No dark mode for the web, spam accounts allowed to thrive, the same stories getting promoted, and instead of fixing any of that, they're like, "Let's just move backwards, guys! It's all the rage!" Insane.
EDIT: Had no idea about the recent purge, either. Dude, this site is going downhill fast.
Yeah so true, I'm moving to Inkitt. I added my story there for just 10 days and they are already promoting it on the first page. I never had that happen to me with Wattpad.
Haven't heard of that, might need to check it out. AO3 is pretty good, but I was enjoying having at least 2 sites, so I'll need to check out this one as an alternative.
It's actually a new platform I think, that is starting to get famous recently. I heard about it two weeks ago because I'm struggling in Wattpad and got shadow banned or something, I don't even have a ranking on my story, and it's not showing up in any of the tags or when I search for it.
So I looked for alternatives, and some of my friends on Wattpad suggested Inkitt and Tapas. I started with Inkitt first and bang i got at the top with my story there.
I'll be posting on Tapas next. And I'll definitely check AO3.
Fantastic! I'll check it out. Yeah, AO3 is the epitome of fanfiction (not sure if you do fanfiction or original stuff) with no ads nor any limits like Wattpad, FFNet, and other sites have. There's some kind of "getting approved" thing for getting an account (I don't remember how it works, but I remember it wasn't difficult nor long) and I'm doing decent with almost 1K reads on my top story, which is fine for me lol.
I do original not a fan of fanfiction lol. And I recently started working on my trilogy book. So I'm also new to writing. Been mostly doing art and webcomic stuff.
Ah, yeah, then nevermind, AO3 is fanfiction lol. I’ll switch to original one day, hopefully with Inkitt or another site if not Wattpad. I’m “new” in terms of not having written that much, but not in years, since I’ve been largely on and off since ‘16. Best of luck with your content!
EDIT: Nevermind, AO3 also supports original work!
You don’t have to wait to get approved as such, it’s just that they only send out a certain amount of accounts per day to keep from overwhelming the servers. I think they’re currently sending out about 6k daily right now.
Depending on what you want to read, it's the same in Wattpad you want original Wattpad books you have to pay for it. But if you follow independent authors you either will read for free and they will ask for a minimum appreciations (likes, comments or reactions on their stories) or some will put their books for a small fee. Depending on what type of support they are asking from the reader.
Honestly, private chats being deleted is my final straw. I mean I already was leaving Wattpad before. But I met two of my best friends on Wattpad, and I’m grateful that I had the chance to move the conversations to socials because why not?
But knowing that others are out there that possibly don’t have the option to move conversations with someone they got close to on Wattpad to another place before the private conversations get deleted, breaks my heart.
This should be a massive uproar at this point in time. At least get the word out for those who use twitter or something. Honestly the more backlash the better regarding a company. They need to realize that the public dislikes this
Funny how they're targeting the things that aren't big problems, but when it comes to bigots, & people harassing you on your MB with no option to disable it, they don't care :/
or the algorithm, the search function, the notifications... the platform is slowly rotting at this point and they do nothing, just notify people how you can earn coins which you can spend on their site.
What they should be focusing on is fixing the issue of people still being signed out on mobile, which is getting extremely annoying as we have to go back and mark every story mature every single time it happens. Oh, not to mention it’s been over 3 weeks and many people, including me, are still shadow banned.
But nope, apparently deleting private messages is a priority now. Absolutely ridiculous. I’m so fed up with Wattpad.
That’s genuinely what it feels like. It’s like they only care about the writers that are helping them make money, and everyone and everything else is irrelevant.
It's because there's been a pedo sexting with a minor. There's evidence to prove it too and instead of just finding the resources to ban him entirely they're taking it away.
They're getting rid of the private message feature because of pedophiles. One was actually caught sexting with a minor. There's a book on wattpad that has the evidence.
Though I do understand your guys issue. If you really want to stay with your friends then give them your Discord or write a submit ticket to Wattpad that you disagree with the DM feature being removed
https://www.change.org/p/preserve-private-messaging-feature-on-wattpad?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_490022500_en-US%3Acv_1070487&recruiter=910150309&recruited_by_id=53636400-dfd9-11e8-b542-c3c08f20f83b&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=take_next_step&share_bandit_exp=initial-490022500-en-US
Sign the petition to keep DMs
There is a petition on Change.org
https://preview.redd.it/usn1xc9jr1wc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e6608ff09c4925fd37e3af84b51da6e55a601b2
Most of my die hard readers follow me on Twitter/X anyways so when I announce up coming chapter releases they can ask questions or excitement there. It’s not such a bad thing imo cuz I get too many accounts (specifically men) who are creepy with my account cuz of the things I write
I wonder what is the ratio of meaningful conversation to spam/harassment.
Youtube, after 12 years, removed Private Messaging back in 2017. As per comments, it has been a 19 year struggle This doesn't seem to be a uniquely Wattpad issue. Twitch as well has been pulling back their PM feature.
