LINE Webtoon - Opinions?

[PurpleGround]

Alright. Understood. =)

[shaneoid77]

I'm getting more subscribers and feedback on there than anywhere so I'm navigating towards LINE, but I'd prefer to support Tapastic, as many say, the community is a good aspect, but sometimes I wonder if an artist needs a little anonymity to help their work flourish?

[PurpleGround]

Yeah. I uploaded an episode there by combining two pages to make it looks long. I got an 8.33 rating, 8 sub and 43 views for that. No comments yet. But personally for an artist, i would suggest branching out more if we needed more feedbacks. Among the piles of rocks thrown there be a gem.

[eat]

I'm not really a fan of how it only accepts jpegs. Everything I do is PNG so having to copy it into a jpeg file really affects the quality

[Sketchu]

omg ye a lot of the sharp and little details in drawings I do get messed up and it hurts inside when I see it, rip

[69Michi]

I thought of the same thing and was very annoyed at first, but then I just thought about how it was a mobile optimized website, so jpg is the good way to go since pngs are definitely the bigger file size and take longer to load. We do the same thing when we build a website, no png file except for the logo, the rest of the image on the website has to be compressed in to jpg or gif.

[PotooGryphon]

but sometimes I wonder if an artist needs a little anonymity to help their work flourish?

Yeah, I wonder this too sometimes.

Like there are super popular webcomic series out there where the artist mainly just posts there pages with little to no episode description and little to no response back to comments left on their pages. And the fans are ravenous for these series.

I think LINE kind of prefers their artists to be a bit more detached and anonymous from their readers and encourages that through character limitations on the episode descriptions. It can also be a cultural thing like Keiiii has pointed out before. However, it's interesting to consider how possibly if artists just post and keep mostly to themselves, how much that might help or hurt a series.

[69Michi]

I think I sorta see your point with LINE. A lot, I mean A LOT of author on LINE doesn't have a habit of replying to readers' comments. I have come over dozen of them that just keep to themselves. Personally, this habit discourage me from commenting on people's work. It's like I'm shouting into the void, hoping for the creator to reply back to me when my comment just disappeared in the sea of other's comments.

I found it amusing when I reply to every single comments on my Webtoon series, a lot of people legitly freaked out and said "OMG author notices me" or some even said "OMG I found an author that actually replies to comments" :/ It's sorta sad to me LMFAO

[PotooGryphon]

Yeah! I'm the same. I like actually being able to have a conversation with the creator of my favorite series, and talk about stuff going on in the comic both on the technical side, learning how they create, and fun silly comments.

A lot, I mean A LOT of author on LINE doesn't have a habit of replying to readers' comments.

Even beyond LINE I see this. There's a few creators here on Tapastic with super popular series that don't interact much and have super dedicated readers and some series with their own sites.

There's a bit of cool aloofness to it that I have to admit I kind of admire.

[69Michi]

There's a bit of cool aloofness to it that I have to admit I kind of admire.

Yeah I think it sorta gives off this professional feel when you don't reply to your readers and be on the same ground with them. Same thing happened on DA when these popular creators who only post arts and rarely reply to any comments. But I have always been a down to earth person who likes talking with my readers, people that are popular and don't reply to comment actually intimidate me and I often avoid them like the plague.

[AffectedMind]

Yea, I try to reply as much as I can, tho sometimes I just don't know what to say xD But I like every comment. Recently I replied to a comment and got one of those "omg the author replied!" I mean, shouldn't it be like that always? We all are just human beings. If you ignore the comments and just don't reply at all why would you even publish your work? To hear the praise or what?

[Tanisha]

For most people on there they just can't get to all of them which I get, but the completely silent ones that don't even put a description are the ones that mostly get to me//

[AffectedMind]

Well it's definitely hard for featured creators that get thousands (literally) of comments per update.

[69Michi]

I do get people that get a lot of comment and thus they can't reply to every single one of them, but at least a few? Maybe a dozen? T_T The featured comics don't reply, I get why, but other one in the Discovery section also pick up on this practice and just leave their readers hanging.

I mean, shouldn't it be like that always? We all are just human beings.

I agree! It makes me feel sad that people tell me "You are the best creator ever" or "Thank you for replying to me!" and "Thank you for noticing me" and I keep on repeating myself saying thank you to them back for even leaving comments ;; __ ;; I'm a silent reader type so people taking time to leave a comment means the world to me LMFAO

[AffectedMind]

Yea! It's weird, like we are some kind of demi gods XD I'm happy too when I can talk to other fellow creator but to be it some kind of phenomenon? Nah.

[shaneoid77]

Yea! It's weird, like we are some kind of demi gods XD I'm happy too when I can talk to other fellow creator but to be it some kind of phenomenon?

I used to get stopped in the street years ago for my old webcomic haha. I'm thinking I'm a struggling till monkey from the arse end of Newcastle. But it's nice to be acknowledged for your work.

[scythe]

I've been responding to the comments so far, but I don't get that many so it's okay. They don't notify you when you get a new one though, so it's super easy to miss one and makes sense why there's probably very little engagement from featured creators.

I think a lot of the readers see the comments section as a place to interact with each other, rather than with the creator anyway. Which is fine, not better or worse than Tap, just different.

[Nio_Kasgami]

Honestly I was scare in begin but...it's not so bad I got surprised that my comic got likes in first a 1/10
it's was like oh gosh....I don't like this website blabla

then few hours laters I was at 7/10 I was like...Oh gosh ...they like my comic?
well I guess I can publish it here a little more haha

I don't actually care of the money much of times if I gets moneys...Fine!
I prefer peoples enjoying their comics

Honestly peoples tends to not complain on the shorteness of my chapter.

[TheVoidchildProject]

I've posted in here before buy I'll update my impression. Webtoon has served me fine. Voidchild is up to 144 subs over there now and steadily increasing and now with a respectable 8.06 rating (which surprised me due to my somewhat "amateurish" art). If I've calculated correctly about every 8-8.5th viewer subscribes. But it's very difficult to say. All the comments I've received have been positive. I've seen som great comics on there that I feel are rated much lower than they deserve though.

Pro's so far:

• Less need for advertising.
• friendly readers (my own experience)
• easy-to-use app and reader friendly site.

Con's so far:
- very few functions (for interface and communicating with readers)
- lack of notification systems (for both subs and comments, I have to check every page to see if there are new comments which is a drag)
- strange disparity in the rating system and not sure what the reason for that is.

Overall I'm happy with Webtoons. But Tapastic is where I'd prefer to build a reader base. I just personally find that this site is better geared towards both readers and creators whereas Webtoons feels more angled towards the reader. Sure, there are some features that I'm missing from Tapastic (page spreads functionality cough) but there's generally more for me to work with here.

[r0ckrabbi7]

Great! Then if I upload I don't have to worry if someone commented with "too short", I'll just never open my submission and pretend comments don't exist xDD