Introducing Tapastry, the Tapas Creator Community 🆕

[Van]

Um, I'm not really sure what this is,
Is it a rebranding? A new feature? A socia media news letter?

[Llyrel]

I'm also a bit confused as to what this is

[Louistrations]

I don't understand what this is, the article doesn't explain anything! XD

Love the wordplay though!!

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

Yeah, I thought they were already sending me all the news......

[KoreanTacos]

Good to know I was never part of this community until now.

[TedGravesArt]

Ok, so we've got a name and a mascot. For....what?

[peach]

I want to be excited but am confusion.

[Toastbuster]

[ratique]

Hello all!

The Tapastry branding has been created for our creator community. We are using it to build a social media presence focused around creators and our interests, and to help boost our community series. If this is something that interests you, feel free to follow us or subscribe to our newsletter.

There will be future changes and additional features on our site and app surrounding Tapastry, which will be announced when the time comes!

Cheers!
Rat

[SilverLugia456]

Like I said I can't wait to see what else comes. Everything so far has been great and its awesome to see the support. It will just keep growing from here! ^_^

[cortezlord96]

tapastrytcc

Thank you for the clarification. I do have a question though, while helping creators get seen is awesome, will this new branding focus on your featured artists or more on the small unknown creators, cause other platforms are doing something similar to support the 'creators' but the overwhelming majority of the posts/spotlight/mentions are for original/featured creators who are already front lining the site, and have large audiences build in with their webcomic.

[darthmongoose]

We are using it to build a social media presence focused around creators and our interests, and to help boost our community series.

Will the channels for announcing competitions and news aimed at creators be the same ones used for promoting community-created content? I'm just concerned that if that were the case, the community content would be promoted to a relatively small audience comprised only of other creators, limiting our ability to grow. The audience of readers on Tapas is so much bigger than the audience of readers who are also creators, and it's a much harder audience for many of us to reach. It would be good to know if there had been some consideration of this.

I do appreciate this move towards promotion of home-grown content, particularly with the heavy recent focus on translated complete comics on the site and social media, and I hope that it might help combat the sub gain stagnation many of us have experienced over the past several months since the changes to the site layout and algorithms.

[B.F]

Is this building social media presence for TAPAS itself or for its creators? It seems like tapas is already very present as a whole and needs to be focusing more on featuring more artists!

[snailienz]

There will be future changes and additional features on our site and app surrounding Tapastry, which will be announced when the time comes!

Now this....this I find interesting. I actually wouldn’t mind more support for creators on tablets cause all my work is on my iPad and having less working around the system to get to upload tools would be nice.

Or like, more ways to promote other than hoping for a miracle or wading in the forums.

[GamerPrincessXI]

So are we becoming paintings, Is that what it is?

[myumyudapao]

agreed, hope this also helps Small creators not just the ones featured in premium and creators with high sub count,

[jensrichard77]

For me. This feels like an extension of this forum out in the masse SoMe where other than just us can get a chance to follow what we are doing as a community. I guess that this is a way for Tapas to promote the community, not specific series, but as a whole.
Anyway I love this

[AWFrasier]

I'm really confused what this is supposed to be - or maybe not? But correct me if I'm wrong here. It's supposed to be:

1. A newsletter about the most important news for creators (contests, opportunities, etc.)
2. A SoMe platform to feature community creators.

Isn't this... What we already have with the official Tapas profiles? Does this mean community creators won't be featured on those? Aren't we already getting news from the official Tapas profile and here on the forums and through push notifications?

And how do you define a "community series"? Is this a series made by someone who is a user on Tapas and not a series Tapas has bought and translated from another source? Or, is it a community created series by several users organised by Tapas?

Sorry for the wall of questions, but I'm really confused

[jensrichard77]

Or, is it a community created series by several users organised by Tapas?

This sounds like fun. Where can I sign up?

[SeraphicMayin]

I'm not on the Tapastry team but I was watching it develop for a while on the sidelines. I'll try to clarify from my understanding.

The Tapas community is everyone who posts a comic or on their own. Until now we didn't have collective name that we liked for this community. Now we do.

So now we can focus exclusively on Community events that are separate from Tapas-wide events. Hence the Tapastry specific social media.

This is only the first step of many this year in Tapas's plans for rolling out a lot of stuff for community creators.

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A community series is anything that an individual user creates and posts that isn't in official partnership with Tapas. So no this isn't about more exposure for Premium titles, but rather home-grown content.

Hope this helps rather than confuses further xD