Cross-posting to other platforms?

[Five]

I’m thinking about cross-posting my novel Ravenswood on tapas to scribble hub and Royal Road. I’m not really good at keeping track of other sites and I also think gathering all my readers on one site would be the best shot, so I'm considering not doing it. My novel is doing pretty good on tapas, but I’ve been hearing that it won’t be easy to hit it up as a novel writer focusing on one site if you’re not featured. What do you guys think?

This is the link to my novel if you’re wondering what it’s about: https://tapas.io/series/Ravens-wood

[BlairFujin]

What do you think, do your readers mostly come from you promoting your work on social media or are they stumbling across it on tapas? If the latter, why not expand your reach to people who could stumble across it on other sites?
Also, online platforms don't last forever, you never know when one will be gone (we, comics folks, still remember about smackjeeves...), so, I'd say it's better not to keep all your eggs in a single basket.
And while keeping track of uploading on multiple sites at once can seem daunting, it's not that bad, once you get hang of it, just keep a list of links to those sites on hand and once it's uploading time just go through each of them.

[Five]

Most of my views come from constant promoting, I guess, which is on these forum. But I guess cross-posting would get more eyes on my works, I hope.

[Kelheor]

From my own experience I can say that posting on a few platforms proved to be most fruitful and encouraging decision. Each platform will have their own audience and one of them may hit numbers (or provide other opportunities) you never even dreamed to have on another one.
The forum, let's face it, aside from being a great place with awesome people, has a very limited audience to promote to.

[RedLenai]

Personally, if you want to get more people to see your work, besides promoting then the best shot is to post your Novel/Comic on more platforms. You can cover more ground that way, and having a linktree of your series or a similar page with the different places you publish, not only would let you get the attention of the people that already read from there, but it's also a way to provide your readers with alternatives in case a site goes or app goes down for maintenance or for their own comfort.

The easiest way to keep track of other sites is to simply have a list besides your computer or a memo, in my case I don't have to, I recall each site we publish on since I have to adapt each chapter to the different platforms's format (webcomic, also sample).

[cherrystark]

Linktrees are helpful like @RedLenai said, especially if you have a large catalog of work that you want to get out there. I have mine like this. However, I don't recommend having your work up on multiple sites if you are forgetful or tend to post and then decide to do another round of edits like me. I tend to remember to post on 1-2 sites and forget the rest.

[denise]

Well, the focus of Tapastic is on their comics. If you don't search by yourself, your novel gets buried, and you only get to find it by self-promoting it. Places like Scribble Hub and Royal Roaf focus on novels in the genres of high fantasy, adventure, Isekai, Litrpg, systems, so basically your genre, etc... When you are new, your novel is pushed to the front to everybody see it once it gets approved. Every time you update, your story will be featured in the "recent updates," too. The forums are way more friendly than this one, and even the moderator gives you a walkthrough on publishing your story and the best practices you can do to get readers.

If you are not good at keeping track (coming from an adult with severe ADHD), your best friends are alarms and reminders on the calendar on your phone. Cross-post on all the platforms on the same day. Do review swap and focus on each of their forums, for example, Monday on Tapas, Tuesday on Scribble Hub, and Wednesday on Royal Road. Let know your readers with a friendly message that you will reply to them as fast as you can because you cross-post your story. And remember, the most important thing is not to let others discourage you for your weakness, don't feel pressured, and enjoy what you are doing.

Note: Just in case, take all of this with a grain of salt. This is just my opinion. You are not obligated to do anything I wrote

[denise]

Also, online platforms don't last forever, you never know when one will be gone

Yes, that happened with Copin Comics, and a lot of authors that just had their work there lost their audience and needed to start from zero on other platforms.

[thepenmonster]

More eyes means more wallets.

[cherrystark]

This is only partially true, I've learned. I get periodic emails from this one site telling me about all these readers checking out my work. I've made zero dollars from that site in almost two years.