Is episode really doing pay gems or wait a week?

[Jazz5]

One of my favorites authors said it was decided by episode to pay gems or wait a week to read on of her chapters. I think they forget that people do not have money to always spend on gems.

[AlexandraD]

short answer: they are just testing out features. it’s not permanent.

On Episode's Recent Community Story Story Payment Testing

We apologize for the confusion surrounding some testing that is currently running in the Episode app. We see that many of you are concerned about what you’ve seen and we hope we can shed light on what’s going on. We’re running a short-term test for a few weeks on some top Community stories to explore new ways of helping support our community authors. We partnered with community authors to have their stories in the test, however, they are not responsible for the options presented to you, the pla…

[Jazz5]

Oh ok that makes sense thank you @Sydney_H can you please close this.