@ghostieblu hi! I literally just found your comic because you posted the link here. Which means you are not self promoting annoying or anything worthy of being called out! There are some comics I have seen everywhere, over and over again and I can't blame them for wanting to show their work. Self-promote!
Now...your comic has such amazing quality and has a very distinctive style. I will love to read it and spam you with hearts and comments as soon as I finish my work.
I don't think the idea of making a new episode and delete is dirty to make notifications XD, but that doesn't work. Once I was making trial episodes and as soon as I deleted them Tapas deleted the notification and my comic disappeared from the fresh section. I guess they have that one figured out.
I was uploading my comic by updating the chapters too and my buddy Daknight is right, less people checked it out because they assume the "updates" are just some minor changes and they wait for the new chapter notification. So, maybe page per episode is not that bad.