Will Simily Rise Again?

14 weeks on a platform that needs new life

2 min readApr 17, 2022

I’ve now been chronicling my journey on the fiction writing platform Simily for 14 weeks.

Is Simily Sleeping?

I’ve been writing about my journey publishing fiction over at Simily for a few months now.

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Here’s the bottom line: Simily now has just over 3400 members and there’s essentially no growth. The number of people joining seems to roughly match the number of people leaving.

I now have 107 followers — adding maybe 1 a week at this point.

Here’s one of my recent stories posted there:

Fresh Rack - Simily

James found himself sitting alone in his car at around 8:30 each night, wet from a mixture of his own sweat and the…

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I suppose there are advantages to being an early participant on a platform. You can see all the changes and you can quite possibly welcome each new member for a while. Perhaps being on early allows you to build a loyal following.

That said, at some point, it grows frustrating. I have repeatedly noted that the…