Not Small Time Writer Friendly Anymore
Wattpad basically got its start being for small time authors / fanfic authors. They’re now becoming a wannabe publishing company which I had no qualms with; However, they’ve taken it upon themselves to delete all direct messages and for what??
I’ve been writing on wattpad since I was 13 and I’m 22 now. I used to receive messages all the time about how my readers love my books and want me to publish them and they honestly gave me so much motivation. I loved being able to connect with my readers. But wattpad has now not only taken away direct messaging, but they deleted ALL old messages which is completely unfair. All that motivation is gone, years worth of it. I understand it may be because of big time writers recieving a plethora of DMs from readers but they should’ve just had a disable direct message option. To take away something like this that means a lot to a lot of writers is awful. They’re shunning the people who gave this app leverage in the first place and only supporting authors with millions of reads. Not to mention all the ads. It used to be advertised as ad free, which I understand needing ads. What makes me upset is that I have to watch ads ON MY OWN WORK. I can’t even transfer my work to a doc without going through 2 ads every chapter. I never write reviews but wattpad has not been doing their writers well (unless they have a contract with one 🙄). I only gave an extra star for nostalgia sake.
I’ve been writing on wattpad since I was 13 and I’m 22 now. I used to receive messages all the time about how my readers love my books and want me to publish them and they honestly gave me so much motivation. I loved being able to connect with my readers. But wattpad has now not only taken away direct messaging, but they deleted ALL old messages which is completely unfair. All that motivation is gone, years worth of it. I understand it may be because of big time writers recieving a plethora of DMs from readers but they should’ve just had a disable direct message option. To take away something like this that means a lot to a lot of writers is awful. They’re shunning the people who gave this app leverage in the first place and only supporting authors with millions of reads. Not to mention all the ads. It used to be advertised as ad free, which I understand needing ads. What makes me upset is that I have to watch ads ON MY OWN WORK. I can’t even transfer my work to a doc without going through 2 ads every chapter. I never write reviews but wattpad has not been doing their writers well (unless they have a contract with one 🙄). I only gave an extra star for nostalgia sake.
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Scary Ads Aren’t Appropriate and Deleting Stories?!
New review: ever since March 2024, my gifs have been going too speedy despite being normal speed. I’ve had to edit my gifs to make them slow but the app has made them slower than a snail! And I’ve had no issue like this before so I’m really not impressed. 😠😤
Old review: Scary ads aren’t appropriate and deleting stories?!
I’ve been scared to a point of no sleep after seeing this ad involving swiping a door and the words “Michael Myers is tracking you from Cherrybrook NSW”. I find this ad too scary for anyone and quite inappropriate for a site that should benefit all age groups. Also, I do not appreciate deleting of stories. I had one which was deleted after I wrote for a chapter, and the app removed the story from my written works list. NOT HAPPY. Another thing, I noticed how it still says “Still syncing your works” even after the works have been synced, and it’s annoying me. Why on earth is there a error 131 if we don’t even know what the problem is? I thought it was internet closeness, but now I’m just getting really angry. I’m trying to work on writing as well as publish some finished chapters and it doesn’t help if my progress isn’t being saved because of a dumb error 131. And one more thing, I do not appreciate moving my stories WITHOUT my doing so, and it is annoying AS HELL! A concerned Wattpad user.
Old review: Scary ads aren’t appropriate and deleting stories?!
I’ve been scared to a point of no sleep after seeing this ad involving swiping a door and the words “Michael Myers is tracking you from Cherrybrook NSW”. I find this ad too scary for anyone and quite inappropriate for a site that should benefit all age groups. Also, I do not appreciate deleting of stories. I had one which was deleted after I wrote for a chapter, and the app removed the story from my written works list. NOT HAPPY. Another thing, I noticed how it still says “Still syncing your works” even after the works have been synced, and it’s annoying me. Why on earth is there a error 131 if we don’t even know what the problem is? I thought it was internet closeness, but now I’m just getting really angry. I’m trying to work on writing as well as publish some finished chapters and it doesn’t help if my progress isn’t being saved because of a dumb error 131. And one more thing, I do not appreciate moving my stories WITHOUT my doing so, and it is annoying AS HELL! A concerned Wattpad user.
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Excluding tags
I love this app but I have some suggestions/wishes and I really hope you’ll consider them. 1. I really wish there was a way to exclude certain tags when searching and make it so the search results exclude stories with those tags. For example, when reading fanfics there are certain pairings I don’t like but are popular for some people and a bunch show up in the search results even though I have no interest in them. Another example is when I’m searching for a specific type of story like an entertainment or transmigration setting and don’t want GL or BL and a bunch show up and it takes forever to scroll through them or when I am looking for a BL and a bunch of GL show up and vice versa. 2. I wish there wasn’t a limit to the reading lists you can make. 3. I wish there was a way to save or favorite other users reading lists. 4. I wish there was a way to save favorite tags(with no limit on how many you can save) and when a new story is published with that tag it shows up on your home page or you get a notification. And you would be able to choose what languages that have those tags show up. For example, I read Spanish and English so if there are new stories with the tags I favorite in either languages they would both show up. I really hope you’ll consider my suggestions.
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