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Apr 26

Beyond the fact that small comics now have almost no chance of being discovered by an average user (I clicked "Community" thinking it would bring me here to the forums to complain, I was surprised to be like "oh, HERE's all the comics!", I'm also particularly annoyed that they've taken all these comic covers people (myself included) took the time to make to the specified dimensions tapas gave us, with comic title included in the image as tapas asked us - and cropped off the sides of them, put little icons over where said title is likely to be (which on most comics is now cropped off at the sides too of course) and then stuck the title in text at the bottom anyway, fading over the artwork.

But the writing has been on the wall for a while that they just don't think the average creator here matters. This used to be the main place I directed people to read my comic, but hasn't been that way for a while. Changes like this are exactly why, and they just keep making them.

They've also pared down the options for searching community comics to "Popular" "Newest Episode" and "Newest Series". Trending is gone.

Having the name over the series artwork is very annoying and ugly with the gradient fade. Why didn't they just make it transparent?

Is there really no way to view new or recently updated comics any more? :sob:

In addition to these changes, it feels like it's a lot harder to find things as well. I just uploaded a new page today and it took me a while to find with the new UI.

You have to click and change the toggle to "newest episode" It defaults to "popular" every time.

Most series have the full length series title pages now, but there were still a few with the thumbnail style and those appear to be gone with the new format

I remember when I first joined, trending and popular community comics would appear on the front page. It was so much easier to discover hidden gems. Now it feels like they don't care.

I think Tapas, WEBTOON, and instagram used to be where everyone put their comics to have a chance to be “discovered”, but all these places give so little shits about the average user, that posting on them doesn’t really feel like showing your work to people, it feels like something you need to do, cause these are the main platforms people use. Too bad people use them to read the same 20-something major comics, I hardly know anyone going out of their way to find new stuff

Yikes, it's bad. It looks like indie comics are some sort of tumor that they're desperately trying to hide now.

Not to mention how they've massacred the covers. Y'know, the ones made with the specifications given to creators on their dashboard. The ones that used to look great next to each other, displaying clean art and different styles together.

Nope. They cropped out the sides and slapped an ugly gradient, text, and a big yellow FREE sticker on top... obstructing the titles that were required to be on the cover art in the first place.

Now I guess I'll have to rebrand to... Eason's Lamen.

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Other than community comics being placed in their "own little corner, own little chair, " the new UI just lacks personality. One of the reasons I chose Tapas over Webtoon initially was because felt a lot more welcoming and down to earth, yet still polished in comparison to other platforms. Now I'm waiting until the day when they add "-toon" somewhere in the name and start okaying pop-up ads.

you have to grab the list of genres and move it to the side (and of course there's nothing indicating you can do that so no one would find out there are genres past fantasy unless they accidentally started sliding the genres header around)

looking more and more like webtoons, the site didnt want to join cause they didnt push indie comics :cry_02:
If it werent for the 10 readers i have i wouldve left tapas a while ago

It's just not there on the Community tab. Reading through the Discord thread, it's evident they pushed out the update out in a bare-bones state. Ah well. I lost faith in Tapas a long time ago anyway. XD

Huh, I thought I was the one hallucinating and typed wrong URL to WebNovel instead. And then Community spotlight tab also don't even push new/trending series so you gotta dig manually...

Now that I have to re-login every time to read my library it strikes me that the new front page is just the promotions spam from my inbox that I ignore.

I'm thinking of staying logged out and bookmarking each comic individually.

iirc the log in issue has been brought up on their discord feedback thread but no idea if there was any mention of a fix being worked on :confused:

I checked in on the discord to if there's been a response from Tapas yet, and there has. Let me just say, the people are not happy. The dolls? They're not impressed.
And I can't blame them, but I still do feel bad for Isabell since she has to be the middleman/messenger in all of this.

The way some of the responses lash out, call the employees who are middlemen clowns, and cursing them out is a great way to never being able to work with Tapas professionally :grimacing: