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[unknown] Holy shit bro, I just read some of your other comments and replies on the forum because I was a bit curious, and hot damn, are you an employee of this website? Why do you shill for it and defend it so much? And your analogies are, to be honest, quite shit.

After the most recent update on Qidian's desktop website, they have removed fastpasses from the daily missions and replaced them with points. And with the current economy of points, you need to save up multiple months worth of daily missions for just one fast pass. So now this site is pretty much dead for anyone who reads not on the app.

And I guess that marks the end of my time on this site in 5 years because I just don't want to deal with this anti-consumer stuff anymore. And I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be the only new person on the seas.

I've been on this site for a few years and seen its changes and recently started noticing a few things. Back in the day, Qidian had a system where there were a few trial novels, and you voted on them each week, then depending on which had the most votes, one was picked to be continued and translated.

However, now I'm seeing that the voting pool seems to have times where there is an abundance to vote on and times when there is only 1 option to vote on. They also implemented the "picked" status to books that were pilots and weren't yet selected by editors to be in the voting pool. At first the "picked" status depended on people adding those books to their library and reading them, and depending on how many people, and the time in the "picked" status, it would get chosen to be added to the voting pool.

Recently though, this has not been happening at all. I have been seeing novels without even having the "picked" status going straight to translations or some novels being stuck in "picked limbo". There was even a novel that was "dropped" before it even started to get translated because I'm guessing someone's check bounced and their novel was removed from the "picked" list after over a month and a half of being "picked". And despite it being "picked" for well over a month, many novels who were either only "picked" for a few days, or some even without the "picked" status went straight to the voting pool. And this is all without mentioning the issue of the voting pool where they seem to now ignore the amount of votes a novel gets and just choose at random. A novel was recently in the voting pool for at least 3-4 weeks and had the highest number of votes the entire time. And throughout that time, many other novels with very few votes, or some without votes (straight from being "picked") went straight to translation.

TLDR; Qidian is ignoring their own systems and just choosing novels that aren't voted/picked because I'm guessing some middle of the road manager got a small "gift"

I agree with you bro, stories that would have been an enjoyable read become weird amalgamations of Western names and chinese culture. Like when novels either only translate the MC's name into english without a surname, or when they westernize entire novels and change the names or setting locations and even the side characters, also without surnames. Meaning if any character was part of a notable clan or had a gimmick in their name to denote they were affiliated with something. It now gets lost in translation due to no one having a surname and everyone having the same 4 western names of Victor, Mike, Tom, and Rich

As seen in the title for some reason I am unable to post comments or reply to anything at the end of the chapter. I don't have the mobile version so I can't check if it works there and I was wondering if the problem is just on my side?

Hello all, I was wondering if anyone had any insight on why there are (seemingly) a bunch of random novels that just seem to get dropped without any word about it? Some examples are 'Universe's Ultimate BOSS', and recently 'Nine Star Burden'.

Just hoping someone could shed some light on this, thank you!

For the novel, The Favored Son of Heaven there have been little to no new chapters for the past week or so. I was wondering if anyone knows what might be going on behind the scenes. If you do please let me know!!!

Whenever I’m on the website version of Webnovel I can log in and do anything just fine and normal. Yet a few days ago I was logged out of my account on the app version of webnovel. I made this account using the google account I own and I can’t use it to log in, it says “Network Issues” as the problem. Is this happening to anyone else or is it just me and how do I fix it?