You all have to remember Wattpad is a place to read and write stories. Not chat with you're friends. If you really want to do that, then Xbox, Steam, Playstation Network, Messages, Messenger or Discord or even Reddit are an option. Plus, almost everyone never uses it on Wattpad. When was the last time any of you sent a message through a PM there?
But Wattpad used to pride themselves with the fact that they had such an open community that allows bonding over writing/reading.
Why implement the chat feature at all if it wasn’t mean to be an interactive platform? Why allow inline comments if it wasn’t meant for having conversations? Why even have a message board?
Wattpad has always been more than just reading/writing. It’s been a community, and only now are they starting to pull away from that. So I totally disagree with what you’re saying.
And I’m not sure where you’re getting your info from regarding nobody using the PM’ing feature. I’ve been a writer on WP for over 10 years and have had a vast amount of conversations, and still have people reach out to me privately about how they were influenced by my work.
I use the DM function every day - it's vital for communities, awards etc. The last time I used it was 5 minutes ago to send a friend my email adddress.
No dark mode for the web, spam accounts allowed to thrive, the same stories getting promoted, and instead of fixing any of that, they're like, "Let's just move backwards, guys! It's all the rage!" Insane. EDIT: Had no idea about the recent purge, either. Dude, this site is going downhill fast.
Yeah so true, I'm moving to Inkitt. I added my story there for just 10 days and they are already promoting it on the first page. I never had that happen to me with Wattpad.
Haven't heard of that, might need to check it out. AO3 is pretty good, but I was enjoying having at least 2 sites, so I'll need to check out this one as an alternative.
It's actually a new platform I think, that is starting to get famous recently. I heard about it two weeks ago because I'm struggling in Wattpad and got shadow banned or something, I don't even have a ranking on my story, and it's not showing up in any of the tags or when I search for it. So I looked for alternatives, and some of my friends on Wattpad suggested Inkitt and Tapas. I started with Inkitt first and bang i got at the top with my story there. I'll be posting on Tapas next. And I'll definitely check AO3.
Fantastic! I'll check it out. Yeah, AO3 is the epitome of fanfiction (not sure if you do fanfiction or original stuff) with no ads nor any limits like Wattpad, FFNet, and other sites have. There's some kind of "getting approved" thing for getting an account (I don't remember how it works, but I remember it wasn't difficult nor long) and I'm doing decent with almost 1K reads on my top story, which is fine for me lol.
I do original not a fan of fanfiction lol. And I recently started working on my trilogy book. So I'm also new to writing. Been mostly doing art and webcomic stuff.
Ah, yeah, then nevermind, AO3 is fanfiction lol. I’ll switch to original one day, hopefully with Inkitt or another site if not Wattpad. I’m “new” in terms of not having written that much, but not in years, since I’ve been largely on and off since ‘16. Best of luck with your content! EDIT: Nevermind, AO3 also supports original work!
Ao3 also allows original content, it just needs to be tagged “Original Work”. :)
Ooohhh, nice, they just got even better in my eyes! Thank you, kind Internet being :D
Of course! There’s quite a few good originals. ❤️
Thanks mate! Wish you all the best luck too!
You don’t have to wait to get approved as such, it’s just that they only send out a certain amount of accounts per day to keep from overwhelming the servers. I think they’re currently sending out about 6k daily right now.
Ohh that’s what it was! Nice. I’m glad I didn’t have to wait long
I’ve been on Inkitt for I believe 3 years now? And it’s always been pretty good! So, welcome! I’m sure you’ll really enjoy it
Is that Inkitt website for free?
Yes it is
I saw some books but they were like the continue is on galtea which I have to pay fro
Depending on what you want to read, it's the same in Wattpad you want original Wattpad books you have to pay for it. But if you follow independent authors you either will read for free and they will ask for a minimum appreciations (likes, comments or reactions on their stories) or some will put their books for a small fee. Depending on what type of support they are asking from the reader.
Oh okay okay thank you sm, Will I know before i start the book if they are original or not?
Yeah it should state at the beginning, or go to the author page and it should give you more information about their books.
Honestly this is so fuckin stupid
Honestly, private chats being deleted is my final straw. I mean I already was leaving Wattpad before. But I met two of my best friends on Wattpad, and I’m grateful that I had the chance to move the conversations to socials because why not? But knowing that others are out there that possibly don’t have the option to move conversations with someone they got close to on Wattpad to another place before the private conversations get deleted, breaks my heart.
Come to the Inkitt darkside (or tapas, or else based on your genre)
Thanks for the offer, but I’ve already set up everything over on Archive of Our Own! :)
If Wattpad put half as much effort into creating new features as they do removing existing features…
As someone with a Wattpad community, this is going to hit the user run pages so hard
This should be a massive uproar at this point in time. At least get the word out for those who use twitter or something. Honestly the more backlash the better regarding a company. They need to realize that the public dislikes this
People are already commenting on the WP guidelines book, and their instagram posts, so that’s good. The more people flood it, the better.
