@JohnnyTuturro
Funny really because I haven't lost any do I'm lucky that everyone follow is active must be weird seeing the numbers drop,
@PaulJacobmoss Yeah, maybe that's the case. Maybe you have a whole lot of people still active, but I'm hoping that I can make some friends and meet some active accounts on ONC, though. Are you doing it?
Has Wattpad just deleted a lot of bot accounts or something cause I lost 25 followers overnight, lol
@Careless_Whisper Yes, true and I didn't know we could do tags in messages here that lead to Wattpad tags!
@JohnnyTuturro Ever-what: that just means we have active followers, which is a win..... #Winning
Happy New Year :)
@JohnnyTuturro noooo, don't say that! It's all relative!!! Yes we are close to 30, but we are far from 80 and 90! Plus, C'mon, we've both met sexy 30 somethings by now...
@JohnnyTuturro comforting to know we all start feeling physically older in our late 20s…. I’m experiencing that this year at 27, I’m like WTF I’m dying
Yeah, I know Wattpad is a writing website, and you're supposed to post stories, but I am realizing that I am maybe not Wattpad's target writer.
Look, I'm not expecting to make thousands of reads here, or be a Wattpad Creator or anything but when I look at the website ten years ago compared to today, Wattpad WAS for creators before it sold out.
There were plenty of niches that were promoted past the stereotypical ones that they want now, and the Wattpad Originals. I just think that Wattpad is all about the money and the tropes, and not so much about thinking outside of the box.
Yes, I know that Teen Fic has always been popular here, and Mafia stuff but all the focus seems to be on that now, and not on nuturing writers outside of those stories. And the Original Stories aren't always better than the stories that aren't promoted and are hidden under layers of market saturation.
The ranking systems are messed up. They have been since they started using tags as rankings instead of categories, in 2018 and maybe before that. No one knows how anything works anymore.
And the home page reccomendations are messed up as well. They aren't reccomending me anything unique or new. Just mainly paid stories, fanfic (of fandoms I know nothing about) and popular stories. They need to bring back Undiscovered Gems or something to notice upcoming writers.
Wattpad has changed too much from the Wattpad I knew back then. It's become a shell of its former self, and the lack of social features isn't helping at all. You can't see anything on a newsfeed, talk in DMs or go to the forums.
You have to message them somewhere else most of the time, and it's taken away the core of what Wattpad was originally about. Not paying for ads. Not paying for half-baked Originals. A writing community, with free, open source stories.
I am still participating in ONC because that's one of the only fun things still here. I will post from time to time and answer replies, but I'm kinda semi-retired.
I've started complaint, glitch log and current user guide for Wattpad. Check it out: https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/385846055-watt-is-going-on
No, Wattpad a generic arranged marriage novel is not "something new". Nice try, though. Why don't you suggest to me something actually new and interesting, if you care so much about doing that?
Something new is coming soon. Are you excited? :D
After a long time, I've posted a new chapter of Jank that I found in my drafts. Check it out here: https://www.wattpad.com/1067873199-jank-life-after-spud Enjoy!
If I write something else will people read it?
