If you were given to add a feature on tapastic, what would it be?

[eagle1]

Sigfiles in the forum. I like seeing what people do with their banners on other services, and have found more good comics that way than any other.

Eagle
(Just my suggestion)

[Little_Bigfoot]

Other thing that I would Like is a Multi-Language Tapastic. I'm SouthAmerican, and I got friends that like some comics here, but can't understand anything because they don't speak english.

[zwebb90]

more than 40 pages an episode

[GFalconDX]

Perhaps they could add a feature that a person can give some money as tip to the creator as an option.

[AngieVX]

I know, but ONLY subscribers will see it. If you submit a chapter, your comic shows up in the NEW page, if it's an update it doesn't. It makes it harder to gain attention. Also you can't comment on a page, you can comment on a chapter, same goes for likes. If a chapter has from 10 to 20 pages, you get only one like, one comment and it shows only once in the NEW page. If you submit every page as a chapter, you get from 10 to 20 likes, comments and chances to get noticed. So artists have to choose between a proper structure of their comic and chances to get attention.

[eagle1]

The ideal thing would be for Tapastic to add a feature that would allow us to collapse a page into a bigger chapter while still retaining the comments, likes, and views....

Wait....

Posting each page as it's own entry also increases your ad views, which means Tapastic and the creator are making more money....

Eagle
(I need to ponder)

[Jelw]

Actually I think twitter login was a feature in the past that got discontinued.
EDIT: yup http://forums.tapastic.com/t/twitter-users-discontinuing-twitter-login-and-signup-mar-1-2015/1463

[michaelson]

The ideal thing would be for Tapastic to add a feature that would allow us to collapse a page into a bigger chapter while still retaining the comments, likes, and views....

Wait....

Posting each page as it's own entry also increases your ad views, which means Tapastic and the creator are making more money....

Eagle(I need to ponder)

I think we need to re-adjust from this mindset.

Think about it this way, theoretically, the most profitable way to make money on Tapastic would be to cut up your comic into individual panels and upload them as episodes so you'd take a standard 5 panel page and make it 5 separate episodes. This means that instead of getting 2 ad impressions per page, now you get 10.

But I would argue that cutting up content into those micro-chunks actually lends itself to a worse reading experience and thus actually hurts the reader from wanting to share the work.

A year ago, there used to be a series called Thermohalia which had a first episode that was approximately 8 pages long. The second episode was of a similar length and so was the third and fourth. She could have broken down the episodes into smaller chunks, but she was creating story beats that really resonated with her readers.

At a certain point in time, it was the most shared comic on Tapastic (thanks in part to Imgur). The shares and attraction of new readers gained her more ad revenue impressions than most other short form series.

When I think about ad revenue, I think about how to maximize it in the long run rather than trying to make a quick buck in the short term. You have to think about creating meaningful content that is going to really resonate with your reader. If that reader shares your episode, then you just doubled your ad impressions and possibly even doubled it in the long term if the new reader subscribes.

Some food for thought. Let me know what you think

[Eaters_of_Flesh]

Put a "freshly update" tab on the main page gives the new comics exposure

[Eaters_of_Flesh]

I'm doing that right now for my comic. And people who read it with their phones or iPad can read it clearly instead of multiple panels per page

[Jelw]

Yess seconding this. There have been series that posted in short segments in a way that was so inconvenient to read (especially with slow internet) that I gave up.

I mean do you think Fisheye Placebo would be nearly as popular if it was chopped up frame-by-frame? I doubt it. If a comic has a good reading experience, I think it is more likely to be recommended and reread too. (I admittedly reread Fisheye practically monthly, and regularly revist other long form stories and reread parts. How is that for ad impressions).

[eagle1]

Sorry for the delay, I had a meeting.

I think we need to re-adjust from this mindset.

Think about it this way, theoretically, the most profitable way to make money on Tapastic would be to cut up your comic into individual panels and upload them as episodes so you'd take a standard 5 panel page and make it 5 separate episodes. This means that instead of getting 2 ad impressions per page, now you get 10.

But I would argue that cutting up content into those micro-chunks actually lends itself to a worse reading experience and thus actually hurts the reader from wanting to share the work.

A year ago, there used to be a series called Thermohalia which had a first episode that was approximately 8 pages long. The second episode was of a similar length and so was the third and fourth. She could have broken down the episodes into smaller chunks, but she was creating story beats that really resonated with her readers.

At a certain point in time, it was the most shared comic on Tapastic (thanks in part to Imgur). The shares and attraction of new readers gained her more ad revenue impressions than most other short form series.

When I think about ad revenue, I think about how to maximize it in the long run rather than trying to make a quick buck in the short term. You have to think about creating meaningful content that is going to really resonate with your reader. If that reader shares your episode, then you just doubled your ad impressions and possibly even doubled it in the long term if the new reader subscribes.

