Tapastic is a nice place but I've often found that Tapastic has a huge focus on the popular comics but never seems to give a chance to what I guess you should say are the underdogs of the story? Do you ever think Tapastic should have sections that help less popular comics get a bit more attention?

Right now we have 4 sections. Popular, Trending, Staff Picks and Fresh. Out of all of them, any popular comic with a lot of subs will ultimately appear in one of those four if not multiple. But a comic that is struggling for lack of better word will only appear in "Fresh."

Does one ever think some sections added to help would be beneficial? There could be a "New" section where legitimately new comics that have just been posted are shown. People can head here to see what are the brand new, completely "fresh" comics and not just ones that are being updated.

Perhaps there could be a "20 Sub Section" as an example. Here whenever a comic is posted, if it has less than 20 subs it might appear in this section. Regardless of what is done, I do think Tapastic has a strong inclination to only support the most popular work while showing very little if any support for the lesser comics.

I think something like Smackjeeves is a very flawed hosting site which beyond a few select points, doesn't hold a candle to Tapastic both in terms of design and support. But just having a "New" section to me is a nice thing to have and I do wish Tapastic could implement such a thing.

I don't know about a 1,000 subs though. At best maybe 100 or less. To me, once you reach the 100 mark, heck in some cases once you reach the 50 mark, you have hit a point I think where your comic has become popular enough to get attention. It may not be the most popular, but it's definitely hit a mark.

If we had a 1,000 or less Sub Section, I think it would lead to the same problem now. All the incredibly popular comics would go there and any comic struggling or just starting would be stuck fighting agianst the popular comics.

I'd call it pretty popular. 250 to 500 is a pretty big number in terms of popularity.

Whose holding whose hand? Tapastic literally has 3 sections designed to support popular comics. A section merely inscribed for new comics or a section inscribed for lower sub comics isn't going to hurt Tapastic at all. if anything it would help it because it gives readers not only a look at the popular and trending comics but the lesser ones that some might find potential in.

This isn't about advertisement, this is about opening up and allowing more potential to show through. Potential that could easily have been put in a little new section without any hindrance to the more popular comics being promoted on things like Popular, Trending or Staff Picks. You're making it sound like Tapastic needs to make time to make time to advertise lower sub comics when in reality the only thing Tapastic needs to do is just create a little section and then keep their focus on the popular comics.

Sites like Smackjeeves still has a "popular section" along with "comic spotlight" and "New and Hot" which is essentially the Staff Pick and Trending here are still there. If someone wants to see what's popular, they can go and see them.

Yeah I've seen their organization, it's kind of weak. I basically have to scroll through pages upon pages in the hopes of finding something. Which again only makes it more difficult. Let's say I want to look for a newer comic or one with low subs. I have to go all the way to browse all, pick the sort I want. Then I have to painstakingly scroll my way to whatever page I need. Most sites, comic hosting or not would have at least had the decency to allow you to type in the page you want and go their immediately. It's a huge pain in the butt and why do that when you can just have...

Popular/Trending/Staff Pick/ 50 or Less Subs/New

Want to see what some of the newest comics just being posted are? Click "New" and get yourself those 5 or so pages of brand new comics just now released. Want to see any comics that have 50 subs or less? Click the link and get yourself those 5 or so pages of recently updated comics that fill this requirement.

No it wouldn't. You make it sound like Tapastic's staff has to get down and dirty and start directly supporting lesser comics. The problem people have with "Staff Picks" is that you have comics earning great popularity with little work done in terms of episodes. People believe that simply more work needs to be put into the comic before it should be treated so well by Staff.

This is really a case of web design. Any good web designer could go to Tapastic and design the site so you have a "New" or "Certain Sub Section" and comics that fit those criteria would appear there without any hindrance whatsoever in regards to the actual popular comics.

You could even have a "Random" section if so be it and you'd have the same thing. It would just be a new section, that randomly picks out any comic. I don't need a "Random" section but it just goes to show how easy it an be done and how it can help expand the site and comics.

What happens when you get on Tapastic? The very front page is a spotlight of a comic, in a nice big banner. Below that are "Popular", "Trending" and "Staff Picks" with "Discover More" at the very bottom. Literally the moment you enter into Tapastic, you are bombarded by the most popular comics there, the best of the best sometimes.

