Update to Story Ranking and Trending Section Calculations

I know :joy:
My own rankings were too weird and all over the place to support any other possible system. I love numbers and patterns but there was no logical sense behind what was going on.

Well most of mine seem to be back to normal now. I still have some weird overall rankings, but my genre rankings are better. They’re lower than what they were before the glitch but I know I lost some reads so they’re probably about right.

And @Amberose apparently my embarrassing first story did actually glitch as it’s made it’s way back up to #50,679 overall despite absolutely no reads over the past
 1.5 weeks :rofl:

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Everything seems to be back, let’s see when Episode will change it back. (Updating servers constantly costs a lot of money)

To the people who’re lamenting on the loss of unique stories. I wonder whether you guys know what the purpose of a trending section is? Also the the “unique” stories which you are seeing is not because of the NEW ranking system. It’s because of a GLITCH! The only change that was made by the new system was the delay in refreshing of the trending section. So basically the stories would be the same as before. I think people really need to look up what trending means. If people like to read the same stories, blame it on them. Also all the stories in the trending section are no way the same. There are cliches but all of them are not. You like unique stories, use the search feature. Episode releases weekly shelves. Also a thing which is trending is determined upon the rate of increase of people reading a story. More reads = better ranking. I’m sorry but the trending section is not a place for critical work. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading quality stories but don’t forget the purpose of the trending section. Also unique stories have also trended in the past. Nowhere did I bash the new system. That was a GLITCH, not the new system. Pls carefully reread what @Liz said at the beginning of the post(how the new system works) Thank you :pray::slight_smile:

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I love this new ranking system :kissing_heart::kissing_heart::kissing_heart::kissing_heart::kissing_heart::kissing_heart::kissing_heart::kissing_heart::kissing_heart::kissing_heart::kissing_heart:

Hi everyone! We’ve posted an update and breakdown of the Rankings and Trending Section. You can read all about it here:

@AWeirdo @EliseC @Sarahsunshine @Lili27 @CourtneyBenjamin @amberose @mei @Tessx

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Well seems like most of the completed stories that have been complete for months are back on top now, It was nice being in the “spotlight” for a couple of days :joy::joy::joy:

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Actually, one of the (in my opinion) best College Days entries and one of the winners comes from a first time author, who just did amazing work. :slight_smile: Not saying that it is not harder to get attention for a story if an author just started out. But it is proven possible and contests are a great chance for that.

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What Cindy said. Just remember, like you guys told everyone, reads and rankings aren’t important. You should be writing for passion!

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Fortunately I don’t particularly care about rankings, placement, I write because I enjoy it, but it’s certainly nice when someone finds your work and enjoys it. I don’t get paid to write, I do it for fun, but then again I wasn’t throwing a fit about losing rankings or income so


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That’s good, write for passion. :slight_smile:

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There’s a way to delete your story:

Follow this guide and you’ll delete it.

And for your rank to be higher, I suggest you publish a new episode at least once a month. It’ll be even better if you can do weekly.

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Hi, thanks for linking, however the story will still be present on Writer’s Portal and you’ll still see it pop up sometimes under your profile on the app however it shouldn’t be visible to others (like a banned story).

In the meantime, if anyone hasn’t already, I’d suggest they go support this thread:

Anyways, Happy Holidays to everyone, enjoy you day/night! :blue_heart:

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Question, Does this include updates to when our stories appear. So If I was to publish a new story, would I have to wait till the the calculations happen for my story to be added to New user stories or will it appear automatically? :open_mouth:

Genuinely who decided this would be a good idea
? It is far from it. Like many people have stated they don’t get stability, one minute they’re #5839 in trending and then the next they’re #8? It makes no sense. Looking at the bigger picture, the episode team has repeatedly failed their whole audience, authors and readers! It seems like it is getting harder for us to gain an audience base, as Episode is coming up with ridiculous ideas that practically go agaisnt us all, even if you’re a “small” writer, “big” writer or a reader we’re all affected!

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Omg look how quickly this thread died after the update was reversed :heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

I love how many people said this affects all of us and now they disappeared :speak_no_evil::eyes:

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Isn’t that a good thing? I mean, the ranking example, i would LOVE THAT! MORE READERS! THANK GOD!!! I only HOPE that my ranking will change that drastically! :heart_eyes:

Actually, if you go to the profile section of your app, you can look at your published stories and hide them by tapping on the eye ball at the top right corner and then tapping on the button on the pop up that will come up to confirm it.

Because it has been solved for now. :woman_shrugging: It did affect all of us. Now it doesn’t anymore because it’s been reversed. What would you like to see people contribute to this now?

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Its going to be back soon, just because it’s reversed now doesn’t mean Episode won’t update it again. We are a community right? Lets talk to them so next time if theres an update that affects “all of us” they will ask us.

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I am waiting for the next steps :slight_smile: If the update actually works and doesn’t produce another glitch, it is something we can have a look at and see how it plays out. Although I am still worried it will make it much harder to have a newer story be visible. But atm there is not much to say about it for me (which I haven’t already said the first day), because it has not happened yet.