Just spent the last hour copying + pasting my books into drive. Now if wattpad decides to be a dick, I'll be relatively ok.
I've been on Wattpad as long as I can remember. According to the site itself, since 2017. I've always loved it because it was untouched by corporations and run simply by regular people writing stories. Over the years, I've watched things like Premium and the Paid Stories rise, and while I wasn't happy with them I knew they had to make money somehow. I chose wattpad to write my first story, Alone, on because I felt it was a safe space that allowed people to create.
I was wrong.
I have a feeling they MIGHT overturn this rule of deleting people's books, but I only found out about this issue today and it seems it's been happening for a while. If it does continue, Wattpad is done. At least it is for me. I'll most likely move to A03 but hopefully, it won't come to that as this site was my teenage years.
If you have a book with mature content, back it up NOW. From what I've read, there'll be no warning or mercy. Even if it's marked as mature, which mine are, they're vulnerable. They will delete your book or even your account and there'll be no way to get it back.
Well... that was a shitty way to end my evening.
Stay safe everyone :)