What I feel Wattpad needs to fix is to bring in more readers. I cross-post now that my youngest daughter is an adult. I came on Wattpad for her safety and because she told me my books might do well here. This is what wattpad needs to do to fix the site for writers and readers.
But here is what wattpad needs to do to
1. Have a message board just for promotion with a limit of three posts a day, unless they are premium. This will boost revenue but also pay for moderators.
2. Disallow links to outside sites and even other people's books. This will reduce fake artist promoter spam and make kids safer. When I talk about my books on other sites like Amazon or Inkspired, I don't link it. I feel it's spammy, even if it's my comment section.
3. Block people from posting on their Discord and Instagram handles. So many spammers and predators try to get kids off-site.
4. More categories, AI should get its own, so it doesn't compete with writers who don't use it. Cozy books without spice, like holiday, mystery, and fantasy, should have their own category. Werewolf and office romance should have their own category.
5. A better rating system. All Safe. 10+ 14+ Mature-smut, Mature-swearing, Mature-intense-violance, Mature-all.
4. Allow tips and stickers for readers to give writers. This would be a cool way for writers and readers to interact, and Wattpad could make money off it.
5. Don't have uncompleted books that are shorter than ten chapters in the search engine. This would free up search space from abandoned books.
6. Allow premium accounts to follow more people.
