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It's not practical to write novels on mobile, so I bet everyone write on a computer, or at least edit on computer...
So... I must see the chapter on my computer! Of my own novel! It's the minimal requirement for me to write here!

& I'm totally against this update, and like everybody else search other options for the first time ever, as Webnovel was my one-and-only favorite site, to the extent I wouldn't even read or search novels in other sites (on web).
...It seems as if the readers won't even exist after this forceful act
...like you don't really know your clients and the usage of browsers for this site?

[btw, I thought it's the most secure website for novels existing, did I miss something here? Since when there's theft? I can't even copy-paste a word here, like searching online to know what the novel meant ... Can you at least explain/expose why's this update necessary?]

How am I suppose to edit my chapters now? :/

I'm really feeling lost right now, should I stay in this site?

Will any writer stay in this site?

[How can things, like photos, who are major part in most novels, can be added now to the novels? O_O -.- ]

Die_Jobb please go, go and don't come back for all of us, I'm sure a lot of people want to see this kind of work. which, unfortunately, you can no longer do on this site

Dude, I'm sorry but unless you use Mobile you should move to scribblehub or something. Of course, we can hope they change this new update, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

Authors, Creators, Content-writes, please make some noise as well?

It barely been a day since the update, but I hope no user will leave this site yet, and instead fight to keep this community alive and well, plus I hope the site-management will respond to the users asap, cause it can't keep being like this...

...the damage in the long-run ain't worth this forceful-act, and the longer you fight against the users, the more damage accumulate to yourselves...

My wish to write a free-novel here just got fulfilled, and it's going great, even got the basic audience, but it's like it was done for nothing now, as I planned to use this platform to create in the future another novel ppl will pay to read, meaning, it's a stepping-stone, for free+paid novels, a place for new creators+proven creators ... but now, it ain't that anymore

Iseeyou But I got some hope in me, cause if they won't do anything to correct it, I can't see why would they shoot thei own leg? I mean, who would use what they spent so much to create?

[My guess: a lot of plagiarized content exist inside this site, like, using fan-fics can be illegal, 'a-fine-line' you got to walk here, and it also must be free, plus, all the usage of pics without owning it ... Maybe this site got threats? From major-companies? Even countries? ... I dunno ... but such act must have a real threat over their head, even if they chose the wrong way to solve it ...]

Day one and there are already hundreds of people trying to get them to change it back, but we can only hope.

Here fanfiction author Fanfic ' Gantz: live or die ' to scribblehub https://www.scribblehub.com/series/560692/gantz-live-or-die/

I have the same problem, well, this afternoon I made a backup of my chapters and uploaded it to https://www.scribblehub.com/ , I did it to continue writing comfortably, I will publish there and when it is finally edited I will publish it in webnovel too (for now) so that my readers can move to another page and can read comfortably by browser as 99% of them do.

I'm willing to offer solutions (even if I don't know this site prob):

1. Threaten any fan-fic in here by 'approval-needed', or 'cancellation', to protect this site from copyright-acts
2. Create a definite guide-lines for writers about 'what shouldn't be written about'/ 'the limit of plagiarize'/ 'what is and what isn't protected under copyright laws'/ etc.
3. Separate between free+paid novels! Let the readers know that a writer they like created a 'paid novel', but as for the free-novels, leave this site as it is, don't change a thing, cause WE PUBLISHED IT HERE FOR FREE ANYWAY! (&You say you protect my work, but damn, I made it for free, are you really protecting me?)
4. Tell us, Mr.Webnovel, you problems, so we can be a part of the help and solution, and not another part of your problem!

sebas325 I get what you mean, but this site is so good, I like it so much, I really wish it will stay alive and well, to the point I didn't even go into other sites :'/

Never read/watched Gantz, but I'll try your novel V.

Die_Jobb

It's not that you are leaving webnovel forever, just see it as an extension, and create another channel to upload your content then just upload it back to webnovel and keep it... or other pages, it's the best. I found https://www.scribblehub.com/ easy to write, in my opinion you have to see the problems as an opportunity to improve yourself.

I've checked multiple times and it still completely possibl to edit chapters in the Inkstone page, what are you exactly talking about?

MyIncarnation Then you're not really a true writer, i enjoy writing without having to ask people to give me an opinion about them or send a dumb stone. Feels like you were just writing for attention? There are social media for that

SilverStarZero chapters are published through the Inkstone page, nothig has happened to it, stop complaining about something that you dont even know about

PancakesWitch If he writes a Novel, so that other can read it, then why not? His Reason, as to why he writes a Novel, is for him to decide.

dont leave 1 rewiev stars on the app they delete them report them for hate and pput a capture fo some ultraracist chinese novel instead

Die_Jobb i was the same way till this update, now i started reading on scribble hub and theres tons of good books there lol

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...