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PancakesWitch Are you for real? This is my first web-novel...
The best thing that this site gave me is learning about writing through the comments, which no 'real' author never had a chance in his life to have without the invention of such platforms = Read feedback!

Do you know how author work in 'real-life'? They give the publisher the book, who then pass it to certain readers, for comments, and then it come back with the sum of all reviews, some detailed, some general, and you sit down to edit your work... and all of that happen before publishing...

& Now, welcome to the internet, I can skip this whole ordeal by publishing my work here, and get comments, reviews, real-responses, and all of that without hearing from any publisher, freely, openly, plus get audience...

This site actually bypass the whole publishing world, letting the writers meet the readers 'face-to-face', with no publisher in the middle. Such is the internet world, it creates what never was possible before.

I feel the writing-world took a step back after this update :/

Die_Jobb And I didn't even getting into how publisher screen the readers they give your book to, which is just a headache, cause there's just too little of them, while here you have endless amounts of readers, no prejudice, just pure-read-loving-people, who give pure-heart-comments...

& Then, if you wish to go publish your book, go meet the publisher, face the screening process, still the same as always? (Even though you can see how publishers also love this site, as they can find the book has comments and reviews, even a certain success/identification of audience/genre, making it much better for them as well)

Die_Jobb For us authors, this does not affect us since everything is published/edited on the inkstone page, so I do not understand your complaint. However, the current problem does affect us as readers.

Die_Jobb it was my favorite due to the ease of finding fanfics compared to other sites

Die_Jobb in the email they said fuck you, I already said it and they don't care

max360 You're against an author reading his own work on PC?
& How am I suppose to upload comments/pics/etc from PC into the chapter?
o.0

PancakesWitch

Are you retarded? I said I was disappointed, but I went and wrote my next chapter.

And yes, I write because I want to attract readers to interact and discuss the world I build together.

If there are no readers reading your novels, I doubt you will continue to write, after all, who are you writing for if there is no reader?

I only have 17 chapters, I'm a beginner, it's normal for me to have only 10 readers at the beginning.

I'm not a writer, I'm a reader. Only in the last two weeks I started writing.

Keep writing your novels like a cold machine there. Don't waste time being hateful.

Went to the discord apparently their aren’t enough PC readers to make a difference and they only care about English readers.

Why must download the App, this is so sucks like a son of a bitch

Die_Jobb
This guy is a big hater here at Webnovel. He acts hateful because he already has his own fan base.
I always saw him attacking other authors, but I always ignored him, as it was not of my interest. Now that I've started writing, at the first opportunity, this guy comes to attack me with nonsense words.

Why is Webnovel the biggest platform on the web today? Doesn't he know it's because of the interactions between readers with authors? And, above all, the interaction between the readers themselves.

So he comes to say that I should look for a social network?

I don't know what he gets out of it.

Honestly, I'm speechless.

MyIncarnation I feel the same...
This is a social-network, right? I have so many features to interact with the readers, it's everything that is social. This site is a social-book-site, where you can comment on each paragraph, truly amazing feature I haven't seen anywhere else (like discussions open up for a mere sentence, how beautiful is that?)

& Authors love this community for the added value it gives to books, HONESTLY: I thought my books are mine, and mine only, BUT, if most readers hate a twist-plot, I learnt that I can change it, because I publish a book for the readers to enjoy, and this is just 1 major example I learnt here.

• I saw books who are absolutely influenced, and co-written, by the author+readers, which was my first time seeing such an art, and I adore this site to open-up a new art-form, even if not intentional by them, yet taking the web-community off now ... I feel it won't come to existence no more ... this won't be WEB-novel, just novel, here.

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[clarification for my side: I downloaded the APP, it is a great one, and I learn to use many ways to keep creating here, even without the website, but now I run on 2 devices in the same time, which is cumbersome, so I still in the same thoughts ... you should think again about this update, and remember the authors in it, as we wish for the option to at least have our own novel open to us in the browser] [Inkstone needs an update if webnovel gets an update, and in the same time, which is already due]

MyIncarnation I just added your story to my library, if I ever download the app I will read it

Man this update really killed my mood all of the fanfics saved on my account library.......gone. Now cant evern access it in read mode!!!!!!!

As a writer I've always made a point of uploading my work on multiple platforms. The more mirrors I have of it, the less likely I am to lose it entirely should one or more of those platforms go down.

Having said that, WN's most recent update is a major, major hindrance and entirely counter-intuitive. The lack of basic formatting options (boldfaced/italicized/underlined) can be worked around to an extent, but considering how so many writers (myself included) refer to our existing chapters while writing new ones...

Well guys, I'm going to repost what I said on the other forums. I think this is a sign we need more options. Me and my friends got tired of BS like this from WN and other writing sites, so we made a new site called Audertist Novels and we use a community monetization which means that your community actions like posting a chapter, reading, writing, commenting, rating, etc, all earn you coins that you can cash out for real world money. That essentially means that even if you read or write you can make money.

If you got any questions or concerns, you can contact me real time in our Discord https://discord.gg/8pQCVNTwDZ

The site: [https://novels.audertist.com/]