I don’t take the decision to announce updates to my followers often, but this is one occasion where I believe it’s necessary.
I recently noticed that certain categories (e.g. “random”) have vanished from Wattpad, yet you can still give books the missing categories. Now I’m not sure why, but it obviously brings some concern.
In addition to this, Wattpad has recently been taken over by another company. Whilst they swear no changes are being made, there has been a lot of activity on Twitter where people have reported their books being deleted.
Admittedly these are books that go against the rules, but stuff like having a copyrighted picture in your book cover is against the rules.
I would advise those with books in the missing categories to back them up. When Wattpad deletes your books, there is no way of recovering them (they removed the backups a while back).
I will be backing up my books but if the random category is being removed (and there is currently no equivalent), this could be the end for Book Names Ideas (among my other books).