Exclusive or not?

[lorddevin2]

I am wondering if it would benefit me more to remain exclusively on tapas with my novel or to spread out to other platforms. Are there benefits if my story is exclusive to Tapas? If not are there any other platforms you would recommend I post on?
My novel is a fantasy Isekai with 50 episodes live as of today. Any advice is appreciated!

[silverraven0]

I guess it's depend. Let's say that you only want to post it on tapas, you would be limited to only the reader on tapas. If you have a following before, you need to consider if most of your following were willing to create an account on tapas just to read your story. I'm the kind of reader that prefer to stick to as little as possible platform because having too much is a pain.

If you were considering to post n multiple platform, it might be good for you since it'll reach a wide range of audience that doesn't have an account on other platform, but then again, it'll make your following scattered around multiple platform and its hard to keep tabs on your reader (but hey, more reader?).

I personally only on tapas because posting on multiple platform is a pain lol. So I only did it if I drew something that is not comic or story.

[shfra13]

There are pros and cons for each, of course. It depends.

Being on multiple platform expands the possibility of garnering more readers. On the other hand, different platform usually has different audience; different platform users look for different genres. So, looking for a side platform that has a wide audience for the genre you're doing might be the best way rather than blindly posting everywhere. Then again, I don't have knowledge on a lot of platform.

Also, posting on a lot of platform means that you have to upload your story multiple times. Posting 50 chapters on several sites would be quite a handful of work. Especially since I don't think there are a lot of platform that allows scheduling (again, I have little knowledge on this matter). There's even a possibility that you forgot to update on another platform.

I used to keep my works on Wattpad, but now I think I'm going to focus on Tapas alone. It saves my time and energy. Being on one platform allows me to keep track of my story easily, and there's no pressure whatsoever.

All in all, if you want to expand, maybe expand into one other platform where isekai is also popular? Though I'm afraid that I don't know a good site for that genre.

[WolfUnderTheMoon89]

I have my novel on three platforms... started with two and took on another a month ago as the novel is completely here and on wattpad.
I use Tapas, wattpad and neovel (only wattpad cant schedule)
Royalroad is very fantasy oriented and also has a scheduling option

[Llyrel]

Got my comic uploaded to four different platforms (ComicFury, Tapas, Wordpress and, more recently, Webtoons) and... so far, I think more platforms can be really good. They DO require quite a bit of work, however: with Tapas and ComicFury I pretty much upload the same exact page to both platforms and copy-paste the same exact caption, while for WP I need to manually add previous/next page links (I know that there are webcomic layouts available on WP, but I ain't gonna pay $8 a month just to have them, so I'm uploading my pages as regular blog posts, lol). Webtoons requires a different kind of work too, due to the different format and the fact that people on there apparently prefer longer updates, so for now I'm posting complete chapters instead of single pages like on Tapas/CF/WP.

What others have been saying about being able to reach more people is definitely true: most of the people who follow me on CF are not on Tapas and viceversa, and the same goes for Webtoons. It's true that in this way your reader base is more "fragmented", but it's also true that those same people would have probably never even discovered your story if you only posted on one platform

Given that you have an already established novel, however, I would definitely recommend picking a site that allows you to schedule updates, since keeping track of each website can be hard as heck, especially if you choose to post updates on different days! D:

[thedude3445]

Posting on multiple sites means getting invested on those other sites, figuring out how to market your stories there, how to get involved with the community, how to schedule posts, etc. It's a big time sink, and that's the main thing to consider.