Vocal Creator Chat: 04/16/2024

Have questions about creating stories, growing your audience, and getting rewarded on Vocal? The Vocal community and team are here to help answer your questions and feedback together.

Monthly on Tuesday at 12 PM ET, we'll assemble the Vocal community, as well as our Creator Experience and Product teams, in a thread to respond to creator inquiries for one hour.

Please follow Vocal’s Community Guidelines and don’t spam your own profile or stories in the thread. We encourage the community to report users or comments that break these guidelines.

Some updates and reminders from the Vocal team:

• 🕒 We extend our sincerest apologies for the recent delays in addressing support tickets. We understand the frustration this has caused, and we're diligently working to catch up. Please note that inquiries will be answered in the order received.
• 🐘 We also want to address another elephant in the room: lack of new feature updates. Our priorities are shifting back towards product development, and we'd like to share some highlights from our roadmap. Your invaluable feedback has been instrumental in shaping these developments. Please see some of the coming updates below.
• Report AI-generated Content: We're introducing a drop-down reason for reporting stories and comments specifically for AI-generated content. Additionally, we're updating our oonboarding submission guidelines to include a clear claim about the disclosure of AI-generated content.
• AI-generated Content Label: A new feature will allow creators to label the top of their stories with a dedicated tag indicating their content's AI assistance. This label will be integrated into the submission process, ensuring transparency for readers. Distribution of AI-generated content on the site will be limited.
• Customized Notifications: You'll soon have the flexibility to customize notifications, including filtering between notifications related to your own stories and those about subscribers' new publications.
• Enhanced Stats : We're adding new stats capabilities, such as tracking recently read stories and read counts over time, empowering you to fine-tune your content strategy.
• New communities: We are planning to launch 4 new communities that will have special challenges to celebrate their kickoff. Please let us know which of these you would like to see in the next launch, or give us your best suggestion!
• About Me: Get to know your fellow creators. Share yourself with a community dedicated to celebrating individuality.
• Spirituality: Reflections on mindfulness, faith, and the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment.
• Science Fiction: Embark on thrilling adventures to distant galaxies and alternate realities.
• Fantasy Fiction: Step into enchanting realms filled with magic, mythical creatures, and epic quests.
• Reviews (Movies & TV): Discover insightful commentary and recommendations on the latest entertainment releases and classics.
• Collaborate: Collaborate with fellow creators on writing stories together.
• Micro (fiction): Dive into the art of storytelling distilled to its essence. Bite-sized narratives that pack a punch in just a few words.
• Prompts: Ignite your creativity with creator-submitted prompts and challenges.

*Final selection of this round of new communities will be chosen with the help of the Vocal Advisory Committee.

While we're excited about these developments, we acknowledge that addressing the backlog of support tickets remains a top priority. We're actively working to streamline the process and enhance our support infrastructure to ensure timely resolution of your queries.

Got questions about Vocal or feedback about what’s new? Leave a comment in this thread to join the Vocal Creator Chat.

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