Simily Adds a New Feature

Does it matter?

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I’ve written recently about my experience with the creative writing platform Simily.

Why I Stopped Publishing on Simily

While I was initially hopeful about the platform, the experience has been pretty disappointing.

Here are the key problems:

1. The site is glitchy — this means writing there can be a challenge and it means readers may not stay on your story or come back to the site
2. There are no active social channels — they don’t do much to promote your work except send emails about “Stories of the Month.”
3. Updates on earnings and reads are not happening on a consistent basis.

The site’s founders have indicated they plan to migrate to a better hosting platform than WordPress “sometime soon.”

It’s understandable that a small, startup site might have a glitchy or sometimes odd interface. However, not using social media or buying ads to promote the site — that’s a huge problem. If no one is attracted to the page to read your work, why write there?