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Oct 2018

List the things that you find more annoying about the hosting website for comics.
For example, i find super uncomfortable that Webtoon doesn't really consider creators but just their works, in other words you can't look for more webcomics from your favorite creator, because everytime you try to click on the author's name and ecpecting to view his/her profile, nothing happens.

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Actually, you can see their works! The thing is many of them are kinda stuck to working on a long-term comic and are still continuing them, but that is a feature on it. You just gotta find the users that have done more than one project lol the only one that comes to mind for me is the user, walkingnorth, author of "Aerial Magic" and "Always Human".

There might not be a profile, but you know... It's something, I guess lol

You don't get any kind of notification when someone comments on your work / when someone replies to your comment. I feel bad when I unintentionally ignore comments because I wasn't aware of it, but at the same time...does it even matter when the commenters won't even get notified when I reply? :thinking:

You can search but only on desktop which is lame since most of their audience is on mobile

click the magnifying glass on desktop to see their other works.

The list of things I would want is almost too long for me to write XD And if you email them about any of them they usually say "It's impossible" Which I know is BS, but for some reason they don't want to give the REAL reason- which I can only assume is 1- cost of manpower to implement it is not worth it, 2- could potentially lag the speed of the website/app. I mean it could be something else, but we'll never know since they're so untransparent about these matters.

Right now if I could change one single thing it would be - MAKE IT HARDER TO DELETE A SERIES.
why is it right next to the stats or edit buttons? Also make me use a password sign in to confirm. So sick of seeing threads on here about people losing their comic due to an accident.

I don't really mind that though? Its a webcomic site and i just want people to come here to read my webcomic so i don't mind the huge focus on just the creators work.

I do wish we'd get notifications on likes/comments/etc i have to manually check every ep to see new comments.

dirty comments and perverted fujoshis because God forbid you post art of a future gay couple because those girls WILL comment obscene things

The only thing I can't stand is the no auto upload feature. Almost every single webcomic site has an auto-update, and it irritates the hell out of me that webtoons doesn't do it too. I like my readers to know I'm consistent on uploads like I am on tapas...

How it's a site geared towards vertically-formatted comics BUT it also forces you to chop your comic up into ten million little pieces. :smiley: :knife: My first time uploading a comic on Webtoon was not pleasant, to say the least. I had no idea what I was in for...

Also, I hate how everything has to be jpegs. Even the comic thumbnail has to be a jpeg; it's ridiculous. I can understand a file size restriction, but a format restriction just feels too...restrictive.
I'm not your average webcomic artist, in that my image dpi is like...100. ^^; It gives me a "distinctive style", sure, but it also means that the pages start looking wonky if you modify them in any way.

And if you turn them into jpegs they look like TRASH. It's like watching a cheap camera recording of a movie; I'm almost ashamed to have them up there. But there's not much I can do about it...

Well, speaking as only a reader on Webtoons...

this is not so much about the technical side of things, but just...I noticed the comments sections are somehow kinda sorta rude sometimes? I follow a certain creator there and even though she receives tons of supportive comments, there's always several people here and there complaining about how "the update is not long enough" or "not to be rude, but nothing's happening on this update and I waited weeks for this??" etc etc. I mean, Tapas is not perfect, but I rarely ever see that type of behavior here.

@Raven_C I think this might be due to the huge amount of traffic Webtoon has compared to Tapas.
One friend of mine who is a hungry reader of webcomic once told me that Webtoon is floaded with readers while Tapas seems to have a larger amount of creators (?) i don't know if this makes sense, but yeah, probably Webtoon has more readers, which means more chances to meet rude people commeting your work.

the fact that the Delete button is mere pixels away from the Edit button gives me major anxiety every single time i need to do anything on my comic lol.

it's soooo easy to accidentally delete stuff and it seems there isn't even a warning or multiple confirmations before the deed is done 8") And to my understanding, unless you're a major or a premium creator, forget about asking the staff to revert the process back or something.

also obligatory no notifications and comment moderation tools for creators.

Three things annoy me about Webtoons:

  • Not receiving notifications when someone comments on your webtoon
  • Not being able to set an automatic publication date on your chapters
  • Audience that just wants to "ship" characters and doesn't care about the story

maybe this is a nitpick, but i REALLY don't like that you can't set a schedule updating on there unless you are SUPER popular :frowning:
i just wanna have a more consistent schedule for readers on my webtoons.

Not something I've experienced on personally Webtoons since I've not uploaded there yet (although I've had it once or twice on pieces I've posted in other places) but I like to see what other people comment sometimes and I get annoyed for the creator at those "so it's basically X" or "omg X in Y, it's Z" (usually whatever show is trending at the time despite the fact this was probs created, sometimes even posted way before it aired). I've only seen it a few times on Tapas but I've seen it a lot on Webtoons, maybe just because of numbers.
I know most of them probably mean it in a nice way, but there's a difference between going "oooh this reminds me a bit of X" or "it feels like you were inspired by Y" and out right going "your comic is just like X".

It's not annoying but maybe disquieting, there's seem to be a trend of incoming "pros" and ex-Marvel people running the site. I wonder how the smaller artists might get effected by this.

Things that annoy me most is that we, the creators, never received notifications when someone post a comment in your comic. A few days ago I re-read my comic there and there's tons of new comments I never read and it makes me sad.

Other thing is the possibility of schedule updates and that the app is very non friendly with creators (well, Tapas too. I want to have the option of update from my cellphone when I travel, for example)

They're pushing mainstream american comics into webtoon now. I'm concerned about this, although I don't hate this type of work, as a reader and creator I go there to search for indie comics or manhwa/manhwa or manga style comics. While the odd 1 or 2 is ok, I notice a spike in them lately. I just hope they don't lose their focus on why people came to them in the first place.

if your comics not a vertical scrolling scroll of colour, your comics going nowhere

The plagiarism. It seems to be done by young members. Just found one of cassandra's slice of life comic strips and explained to the poster the problem. Wish it didn't happen so often

saw it with theodd1sout aswell actually, now that you mention it