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Motup I noticed you said we can still get 5 or more coins using phone app, but the app is not giving any coins, just fast pass only. I've checked all rewards and nothing gives coins.

They changed it recently. From now on you can't get coins for voting or other tasks (not 100% sure about check-in, i did it before updating app to a new version).

Ohhh, I,m late to the party.... shame. I blame forum not being app friendly.
So imma gonna give my opinion.
1. Free pass sound like actually good idea, now I know that I can unlock 3 chpts a day no matter the price. I think I usually made around 40 ss for free a day so if I use it right I can actually profit. Or not really lose much. Although I don't get it why they had to lower free income only for week or two and get angry mob to lash at them.
2. Did someone say Elite Subscription? As professional hater of the topic, please allow me. Although authors got 50% drop in revenue, it was more of long term solution. I want to belive that if they gave it some more time it would actually bring more profits when more and more users started using it. But I guess WN has their people that asses that kind of things and they came to conclusion that it won't happen. If not and they were only after immediate profit, well... I remember being very sour by then because I paid for subscription and went on a rampage with my paid ss that I accumulated and gifted it away to authors, because why not? When they cancelled it I was without subscription or ss, and WN assumed "we don't need to tell you anything" stance.
3. @Tomoyuki I can't completly agree that WN isn't responsible for dropped novels. It is not like they don't profit from it, right? You used fast food reference for something else so let's say it like that: You are hungry and ordered burger in WcDonald, then they give you 1/3 of a burger because cook went and left his/her job in a middle. Now you have to only pay 1/3 of a price for this unfinished product. Will you blame the cook or the restaurant? Probably both. What I mean that WN could ease up a little on introducing new novels and, at least in a case of translation try to contract another person to finish the job. Just like restaurant would hire a new cook. For original authors I don't really have any good solution :(

CKtalon Is this true?

Lin_XiaoLong Contracted author can only make their chapters premium if the word count is 1k words now. If it is less than that, they cannot lock the chapters

Because if not, i can already foresee the problems that will stem from the fast pass system.

As you can also realize, it doesn't take much to guess that the fast pass usage of paying readers(those who actually buy ss) will be concentrated on popular original novels that have the longest chapters. After all, just because they are paying, doesn't mean they are lazy or stupid. Paying readers still used the bonus ss they could get back then, and now they will still use the free passes as they are intended. Just because they are paying, doesn't mean they don't use these resources. But the thing is, fast pass is a strategic resource, while bonus ss wasn't. By that, i mean fast pass can be used on both a high ss cost chapter and low ss cost chapter for same effect. So it is obviously better to use it on a high ss cost chapter(longer chapter). Bonus ss usage of 'paying readers' was completely random and diluted into many novels, but it doesn't take much to guess where the fast pass usage naturally will be concentrated. Which will obviously make the authors of such popular stories cut down the chapter length to not be the first novel 'paying readers' dump their fast passes into. Basically, they will also have to strategize to not be the sacrificial sheep in the system...

I'm a little annoyed as well about the changes made, but I want to ask a question. Some of the commenters here keep mentioning they can go to other websites where they can read these stories for free. You do realize that the translators get no recognition or compensation? Those free chapters probably came from here, didn't they? Am I wrong? (Somebody tell me if I am.) If you despise the translators and writers here so much that you begrudge them even a decent wage, why are you complaining about not being able to read their stories? How spoiled are you? I love free things as much as the next person, but this is their JOB.
I am a fast reader. One chapter, especially a short one, is devoured in a few minutes. If you like a story or are curious where it's going, the urge to keep going is constant. But I don't believe that, just because I want to eat it, someone else should keep on feeding me for free. (Not gonna lie, tho, my brain is screaming "Moar! MOARRRR!!" )

At most you can only read one series at a time now with how much free pass you get unless you have a bunch of accounts or you google and don’t waste your time farming free passes

Tomoyuki I totally understand all of your concern about the making money and all things but really think about us free readers I'm in I cant afford to read by money and I really want to read this app but seriously please let us have some of the free SS I used to have so that I do not need to buy all the time or I will so I will be sad that I will be leaving this app

Tomoyuki I totally understand all of your concern about the making money and all things but really think about us free readers I'm in I cant afford to read by money and I really want to read this app but seriously please let us have some of the free SS I used to have so that I do not need to buy all the time or I will so I will be sad that I will be leaving this app

handmadesolace now they have even removed the bonus coins/stones you got when you purchased. 500 stones used to get you the 500 + 100 bonus, that’s completely gone now.

