You keep in in control from the beginning.
Rather than constantly slap upgrades to keep interest, you start writing with an idea in mind for how far you want your powers to grow and then slowly and consistently grow it across the story.
It is like inflation 1-2% is good, Zimbabwe is bad.
The issue is that the statistics is confusing with their labels.
The 'readers' aren't always the actual readers. They are bookmarks, nothing more. Some do it because they are indeed reading. Others -- as a possible future read, and third-- just to filter your story out and not see it anymore...
Can you highlight every line like I've done with mine and post a picture? Preferably with multiple line breaks highlighted. I did my testing on PC(chrome)
Here is my quick attempt at both within my own chapter.
1st picture is the original (you can notice that I already have varied gaps in the chapter present.
2nd picture is the part in editing. with every line highlighted. (notice the lack of gap between the empty line after bold sub-title and...
Are you using "Enter" or "Shift+Enter" to start a new line?
I have found that the latter causes this while the former does not. And some might automatically choose latter perhaps due to Discord using "Enter" to post and "Shift+Enter" to start a new line.
Dude, Helotes are an epitome of a "helpless slave" They weren't constantly rebelling -- Spartans declared yearly wars on them to keep them subjugated to hell. Even the most edgelord authors writing slavery don't approach the level of cruelty Spartans have done onto helots on a consistent basis.
Rather than chapter speed and names, I would say is that at least your first chapter is... exhausting to read.
1 - Your protagonist isn't being a protagonist. He spends half of first chapter moping about his current life and the last part of the chapter reacting to his maid. This alone is...
Considering you posted it around midnight GMT it is likely that servers were busy processing the DB and calculating trending\rankings etc. A lost of things tend to be a bit iffy during that time period, usually for about 10-15 min
You need for the plot to move forward.
This isn't about action or exposition -- either can move or stall the plot. Figure out a medium to long term goal that readers will be expect for the story to look forward and make sure readers know this goal.
You can start with character getting betrayed...
It is also possible that they received notification and jumped from their previous search right into your chapter. I often see "referrals" where people come from random chapters of other stories with no obvious link to mine.
If you consider a human as a static 4D object that exists in a chunk of spacetime. (Because in 4D spacetime humans are rather immobile and static - an elongated "noodle" of our life through time with all our decisions and movements in 3D being unchanging, final, and therefore solid)
Then the...
Those are fun to design (i am using something similar!) but a pain to describe so that target audience can enjoy reading those (i am using something similar...)