So let's click on the "Comic" section. What is the very first thing it automatically focuses on? That's right the "Popular" section. It immediately goes to what Tapastic feels are some of the best comics ever. If I click on "Creators" the very first thing it does is bring me to the most popular users first.

Of course any good comic hosting site would allow me to arrange episodes around but I still haven't gotten that either.

I don't think it would really be a problem. I mean the idea of a "New" section is to show the literally newly hosted comics that have just come into play. These comics might be a single page or they might be a good long chapter with 20 pages. In the end it's really just an intention of bringing up comics that have just started.

"New" section isn't meant to be long lasting for comics. It's meant to just be a little push, a little way to get reader's attention and then after that it's up to the artist to keep pushing that comic's attention in the "Fresh" section. It would merely be a section where someone looking for the newest of comics to take a gander at.

You are making what I feel is the same mistake that Kura is making. You're making it seem like Tapastic needs to show a huge focus on new or lesser comics and this is suddenly going to hurt the site. Let me ask, if a new user gets on Tapastic and we have such new sections made. Do yo uthink they'll come in, see a "20 Sub comics or something" and say...

"These are horrible, I'm never going back to Tapastic again."

Of course not! Because they're already being bombarded by all the great things Tapastic has to offer. Here, this would be nothing more than a little side section under the reader's own choice to check out or not. A lot people actually like having a "New" section itself because they want to see what some of the newest hosted comics are.

And a "New" section is a lot simpler to have and work with than trying to use Tapastic's crazy excuse of a "Browse" section.

Man...Got a lot posted there.

Double post but I really don't want to add more to my massiveness above.

Let me ask a question. If we implemented let's say a "New" section what are the drawbacks? What would make it so flawed that it would be best not to have it? Because for me, when I see a "New Section" that's exciting because to me, it's a place where I get to meet potential new comics, potential new artists and a way of greatly expanding my reading sources.

I would come into Tapastic and probably the first thing I'd do is go to this "New" section just to see what's being offered. When I was on Smackjeeves I did the same thing. Mainly because the "Popular" sections were all the same thing.

So again I must ask, where does this hurt Tapastic? Because all I see personally is benefit and Tapastic can expand itself greatly. You have the focus on the popular comics, you have the focus on the new and lesser comics. You still have your spotlight, trending, staff picks. You still have your Fresh.

All I'm seeing is a wide open world.

And I do feel the need to say this. Some of you make it sound like Tapastic is a bookstore. If this were true, yes it would make sense to show as much greatness as you can and keep back as little of the lesser comics that are around. Because you want to entice buyers to purchase your product and you can't do that if you have scribbles on the front page.

But Tapastic isn't a bookstore, it is a comic hosting site, a free one where users of all sorts and ages can post their work. I don't think there is any need to have this kind of "work hard or die" mentality where the strong get support and the weak get weeded out and never see the light of day.

20 under may be too little, but I wanted to get a number that at least seemed feasible for starters. And also the possibility of having a limit might help. Plus I honestly wanted to get a number that was less than my own subs so I didn't sound desperate.

Perhaps one should take out the "Less than" part and just have a "20-50 sub" section. That number might need to be dwindled to 30 or 40 at tops to be fair. So here it's like, you still need to work hard to get the subs you need but if you manage to keep up the good work and get to that number.

And while I wouldn't want too many sections just to build off on that you might have "50-100 sub section" and then "100-500 sub section" and then 500-1,000+ subsection" and so on. Essentially each time you manage to hit a certain mark, you are rewarded for your efforts.

But once you do, here's a little reward for working so hard and and it's up to you to keep working hard and keep building those subs up. Either way you're going to have to keep updating and keep on moving if you want people to check out your comic.

Fresh for me is the equivalent of "Just Updated" something that appears in a lot of comic hosting site. The difference between it and "New" is that "New" basically gives new comics a little bit of the spotlight. Here's a little attention for just starting out. But then like everyone else if you want to keep that attention you have to keep posting and get into that "Fresh" section.

Considering how quickly comics come in, it might even have to be designed differently. A "New" section might be 1 page, maybe 2 pages and every 2-3 days (if that long) it rotates the upcoming comics.

So as an example let's say I create a new comic. This comic would go to the "New" section as well as the "Fresh" section. For a day or so, that comic will always be on the "New" section. After a set time, a new rotation is given, my comic is taken off "New" and is replaced with the next batch. If I want to get more attention, I better work hard and get it on that Fresh.