At Authorea we have big goals, not necessarily for ourselves, but for researchers and the scientific community. We envision a world where researchers write and publish their work openly, they include their data inside of interactive figures and seek collaborators and the community to test their work to ensure it is robust. Communication and publishing is dynamic and modern and research moves more efficiently because researchers move more efficiently. This vision may sound idealistic but it is being realized and we are diligently working to build a platform and community to foster it. Over the last year we have taken tremendous steps towards creating the place to write and disseminate research. We relaunched our new editor only a few months ago and have redesigned nearly every part of Authorea to make it the best place to write research documents, for all researchers. We've added direct submission to a growing list of leading journals, have introduced the first and only place to preprint in HTML, and introduced a new version control system for writing research papers. In short, we've done a lot, really fast.We're going to continue to keep innovating but we're taking a brief pause from introducing new features to focus on reliability, usability, and research support. That means, we want to hear from you. What could we do better? What small or big changes on Authorea would help you be more efficient at research writing and publishing? Below are just some of the major highlights of what we've accomplished in the last few months, which do not include the bugs here and there and tweaks made based on user feedback/testing. Acquire Research Publisher, The Winnower--LinkNew HomepageLaunch Authorea Beta, our new editor--Linkreal-time collaborationautosaveability to write in Markdown, LaTeX, and rich-text all within one articlenew toolbarPartner with Sample of Science--LinkPartner with eLife for direct submission--LinkImproved UX for LaTeX and Markdown rendering.Improved Author Management controlAdd multi-cite capability/improve design UX of citation tool.New pricing--LinkNew browse page--LinkIntroduce new version control system for research writing--LinkNew features page--LinkIntroduce preprinting capabilities and ability to issue DOI on Authorea--LinkAdd \labels, \refs, New commenting system