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liminal-collapse
Oct '23

Obviously it makes sense that Ep 1 has the most views, because then people decide they're not interested and don't carry on. No harm no foul!

But it strikes me as bizarre that Ep 3 has fewer views than Ep 2 or Ep 4 :laughing:

Frankly Ep 3 is my favourite of them all. READ IT PEOPLE :sweat_smile:

But in all seriousness, what constitues a "view"? Just clicking on it? And if I click on Ep 1 and then read through on my laptop (just scrolling down the whole time), do I generate a view for each episode I read, or just the first one I clicked into?

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llobucervallince
Oct '23

honestly the difference bewteen my first episode and the rest is both concerning and laughable.

IndigoShirtProd
Oct '23

Mine are a bit off since I added more episodes at the start. The real tell of retention is between episodes 2 and 3 which have been there since the start of my comic. All the episodes with less than 400 views were added later.

TheDoublekey
Oct '23

Ah yes the view count discrepancy between the first and following episodes is something that I always found interesting and a little discouraging. The difference is VERY evident in my old series:

I always attributed the plummeting in views to the fact that new readers might've found my prologue a little bit ugly (the text is very small and the presentation is a bit lacking).

Thankfully it's less dramatic of a difference in the reboot, so I assume I was able to carry some readers from prologue to ep. 1, but the decrease in views is still there.

KevinReijnders
Oct '23



I lose 75% of people that read the 1st part of chapter 01 and have had a steady decline in views since.

I blame in large part my sporadic upload schedule, see how between 12 and 13 there's a significant drop. There was also a 2 month gap between those.

morganicfoods
Oct '23

Eh, it's pretty normal to have a big dropoff from the first episode. I lost almost 1000 people at episode one L

AmysGames
Oct '23

Every comic I've ever uploaded has significantly more views on the first page than any other page, it's very normal. I'm convinced at least some of the views are bots, lol.

Apparently it's also normal to have a sudden dropoff after page 20, but it always makes me a little sad. Like just read the rest of the comic!!

TheLemmaLlama
Oct '23

Confession: I'm a chronic first-episode-checker who tends to skin the first episode and even if I like it, I'll tend to just put it on my sublist for later :sweat_02:

Ah yes, I do enjoy starting a series from Episode 4; who needs context? :smiley:

delladz
Oct '23

Also gonna add to the convo that episodes marked as mature have significantly less views compared to the ones that are not! I think that mostly has to do with tapas guidelines when it comes to the app but idk for sure? I've also noticed that when you read your own episodes on desktop, the views don't count but if you read it from mobile, they do.

I think the general metric is that your first episode vs your last episode is about a 50% or so drop depending on the story? For example, people who post page by page rather than an isolated story chunk would most likely have more views on the second episode

2DLenzy
Nov '23

My first episode was orginally two separate, until I combined them to capture the premise better. Not sure it worked though XD

And I think 100 of those views on the first are my panic-stricken past self. I've chilled out since then, as you can see by my numbers...

Headypigeon4180
Nov '23

My view stats look like this

Interestingly enough though the number of likes and comments only goes down slightly with each subsequent episode. So i've reason to be positive lol