LINE Webtoon - Opinions?

[shaylafarley5]

Ooh, never used the mobile, just the main site. Time to try it out

[cosmicfunnies]

It is true. I used to have 9.00 rating there and then over time someone continued to downvote my work. Now it's down to 7.92..I haven't posted there in a while and thinking of quitting webtoons..it's depressing there.

[Rhyzue]

I've been using LINE for a while now for my comic Laifu. It's in the comedy genre and has just over 300 subs.

But recently, I started a new one in the romance genre called Project STALKER. The response to this one was very very impressive!! It gathered 1.1k subs in under a week with only 2 updates. In LINE, the romance genre is combined with a couple other genres so I think that contributes to the amount of subs.

The ratings for STALKER fluctuates quite a bit. It's sitting at 8.79 right now and whenever it gets close to 9.00, the ratings seem to fall from waves of haters! D:

Other than that, I really love LINE. It has a lot of readers so anyone who's looking for fame will find it over there! The readers also love engaging with creators - it's so heartwarming to see all those nice comments, and rarely is there any rude or disrespectful ones.

[joannekwan]

Eh, I might try it when all my series are complete and I have time to convert the files to jpg.

[hades]

I have more comments complaining about my updates on Line then I have positive. As well as arguing with me over whether or not I actually have time for said updates. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I also got a harsh unsolicited crit on my writing ability. I don't mind critiques but this is getting a little too negative of an environment for me.

[ghostmaya]

They complain but they will apologize soon if you do what they want. Just explain it to them and they will understand

[AffectedMind]

I put an adnotation under every episode now when the next update will come out and the complains stopped.

[elixiadragmire]

jesus hades!

I never got anything like that!! thats harsh!

[jjfresh]

I posted a few of my redone pages for my Beautiful Lies comic. Almost instantly it grabbed peoples attention, probably because of my style. Which is nice. However, my rating is kinda low and I think I know exactly why.

LINE Webtoon is more specifically for webtoons, and webtoons are the very long pages that are all connected (Up-Down). Tapastic is more webtoon friendly as well but there have been penty of comic book and manga styled webcomics here, like mine. But LINE readers are very picky about color. My story is manga like and naturally, no color.

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My impressions is that LINE is great but there is probably a restriction to how "inappropriate" you can get in your comics, and it is specific in its wants: Webtoon format and color. Unless you can impress the picky readers with your amazing story and art, they're probably gonna give you shit for it.
I plan on still trying LINE but I like Tapastic more. THERE THAT'S MY CONCLUSION

[rencudia]

Overall my experience with LINE has been quite positive. The readers I've gained there have been really friendly and positive, but then again that's probably because my updates have been quite long so far.

The rating system is kind of a joke. From what I understand the majority of people on Webtoon are mostly kids/young teens so I'm not really surprised to come across a bit of immaturity. Whenever I update people tend to upvote my comic to a nice 8.45 ... only for it to be downvoted back down to a 7.95 after a couple of days. I would be lying if I said it didn't wind me up a bit, since it seems that when I get these downvotes I seem to get them all at once. I do wonder if there's a group of people that just have it out for my webcomic. I mean, I did seem to get 2k subs after only about 2 updates so it would make sense if it attracted a bit of negativity too.

Overall, Webtoon is a good platform for getting a big audience. But Tapastic is nicer for getting genuine feedback and comments from older and likeminded people. I like both websites in very different ways and I'm glad I made the decision to post on both of them.

[Herofeeder]

im confused how you can get anything there..i dont think they even have a forum
the rating as you said,people seem to like my comic here but on webtoon it lik 4.24 /10 for some reason
you cant even find the fresh section as a newbie there so you wont have good exposure unless you draw like a god : p i think that page is good for veterans of comics.but for starters Tapastic is heaven right now

[Kayke]

@Herofeeder They don't have a "Fresh" section but you can sort each genre section by most recently updated.

[Aspie_Gamer]

One thing I can say about LINE Webtoon and keep in mind this is my personal opinion on them, it would definitely behoove them to have the same uploading guidelines as Tapastic. .Jpeg format is one thing, but asking that I upload 800x1280 sized versions of my existing pages for Life of an Aspie when all of them were made on a 940x1500 PNG sized format is another matter entirely. I tried to make my pages fit Webtoon's (imho) asinine uploading guidelines and they all turned out fugly when I uploaded them on Webtoon. I'm talking fugly as in I couldn't make out what was being said and even when I could, it still didn't look right for it was either blurry or too...pixel-y. Maybe its something I did wrong? idk?

Anyway, I'm definitely sticking to Tapastic for the time being.

[gateofselidor]

Were you getting moiré patterns in your screentones? There are probably some tutorials around that might help with that.

Personally, I slice all my Tapastic pages horizontally into three images, so when I want to upload them to Webtoon, I just batch process them with a series of actions I set up in Photoshop to resize and save for web. I can convert a whole chapter in a few seconds.

[tzuba12]

So two weeks ago I decided to mirror Glitch on Line Webtoon, and so far it has been a really positive experience. I already have 80+ subscribers there (it took me half a year to get that many on tapastic) and so far I'm sitting at an 8.57 rating.

