Judging by the looks of it, it’s just gonna be another shelf for me to scroll pass on the way to my favorites.
Really don’t think we needed yet another shelf for stories trending in their own genre to be broadcasted on, but then again, everything Episode does now is an obvious cash grab so not surprised really.
I just remembered I had it yesterday, it went off for me today that’s probably why I forgot at first I thought it was cool for authors. I remember when I first downloaded the app I didn’t know other authors made stories which this gives authors a chance to get reads however when I was browsing most of the stories there on the shelf has a lot of reads already not saying it’s bad but they can have the shelf there but also make a shelf for new authors.
isnt it just the same stories there already is in top on stories we love, like its great they try to find more ways to advatise stories, but what does it help when its just the same popular stories on the list.
I do agree that Episode is not very clear to new users what community stories are. They essentially just tell you that you’ve unlocked the community catalogue with little explanation to what it is or how to use the genre and shelf tabs to explore it. But they could just….give that explanation. As soon as they did, users would already see the same stories in the trending tab and likely the within the top 10 of their respective genre tabs.
If they wanted it to be easier to find stories, they would fix their tag and filtered search system so that it was more functional.