I prefer shorter chapters..For ideal viewership, on another thread, I read that chapters should be ideally 700 to 1000 words and broken into short paragraphs.
I write my novel as a traditional book with big chapters then split them up for Tapas. I think the preferred episode length for readers here is 800-1300 words 
What Kwan said. I used to write 1.8-2.2k length chapters. But now it's more freehand. I try and stop where it feels natural. And I usually hit that around 1-1.2k now. Snackable content! 
Same answer as everyone almost, I started to split them up halfway into posting everything as I hit the 15k character limit here
A while ago I had this discussion with a writer who is writing for over 20 years.
He said, the longer the chapters you write are, the more it is possible that you will lose readers because they stop and won't continue at some point because it feels for them it is harder to jump back in. Keeping them short (or divide them into shorter parts) will help in this regard, because readers feel good when they finished a chapter and see the next one will start. It makes them feel like accomplish another step to the next part of the story and jumping to a chapter instead of the middle of a text is a lot easier
And as a reader myself I have to say, I have no problem with longer texts (as long as they are formatted in a way that is good for the eyes ^^) but I understand what he means.
So yeah, keep them short and more people will read them and come back for more.
I am breaking up episodes to be more like 1K words. Tapas advertises itself as bite-sized fiction, so I think it is better to roll with the brand
I write ca. 700 words per episode, and I know that is very short, but I update frequently and I think that is more importent than writing a lot. Also with less words it kinda seems like it is one page and that makes it easier to read a lot of them. I don't know how many episodes you published but if you already published a lot of episodes with 1500-2000 words I don't think you should break it down that much, because your readers are already used to the length.
i'd love to break up my chapters into smaller parts but i've got two glaring problems: First is that my writing just doesn't fit into smaller parts, i have a beginning, a middle, and an end to my scenes and they're just long and that's all there is to it.
And then, while I could just ... stop in the middle, now i've published 14 chapters and i'd have to go back and split them all out and I'd wind up with loads of zero view, zero like chapters at the end and tapas doesn't let you move the orders around so i'll have to jog everything along which sounds like a nightmare as well as making my writing kind of incoherent in terms of the segments i'm breaking it into
It's very annoying. I think I'll just have to hope people will read it anyway.
i don't think this is very helpful, but i suppose my points are: decide early if you want to write shorter chapters, and sometimes your chapters are just longer
From what I understand reading certain threads, you need to keep your chapters short since readers on here like short reads. Like between 800-1300 or so.
My first chapter that I haven't posted yet on Tapas is 2621 words or about nine pages, which I think for Tapas may be a bit much. I think if you keep it around five pages or less you should be fine.
Everyone's style is different but I prefer shorter chapters as long as the story is done well. I personally publish shorter chapters once a month, but they pack a punch and hold clues, messages, etc to what is going on in my universe. And that format works well for Tapas, I have found!
I think this depends on the situation. If you wish to grow your audience, Tapas rewards frequent updates, possibly two or three times a week. Since many readers do consume content while on the go or on their phone, it's easier for them to read shorter chapters. However, I've actually been hit by quite a few understandable, but sometimes rude comments from those that really hate shorter chapters because they find that it ruins the flow of the story. I do agree that bite sized chapters cause a pretty big rift in story telling so I'm not a fan myself. In the end, I go based on the story. If shorter chapters work and don't cause a lot of issues in the flow of the narrative then I will cut them up, if they don't then I take the chance of longer chapters.
I used to write out my chapter and split down the middle. 10/10 do not recommend. Now my chapter have gotten super long and I decided to go ahead and split them up more so they’re at least under 1k and it gives me a great buffer and more frequent updates.
Also had to go and shorten my prologue from 2 parts to 3 and that was not fun at all. If you decide to update your story and shorten some parts, do it while you don’t have a lot of episodes uploaded because all that copying and pasting will drive you crazy
I know there’s that “sweet spot” range of 700-1.3k words, but I think some of it comes down to writing style and story, too.
As a reader, I’ll read any length episodes - one page/update, nine pages/update, whatever. I think it’s more important to focus on where the episode cuts off. As a writer, it’s not always easy to find that spot. I wrote my story before even considering posting it and I have some scenes that are a quarter of a page and some scenes that are 12 pages long. So, trying to find a comfortable break point means that I have episodes ranging from 450 words all the way up to 1.8k words. It just depends on what’s going on. But this is something I’ve found works for me. I don’t think there is a single correct answer. There’s a lot of various options that should work well for you.
I do agree with what everyone else has been saying about frequent uploads. That does seem to be important.
My next chapter is mainly dialogue and I have no clue how many episodes I can split it into. Sometimes I have to add some more sentences (which sounds counterintuitive) to make a cleaner stopping point or at least a cliffhanger. Plus I update more frequently so people won’t have to wait that long
No, that makes complete sense. Breaking up dialogue is HARD. I have a reeeeeaaally long scene coming up (in like 2 weeks or so) with lots of dialogue and when I went to find break points I was like wtf 
and I had to reread it like 8 times to make sure it wouldn’t be super weird and I’m still second guessing those break points lol. I just can’t write to a word count, I write a scene, no matter how long it ends up being.
I've got four novels going at once: one I nearly go to the max word count per episode and the others I try to break up a bit more. I feel like it depends on the content of that chapter: a chapter block of all descriptive writing and dialog may work better broken up at points whereas a very action packed scene can be stretched further because it would feel disjointed or wrong to split it or if the scene naturally had no pause to put the split in. It all depends on the context of the content.
I'm in the exact same situation. But I'm also one of those (rare?) people who likes reading longer chapters. For me it wouldn't be an issue at all -- longer chapters feel more like a published book, which is all to the good.
I'd never even considered it when I first started posting! Plus I read on pc mostly so if I don't finish a chapter, I'll leave the tab open and come back (I'm one of those people that pay zero attention to chapter breaks in novels, I'll stop mid-dialogue, just watch me)
That is the primary difference though, but I think if I post another story in the future i will pay more attention to the episodic format, even if I rewrite slightly from what I originally produce. (I like producing novel-type works soooo)
