Your thoughts on Wattpad and/or Tablo?

@raekitano Rae
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 07:51:15 +0000

@raekitano wrote:

I start publishing over at Wattpad back in 2012. And boy was it a kick back then.
The people were awesome, there was Meebo (only the originals will remember this- it was instant messenger before Google purchased it and had to be removed - you could see your followers online and chat with them directly - those were the days).
Then around 2015 it went to shit. Algorithms changed and only those Wattpad were supporting starting doing well. I went from having top stories and lots of subs to nothing overnight. I only keep my account because of the number of subs I still have (and occasionally get) and my LGBT Beta Reader book, which people still are part of.
The sites extremely toxic now and I would never go back.

Now for Tablo. I'm actually the mod there for the LGBT community (surprise). Tablo is based in Melbourne and Ash (the creator) is a great guy whom I've had contact with. Tablo is a little different in that it offers writers the opportunity to publish their story to Amazon when complete. Tablo (for a fee) will assist with editing, covers, and publishing. The platform is easy to use and I'd recommend any writer join and look around the site and get a better understanding as to how it works. Images can be added to chapters very easily and the platform could be used for comics but it's not. I mentioned the community, which isn't very active, I just don't think there are enough people on the site to make it work at the moment. But there is a lot of potential for Tablo.

Edit: It was Google who purchase Meebo not Facebook.