It's a tricky topic, because I'd actually say that yes, people are actually looking at the community tab. It's been pretty good for my views! I've had a noticeable uptick in both views and organic sub gain since it launched ...But that does actually illustrate what the issue is for smaller creators.
The issue is that the community tab still uses the same algorithm as the main "view all" page, (ie. it's based mostly on likes in the last few days) meaning that if you're like me, and your comic is over a few hundred subs (or in my case over a thousand) and can reliably get enough likes on update day to appear in the overall rankings in your genre anyway, the community tab is great. It's like the main browsing except I appear higher up it because all the pay to read comics made by teams of people with more marketing behind them are taken off the top. It might also be good for people who are performing okay for a new comic and can appear in their genre rankings sometimes if you skim 20 or more titles off the top. But obviously it's no good for somebody who cannot even get close to the rankings through some mixture of being in an overcrowded genre (like Fantasy) while also not managing to get more than a couple of likes per update.
So if you have a comic that's brand new or with low readership, the best thing to do is promote on the forums, the Tapas discord and participate in every community event that's appropriate, because the best shot you have is the staff spotting you and giving you a "new from the community" feature to boost you up those first 50-250 subs or so where your numbers can make you appear in your genre rankings.
Tapas has changed, and in a way that will benefit some creators and be bad for others. Fundamentally, the best way I can describe this change is that Tapas now looks at each comic more like a "brand" or "IP", and they're interested in comics as individual units over creators (unless the creator's name has become a marketable brand in itself due to some significant past success).
This is obviously a bad change if your approach was a scattergun one of throwing out lots of bitty experimental shorter comics that were scrappily made but with an interesting concept, getting a few readers on each and relying on how Tapas used to notify people if somebody with a work they'd bookmarked made a new comic.
It's also a bad change if you go into your comic with an attitude like "aaah, I don't really 100% know what this is yet, but I'll work it out as I go. I'm just gonna try things."
The audience on Tapas funnily has changed in a way that makes the name "tapas" not make so much sense as it used to; from one of people browsing for little bites of random interesting content, to one looking for a solid read to get stuck into. It's happened because of the addition of these very complete localised comics combined with some of the original premium comics becoming very long or being complete, and to the audience they've attracted is of people looking for a comic that knows exactly what it's trying to be, communicates it very clearly to them and delivers consistent storytelling.
Basically your comic needs to spring into being as a complete product, like the Goddess Athena being born out of Zeus' forehead fully armed and armoured and knowing exactly what her deal was.
This is where @Lunar-Turtle has done "new Tapas comic" exactly right. Relaunching a comic with a very clear, consistent aesthetic and a neat, distinctive but readable logo that matches that aesthetic on a polished cover that follows the Tapas cover guidelines to the letter, plus a copyright-friendly unique name and telling a story that's got easy hooks that are established quickly. Then putting a bunch of effort into promotion across a wide range of channels. Synastry got a "New from the Community" feature because it did exactly what Tapas wants from a new comic.
Obviously this approach of "launch your comic like it's a brand" may not appeal to some people, and they may be like "well, seeya! I'm gonna go to [webtoon/flowfo/dillyhub/the duck/comic fury]", but the other option is to take advantage of this knowledge and make a comic that'll launch with a bang on the platform as it is now. Tapas are looking for polished comics with a strong unique brand identity based around recognisable, marketable characters and that have a punchy story hook. If you can launch something like that, you might be onto a winner. 
