Well the notifications and for some offline functionality (like caching some stories to read when your offline and to keep working on a draft when you have a spotty connection aka "Lie-Fi" where it looks like you are online but you actually aren't.)

Well now that I think about it, a native app might not be the right way to do it.

Have you seen the Progressive Web App initiative that Google is heading? Basically, you convert the current site to use an app shell model (loads a page UI before everything else loads in), add a Service Worker for offline access (which even if it requires internet, also works as a cache to speed things up) and push notifications, and it will be installable on the device like a normal app on all platforms! (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.)

https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

Also here's a list of sites using it currently curated by Opera: https://pwa.rocks/

They way I see it is there could be two "collection" styles: Favorites and Shows.

Favorites would allow you to group stories you like by Topic even if they are unrelated and would show up on each users profile. (So a normal Favorites that is a "catch-all" and then you could make a Favorites list for your favorite Comedy stories or favorite stories based on Dragons for instance)

Shows would group stories that follow the same story, world, and characters headed by a creator and it gets its own profile with a vanity URL (you could even possibly allow people who make shows to give access to other accounts to manage it).

Another idea to add to the above is that as you have a Fan-Fiction category, Shows could group Fan-Fiction based on the show. (so your sketch includes Episodes, Characters, and World tabs but you could add a Fan-Fiction tab that anybody could add there creations for the same Universe)

The easiest way to think about this:

• Stories are one-off creation
• Shows are creations based on a central universe that span all each individual story to add up to a greater picture

Combined with the Infinite story idea, Stories could still be finite to keep the spirit of short stories while shows could be infinite and are more like novels and book series.

Yep thats exactly it!