Because Tapastic wants to be an open hosting site but is instead a business approach only that puts a heavy demand on everyone when there are frankly far better sites. This wouldn't be a problem if Tapastic advertised itself as the business approach structure that it is. The problem is that if the site wants to be the open hosting site then it can't alienate the users to this degree.
It basically scares off the people. Novice users come in, they find themselves unable to even make a hit. People have left this site because of this. We might as be straight up with everyone here. Webtoons, and I will keep bringing up Webtoons as much as I need, has obviously found a way to keep this balance in check. Everyone is happy, the popular, the novice, etc.
Tapastic is literally the only site I know that suffers from this. It's the only hosting site I know where novice creators actually suffer to make a name, even a small one for themselves. It's hard enough on the professionals.
I'm currently at 19 though I will just infer that was a typo on your part. Yes, it is. To me, the idea of getting 356 (at the time of this post) views is a hell of a lot more than I could ever hope to have achieved on Tapastic in such a short time. Getting nearly 20 subs is like a miracle for people who'd struggle to get 5. You picked one of my newer series that I just started so let's compare that to something else.
My other series, a Light Novel of all things that isn't even a webcomic still managed to hit 300+ subs and over 8,000+ views all in the span of 3 months. This was after resetting the series from its original 700+ subs (can't remember the exact number of views) within a 7 month period.
The same series I was working on with Tapastic, never went above the 50+ sub mark, after working on it for a year, after advertising, promoting and chatting away on the forum. Now let's be honest, I was one of the luckier ones here. Some people would do anything to get 50 subs.
It got to the point where, not only was I not getting subs, which didn't mean as much as I was clearly getting them somewhere else, but I wasn't even getting views on Tapas. I was realizing very soon, probably much earlier that Tapas was a site that was strong inclined to more professional standard, a novice creators like myself were struggling way too much to make a merit here.
I say it again, even many of those who have made success on here, struggle and will still often find better involvement in other places. There's absolutely no reason for myself or the creator of this topic of hundreds or even thousands of users to have to waste their time promoting, advertising, etc. on a site so skewed in one direction.
If it wants to be a place that's open to all creators and doesn't want this alienation that has become prominent throughout Tapas, then it has to do something. Increase readership, increase finances, I would not know. But I'm tired of a site constantly pushing down the lesser comics and acting like we need to do something when this problem never occurs on other places. Or at the very least it doesn't occur to the same degree.
We need more readership here, we need more finances, if that's possible, we should put as much effort as we can into it. Tapastic can't force views or subs on everything but if it can help it, it shouldn't let its creators be skewed so badly. Otherwise, you just end up losing potential members.
Believe me it isn't just me. I at least found a place where I could be successful and even found more success on Tapastic compared to others. But I look through different comics on the site, and a lack of sub may be understandable. The art might not be that great, the story might need work, there's may reasons not to continue reading it. For one personal reason or another.
But when I see these series struggling to gain even a few views, I wonder, what could they possibly be doing wrong that someone won't even click on an icon? I'm sorry but this shouldn't be a chore. If Tapstic is as big as people proclaim it to be, then we should not have this problem.
And as Webtoons has shown us, we can have a professional hosting site with a clear indication to popular series while preventing alienation of this scale. I hoe one day Tapas, if they can, takes a leaf out of Webtoon's book and does the same thing.