BeholdTheLibrary

( ・∀・)っ♨ As many of you know, I have a different author account here. It's a username I've had for ages. Since not everyone is aware of that, I'm copying the below message to here, and my apologies to anyone getting this message twice:
          	
          	(⊚_☉) Contact Info Update:
          	As many of you already know, I've managed to secure BewareThePen pretty much anywhere online that I've wanted to be over the years. That said, a lot of folks use IG--especially now that DMs are deader than a doornail here.
          	
          	Trouble is, a while back I tried to get my usual there but it was taken. Turns out someone else has bewarethepen there, but it looks to be an inactive account from now almost a decade ago with zero public posts, zero followers and they're only following a handful of folks.
          	 (◔_◔)So much for them routinely cleaning out inactive accounts.
          	
          	So today I made a decision to stop waiting and can now be found at https://www.instagram.com/beware_the_pen on IG. Feel free to DM me there if you don't want to write a wall post here.
          	
          	(͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖) P.S. There's a chance greater than hell freezing over that a new chapter of "Mending Vows" will go up in my Archive before Sunday of next week. Time will tell!

BeholdTheLibrary

( ・∀・)っ♨ As many of you know, I have a different author account here. It's a username I've had for ages. Since not everyone is aware of that, I'm copying the below message to here, and my apologies to anyone getting this message twice:
          
          (⊚_☉) Contact Info Update:
          As many of you already know, I've managed to secure BewareThePen pretty much anywhere online that I've wanted to be over the years. That said, a lot of folks use IG--especially now that DMs are deader than a doornail here.
          
          Trouble is, a while back I tried to get my usual there but it was taken. Turns out someone else has bewarethepen there, but it looks to be an inactive account from now almost a decade ago with zero public posts, zero followers and they're only following a handful of folks.
           (◔_◔)So much for them routinely cleaning out inactive accounts.
          
          So today I made a decision to stop waiting and can now be found at https://www.instagram.com/beware_the_pen on IG. Feel free to DM me there if you don't want to write a wall post here.
          
          (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖) P.S. There's a chance greater than hell freezing over that a new chapter of "Mending Vows" will go up in my Archive before Sunday of next week. Time will tell!

BeholdTheLibrary

HAHAHAHAHA! Apparently I received some DMs I didn't get a chance to read before they deleted them, and now I've got a "notice marker" that won't go away no matter how many times I click on my Inbox to find it empty.
          
          Stay crappy, Wattpad. Stay crappy. Makes it so much easier to keep moving away from here.

BeholdTheLibrary

@rentreyes Yeah, I know why they got rid of them...but it's just one more nail in the coffin for many. If you go elsewhere, please let me know where to find you.
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rentreyes

@BeholdTheLibrary I DMed you  I might really move away from WP lol
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BeholdTheLibrary

EVERYONE: You may not yet know that Wattpad--with no forewarning--rolled out content restriction changes (more are on the way 15th April) while it also fired the volunteer human reviewers and replaced them with AI. 
          
          After being called out for both, they posted this: https://www.wattpad.com/1436342697-news-updates-upgrading-our-moderation-capabilities
          
          This is a money decision. They're sanitizing the site so they have less potential legal headaches, and also less chance of certain countries blocking their site due to content those countries do not find acceptable.
          
          PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD! Many writers and readers still have not heard about this yet. There is still no word on whether the AI "reviewers" will still be pulling stories they should not be or if that's been fixed.  So do not be surprised if stories disappear, both recently or in the future.
          
          WRITERS: Back up your works! Get ready to go elsewhere. There's nothing left for us here.  Reach out to other authors and your readers and share the link above, which so far they have not prohibited from being shared.
          
          DO NOT PUT ANY OTHER LINKS in the body of your about/profile/Conversation wall. Even if you can see them, others cannot! There is only one place--as of this writing--that is a work around, but that too will likely soon be taken away. (See mine, and if the l0cati0n part is missing...there's your answer.)
          
          READERS: Many are leaving for greener pastures. Check with folks you follow, and see if they're talking about this on their walls. If not, beg them to back up their works and share the Wattpad link above so they can read for themselves.

BeholdTheLibrary

So now they are censoring links on About/profiles and wall/conversation posts. Whomever posts them can see them, but other may or may not be able to see/use them, depending.
          
          Wattpad is now making so many changes to the site per minute that sometimes the site will crash because of conflicts in the propagation of the changes across the world.  (If you don't know what that means, believe me when I say it's a geek thing and there's really nothing you can do to make it stop happening even if you understand what that means.)
          
          Stay classless, Wattpad!