Wow. They definitely are punitive regarding the Circle Group. Whenever I posted anything, my impressions took a nose dive. I am also searching for an alternative. I've started publishing on KDP but am selling nothing so far. I am down to about $35 on NB so far this month. Last month was down to $500 for the month. They have a bunch of new writers that seem to be thrilled to be earning anything at all who are talking up the platform. They don't get that for those of us once earning $5k to $10k a month, now earning a few dollars here are there isn't going to get it. Unless NB changes something - and let's face it that would take them losing a lot of money and not having any original contributors which isn't going to happen - I don't see it recovering.