But I do have my problems with it. For one, it does not notify you of new subscribers, comments on any of your episodes, or anything really. No email or central place to find any of that information. If you got a new comment, you won't know it unless you look through every single episode and see if theres anything new there.

No way to communicate with anyone outside of comments, either. Its really annoying.

But its easy for new people to get subs there (if you're comic is good). Every time your comic is updated it gets put in the "discover" tab under the specific genre your story is. And I can guarantee that people really look at the discover tab because every time I post an update I get 10-15 new subscribers. Like I said, only took me 2 weeks to get from 0 to 82 subs.

[UzukiCheverie]

One thing I can say about LINE Webtoon and keep in mind this is my personal opinion on them, it would definitely behoove them to have the same uploading guidelines as Tapastic. .Jpeg format is one thing, but asking that I upload 800x1280 sized versions of my existing pages for Life of an Aspie when all of them were made on a 940x1500 PNG sized format is another matter entirely. I tried to make my pages fit Webtoon's (imho) asinine uploading guidelines and they all turned out fugly when I uploaded them on Webtoon.

It's a general rule of thumb to make your comics large to begin with - it's a lot easier to shrink comics down than it is to make them bigger, after all. For Time Gate, I draw my pages on 11 x 16 inch canvases (which translates to about 4000 x 5500 pixels), and then when I save the JPG's, I shrink the size down to 940 and save the file (but I DON'T save over the original PSD file). This way, if I have to adjust my page sizes for Tapastic, LINE, or hell, even physical printed books (which also have their own "rules" to follow, even more so when you have to consider trim and bleed lines which you don't have to do when you upload online) then I can just shrink them down and not have to worry about increasing the size and compromising the quality of the original comic pages.

It might be of interest to LINE to offer the same page sizes, but they're not obligated to - they're their own website after all, with their own source code and layout and design, so they don't have to adjust their size dimensions to match those of another (especially COMPETITOR) website. By that logic, all comic websites should do 940 pixel width, including Tapastic, LINE, Comic Fury, SmackJeeves, DrunkDuck, Hiveworks . . . overall, it's definitely not "asinine" in the least bit for them to have their own uploading guidelines. That would be like going into Wendy's and calling their products "asinine" because they offer Frosty's instead of McFlurries

Besides, they're not asking you to change your page sizes. They're offering a free platform for you to upload your comics, and if it's not a platform that works for you, they're not going to actively "force" you to change your page sizes - you have to make that decision on your own Think of all the people that had to change their page sizes to upload to Tapastic lol

That's just my 2 cents tho lol

Maybe its something I did wrong? idk?

If it helps at all, how are you actually shrinking up your pages? Are you making a smaller canvas and copying your image over and then shrinking it with the transform tool? Or are you actually changing the image/resolution size through the menu options to do so? (in Photoshop CS6, it's "Change Image Size", in Clip Studio Paint, it's "Change Image Resolution"). I change my JPG files from 940 to 750 very easily with very little image quality loss when I prepare my original Tapastic uploads for LINE. Your dpi settings might be too low as well (a lot of drawing programs default to 72 which is ACTUALLY ASININE LOL)

Personally, I slice all my Tapastic pages horizontally into three images, so when I want to upload them to Webtoon, I just batch process them with a series of actions I set up in Photoshop to resize and save for web. I can convert a whole chapter in a few seconds.

I would toootally use this method if I did vertical comics lol I know some vertical comics that do this when uploading to Tumblr - they upload each panel as its own high-res image :3

[Aspie_Gamer]

Or are you actually changing the image/resolution size through the menu options to do so? (in Photoshop CS6, it's "Change Image Size", in Clip Studio Paint, it's "Change Image Resolution").

Well son of a B! Wouldn't you know it? That's just what I was not before. Never thought to change the image size of my pages that way. Thanks to your suggestion, my pages now look great over on LINE. Thanks a ton Baba-Ji's Husband.

[Sleepyowl]

Since I launched my Webcomic, I decided to put it up on Line webtoon to see how it would fare there.

It got only 7 subscribers so far and it's already at a 6, I'm going to guess the low ratings are because it only updates once a week. But I know the rating system is baloney so I'm going to simply ignore it.

I'll check back in a month or so to document the progress.

[tzuba12]

I think it might be because you're uploading a page at a time. I think with webtoons it would be better to upload multiple pages at a time 2 or 3 times a month.

I had my comic on tapastic long before I uploaded to webtoons, and I uploaded the prologue and half of the first chapter (up to the latest page at that point) and got a really good response since it was like 30+ pages at that point. Already got 87 subs in less than 3 weeks.

I'd say upload on tapastic until you have enough pages done, and then upload them all to webtoon at once.

[Sleepyowl]

That sounds like a good idea, but I only upload one page a week normally on every other site, so I'd only be able to upload once a month on webtoons, which would make me not eligible for their patreon pledge if my comic were to blow up over there.

I suppose I could upload 2 pages every 2 weeks or so?