Wattpad is heavily geared toward Erotica Romance by direction of the audience (Wattpad itself would like more variety from the sounds of it, but the audience has chosen). No matter what genre you're posting in, it's best to make sure you have Erotica as a sub-genre in there somewhere. Erotica Fantasy, Erotica Supernatural, etc. Also, a steamy cover as an unspoken promise of Erotica elements helps too. Even then, fiction Erotica seems to do a lot better than Erotica mixed with any magical elements. It was strange to see.
Any other genre, and you have to HUSTLE. Hustle like no tomorrow, and even then you'll find the climb is slow. I did see a lot of Wattoad-successful writers there in niche genres. One was even writing Fantasy, with an asexual character, and an asexual romantic interest. It was also somewhat of a comedy. Talk about niche.
The Wattpad forums shut down in 2020, which helped writers to hustle. When I read up on it, it sounded as though they did this because it became a hostile, unwelcoming place. People would often complain about the big-time stories not "deserving" their fame. They'd complain about tropes, and especially everything in Romance, in a very demeaning way. It's unfortunate, because from what I saw in Wattpad Forums, although I'm really starting to like Tapas Forums and its insanely civil community, Wattpad Forums had high engagement and it was easier to get interaction on topics, and full-blown discussions (at that point, though...I think people were doing more talking than writing 
).
Wattpad has 665 million uploads (I believe that includes individual chapters too) with 90 million monthly visitors, vs 93,000 thousand stories on Tapas with 2.1 million visitors per month (I couldn't find out if this was comics and novels included, or just comics, nor could I find more recent statistics on it but regardless Wattpad outdoes it by far even if we take into account the 665 is boosted by counting chapters individually). Competition is BIG. Should Tapas grow to the size of Wattpad far as the quantity of stories is concerned, it would likely be as difficult to gain an audience. The chances of someone scouting in "hidden gems" or "discover" or whatever that category is called depending on the site, and stumbling upon your story as opposed to picking the thousands of others they come across, are slim to none. When I look at Tapas novels, there doesn't seem to be much in terms of quantity.
For Wattpad, look into Reddit's subreddit for Wattpad, and also, see if there's a Wattpad discord. I never wanted to go back to Wattpad, it was a disaster 
. But they may have Wattpad-fan run Discords. Their Reddit sub looks fairly active. I figure that with the Forums shutting down, fans of Wattpad are going to find some other place to congregate. Writing is lonely.
The Wattpad Algorithm. This one is a bit of a mystery that would be talked about a lot in the forums. Anyone who worked with Wattpad wouldn't want to give away the algorithm, with good reason, but there was some speculation that it all depended on engagement. Many algorithms do. 1) The speed in which a reader goes through your chapters, matters. For example, if they read chapter one, and right after, read chapter two, and on. 2) Engagement by comments. Wattpad has this cute little feature where you can leave comments by line/paragraph. They would count as overall comments on your story. More comments, more engagement, whatever you're doing clearly has readers interacting with your story on a personal level. 3) If both of this is all in one go, your book will likely receive a huge, temporary boost in the algorithm. I tried this once. It was exhausting. But I picked a story that had about 900 views a few dozen chapters, read through all of them in 1 day, left at least 100 comments or so and also engaged in discussion, and within a week that story climbed to 2000 views. From there, it just kept climbing. I can't say for sure if that's because of what I did--it could have been a coincidence. I didn't have the energy to test that more than once.
2000...something puts you in the 10% range for Wattpad? The forums were awhile ago, so take this with a tub of salt. I remember the number but don't quite remember what it pertained to. I think it was 2000 "subs", possibly even only 2000 views, which puts you in the 10% range of "most popular books / highest engagement" for Wattpad. The ones with hundreds of thousands and millions were, of course, in the 1% range, but were also not that common. Many of these were also a decade or more old.
That's a little of my experience with Wattpad and what I saw.
There's a couple I know of, but I haven't even gotten around to actually visiting them much, nor interacting.
* RoyalRoad (they seem to love LitRPG, isekai, etc)
* MoonQuill (relatively new site. They also have a discord. You earn from ads, but there's very little engagement across the board. The site is struggling with returning viewers and growing that number)
New writing community that's 'Coming Soon':
Campfire Writing. Campfire Technology is a company with writing software, called Campfire Pro (old) and Campfire Blaze (very new, still working out kinks). They're going to rebrand Campfire Blaze as Campfire Writing, and the site will let you interact with other people's projects, share your own, and will also have a section for accessing writing advice and things like that. They have their own Discord. I don't interact with it, but it looked pretty big when I took a glance,.
Congratulations on the 250 mark!!!!
