For some reason the info that's supposed to be on the bottom of the screen (i.e., battery life, time, and page count) doesn't show up half the time. The only solution I found is to switch to scrolling (which has no issue) then switch back to paging. This happens whether or not there's an ad banner.
TheCaffinated
- Nov 1, 2023
- Joined Jan 27, 2019
When I went into Inkstone today I saw an option to "hide" your work. I thought that finally we could delist works, and yet when a work is made hidden I can still look it up easily. Did I misinterpret the feature and it's only good for cleaning up your story dashboard?
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Either bookworms, as is the usual term for avid readers, or we would also be covered under the otaku label due to the common tropes and audience between light novels and YY novels.
Every day around 7 in the evening I get a daily report of a novel. A novel I never bothered to update and eventually closed. It's annoying and unnecessary and I want it to stop.
Because romance readers in particular are obsessive and go through novels quickly, meaning they buy a lot of coins and make Webnovel very happy.
Flat characters are easier to self-insert into because they have a less defined personality, giving the reader more room to project themselves.
Depends on what you mean by weak. I have no problem with an MC who lacks strength and struggles to get stronger, it's more interesting than a Gary Stu who instantly crushes everything in front of him, but I am not a fan of whiny or cowardly MCs unless they grow out of it.
While Webnovel has far more varied content and thus appeals to a wider base, the writing tools compared to Wattpad are severely lacking.
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Honestly I think it would've done better if the chapters were broken down into smaller pieces. I like Webnovel because the bite-sized chapters make it convenient to read during beaks at work, and KB had some thick chapters. A lot of the chapter comments IIRC were people balking at how many spirit stones (feels like so long ago) each chapter cost and how they couldn't or wouldn't pay for it.
Honestly speaking the appeal of KB is that it really was proper literary fiction and not the pulpy YY stuff Webnovel normally deals in. If it was repackaged as an eBook like Coiling Dragon, or even a real physical book, it might be much more successful.
Darth_Xiane It's what happens when you've had 40 straight years of increasingly extreme "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?" rhetoric spewing from a fear-mongering media.
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It's owned by a Chinese company, Yuewen, and is the international version of their Qidian service. They own the rights to a massive amount of Chinese novels which is why they're the majority of the content.
Ventia What browser are you using?
Tomoyuki I can understand contracted works being kept online, as they're at that point owned by Webnovel, but non-contract works have no reason to stay up forever.
MikXL_23 Arrogance and corruption. Make them a Mary Sue/Gary Stu that gets everything it wants and is constantly praised. Let that go to its head and give it a "since I'm so great and always right, that means everyone who says no to me or questions me is evil" mindset, essentially a god complex with ends justifying the means.
Once that's established, you can make them do horrible things without the MC itself seeming like a card-carrying villian.
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yaoyueyi I still don't understand why Inkstone lacks so many features compared to other online fiction sites. Considering Webnovel's main gimmick being the opportunity to be paid for your writing, you'd think that they'd give authors (including non-contracted ones) the tools to make their work look as polished and professional as possible.
cynwilliams1 It's one coin per 200 words. The average traditional novel is around 90,000 words. Which would be 450 coins. At 2ยข a coin that's $9, which is a comparable price to an ebook off Amazon or Kobo.
So while it would be lovely if it wad cheaper, the price isn't as bonkers as it might seem using your numbers.
I'm a no-life shut-in like an isekai MC who hasn't met Mr. Truck yet. That's the extent of it.
I understand that Webnovel is probably trying to copy as much code from Qidian as possible to make updates easier, which is why Inkstone lacks a lot of features, but they need to understand that while plain unformatted text is perfectly fine in Chinese but Anglophone readers and authors expect more.
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When I read with the paging style, changing the page is glitchy and regularly skips pages and even chapters. Scrolling functions normally.
To my very limited understanding it's a form of magic that forces limits on its user, so until you reach a certain level of cultivation you can only use so much qi. And in some cases the qi is element coded so someone who uses earth-style attacks can't suddenly pull fire powers out of his ass for convenience.
You can think of it as analogous to MP without the LitRPG tinge.