How to do 'thank you for subscribing' notes?

[jayorten]

I've seen this done with a lot of webcomic series in the past, but I don't know to send them out automatically to new/current subscribers without sending notes individually. How do you do this?

[shazzbaa]

There's no way to send them automatically; everyone that you see leaving a "Thanks for subscribing!" notice is going to each page individually and leaving the message on their wall!

[jayorten]

Sounds a bit tedious. I thought there was an automatic way to do that. :\

[shazzbaa]

It does take a good chunk of time if you have a bunch of subscribers. I kinda like it tbh, it means a little more when you gotta put forward effort imo. ;u; I like thank-you images, but I think getting stuff posted by your wall automatically would feel a lot more spammy.

If you don't wanna do that, you can post a "thanks for subscribing" image on your own wall and just click the "notify subscribers" bell underneath, and everyone (except mobile users) will get notified of your post. You don't wanna do this TOO often, but a lot of people will do this for milestones -- instead of going to individual walls they'll just make a "thanks for 400 subscribers!!" post on their own page every time they hit a significant number!

[69Michi]

Yea sadly there is never a way to automatically send out message like that on people's wall, the system could mistake it for spam messages.

Personally I usually just include a "Thank you" at the end of my update when I saw I reached a specific milestone so all my subscribers could see without me having to make a separate update or annoy people with notification.

[AnnaLandin]

Yep, as mentioned, I go through and post all of them manually (though during my last bump in subs, I might have skipped a few - which I still feel kind of bad about). It's time consuming, especially since I usually save up a couple before I go through them instead of thanking everyone instantly.

It does take a good chunk of time if you have a bunch of subscribers. I kinda like it tbh, it means a little more when you gotta put forward effort imo.

This! I use the same image, but I do thank all of my subscribers with their usernames, so that they know it isn't just copy-pasting everything.

[jessicasurline]

I like that there is no automatic way to thank subs. It means more that the artist had to personally thank them. Though I can see myself changing my mind if I had a stream of subs coming in all the time lol!

[J.Z.Castillo]

I used to do this back in day, but one month I got like 100 subs and I got overwhelmed and gave up lmao. I think it's a really nice practice, though! I wanna get back into it, but it is a bit of work. Also, I think it's because I took the time to reach people that I had that huge sub bump that one month.

[Ghostie]

I agree, haha but honestly if they were ever mass-posted automatically, I'd delete it from my wall. I use my wall for updates and easy scrolling and large posted images from folks thanking me when they could simply send me a message just isn't my cup o' tea anyway. ^^;

[HulkHoQuinn]

I'm new here (only a couple of days old). Do most creators leave these kind of messages? Is it considered rude to not do it? I'll probably make one soon and do it either way. It seems like a good way to show appreciation.

[scullpanda]

Well This is my old one for my comic Wait...What

And this is my new one

[jayorten]

Just finished my thank you note:

[shazzbaa]

It is fine if you don't send them! A lot of creators don't make them, you wouldn't be considered rude! ;u;

If you do a search on the Tapastic forums for "thank you" you'll probably find 2 or 3 other threads with people discussing how they feel about them -- when I read through, the majority of people like getting them, so I just have a note on my profile saying to PM me if you don't want one, and I always check the person's profile first to make sure they don't say to "PM me instead" or something like that before I post on their wall

The other thing I would recommend is to make sure your image isn't suuuuuuper tall! Tall images take up more room on a wall than wide or squareish ones, so that's kind of a courtesy thing, just making sure you're not taking up a whole ton of wall-space. ;u;

especially since I usually save up a couple before I go through them instead of thanking everyone instantly.

I actually try to wait through at least one update in case someone changes their mind -- I want to give them time to unsubscribe b/c I don't want to accidentally make someone feel bad for unsubbing. xD This..... is part of why I'm perpetually behind in thank-yous, though.

[J.Z.Castillo]

The other thing I would recommend is to make sure your image isn't suuuuuuper tall! Tall images take up more room on a wall than wide or squareish ones, so that's kind of a courtesy thing, just making sure you're not taking up a whole ton of wall-space. ;u;

This is a great suggestion! I don't like getting really long images, but I like getting Thank You cards! When I used to send them I would make sure to make an image the size of the banner you can upload on your comic, that way is big enough but won't push down other posts too much.

[zetina]

It's tedious but if you have a nice thank-you image, it's also pretty good advertising, so it's worth it :x

[LordVincent]

Lol I have no idea how people manage to do thank you's. I get like 200-250 new subs each week or something and I don't even have time to read all comments anymore (I do try, but my comics have a lot of pages and when someone binge reads it and comments every damn page it's impossible...) so if I were to put time into thank you-messages I would need to make an entire page less a week. Or two less.

[jayorten]

I wish I got 200-500 a week, lol.

[LordVincent]

Well I work my ass off making 10-14 pages a week for my comics sooooooo it's not like I just get things served on a silver platter.

[scullpanda]

I love your stuff omg Bloodroot is my fav O//////O

[LordVincent]

Thanks lol surprised you recognized me despite the dumb username that tapastic forums refuses to let me change xD