This entire update is one of the most greedy money hungry moves webnovel has ever made. Webnovel is just getting way to greedy for their own good and are starting to alienate there consumer base.

They are just taking every little thing away from us, and to be honest I’m getting tired of it.

I’m not a free reader I’ve paid hundreds of dollars into Webnovel. But Webnovel just has no respect for its consumers, and to be honest I’m not sure I can be bothered with them anymore.

I wonder who will use the farming mode now? There are only discount vouchers left, how we can use it with fast passes?

handmadesolace Yeah right... we all know very well they are using the authors and translators as an excuse since the beginning. From the start of the SS to unlock chapters to privilege and all the steps on the way that is the same reason given.
We are here exactly out of respect to them, but webnovel’s behavior is getting worse and worse readers-wise. This doesn’t chance the fact that it’s very easy to find the pirated versions, that if you don’t know them already. Webnovel itself knows about it and yet it’s money grubbing ways contradicts very much it’s pleas to read those works here.
Also, many of the older novels were already been translated fan for fan before webnovel decided to launch the English versions and bring those works back for themselves. Besides it gets harder to swallow the payment of authors and translators excuse when you see the history of qidian/webnovel and add to it the price of the novels compares to physical books.
No reader hates the authors and translators. But webnovel’s behavior. If they pay them so little that it’s needed to try to charge readers more at least 3x per year than how big is the difference of reading here or going pirate after all?
I started pirate. Came here due to respect for authors and translators jobs. Saw many going back pirate over the years. Will still stay here out of respect for the intelectual property of authors and translators. That is my choice. But will not condemn those who go pirate as I used to due to webnovel’s behavior.

BluebellBerry and they ghosts us so, oh ao many times... even at the start of the year with so many translators going mia and novels going into hiatus and then being picked up by translator groups. And not a peep about it... we only got to know what happened trough some translators discord. They were given an ultimatum. Join a translator group under webnovel or get out of the platform. Some chose to get out... and that doesn’t help not even a little to believe in “webnovel’s respect and support” for authors and translators....
On another note... how the heck 1 free pass equals to the previous 50SS on the weekly reward??? Even the reduced 20SS were better than this. There’s no way to defend Webnovel this way... not with these sh*tty changes... u.u”

Tomoyuki Thanks for posting! This thread feels how my profile pic looks.

Exinaus Ooh, I see. I was confused by the +5 coins since I only ever got exp. Makes sense now—they really changed those 5 coins quickly though ahah

Personally, I like fast pass because the type of fics I read have longer chapters anyway. The 3-5 ones usually are CEO romances anyway....
Also, farming is sorta addictive, not gonna lie. Kinda looking forward to getting that sitewide free voucher since it reminds me of that wonderful subscription (for readers) I paid for a while back...

Tomoyuki who do we contact about glitches? Im not receiving any fast passes when I watch the video or do the daily sign in?

handmadesolace Honestly, I used to care, and then I realized most of the stories on here went to shit after a few ten chapters. Besides, a ton of the originals here that cost SS are complete shit powerleveling or harem novels. Hell, a ton of the translated novels on here are shit too.

Thank god there are some good fanfics laying around on this site instead of wattpad or fanfiction.net, for whatever reason.

handmadesolace Honestly, I used to care, and then I realized most of the stories on here went to shit after a few ten chapters. Besides, a ton of the originals here that cost SS are complete shit powerleveling or harem novels. Hell, a ton of the translated novels on here are shit too.

Thank god there are some good fanfics laying around on this site instead of wattpad or fanfiction.net, for whatever reason.

@yaoyueyi Thread-lock please.