Hello hello! I am a new user here on Tapas, and I am here because of the same topic, Webnovel's terrible UI. I wrote a novel, well just the first chapter, when I published it on Wattpad it only got 9 views under a week. Which of course discouraged me. Then I had a friend talk to me about Webnovel, in which they published a fanfic and it got so many views in just an hour. Then I decided to give it a go and publish the same chapter on Webnovel. To my surprise, it got 1.5K views in just an hour. At first it got me very excited and motivated. Though after a few more minutes I got suspicious, something is wrong.
Firstly, the views go up only when I refresh the main page, it doesn't change when I refresh on the edit page or through the mobile app.
Secondly, as the main topic of this forum page, the statistics are at 0, all of them.
Thirdly, after reading the entirety of this forum, it got me even more suspicious that I get that much views just to get hyped up, and not because actual people read it (of course actual people read it too but I am very sure 100% of the 1,5K views are real people.
Long story short, I do not trust Webnovel anymore, and want to hear your opinions on what I should do. Are those views all real? Or did I get myself into one big shitty mess?