I just came to Tapas about a week ago, and I've already got a heck of a lot more attention on my stories than I have on Wattpad in the past three months, and it's just so much better here with this community. 
Check it out if it piques your interest. The main character has a sloth too.
Welcome! While I'm still on Wattpad, I've been spending a lot more time here on Tapas and enjoying the platform so much better. It's even encouraged me to commission artists to draw my own characters, something I never would've done had I remained only on Wattpad. The only thing I really use Wattpad for now is editing, as there are some great reviewers on there. But I've found the community to be more welcoming here.
I'll definitely give your story a read, as it looks really interesting.
Feel free to check out either of my mysteries novels too.
Oh my god, I jumped shark from Wattpad just a little while ago! Username on the was BrightNeko lol. Tapas's community is a lot better than Wattpad's, it's so nice and welcoming~
Here's the novel I've been working on, I hope people enjoy it!
I have a novel on wattpad, which I consider to be pretty bad, but then looking at much of the other writing there it actually looks well-written, which is scary. The novels I've checked out on tapas seem to generally be of a higher quality. Neither seems like a great platform for new creators to be seen, but at least tapas still has forums for connecting to one another.
I find that on Tapas I at least have a fighting chance to be seen except in BL, with the Fresh section. In BL, no matter when I post, there is always like 5-7 books over the top of mine immediately.
The rest is genre preference that is very narrow here, with romance being second to BL and fantasy the third, and fantasy readers just don’t read many books, they stick to a few big ones.
Other genres, one might as well not bother on Tapas, there is just no readers checking them. And you have to hit the genre conventions very accurately, because blending genre too much will end up with a book being ignored.
I post on both here and Wattpad, but Tapas is leagues better when it comes to getting attention. The community is so much easier to get involved with too, and is a lot friendlier towards original work. In a sea of fanfiction, it's nice to see a site that promotes OC's (not that there's anything wrong with fanfics, but you all understand what I mean).
Anyway, my series is actually a collection of short stories. They're all meant to be able to stand on their own, so you don't have to read one to understand any others. They do interlace though, so there's enough self-reference later on to make it worthwhile. The first story is Finding Work, which is already dropped, and the second is The Shopkeeper, which drops on Friday. Check it out below!
While romance and BL are definitely very popular, I wouldn't go as far to say other genres have no chance here. Having your story in a genre that's less common can be a bit beneficial too, as you're likely to stay on the page that advertises for something like sci-fi, mystery, or horror. Meanwhile, romance and BL are more likely to just get swept up in the rest unless you have something that really sticks out among the others. Not to say those stories of popular genres won't do well either, as they surely will on here, but I feel like everyone has a chance if they put effort into it. Being active with the community seems to be the best way to earn readers, regardless of genres, in my experience.
In my experience, Romance was awesome for me. Just awesome. Far better than BL, but of course people are starting to move BL into Rom now, understandably.
We really need Paranormal as a genre here, imo. It has a chance to do well, particularly with the rumour that vampires are alive again.
I seem to do a bit better in Fantasy than in BL with the same book, because despite the romance being front and centre, it just didn’t hit the right BL notes, whatever they are, may the writing gods give me the revelation, and the sooner the better, lol. Gosh, if you hit BL right, oh gosh... that’s where the readers are! Like the actual living breathing readers wanting to read your book... argh, BL is sooo hard. (Hits her head on the wall)
My same book could climb pretty high in Drama, but it didn’t attract readers despite being high on popular and trending.
I read a few Sci-Fi books on here to support the genre, decent space operas, and I wanna cry because they don’t get much reads at all. 🥲 like, I came on the net to pretty much write Sci-Fi, and I gave up after one book. People love writing Sci-Fi on line, but just don’t like reading it or something. I had such bad experiences with trying to get people to read Sci-Fi, even organize the Sci-Fi writers... ouch. Just so sad.
Slice of Life seems to sort of be alive, but it’s such a capture-all genre, so I dunno what to even make of it.
Action is actually not that bad? Kindda-sorta? Maybe worth a shot?
The other genres by browsing the new books in Fresh just have such tiny readerships, that I am guessing very few people check Fresh section in them. And Fresh is how the new writers gets seen here.
Mystery is the one thing that people read in print pretty steadily, but have not much interest on-line. Like, why? Who knows. Probably takes too much actual familiarity with law enforcement to write a believable one, and most folks who write online are not professional detectives or lawyers...
Hello Wattpadien refugees, it will be more than 2 years since I left the platform. Does it matter?
And if I may allow myself this is my job:
tapas.io/series/Only-simple-shapes
I am still posting on Wattpad, but ever since they took down the forum on Wattpad, I really don't go on the site anymore....
here is my main book:
I don't want it to die, I just want somebody to cut the fat off that website! I've met so many cool people there; but that comes with a slew of bad review shops and questionable uploads.
Oh yeah, I remember that ~mistake.~ It baffled me, because that was one of the main ways I got reads in the first place!
I'll get around to looking at your work
Without the forums it’s just not the same. I visit the medium sized fan forum that tries to keep the communication running, but I sure miss the official one.
I stopped going a lot on Wattpad when they shut down the forums and Newsfeed. Moved to Tapas, Scribble Hub, and Inkitt some time ago. Still in the process of moving my work.
What always makes me wonder if it’s worth it cross-posting on both platforms, or just keep different books in different places.
Like, at the moment my mafia stuff is on both sites, doing better here, but the first book is a tiny bit alive there. The second book is stone-cold dead there.
My werewolf BL is a tiny bit alive here, I get a sub once in a while, a few reads a day, so not too too bad. I am wondering if I should try it there, on the off chance it catches algorithm... but the idea of posting 70 chapters makes me super-lazy. I already write it though, and almost finished editing. So, posting it shouldn’t be a big deal? Maybe shove it in the back of the account, so I don’t see zero reads and get upset?
I'm on Wattpad but I seen to publish my book there at the wrong time. I started putting my focus on around here since I completed my first story. Now all the rest of my work is going to be on here for now on.
Here is my book:
