In regards to WIP or concept sketches - we haven't come to a conclusion about it. While we discourage this practice in general, if it allows creators to earn a better income, then I'm all for it. There wouldn't be a "pay what you want" or "subscription" option at first, the initial version if built would be very simple. Creators would mark scheduled episodes to have the additional option of being able to unlock if paid for. Then when the scheduled date arrives, the episode would be available for everyone on both desktop and the app. There wouldn't really be an option for perpetual locking.
We'll be sending out more surveys and also following up with an analysis of the surveys to further open up dialogue.
This could be a possibility - but would be in addition to the daily snack rather than a replacement.
We have a ticket for this but have not moved it to anything beyond the brainstorming phases. We do have your original mock ups to work off of.
I was doing another study that was never completed around the idea of "series growth rate" i.e. the longer a series runs on Tapastic the higher probability that the reader growth will plateau unless introduced to different reader segments. My results were inconclusive. I might publish the random findings on the forums at a future date - something long form like my post about social media (http://forums.tapastic.com/t/building-a-social-media-presence-with-no-budget/8565)
If you want, we can take this conversation offline and look more into your readership and figure out why that's the case.
I strongly recommend that every creator post on every webcomic platform and find the ones that really work for them. I don't really see Line and Tapastic as direct competitors because the webcomic readership community is not a zero sum game. Both our companies are trying out different things in order to build out the readership size.
Yes, we do. However, for the case of Learning Curves, we obviously did not realize the negative impact it would have. This has been a learning experience for us.
We'll revisit it at a later date.
The survey was created before your post. But I understand. The timing wasn't great.
We don't have enough bandwidth to develop out both concurrently. Once the tools have been put into place on the app, we can then start implementing similar functionality to the site - however, we still have some limitations regarding which services can actually allow us to duplicate these processes.
We can see this. We are working on better tools for creators on the mobile apps.
We have not actively pursued asking creators to switch to posting on the app specifically because of that reason - we are waiting until we can apply the new system to already existing series until we begin asking. Until then it's a voluntary system.
I want desperately to show that the staff cares, and I'm trying.
We have a long list of things we want to build comprised of things that creators and readers have asked for. It's not an easy task to build a website and app and maintain both concurrently. We are trying. We are working REALLY REALLY hard to make this possible.
