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  • Change the metric for chapters released per week

As it is right now the “chapters released per week” count on the front page of every novel is the average amount released in the last 30 days. This feels a little disingenuous as most novels seem to game the system by releasing their scheduled chapters for 29 days and then a few extra on one day to push up their numbers.

I mean the whole point of this measurement is for prospective readers to know roughly how often the novel gets updated right? That doesn’t actually work when you’re allowed to inflate your weekly numbers by releasing more novels on a single day in a 30 day period.

    HoldenD mathematically, how does it change the measurement?

    Also, it's normal for authors and translators to stockpile chapters first before doing mass releases. It's risky to release all the stockpile and end up with no backups - it's worse to have no more chapters to release when something suddenly comes up

        Ierrech It would make the metric actually represent the number of chapters coming out each week for a given novel rather than having a number inflated by releases dropped 3 weeks prior.

        For example, right now Super Gene says it releases 21 chapters per week which should mean that exactly one week ago from this moment there should be roughly 21 chapters released right? Well there were only 14. In fact in the past 2 weeks there have been 28 chapters released, exactly the amount scheduled but far below the 41 you'd expect when looking at the "chapters/week" number on the front screen of a novel.

        I'm not saying anyone needs to release more than they're scheduled to or that I dislike mass releases but I'm saying that the chapters released per week is essentially useless as most of the time it seems to be off if you actually count on a week by week basis.

            HoldenD your proposed metric would give a problem as well, unless it shows multiple measurements.

            In your example, a reader on average would expect to receive 63 chapters in 3 weeks.

            But if it showed only the latest weeks release rate, a reader in week 2 would see a very high release rate, then in the next week, a very low release rate. Which number or measure is correct? (Edited)

            In general, a rolling average is the most correct representation showing what has actually happened over a sufficiently long period of time, and also a sufficiently recent period of time.

            So 1 week? 2 week? Or 1 month average? Every measure will have its own strength and weakness.

            It's a common problem with statistics, called Robustness.

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