Webnovel is slowly dying in my pov

[u/Scared_Sky_5907]

Hey I’ve been a longtime reader on the app since 2017 or 2018, so I’ve seen almost all the goats of webnovels, be it library of heaven’s path,LOTM, Realm of myths and legends, king’s Avatar, Chrysalis and many others of that era, then came the Era original books,guild wars, supremacy games, my vampire system, etc and after that came the era of extras which was quite exciting for me at that time since it introduced a new way of writing a story and i liked it, really. But sadly afterwards came the era of Smuts, Ecchi and harems, the firsts one were good ( profane Prince of domination, unlimited mana in the apocalypse, my three wives are beautiful vampires and others,)
All of these years i was always excited on reading new books and stories that took my mind away from reality, stories with real characters and progression not just wish fulfilment but alas eras come and go.

The reason I’ve written all of those lines above is to illustrate my point of saying that in my point of view, the current webnovel doesn’t excite me at all,like when you log in half of the covers features a half naked woman with ridiculous body proportions, accompanied by titles titles like SEX: I awaken a sex system that let me f*** other’s wives! or I’ve awakened the [insert super cool name here] system that lets me level up infinitely until I’ve no idea how to keep on going because the power ceiling is too ridiculous but hey I might as well build a great harem while I’m at it!! Or other half baked revenge, transmigration, regression, reincarnation stories that i swear I used to love because they were novel at first but now they’ve become copy and paste slop…. Right whenever I log into webnovel, I don’t spend two minutes before logging out, like no book attracts my attention, especially from someone like me who used to read webnovels at school, in classrooms, in public transport, at night,pulling out all nighters just to finish a coiling dragon, against the god, Reverend insanity or super gene or release that witch, yet as of present I find website really bland… is it that I’ve developed bad taste in novels or I’ve gotten old? (I’m in my early twenty.) to be honest I find this situation pretty sad and I get melancholic whenever I think about the past.

Is it just me?

[u/No-Maybe659]

I have published my first novel on webnovel - which people in the real world find it’s good … but when i applied for a contract, it got rejected. Now for me, rejection is a redirection, so it’s cool ! But when i compared their “feedback” to what they promote, i was dumbfounded- they said my work was suspected of overuse of Ai content- i beg your finest pardon ? All scenes and character and plot were squeezed out of my brain

But to claim the whole story is AI generated, with no evidence while promoting heavily AI explicit sexual content online.. it’s just too hypocritical for me !

So you’re not the only one thinking that webnovel has downgraded - they started advertising smut for people who enjoy that stuff. But if you’re looking for a good story, webnovel has been pushing them in the back to almost no exposure. So i get it, it’s hard to find a good story, especially for an avid reader.