Some food for thought. Let me know what you think

First off, I am posting my comic the way it is meant to be read, page by page. Actually, that's not true, as it is meant to be read in two page sections, so that the mini-cliffhangers at the bottom of each odd page are more effective, but that's not a format that is supported in webcomics, so page by page it is. But be that as it may, the current comics are coming out a single page at a time, in 22 page issues.

Now, you took my statements a bit more seriously than I intended them, and in doing so took my point to reductio ad absurdum. However, my point remains, and the truth is that those pennies I am making off the way the comic is presented on this site are important to me symbolically. It's a simple fact that there are four things not slowing me down, but actually preventing me from collapsing my comics and taking advantage of the vertical format.

The first is that the comics are not designed for the format, and would suffer for the change in the pacing and the reveals, as well as the fact that the pages are designed to be read in floppy format instead of scrolling format, which means double page spreads are not ever going to work. And juxtaposed pages are not going to work as well either. Anything where it is designed to take advantage of the print comic format is going to lose certain story telling devices on this format.

The second is that the Fresh category on the front page only picks up new episodes, not pages added to an old chapter, so that would be removing one of the best marketing tools that we have on this site.

The third is the loss of comments, likes, and other sundries, as there is no way to transport those with pages if we collapse pages to fit the Tapastic format.

And the fourth is the loss of ad revenue. If I collapse 8 pages into a single chapter, I would need to pick up 7 times the viewers I have now in order to make up for the revenue loss (not that I have enough revenue to complain about right now).

And all of this has to do with the fact that you have a non-standard viewing system. Now, I see the advantages of it, especially for mobile devices. I want to try it out. But the 4 things I mentioned above make it something that is not going to happen easily or soon....yet you have established that it's more or less a requirement to get some of the tapastic staff marketing that is so heavily craved around here. I might do what I have seen others do, and post a second comic that is actually nothing more than the first comic reformatted for the tapastic viewing.
Sad to say, what I have are comics that are likely to attract a small, but dedicated audience, and are not likely to achieve widespread success, as they are very much niche stories. I am not likely to have masses of people sharing my comics, or make the front page of Tapastic (especially since I have yet to see any comic that remotely resembles what I read or write show up there) so I will keep plugging away at my projects and build up a readership as best I can.

But my original point still stands. A way of collapsing the pages into a more tapastic friendly format without losing comments, likes, ad revenue, or shine-time on the Fresh page.

Eagle
(Just a thought or three)

[scythe]

I'd like to see yearly awards instated. Best Fantasy, Best Slice of life, gag a day, Best new etc etc.

Something creators can strive for and proudly display in their promo materials.

I like the idea of a review/critique tab. Perhaps there could be an option to post a critique anonymously? Or creators could opt out.

Or what about a star rating? I know other sites have that, not sure how well that works though, or whether or not it's a good idea.

[allenthomas]

Sub folders to group episodes together.

I second this notion.

[serenitysquirrel]

A links section probably located somewhere on the left bar for suggested other comics on taptastic only. I would also likely keep it somewhat limited OR have it at the bottom of the left, and it would give chance for people to promote similar comics on taptastic of their choosing, thereby sometimes boosting comics that may not just always be on the 'most popular' page.

[keii4ii]

I'd like to see yearly awards instated. Best Fantasy, Best Slice of life, gag a day, Best new etc etc.

I think those tend to hurt the community more than they help. I'd like events that encourage cooperation, not competition...

[doktormostro]

I think clubs sounds nice but it would become a problem, because it would create segmentation mainly between creators, and the forum right now is like a massive club where everyone is invited to participate, even if theres people ignoring it.

I second the idea from @kurapikasuki of sub folders for episodes, i got to read some comics that have like 30-60 pages and look at an infinite list of chapters/episodes/pages looks awful and disorganized. NSFW seems the lazy result instead of better tagged content too.

I hadn´t publish yet, but from what i see and understand. It makes sense a fresh list from "new pages" instead of "new chapters" as @AngieVX mention.

And if i undestood what @eagle1 said.. I think every page must have his own like and comment counter.

Speaking of views and subscribers, i would like those to be generally counted and not per comic title. It would be faster to get 500 subs for the support sys for people that already have some time and more than one series. Afterall i think people like to subscribe to the creator content, not just one of his comics. But not sure o.o"

[Jelw]

I want the feature for a wall post to be sent to only certain subscribers for a creator that has multiple series. If a creator has comics A and B and has an announcement only aplicable to subscribers of comic A it would be nice if the notification could be sent to those subscribers specifically. (Like having the Choice to notify subscribers of A, Subscribers of B, or all subscribers)

[HNLEE]

aww that's too bad maybe they'll consider it again in the future. Im ot much of an fb user so another option would be good.
Or maybe an account link feature could also be a good idea.

[earthbendercharlie]

I'd like to have categories within a series for those of us who are doing a lengthy series but one to occasionally upload a little side story/strip that isn't part of the main canon. Currently, the only way to do this is to start a new series or to organise the side posts in a list positioned before or after the main story which I dont think is a good solution at all.

Something like this basically:

I doubt we'd ever see it, but I'd like to.