shadowstander
I'm going to post this rant here so not everyone of my followers sees it. Otherwise I'm kinda bound by my words and I'm not sure I want to be that.
For the last 8 or so years Wattpad has helped me socialize and make friends. Although I've never really liked them as a company, I've still loved this place. Okay adds are annoying, but I could deal with those. Same with other functions they removed.
However now they are taking away more and more to the point where this is not the place I knew. I've been considering just off lining most my work and leaving. I honestly don't know what keeps me here. I love to share my stories with the world. But it's been enough frustration. Still, leaving would mean I've no solid place to share my work.
Of course there's other places. I'm currently active on quite a few, but none of them support Dutch and they all have major flaws. That being said Wattpad now has many of those flaws too.
So that leaves me in this strange position. I'm nervous about leaving, because this place has meant so much to me. But I'm also unsure if I really need Wattpad anymore. I've grown as a writer so much that looking at real opportunities has become a real conversation (sometimes annoyingly so).
So yeah, I don't know where you'll find me next. Maybe I stay and deal with this change, maybe I'll offline some of my work and let Wattpad just be another one of the sites I'm active on, instead of a main priority. I'm not fully sure. But after this point things won't be the same anymore.
Bunny1996x
@shadowstander I don't understand how they think that it can be a good idea / to avoid the 100k scammers for the 3b authors or something in the world
Bunny1996x
@-Eef13- I have never made friends before - until I came here / the Watty community are taken away the one thing that helps people / authors that are like me make friends
-Eef13-
I completely get it. Wattpad has changed so much in de last years, and not for the best… there have been moments that I have been wondering why I’m still on the platform - and this is certainly one of them.
This place meant so much for me, especially in my earlier years here - just like you also mentioned - by helping me socializing and making friends. I still remember how it was such a tight-knit society, and how that changed as Wattpad changed more and more of it’s functions - and of course that’s not just because of Wattpad changing but I guess it certainly did not help.
In the last years, my account has turned mostly silent. Not that I’m not online but just not very active, and private messages were actually the only way for me to still have some contact with others, just because it ís more private and it helps me discussing my writing and other’s stories with others… and now, I just don’t know the point of me staying here anymore.
And I don’t know if I could actually leave because I’ve still got so many memories here… I might still decide to one day, publish some of my stories here, but this last methods of communication that was there - it’s just… sad that this is also taken away
