Creating "chapter folders" for those who update page per page?

[mariusthered]

I present my comic in seasons and put chapters in the seasons to break things up a bit.

[DeadAccount]

It's not about how you choose to group them, but having some Tapastic features to help you with the grouping - like collapsing/expanding stacks etc.

[zetina]

From what I've seen, some people update the episodes by adding pages afterwards and ticking the checkbox to notify subs. The other method is to later delete the separate pages and putting them all in one episode (which i think is kind of a shame since that gets rid of comments?).

The episode list can be annoying to navigate with older, longer comics. If you're looking for smth specific, an archive feature might be more useful. I haven't had a need to do that though.

[igneriss]

I absolutely LOVE the idea of folders! It would be really helpful!
I also update 'one episode=one page'. It's a very long serie, and will probably take around 1000 pages to complete (oh my!). I'm in 1/5 and it's already quite annoying to jump between chapters when I need to check something. Being able to group episodes into chapters folders would be great~

[DeadAccount]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to delete all the feedback I got.
Also, the reason I don't do multiple pages per episode is that I definitely noticed a decrease in feedback when I did that for my hiatus extras. I work hard on my pages and they're pretty dense-packed with panels and dialogue and I'd hate to lose out on the comments just because it's an "add-on" update 8/

[AnnaLandin]

Seconding this! I don't know if it's possible, but it would be a neat feature, and would make browsing the archives easier on new readers (and on me, when I have to go back and check something)

[kylemiller1985]

I think that putting them in seasons is not helpful for daily strip style type creators because when a season ends your subscribers will all have to re-follow you. This could cost you readers.

[Marvin]

I've been pushing this idea since coming here and there's a post in the feedback section about this but basically, the staff's answer was :

"It's unlikely we will add additional hierarchy or levels or organization/indentation for pages within chapters or chapters within books, however. That level of flexibility would be nice for a few creators and series, but would significantly complicate things for most."

[DeadAccount]

Man, that's a shame. Maybe if more creators support the feature it'd help :/

[insomniascrawl]

That would make navigation so much easier tbh, would be a great feature.

[mariusthered]

no my seasons are on going i don's start a new comic or anything. i just put up an intermission page between seasons explaining something about the city.

[kylemiller1985]

But that still leaves the whole navigation issue there, it's not like putting up those pages helps your readers to be able to find the content their looking for more quickly, which is under my impression the whole idea here. Not saying that adding bookmarks is not a bad idea, or people who have been following for an entire "season" this helps, but for the new readers, how do they navigate and know where to begin without scrolling through possibly endless pages (My favorite, Dungeon Hordes has abo 1200 posts and I've only read about 30 because of how much of an issue this is.)

[efdvorsky]

I think as an option it can benefit everyone yeah! If you don't need it, don't use it.

I think for longer comics it's a great idea so it doesn't turn away readers from seeing a long list of "catching up to do". So having at least one folder feature per episode would be pretty helpful

[joannekwan]

Yes, this would be a lovely feature!

[keii4ii]

I asked them about this during one of their live Q&A sessions, and @michaelson's answer was, quote and quote, "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Noooooooooooooooooooooooo." Because apparently it requires a massive overhaul of the current system and they don't have the resource to do it. :[

But here's to hoping. Maybe some day, one of us will win the lotto and be able to hire some extra (wo)manpower for Tapastic to make this happen!

[Ayomekum]

I think there should be an option to have edits/add-ons to an episode basically alert subscribers the same as if you added a new episode. There are so many benefits to having several pages within one episode, such as easier reading flow and Soundcloud music that last for an entire scene.

[keii4ii]

@LogantheAdventurer We already have that option. You get a popup asking if you want to notify the readers, if you have uploaded a new image file to the episode. HOWEVER the notification will go to their regular notification center rather than their reading list...

[Ayomekum]

yeah that's what i mean. i don't think notifications carry the same weight as seeing that your favorite comic has a new episode, at least not for me

[Marvin]

Well there are still several problems with that : if it becomes a regular update, some could abuse it by just replacing their file with the same one just to get on top of the fresh section and gain views I guess...Although I don't think any would because they'd probably end up losing their readers because of all the false notifs...

But I follow a bunch of comics that only update the same episode and the main problem I see with that is that you can only like once and it's discouraging to post a comment and to read them because you don't know wich page they're gonna be about... (or you have to be very detailed).

[DeadAccount]

Yeah, another problem with updating existing episodes is that eventually they also get pretty damn long and readers keep having to scroll to where they were reading. It's just a bit of a pain for anything that's not a vertical comic/strip :/