I think there is something wrong with the Inkstone. My collection number raises very rapidly, but View count is very slow. I am asking because there maybe some kind of bot or something to affect it.

Thanks in advance.

    There's an interval, so there's no telling how many views your novel got until the end of that interval.

      GreedyToad I've noticed something weird too. I haven't had my Number of Collections go up in a few days, but I know many people are reading. I see them commenting along the way. My Collections increasing pretty rapidly though...

        The view count took more than a day to update for me earlier this week. It's either having issues or they changed the interval recently.

        I would use to have 100k views in 2 or 3 days, now its been more than a week and my novel hasn't viewed 69k, while my collection number raise 100 each day. It seems like something is wrong.

          Sigh I think this is the same with one of mine. It was already completed two months ago but last week, the collection kept increasing with around 20 added daily but there was no to minimal change in views (I can't see the hundreds increase now so I'm not sure). :(

          If this is a bot, at least do it on an ongoing novel for motivation! :P

            GreedyToad Yeah, that would be disappointing. You already left the author's discord, am I right? Don't they answer the bugs there?

                The same thing happened to me i have jumped up 100 collections in the past two days but view went up by 3k

                DazzlingGem They kicked me for some reasons, lol. Well, I write it to few mods, and here, so someone should look into it.

                    DazzlingGem Yes, I also hope numbers are true. By the way, I didn't join the Discord for those people, I sure wouldn't leave for them. Thanks.

                      @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL An answer please. Now I get 500 collections daily, while no views at all, it is absurd because my novel was getting 100k views every three day earlier. So, is it because Inkstone broken or there are bots?

                        @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL
                        New author here. I may be having the same issue, albeit at a lesser order of magnitude. I had about 60 collections at the beginning of the week. It took me since 1 Aug. to accumulate those 60 collections. Come Monday, I noticed a suspicious increase in the rate of collections, and now the amount has almost doubled (112). The view count grew ridiculously fast the first month (as in unrealistically fast), but has slowed down the last week.

                        I hope it is just a bug, and not a new feature of the platform to inflate collection numbers to attract/motivate newcomers/old-timers. I was happy to have those 60 people interested enough to add my story, now I can no longer trust that number. I read somewhere on the forum that the view count is already inflated, so the number of collections was my only trusted metric for viewership.

                        Below, I have tagged everyone affected by this issue who have commented in this thread:
                        @GreedyToad, @BabyTanuki, @DazzlingGem, @TheOGDuanChen

                        For other authors reading this, please add your voice whether or not you have noticed something similar. It would also be nice to hear from authors not affected by the issue.

                          MC_Shael Yep. I'm not featured anymore, but I'm getting like 300-500 people a day. This is absolutely out of the ordinary. I update daily, but it still seems crazy to have that many new readers a day without a feature. I want to trust it, but want to know where my darn PS are if I have so many new readers! LOL.

                              MC_Shael The novel I indicated in my previous posts actually stopped increasing its collections around mid this week. I don't know what happened. 😅 But then, my ongoing novel started increasing its collections at a higher rate. 😂 Seriously?! What is happening?! And I wanted to get the right numbers for that one since I said in the notes that the story was nearing its climax. Now, I don't know the effect of that. 😂

                              BTW, this is not my author account if the author needs to be the one raising the issue here. :)

                                  MC_Shael Higher the collection number, the more it raise. When I hit 5k, it started to raise 500 daily.

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