So I tried doing Monthly and on WT (because I upload to both Tapas and WT) it would not fit in an update because it was too long (like the people doing 60 panels are doing less gradients which takes up loads less space and they're also allowed more space, pretty sure). Even doing 2x a month updates I still have to crop my WT updates in half, so...I do 2x a month and hope that it fits.
I used to prefer long updates and as often as possible, but that was back when I was a grad student and thought I had not time xD Now I prefer weekly short updates, because sometimes I can barely keep up with those. A 1 - 2 page update also gives me a better chance to appreciate the work that went into it and pay better attention to details in the story.
(Edit: I read and write mostly scifi, and my own comic updates 1 or 2 pages a week)
As a creator and reader, I feel it all depends on what you write.
More frequent updates might benefit a story that is faster paced, has shorter segments that don't need much elaboration, and leans on action. Doesn't leave the reader too long to see what happens next, while the event is still fairly fresh in their mind.
Meanwhile, something like a slow burn with longer events, and a more suspenseful or meditative atmosphere, might benefit from a monthly update. Gives the reader time to mull over what they read.
Though this is all my own speculation.
I'm on team 'longer updates', but if waiting that long to update drains your inspiration and just doesn't work well for you as a workflow, you can have the best of both worlds and post on two different platforms; update weekly on one and update monthly in chunks on the other 
This. This so much. This is why I decided to put episode summaries at the beginning of each issue from now on in order to help casual readers remember what was going on.
Especially when it takes 1-2 months to update my work.
Oh that's a good idea. Adding a small summary of what has happened before or until that point in the story.
Of course it'd be amazing if we could have frequent, long episodes but- working solo on a labor-intensive passion project in your free time between other work and life- that just isn't possible. In this case:
As a reader, I prefer less frequent, longer updates! I follow a lot of stories with short, weekly updates and it's really hard to enjoy the story when we're only getting a disjointed snippet of it at a time. It tears away the impact from the scene and I stop caring about what's happening since it's over so quickly, just for me to get tossed into another week of waiting for the next couple panels of action.
As a creator.. I'd say the same is true. I only recently began posting, but I feel that cutting down on size or quality of pages would really hurt my story. I only update monthly, but I try to make each update its own complete scene with something to add, and something of value for the readers to have waited for.
i usually wait until there's a full chapter or half a chapter cause if I'm getting just one page then i feel like I'm wasting a bit of time. So the stories i follow dont tend to get read until there's a good chunk finished.
but posting every week or every two week gets more engagement so its kind of a conundrum
for now you could post one page every two weeks for engagement because people look through the tags, and when the chapter's done you can merge all the pages into one episode
you should also build up a backlog so its not that hard for you to pump out pages
also, a little off topic but you might want to add a link to your comic to your forum profile, that helps a LOT
You have good points. As far as doable to me is updating it occasionaly, basically whenever a chapter is done.
I do prefer to wait a few months before checking the updates of the comics I follow for the same reason.
Big brain. Updated.
I personally update my content once a month. For me, it's just easier to maintain that routine and not feel rushed!
I think I would prefer weekly, but like some have said previously, it really depends. :S There are some things that I would wait until there is a big buildup and then read it all together, and it that way I prefer reading them 'monthly'. - I guess, what matters is how much content each chapter is and also what kind of story it is.
I update twice a week though. xD
Also, I will say, I personally wouldn't update daily though. xD I think some people can be put off by that depending on what it is.
haha, yeah one guy i know said he updated daily for a while, stopped now though (don't know if he meant weekends too though, now that I think about it, but I think he did :P) but I honestly think some people might be put off by that. xD
But like, i hardly have anything that resembles a backlog so I couldn't (I do novels though not comics, I imagine it would be worse as a comic artist)! My sanity would just crumble. xD
The fastest I can do a page from sketch to inking and editing is in 3 days minimum if I'm free! Kudos for him to have been able to keep it up for a while.
tbh it depends on how long updates are. I prefer when a couple pages are posted at once instead of one at a time because loading the next page can slow down the pacing.
I know for my own comic, I tend to post 3-5 pages per update , so I'm happy to do weekly because I know reading flow isn't going to be too disruptive. Tapas' algorithm also prefers frequent updates.
Monthly updates can work, but it can be hard of readers to keep track of details if it's such a long wait between chapters. Depends on the person.
If I know a comic has shorter updates, I usually wait until more is released so that I can binge it, so it can work depending on what fits your schedule and efficiency.
ive come to enjoy 1-2 pages weekly when reading other comics, monthly chunky updates actually tend to be to much and I get bored scrolling through a whole chapter or just way to long update, and I might not remember what happened last month and have to go back, but then its another big chunk to read through so I might not, and instead give up on the comic 
Ideally as a creator I think I would want to be able to post 2 pages per week but to keep myself sane and my buffer healthy I can only do 1 page per week now 
