I'm impressed, and I'd recommend giving it a try if you've got text you want on the internet somewhere.
I hesitated to use Leaflet for a long time because of way that it looked. I didn't think that it was necessarily for me. I liked the fact that it was automatically connected to Bluesky, and that comments there could be seen in Leaflet, that was a big appeal. The background images and boxes in boxes is very blogger.com; it's distinctive, but not necessarily to my taste, and that put me off a lot. I didn't like the way that the comments slid out to one side, and so on.
I also didn't realise that you can change a lot of that in your own publications. I wasn't aware that there was default settings for creating serials, so you can publish a novel on Leaflet by selecting the right settings and pasting the text in. Then the readers have easy buttons at the bottom that take them to older or newer chapters. That's actually pretty great. I was initially confused by the difference between a 'leaflet' and a 'publication' was compared to websites, blogs and posts. It wasn't really clear from the offset without jumping in and fooling around and I don't think you should have to use a tool in order to understand what it does.
What prompted me to start using Leaflet was starting to write A New Muse. It was going to be threadfic, because I want to write and publish 'done' work more, and threadfic seemed like a good way to do that. I've seen and a few other people do threadfic that's great (i.e. this one) and wanted to try my hand. However, being an unstoppably loquacious bastard, I immediately fucked it and made it more than it was. I could instantly see it was going to be too long and might work better as straight up serialised fiction, and that's always kind of a ball ache to read in a microblogging format.
So I started pasting the posts into a Leaflet document (a leaflet? A Leaflet leaflet?) and fiddling with the settings. That's when I found a lot of the other settings. There's a fair few options. You can create:
individual posts
series of posts
standalone title pages for serial projects
there's a rudimentary website builder
there's backward and forward buttons for your serials
you can add cover-images for posts
you can get rid of the page border and change your themes and so on.
There's a surprising amount to play around with.
After using it a little bit, I think it's actually a really excellent tool. I have a few bugbears - there doesn't seem to be a way to search for tags in Leaflet's reader, for instance - but it's still in development so for a lot of these things I'm happy to just wait and see what happens. If current development is anything to go by, I'm intrigued to see where this goes.
There are one or two things that I'm concerned about for the future; mainly that there doesn't seem to be a content policy anywhere on the site. I want to put on-the-page sex scenes in A New Muse, and while it doesn't seem like it's a problem at the moment, we're kind of in a Golden Era of platforms fucking over creators long term when payment processors get involved. It'll be fine, because everything I write is backed up safely, and I can always take my ball and go and play somewhere else, but it's definitely something I'm thinking about. In my mind, I'm saying to myself "it's cool to try out new tools, but maybe I should save myself the inevitable heartache and just put this on a website I own."
For now I would definitely recommending checking Leaflet out if you want somewhere to put text on the internet and want it to be easily connected to the ATmosphere. If you kind of dig a simple system with a surprising number of frills that stay out of the way until you need them, try it out and see how it goes.
P.s. Check out A New Muse, below, if you like contemporary MxM age-gap romance.