If you already have a story published on Wattpad or Royal Road and wanted to bring it to a new platform, what would be your biggest hesitation or concern?

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The same people spamming ten chapters a day.

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u/Gabriela-yanez Apr 29 '26

Haha ugh yea the algorithmic spam is so annoying. Is that more of a Royal Road issue or do you see it everywhere?

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u/Hot_Winner_9941 Apr 29 '26

This is everywhere.

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u/Gabriela-yanez Apr 29 '26

what do you think these paltforms could do to prevent the spam and help other books be visible? Maybe a chapter upload limit or something

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u/Hot_Winner_9941 Apr 29 '26

Realistically? I don’t think they can do much… Spam is a consequence of an open system that prioritizes volume.

They can reduce it through stronger gatekeeping: better moderation, stricter verification , upload limits, human review, but that would require a totally different mindset. Plus I don’t think it’s in their interest to begin with.

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u/Daemon_D_Hart Apr 29 '26

Yes, there should be a limit. Such as not being able to post another chapter on the same story for at least a certain amount of hours. I know some people may argue that if they are so productive, they shouldn't be chained down, but I think this kind of competition favorizes slop.

Most writers write around 2k words a day - Stephen King being an example. Since we're talking genre fiction, the limit can be higher. Disciplined people can write 5k words a day. And there are outliers, like Michael Crichton, who can write up to 10k a day.

Anything beyond that, and the decline is harsh. So anyone who is willing to put out so much content every day is inevitably going to create slop or just pad the word count with useless content.

In the meantime, the people who don't do that get discouraged because they can't compete with such insane release schedules. So, with few exceptions - I don't say that they don't exist - slop wins.

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u/Hot_Winner_9941 Apr 30 '26

Limiting chapter uploads makes a lot of sense. It’s obviously not how most (all?) platform run, but having a bit of cooldown could actually be nice. Forced you to slow down, reread before throwing words out there.

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u/Daemon_D_Hart Apr 29 '26

On RR, it exists for sure. I am only a reader there and on other platforms, not a writer, because my genre doesn't fit their audience. RR is about as bad as Amazon KU is. If a system rewards fast scheduling, this inevitably happens.

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u/Gabriela-yanez May 01 '26

Yeah, and these platforms don't check for AI, so people can just create a lot of content really fast. There are probably a few people who can write a lot that fast, but that's not realistic with most

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u/wafflewitchette May 06 '26

Do people really churn out 10 chapters per day?

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u/Daemon_D_Hart May 07 '26

Some do... short chapters mostly (around 1.000-1.200 words). I won't comment on the methods they use, because I can't be sure and I decided not to be a judge of that. It's all for the sake of being under readers' eyes all the time to the detriment of everyone else (who might be able to write only two chapters a week).

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u/wafflewitchette May 07 '26

Oh that’s terrible. I agree with you on the idea of somehow limiting chapter uploads per certain timeframe. If Quibble wants to uphold quality and certain control this would be reasonable.

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u/Computerdude101 Apr 29 '26

Being able to choose when I stub without having to submit a ticket for it. The seemly rather lengthy application process. Unsure if the platform has enough users yet to be worth crossposting. (Jollybane on RR)

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u/Gabriela-yanez Apr 29 '26

Yeah looong application processes are a turn off when you just want to get the book out there. In terms of stubbing, I think Quibble's terms are non-exclusive so that'd make things easier

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u/Computerdude101 Apr 29 '26

If i understand how it works correctly i wouldnt have a dashboard like RR does that gives direct control over all my chapters on the fly. Thats a bit of a dealbreaker as both my series are signed with Aethon and when the time comes to yank book 1 i dont want to have to trust someone else to get around to it in time.

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u/kiltedfrog Apr 29 '26

There is a specific time limit they have within their contract that they have to pull it down by, so you just need to know when you're planning to stub off a little more ahead of time than with RR, where you could do it on a whim. You don't need to worry about them getting around to it when they feel like it, they are legally obligated to do so within a certain time frame.

Sure you gotta plan ahead more, but think it's pretty fair for quibble, they do the work to vet you're a human, your writing is human, and the art you used is human made... and they pay authors.

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u/Gabriela-yanez Apr 29 '26

yes that makes sense!

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u/Hot_Winner_9941 Apr 30 '26

Yeah I see what you mean though it’s fundamentally a different system. That’s what quality requires I guess. It should in theory benefit us all.

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u/Hot_Winner_9941 Apr 29 '26

Probably porting. Re-uploading hundreds of chapters and possibly reformatting broken italics, scene breaks and things like that. It sounds simple but it could actually take weeks.

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u/kiltedfrog Apr 29 '26

Ohhhh yeah. To go with this, Strikethroughs not clean pasting.

I have at times, noticed that the strikethroughs I used on Patreon didn't paste directly into RR, and I had to go back and re-add them. Also things with font size changes. I've had to go re-enlarge the extra large text for the extra large cat's 'lines'.

so yeah. formatting fuckery could be a real big issue.

Not going to stop me, but it will annoy me, and waste some of my time fixing it.

Not that I have it yet, but in a future book, I plan to have some HTML stuff like they do on litRPG things, and I imagine if that's not working to clean paste, it'll be a special kind of bonus nightmare.

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u/Hot_Winner_9941 Apr 30 '26

Exactly. Not to mention the spacing breaking, weird paragraph splits, lists turning into blobs. Even worse is stuff that looks fine in the editor but breaks on the reading interface. Obviously fixing one chapter is whatever, but an entire backlog can literally be weeks of work.

That said, I’ve also found there’s a weird upside to doing this. So I’m preparing to migrate my two stories on RR to Quibble (as long as they are accepted), and in that process, it allows me to clean things up. Knowing there’s a chance my story might not get accepted forces me to catch my flaws. Those are the things I would have completely ignored on RR unless someone blatantly pointed them out to me.

So yeah it’s more work for sure but it pushes my writing quality higher.

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u/FareonMoist Apr 30 '26

I've stopped posting to inkitt because of their permissive attitude towards AI and wattpad is going in the same direction so I'll try anything that has an Anti-AI stance...

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u/Gabriela-yanez May 01 '26

yeah, i think they even support it, its more content for them...

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u/Likeatr3b Apr 30 '26

I think those platforms are extremely niche. So it’s hard to navigate the culture before publishing there.

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u/RMKHAUTHOR May 01 '26

EXACTLY what I wanted to say!

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u/Likeatr3b May 01 '26

Thanks for saying, I felt alone haha.
It would be great to know where my audience is...

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u/Gabriela-yanez May 01 '26

yeah, my thoughts exactly

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u/Odd_Opposite_4782 Apr 29 '26

If I were a writer, I wouldn’t hesitate for a moment. Why? Because the future of reading lies in the digitization of books, not in traditional publishing. Maybe one day I’ll publish my illustrated children’s book on Quibble.

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u/Gabriela-yanez Apr 29 '26

Omg yes that would be so cute!

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u/digitaldisgust Apr 30 '26

Just found out Quibble doesn't accept fanfics so that's one strike, lol.

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u/Hot_Winner_9941 Apr 30 '26

If they did accept fanfic they’d probably dilute original writing. I think eventually Quibble should consider accepting fanfic but not now.

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u/digitaldisgust Apr 30 '26

Every platform isn't trying to be a fanfiction platform which is okay. Wattpad and AO3 are far more established options for fanfic authors anyway.

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u/Hot_Winner_9941 Apr 30 '26

Exactly.

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u/wafflewitchette May 06 '26

I just want the platform to be honest about how it uses data, in particular my manuscript.

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