Drop in new subs?

[zccoffee]

Well, it doesn't seem like that. Because many comics with 50, 70 even 100+k subscribers are not visible anymore. It's more like sort of shadow ban for some series.

[byelacey]

Maybe we just misunderstand what constitutes popular in that section. It could be a percentage of daily growth or something, rather than a straight comparison of numbers?

[zccoffee]

I think comics with 100-140k subs, high activity and regular updates would have been there anyway.

[cosmosbadger]

I agree it's way too early to tell if this is the new site or not, but throwing mine in for the sake of more data!

For the past month my comic was finally hitting 500-1000 views a day and then this week sudden plummet, which was kind of disheartening :')

edit: obviously march 6th was last update day, updating weekly

[BobbyjoeX]

when it comes to subs... this looks normal (wtf was going on in May tho?)

as for views... this is still very normal

(im well aware of the drop since october, november is when i went on hiatus and its been sparatic uploads since)

[cosmosbadger]

Realised I linked views, but subs follow the same trend.

[yukunka]

I've noticed that free to read comics no longer require that "update within 24hrs" threshold to show up on popular (I saw mine on there on the weekend, days after I updated) so as long as the popular free-to-read comics don't drop off after 24hrs of no update, other comics that aren't as consistently pulling in new subscribers/views aren't going to get the chance to show up.

I noticed that too, which is a pity considering the concept of fair chances, because ghosted comics are a big chunk of what’s displaying rn. But this doesn’t fully make sense, if you scroll until the last popular there are comics who don’t have enough engagement or regular updates to make it onto popular. I’m talking about comics of 100 subs vs 46k of @zccoffee ’s. I’m comparing the past model where comics with less subs/engagement will go towards trending and comics with a lot of subs will stay in popular for 24hrs. If the 24hr timeframe doesn’t exist anymore, those 100 sub comics (with no engagement) are kinda weirdly placed in popular in my opinion. So I think that’s what @zccoffee meant. As an avid observer of charts, i can say their comic was always on top popular, so not to be here rn doesn’t make sense, when comics with similar sub count display well. In fact, many NSFW ones like ENOKAN do not appear for one sec in popular, only trending. (when previously being always on top)

My comic was usually crawling somewhere in desktop's popular when I updated, but being NSFW and all, I’m noticing a trend of why it’s not appearing, even below those with 100 subs on popular.

I’m happy for lesser known comics having exposure, but i’d rather see the NSFW team in popular too, because now it’s been completely purged (yes, even those with 50k - 100k)

Additionally I hope the browsing limitations of charts is temporary. in the past I could go so many pages back to browse, or scroll for 10,15 minutes. Bruh now it ends in like, 2 min. SAD.

[seru]

Hmm...

I don't see any drastic change in views or subs. And I've never been promoted by Ta/pas.

For context, the spike is when I upload a new page.