Annoying things about Webtoon?

[Raven_C]

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.

[Klaustasya]

@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.

[Rosso]

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.

[Azifri]

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

[danitasibert]

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
i just wanna have a more consistent schedule for readers on my webtoons.

[HGohwell]

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".

[bakasama25]

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.

[Rowein]

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)

[denaliah]

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.

[BobbyjoeX]

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

[spicy_sweets]

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

[BobbyjoeX]

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

[fischhead]

In addition to what everyone else has said, not tracking specific daily stats in real time is a pain.

@bakasama25 @denaliah This bugs me as well. Regardless of quality, these guys really don't belong on a platform built by independent artists and writers. The worst part is seeing the over-excited comments about how WT is "stepping up their game" or "becoming the next Marvel" with these big names. Geez, build your own website if your name draws that much attention.

[beta1042]

I actually don't see bringing in big names as that bad. Although it is somewhat annoying that they are passing up indie creators, having a few big names on the website could bring in new readers and traffic to the platform as a whole which could translate to more readership for indie creators.

But it's a bit of a gamble, in the sense that the cost to bring in these big names may not generate the numbers they want. (I can only assume Stan Lee costs more than some rando off discover). And in some ways it is alienating their current demographic of readers. So we'll see where it goes.

[Klaustasya]

I know the struggle.

[Buurd]

Along with the previous
- More than just JPEG support
- Comment notifications
- Put the delete button somewhere else or more security oof

I wish there was a way to communicate/put announcements out better? Sometimes like when you'll be late for an episode, or you have a question/announcement or something for readers. IDK, there's just times I wish I could put out a small posting, without having to create an episode about it or something. I end up just sharing things to my instagram and discord, but that has only a small percent of my audience.

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[bakasama25]

I've heard that some ex-Marvel people became editors on there and I've seen the Japanese and Chinese versions of LINE Webtoons. LINE Webtoons in America feels more "Western" than those sisters sites. It just seems like there's going to be less translated Korean webtoons from now on. I suppose it might not be a huge loss since the official translations of those are kind of meh.

Compare these:
https://xoy.webtoons.com/ja/dailySchedule
https://www.dongmanmanhua.cn/dailySchedule

with this:
https://www.webtoons.com/en/dailySchedule

[Sanz]

i just don't like the fact there is no way for me to tell ppl i'm disappearing. aside from putting it at the end of the comic. feels like an ad to me. there is no interaction with fans and that bugs me. ... i don't have many but i some and i love them all. lol

[fleohr]

How they seem to only promote the same discovery comics in the same sections. They may change the comics after a couple weeks, but then they promote the same again for the X times weeks after

Kinda bumed to see how underated comics are getting buried everyday, there are so many I follow that never get promoted by LN, and they are making comics much more time than I