Draft:Scribble Hub

Scribble Hub is a free online web novel publishing platform launched as a means for authors to post their stories and for readers to discover novels. As of July 12, 2024, the website has over 25,800 published novels. It features novels of 31 genres such as Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, FanFiction, Boys Love, Girls Love, LitRPG, etc., and 764 tags. The main website also has an accompanying forum for users to discuss novels, chapters, authors, day-to-day life, and the website itself.

This website is similar to other online publishing platforms, such as Royal Road, WebNovel, and Wattpad.

The creator of Scribble Hub is a developer who goes by the online alias of Tony.

Main Website
The homepage has 3 major sections.

Trending
There is a “Trending” HTML carousel which initially displays the top 9 trending novels of the day, and leads to a list of 289 novels. It is updated at 00:00 UTC. According to a moderator of the website, web novels which appear on Trending are checked through numerous hidden criteria to prevent users from cheating the system.

Latest Series
The “Latest Series” is an HTML carousel which, much like the “Trending” carousel, displays the 9 newest novels (called Series) which were added to the website. Additionally, the "Latest Series" leads to a running list of all the novels added to the website.

Latest Updates
The “Latest Updates” list displays the 25 most recently updated novels, linking to the updated chapters. As noted by the website developer, Tony, there is an anti-cheat system in place to prevent users from re-uploading the same chapter multiple times.

Forum
Scribble Hub Forum is a subdomain of the main webpage. The forum has eighteen subforums divided into five categories. The categories as “Scribble Hub Discussion”, “Authors”, “Artists”, “Readers, and “General."

The forums have more than 430,000 messages, and 18,000 threads in total.

Features
Scribble Hub has multiple features for authors and readers. The website continues to gain new ones based on user suggestions.

Authors
The website provides authors a range of features for publishing.

Some notable features are:


 * Detailed statistics including novel pageviews, reader comments, growth metrics, geographic reader distribution, and favorite counts.
 * Integration with crowdfunding platforms like Patreon, PayPal, Ko-Fi, and SubscribeStar
 * Capability to save chapters as drafts and restore previous revisions.
 * Scheduled release functionality for chapters.
 * Creation of novel-specific glossaries
 * Ability to link and describe related series (ex. “Prequel”, “Sequel”, “Side Story”, etc.)
 * Interaction with readers through social tools such as author profile pages and forums.

Readers
Scribble Hub also has features created for readers.

Some notable features are:


 * Personalized reading lists to track reads
 * Text view editing options such as font size and page width
 * Optional auto-bookmarking
 * Detailed public statistics for each novel, including metrics on popularity, ratings, and reader engagement.
 * Genre filtering options
 * Ability to search for a random novel
 * Recommendations of similar novels
 * Social tools for direct interaction with authors