How long do comics on Webtoon Recommended Titles last?

[akiocha]

ahh I guess they're trying to feature more comics now which is good

[craftymarten]

I didn't even know LW featured comics, I thought it was just popular ones on the front page!
I grudge posting there now after I started getting loads of 1 star reviews, think I'll just keep posting and not look at anything else. I'm kind of terrified what response my comic would get if it was ever featured!

[SedateCanopy]

Thanks @Samuraiflame ! I'm so happy I made it!!! Half a month is more than enough! I never thought I'll made it tbh.

[SedateCanopy]

You'll be fine. Have faith in your story!

[craftymarten]

Thanks! I love my comic and my characters, I'm just hoping it reaches the people who appreciate it rather than those rating it 1 star out of spite. I'm glad the reception on Tapas and Comic Fury has been good, I'm pretty new to this and it's easy to get demotivated.

[SedateCanopy]

Have you tried going in the Cross Promotion Megathread, you might had people who would be interested in your work there.

[craftymarten]

Thanks! I'll check it out! I only started last month so I was waiting until I had a few more followers. I feel cheeky asking people to promote me when I can't give much back!

[AllisonGal]

Anyone noticed the many new sections webtoon has added in their app? Now there's in their front page some personal recommendation for you, also 3 new sections: daily hot, rising star, and staff pick, The most hilarious is the :rising star", really? you'd thought LINE would be smarter than using word they don't know the definition of... Any thoughts on this?

[Zugaikotsu]

I'm going to check it!

[69Michi]

Do you mean on the front page of the app? Not sure, I took a look and didn’t see anything called “rising stars.”

Tho I do know indo webtoon do in fact has a rising star section but it works very differently from recommendation section and staff pick. Their rising stars work purely on reader voting.

[Laht]

Maybe the app has different updates depends on regions? Mine is looking like this today:
It has 3 new sections. I live in EU.
This is on the front page of the English version of the app.

[AllisonGal]

Do you mean on the front page of the app? Not sure, I took a look and didn’t see anything called “rising stars.”

Tho I do know indo webtoon do in fact has a rising star section but it works very differently from recommendation section and staff pick. Their rising stars work purely on reader voting.

Yes, the front page of the app only on smart phones. Just as Laht has provided a screen shot previously.

How do you know the rising star section is based on readers voting? and how do they even vote? This looks to me just like another pretense for webtoon to control what comic they want to appear.

[69Michi]

I tried to look to see if there is any update for my app but still nothing. I will check back tomorrow to see if my app will update or not.

How do you know the rising star section is based on readers voting? and how do they even vote? This looks to me just like another pretense for webtoon to control what comic they want to appear.

I was mentioning the Indo Webtoon's Rising Star section. That was what came to mind when I heard "Rising Star." It works base on popularity and the winner of Rising Star is decided base on popularity vote. That's as much as I can understand from it. As far as I know, English Webtoon does not have a Rising Star section so I'm quite curious where this new section is coming from (and why).

[SedateCanopy]

From what I see, those at the 'Staff Pick' are from previously promoted comics. The 'Rising Star' are those from Fresh picks. And the Hot Today are just the popular top ones.

[AllisonGal]

(Sorry on the screenshots I crossed out my webtoon username)
At first, those new changes didn't appear on my phone, my friend told me about it and i had to manually update the webtoon app for it to show those changes.And guess what? about 90% of those comics are the same ones already appearing a lot in their recommended, weekly round up, and fresh pick. Now they can appear everywhere and get shoved down our throats even more.

There's no escape now, webtoon wants their favorited comics appearing on everyone personal front page
They personally recommended to me on my personal front page the same comics they pushed to top, comics I'm getting tired of seeing nonstop for over a year. They even recommend to me stuffs that has nothing to do with my browsing history. At least youtube recommends to you based on your browsing history, but webtoon recommends personally to you based on what they like. very dumb if you ask me.

[Zugaikotsu]

And they were doing so good, recommending a lot of less known titles... I think they fired the intern who dare to give spotlight to not favorite titles and got back to the usual trend

[AllisonGal]

yeah, and I bet they chose their top few favorite comics on discover that they like and only program those to appear in everyone's recommendation, they might throw 1 or 2 random to cover up as usual. You'll never see any other titles, always the same ones, it's been so for over a year. honestly, I don;t go to the discover section much anymore because they always put their same elite comics everywhere and I was tired of them pushing these down my throat. I thought that at least i have my personal front page with only the comics i subscribe to, less stress ya know. But hey, not anymore, webtoon's even gonna invade and control everyone's personal front page now and personally recommend to each of us! Their ways are shitty.

[Zugaikotsu]

Yeah, this is really invasive and just another way to puah their agenda. No, thanks. My app dont have this version and I prefer it like this.

[darthkrievos]

We were recently featured on the homepage, they only kept us up there for 2 days
Nonetheless i was happy because we were able to get nearly 2k new subscribers and 21k views in that short amount of time.

[craftymarten]

After saying a few comments back that I was worried about ever being featured LW featured me on Discover at the bottom and it's been really good! I've got a lot of positive comments and ratings and it's given me a nice boost.

I think Tapas has the same problem that the comics in the premium section are always in popular, and if you're not a new comic the only way you'll be on the front page is through trending. I totally understand why they need to promote premium comics but the best way for us to get reliable weekly readers is to have our comics promoted on site. When I launched I got a ton of views through social media but barely anyone had an account so I got very few subs which means I need to remind people I'm still posting. I know with webcomics you're in it for the long haul, but anything to increase my visibility!