2 of the novels in my list suddenly had all chapters i have read becoming locked leaving the first 100 or so unlocked just me having a bug or happening to everyone?
Realms In The Firmament and The Devil's Cage
chapters all becoming locked other than first 100 or so?
ABitterDay same with me. Got the Nation's husband locked so sudden. Now wonder if I have to read it w/o sign in.
adwall
ABitterDay me too. what's happening?
seems like its not just me @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL bug or new paywall?
ABitterDay and adwall...
ABitterDay not a bug. Paywall/adwall is going up.
@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL some answers would be nice maybe? is this really a new paywall, would be extremely stupid to lock previous free chapters just because you wanted extra money....
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ABitterDay stupid to the users but its something they should have been doing from the start. from a business standpoint it was stupid of them to let the adwall expire after a # of chapters/days has passed since they were losing potential money from these chapters. now, having realized this cluster f of an idea was losing them money they forced the change in a way thats pissing everyone off and realistically there was no good way to prevent the users from getting mad about this.
i asked about this in their discord(though it might have been the wrong channel) a few days ago and i havent received a reply about it. they also arent saying anything in the forums. we can pretty much guess they know this was a d*ck move but im not worried about that. im worried they might have expanded too fast and are having money issues which led to this cluster f of an add on. in the long run, this really doesnt affect users that badly and its not as big of a deal as people think it is. short term, it was a really bad way to implement it and should have worked something out for current users to not get locked out of chapters they either already unlocked(with ss or ads) or have read through as their library is keeping track of their latest chapter for them. but then again, thats setting the bar pretty high so.....
if its not obvious, im a bit biased towards the site in general. like most of the staff ive talked with but overall bad impression of the site. still going to read the novels >= 3
... maybe he can help you. @Neverfire7 .
Aranwen1 if they do this those novels will just die down from rankings and people will move over to pirate sites and rip to the ad traffic from those. this kind of forced business tactics that get implemented halfway through the novel just pushes people to go elsewhere to read it for free and kills your own ad traffic lose lose situation on both ends imo
ABitterDay
Agree with the above statement
I found chapters that were
Locked here free to read on other novel sites
This kind of .... is just hurting youre own site
Just curious is it ok/legal to post
Completed novels that are not found on this site ???
Dodo1981 Just curious is it ok/legal to post
Completed novels that are not found on this site ???
They are illegal. For an example: Emuparadise just surrendered. 2 ROMs company in 'danger'. While Nintendo perhaps could DMCA them, Nintendo took the easy way. Sue them.
Perhaps, it is still not the correct time for Webnovel.
ABitterDay if they do this those novels will just die down from rankings and people will move over to pirate sites and rip to the ad traffic from those. this kind of forced business tactics that get implemented halfway through the novel just pushes people to go elsewhere to read it for free and kills your own ad traffic lose lose situation on both ends imo.
Ads in 'small' website is dangerous. Prepare Ad-Blocker! Lol.
Aranwen1 The worst part about it is they do it with premium novels too so you have to pay for them again, if they wanted to lock previously free or paid for chapters it should be with an ad instead of spirit stones. I miss the days of spcnet, release rate was super slow but at least you could talk to the translator or people in charge
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Laoshi paid for chapters
This should not happen. This could open a real 'litigation'. They couldn't do that. Even if it was using their 'freemium' currency. Ads watching is different and might open different interpretation. (I prefer ads like youtube, you watch ads after certain duration. Watching ads for novels with a short chapters is... f*ckng annoying. They should made it an ads for 3.000/5.000 words for example. The longer the video ads, the longer we could unlock the ads chapter.)
Spirit stones even had 'usage' history. I believe what had been unlocked by SS have to stay unlocked.
This is the best part of RR or WW. There is member of 'admin' in the forum. Even when the same thing happened. Like talking to the wall (yes, most complain still went to the wall/trash bin), but at least we can see them.
How sad a Dev appeared more often than a 'community manager' here? At least in here, you could talk directly to the dev. Lol. That is rare in other platform.
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Im more talking about completed novels that are free to read from 4-5y ago
Dodo1981 new company policy brother :)
That sucks
I remember reading
The rise of the shield hero
Some years ago back it was my 1st novel i readed
Since then im hooked
My 1st choise novels are transportation reincarnation
Stuck ingame novels
But sometimes i find a hidden gem novel like trail marriage husband
I have already paid for all the chapters. Now I need to pay for over 800 pages again to read them from my library? Isn’t it illegal to make a person pay twice for the same thing? Amazon and Barnes and Noble have both had class action lawsuits against them before for ebooks and regular pricing let alone recharge for the same item.
Starbright38 Try to check your spirit stone usage. Free daily unlock didn't count as you paid. However if a chapter you paid locked, you can report that bug here. Or if you want try service email. Check the faqs for the email.
I Hate how many off my fav novels just got a paywall and stopped giving out free chaps, even though pay to read chapters are getting released one after the other. I get it they need money etc. but can't they start implementing ads for those novels... They'll get their money and we can continue reading free chaps... I can keep up with around three to four novels on a daily basis and from time to time I buy some spirit stones to keep up, but I have to give up on some novels just because I can't afford the paywall from all those novels. Even If they just release half of the chapters that get translated weekly/daily by watching ads, wouldn't that be better than ppl just dropping the novels all together?
Honestly, the biggest problem isn't the chapters being locked, it's Qidian's total lack of communication.
LittleSleepyFox Very true, @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL please tell your customers what is going on.
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MasterRabbink mmm. I do collect the daily SS but I have also paid $40 US for more SS to try and finish three books. The one I binged read since it was completed is now totally locked out again. The other two aren’t done yet. I am going to have to buy more SS to finish them.
Starbright38 those author from qidian want webnovel to apply the same system that qidian used, 100 first free chapter and pay wall for the rest chapter.
Qidian is parent company for webnovel.
Between author that brings money to them and free readers, you know what they will choose right?
SweetsTomato Apparently they also want to charge us 10x what the charge in China.
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Velixar yes, and they still put deaf ears on request to lower it and make the same rate with qidian.
Funny to see how they apply qidian system but not qidian rate 
SweetsTomato I don't even mind the paywall as I was already pay for stones back then. I just rage over they done it sneakily without any official announcement. I can tolerate greedy business but not dishonest one.
I wonder whether novels that were copy and pasted from a certain other site will eventually fall under this pay wall