Likes:
-Scheduling. When I started posting here I had a years worth of buffer, so I scheduled it all in a day and just peaced out for a year.
-Has a large audience already built in
-It wants more than just fanart. As an artist I get real tired of doing fanart for attention, although I love it. But Tapas really values original works. (while still has a place for fanart)
-The front page is curated. I don't like how it's curated, but I appreciate that it's more than just "this person just posted" or "this guy is very famous." While there is a lot of people being recent or famous, at least I know some parts of it are genuinely hand selected by an actual human being.
-I love that it has novels as well as comics so you get a nice intersection of artist who are writers and writers and artists hanging out together.
Dislikes:
-Expects you to already understand how webtoons work. Legit I had never even read or seen a webtoon before posting here. Was confused for a LONG time. Basically until I found this forum.
-You have to title every freakin episode. When you do page comics that means you title every page. Every Page.
-The UI has too many clicks before I can get to my comic. Feels like they hide my own comic from me. Less clicks the better when it comes to UI.
-It needs a tutorial. There's no explanation of "here is a nice looking link for your comic that isn't 169 letters long", "Here is a forum" (I found the tapas forum by accident a year after I started posting here) Or better yet "here is your comic" (After I posted my comic I couldn't find it for the longest time because the link is in the weirdest spot) Like I've been looking at that "wall" page for over a year and I don't get that thing at all. The hell even is that? Do people use that thing? I don't know. I never look at people's walls. Not since Facebook had walls.
-Because they only really push for one genre and style, everyone feels pressured to draw that style. It's not really encouraging creativity in the slightest. So a lot of people are just dogpiling on one genre as if all the other genres and styles are going to become extinct. To the point that you see people saying that page comics will go away...Which they literally can't. People use huge ass tablets. They can read the small font just fine.
-the readership and userbase is hella young. If I'm a millennial and I feel like a grandmother then like...how even is it for people in their 40's? From working in a bookstore, I gotta tell you, the most devoted readers are old granny's looking for serial books. We gotta get those old grannies on tapas. Can we chill with the millions of X rated romances about high schoolers? What grannies want is X rated romances about responsible billionaires with babies. I just feel like my mom would freakin LOVE tapas if it wasn't just high school stuff on the front page.
-oh and I almost forgot to add one last thing, the very worst thing about tapas, is that I use a tablet as a mouse, so when I'm reading a comic, it'll just Skip to the bottom if I accidentally click on the wrong part of the very tiny scroll bar. Sometimes it even does that on my phone. It doesn't do this with any other site. Just tapas.