We do not delete inactive accounts, but we do purge accounts that use disposable email domains from time to time, as well as blacklist those types of domains as we've found that they're typically used to generate "Free Hack/Scam" series.
The algorithmically generated sections of the site should only account for Trending/Popular, which shouldn't necessarily cause a loss of subscribers?
There's no limit, I think it's kind of odd to impose limits on that.
Hm, so growth is directionally proportional to two main factors:
1) Publishing (i.e. organic growth (or passive growth) - so when you publish fans might share your work)
2) Marketing (i.e. direct growth (or active growth) - so when you share on social)
And I don't mean passive to be a negative thing at all, actually quite the opposite, the strongest type of growth we see on Tapas is always going to be organic or good word of mouth. The problem with organic growth for long form series is that the direct entry point for MOST readers is going to be the first episode or prologue, meaning the opportunity for your readers to hit that share button is quite limited. We see different growth trajectories for short form or gag-a-day series as a majority of their episodes enable that entry point.
So, for long form series it makes sense that there's a natural decay in growth unless there's marketing (or active growth) involved to inject new readers.
I wouldn't necessarily draw any correlation to that yet since it's only been a week.
The new updates section on the newest mobile app version actually reduces the barrier to entry for most series since it went from needing 150 subs to 15 subs.