Focusing on Tapas, I think it's worth it

[lunchtiiime12]

Hey guys.

I'm A. D. and I've been on the forum off and on. We started with Tapas and eventually went over to Line Webtoon. We experienced a much larger audience there, but now I question its legitimacy. Here, I know that every subscriber we have is a real person.

This year we've had to endure a lot from Line, from going to 200 subs a day to barely 200 a month, if that. To this day, I have no idea what they have done to completely and totally destroy newer comics getting exposure. I've been tenacious for the past six months trying to survive it, but the $400 monthly income we got from them was extremely important, and now it's completely gone and will be gone for a long time, potentially permanently if they can't figure out why we suddenly and totally lost our quickly growing audience base.

So, with humility, I'm coming back to Tapastic where our audience has been steadily growing the entire time. Not explosive like LWT, but steady. We intend to fully convert to full color and "webtoon" format, and drop the manga pages (though we are still making them as well for print, they just won't be here.) The first 4 pages are already converted to color, and we intend to re-draw many pages, re-write a few, and color them all.

We feel we are building a quality product and have an engaging story. We welcome and encourage you to come check us out, and we'll be a lot more attentive in the comments and here on the forum.

Thanks everyone!

A. D. and the LT team

[LordVincent]

Welcome back!

If you are looking to replace lost revenue, look no further! Tapas has great tools that are still being improved, that allows readers to support without having to open their wallets. Ad revenue is one way to gain revenue, however tipping is more effective. You need a certain amount of subs to activate it, or you can grab your chance and email tapas staff next time there's a tipping event!

To motivate your readers to tip, I definitely suggest setting up a reward system!

I wish you luck with your project!

[beta1042]

Best of luck to you!!

The growth on tapas has been slow for me too, but I always plan to stay here because the community is awesome and although slow in growth, it has been steady and predictable.

[ratique]

Yay, welcome back!

I have never really been able to get into Line, mostly because I'm not a fan of their site's design. Tapas has always been a fun place for me, so I'm partial towards it, of course.

It's very unfortunate that you lost so much income so suddenly. It was very hard for me to understand how Line was able to afford this much spending at all - it looked like they are just bleeding money left and right. While I'm sure they have a long term plan, as an outside onlooker this is very concerning. Because of that, Line feels like a very unstable site for me.

Luckily we all have a choice and have multiple websites to work with if we want to : ) I'm looking forward to se you around more often now!

[lunchtiiime12]

Thanks to all of you, we've had tipping enabled for a long time, but I really don't expect people to tip if we're not engaged as much as we should be with the audience. I'm hoping that more engagement and improved quality will result in more reciprocated love. We shall see!

[panda3291]

I really like the artwork you've got going. Sorry to hear about such craziness with revenue. subscribers, and such going on.

[lunchtiiime12]

Thank you Panda, that means a lot. Clearly I'm not alone, I wish I would have just stayed here. Tapas is great y'all. They are trying to be democratic here at least. I don't think that's the case over there.

[Lennart]

At least tapas feel real to me too. for reasons i already expressed in two or three other topics as well.

[panda3291]

Yeah...I actually feel like the subscribers are legitimate people, and even if they don't check my work all the time, it's still nice to know someone liked it enough to get updated about it.

[Aspie_Gamer]

As one of your oldest subs on here, it breaks my heart seeing what's happened to you over on LINE WEBTOONS. You did everything right and you're still improving anyway, but because you aren't part of the korean webtoons and/or BL club on there, you got hit arguably the hardest when they updated their pledge system. Hope you can still keep up the great work nonetheless. I'm with you to the end.