Each revision also records the Affection Level you had set when it was generated. So if you're comparing drafts later and wondering why one felt more tender or more intense than another, you'll have the context right there.
The Workshop, mid-edit. And yes — that's a real poem from 2024: "Ode to Deno," hidden message LONG LIVE DENO. It felt right for this post.
Hidden message improvements. The hidden message feature — where the first letter of each line spells out a name or word — is more reliable now. We added retry logic and better validation, and the preview highlights the acrostic letters in the poem so you can catch anything before you share.
"Broadcast" replaces "Permanent." We renamed the top sharing status. The old label — "Permanent: Posted on Socials (NO EDITS)" — was a mouthful that always needed explaining, and the no-edits restriction was more friction than protection. "Broadcast" means the same thing functionally: your poem is publicly accessible at its link. But you can still edit it afterward.
Sign in with Discord. In addition to Google and GitHub, you can now log in with your Discord account.
Fair pricing around the world. Premium is now shown and charged in your own currency, at a price set for your region instead of a flat US-dollar rate — so it's more affordable in more places.
The same plans, seen from India — shown and billed in rupees, at a price set for the local market.
Better mobile experience. The workshop in particular had a layout issue on mobile where the bottom of the poem could get hidden behind the browser's navigation bar. That's fixed. The whole site also got a proper responsive pass, especially at tablet sizes.
A note for existing members
If you already have an account, your poems, your subscription, and your HeartPoints — balance and full transaction history — come with you. Everything moves over to the new system automatically. No action needed, no interruption, nothing to re-enter.
And on top of what you already have, every account from the old site gets a one-time welcome grant of double the new weekly allowance: +120 HP for free accounts (2× the new 60 HP/week), +2,400 HP for Premium subscribers (2× the new 1,200 HP/week). It's our thank-you for being here since the early days.
The weekly allowances themselves also went up for everyone: free accounts now receive 60 HP per week — up from 45 — and Premium subscribers 1,200 HP per week — up from 999. Premium HeartPoints also carry forward for up to a year now, so you can bank what you don't use for a big creative burst instead of losing it. If you were subscribed before this update, you're getting more than what was originally advertised, with no change to your billing. That's not an accident; it felt like the right way to say thanks.
What stayed the same
The things that matter most: generating poems, the HeartPoints economy, hidden message poems, sharing, the public poem feed, your account, your poem history. All of it comes with you, and your existing poems and account data stay intact.
What's next
A few things still on the list: better poem discovery, community features for sharing and responding to poems, and continued refinements to the Workshop based on how you're actually using it.
And if you've been here since the old site — thank you for coming along through the move. You didn't have to, and I'm genuinely glad you did. If anything feels off in the new version — something's broken, something you miss, or something you actually like better — I'd love to hear from you.
— David