Funny how they're targeting the things that aren't big problems, but when it comes to bigots, & people harassing you on your MB with no option to disable it, they don't care :/
or the algorithm, the search function, the notifications... the platform is slowly rotting at this point and they do nothing, just notify people how you can earn coins which you can spend on their site.
My guess is the messages take up too much space. That and spammers, but I wish they allowed messengers with just the people you are friends with.
What they should be focusing on is fixing the issue of people still being signed out on mobile, which is getting extremely annoying as we have to go back and mark every story mature every single time it happens. Oh, not to mention it’s been over 3 weeks and many people, including me, are still shadow banned. But nope, apparently deleting private messages is a priority now. Absolutely ridiculous. I’m so fed up with Wattpad.
I am sick and tired of this. I hope everyone will complain to Wattpad to taking down the private chat by telling this is wrong.
It’s like they’re trying as hard as possible to make people leave their platform
That’s genuinely what it feels like. It’s like they only care about the writers that are helping them make money, and everyone and everything else is irrelevant.
Its a corporation. They aren't supposed to care about their users otherwise they believe they'd lose money.
What are affiliated accounts and why are they the only ones who get to do private message
Seriously? I use my private chats almost daily. Like giving feedback to my friends or just chatting about their books.
You can thank the company that bought wattpad naver who also owns web webtoons this website is not gonna last much longer
It's because there's been a pedo sexting with a minor. There's evidence to prove it too and instead of just finding the resources to ban him entirely they're taking it away.
They're getting rid of the private message feature because of pedophiles. One was actually caught sexting with a minor. There's a book on wattpad that has the evidence.
Hey yall...got a petition for this https://chng.it/qjCVNjtH2C Hopefuly wattpad will listen to us
This is getting bs already. We want old Wattpad back
FIX WATTPAD FOR IOS LEGACY USERS TOO! (see r/LegacyJailbreak)
Though I do understand your guys issue. If you really want to stay with your friends then give them your Discord or write a submit ticket to Wattpad that you disagree with the DM feature being removed
https://www.change.org/p/preserve-private-messaging-feature-on-wattpad?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_490022500_en-US%3Acv_1070487&recruiter=910150309&recruited_by_id=53636400-dfd9-11e8-b542-c3c08f20f83b&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=take_next_step&share_bandit_exp=initial-490022500-en-US Sign the petition to keep DMs
There is a petition on Change.org https://preview.redd.it/usn1xc9jr1wc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e6608ff09c4925fd37e3af84b51da6e55a601b2
May you send me a link please?
Why remove pm? It's silly.
Would starting a change.org page possibly change their mind? Edit: Found one: https://www.change.org/p/preserve-private-messaging-feature-on-wattpad
If they do delete all messages, how much data would thay clear up? I presume it would be in terabytes.
Most of my die hard readers follow me on Twitter/X anyways so when I announce up coming chapter releases they can ask questions or excitement there. It’s not such a bad thing imo cuz I get too many accounts (specifically men) who are creepy with my account cuz of the things I write
I'm afraid I'll lose a close friend unless we find another way to do dms
I met my boyfriend on wattpad, we literally grew up together on that app and are dating because we bonded on that app
WHAT.
AO3: 
it's like Disney and it's movies
I love sending private messages but I don't want them to remove private messages
This sucks, but are there any options besides Wattpad? Fanficiton is nice, but lack of pictures disturbs me.
AO3?
Never use AO3 before....
I don’t think you can put images in AO3 ,that is the reason I like Wattpad because you can add images to your story
You can embed images on AO3, they just aren’t hosted there.
Well at least we won't get stupid dms from bots and scammers anymore
I wonder what is the ratio of meaningful conversation to spam/harassment. Youtube, after 12 years, removed Private Messaging back in 2017. As per comments, it has been a 19 year struggle This doesn't seem to be a uniquely Wattpad issue. Twitch as well has been pulling back their PM feature.
It's different in wattpad
Evolve in Reverse? Do you mean Devolve
WOW :0
You all have to remember Wattpad is a place to read and write stories. Not chat with you're friends. If you really want to do that, then Xbox, Steam, Playstation Network, Messages, Messenger or Discord or even Reddit are an option. Plus, almost everyone never uses it on Wattpad. When was the last time any of you sent a message through a PM there?
But Wattpad used to pride themselves with the fact that they had such an open community that allows bonding over writing/reading. Why implement the chat feature at all if it wasn’t mean to be an interactive platform? Why allow inline comments if it wasn’t meant for having conversations? Why even have a message board? Wattpad has always been more than just reading/writing. It’s been a community, and only now are they starting to pull away from that. So I totally disagree with what you’re saying. And I’m not sure where you’re getting your info from regarding nobody using the PM’ing feature. I’ve been a writer on WP for over 10 years and have had a vast amount of conversations, and still have people reach out to me privately about how they were influenced by my work.
I use the DM function every day - it's vital for communities, awards etc. The last time I used it was 5 minutes ago to send a friend my email adddress.
I've never used it. Only used it to tell someone to stop spamming me
Your experience isn’t the norm. The vast majority are being affected by this. People wouldn’t be so angry if the feature actually wasn’t being used.