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Simily’s Sharing Stories
The platform is pushing out content — is it helping?
I’ve written weekly about my journey writing on the Simily platform since January.
A Simily Surge?
The creative writing platform slowly moves toward 5000 members
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More recently, I’ve noted two things: 1) The platform is growing very slowly. 2) The platform should do much more to promote writing on the site.
I was pleased to have one of my pieces chosen as “Story of the Month” and even more pleased to see the growth since they’ve sent three emails featuring that story.
However, I’ve also noticed that Simily’s social sites appear to be essentially dead. So, the promotion is coming on the website and then through email. That’s it. There’ve been no tweets since June and the Simily Facebook page appears similarly inactive.
Plus, some writers have noted technical difficulties with getting stories to load.
In case that’s happened to you, and you’d like to read “Birds of Pray,” here it is on Medium:
