#yonder app

[weaseltube]

Reminder

Today is the final day to read Heavenly Idol's official English translation. You have until 4am EST to access whatever is available to you (not all accounts will be allowed to "daily unlock" a chapter as the novels the YONDER app gives daily unlock access to are randomised by their algorithm). I'll try making a memorial post tomorrow to mark the end of service.

[weaseltube]

Update re: Heavenly Idol English edition

So Wattpad did respond to my help ticket over a week ago, except, they forgot to hit send. The second time they did manage to hit send to tell me that Heavenly Idol will not be added to Wattpad due to the translation being unfinished (250-something chapters are not enough to get added to the service). My compensation is therefore worthless, I've lost the chapters I've paid money for, and the novel is for now abandoned with no fan translated alternative or rips. It will essentially cease to exist on August 1st 2025 when YONDER app is taken offline.

Their suggestion by the way was "try to find another novel to read."

My 1500 coins expire today.

[weaseltube]

So YONDER app is shutting down, and taking all its translated Korean novels with it, including Heavenly Idol (aka Holy Idol), which does not have any unofficial fan translations. With the official translation taken offline it will essentially become lost media.

I quite enjoyed Heavenly Idol despite the translation errors, so I paid something like £9 on unlocking chapters when it wasn't free to read but had to stop because it was so absurdly expensive (a novel with over 200 chapters, and £9 only got me about 40 chapters in). I was upset that they were shutting down the app and ceasing access to it.

So I was kind of happy when they said they'd move all the novels to Wattpad ("kind of" because the comments section on YONDER and Webtoon are great fun, and Wattpad just does not seem to have the same audience) and eventually said "we'll compensate anyone who bought novels, if you fill out this form."

Well it turns out they sent me my compensation with no notification emails. Did not upload Heavenly Idol to Wattpad (I subscribed and have checked the emails every single day hoping for it, they're only adding three books a day and many of them are multivolumes of the same story). And now the compensation is expiring already?

I also cannot find for the life of me anywhere on the Wattpad website that shows you how long you have left before the coins expire, or where to buy any coins. Clicking the balance on your profile just shows you instructions saying you can buy 300 coins for $40! It seems one novel costs around 1400 coins.

So yeah. Fuck this entire thing.

[britcision]

So uh wattpad has now gone through with the plan to move *some* of the yonder novels over and all I’m gonna say is

Fucking BOLD choice to have the originals filter out of searches rather than in, and $120/year? Really?

Just sell the fucking books individually