[Site Update] Website Change Notes

[RandomWebComicFan]

Can confirm. It does not work for me. Clicking "see all" just takes me out of fullscreen and instead puts the comments on the side per usual.

[nozorries]

Once again, Kudos on the massive improvement on navigation. Not having to click 4 times to see new content for each comic is a joy. Feature request: Could you please incorporate the next unread library item into the autoscroll like in the days of old?

[keii4ii]

Feature request: Could you please incorporate the next unread library item into the autoscroll like in the days of old?

This might actually confuse the heck out of me and I wouldn't want it.

[krisadafantasy]

So glad endless scroll is back! My view is plunking down hard since the new layout launched in March!

[kayartics]

I'm pretty ambivalent to the changes, but this is a problem: the comments section is covering up a pretty big chunk of my pages. And that's on all pages.

I'm using Google Chrome and I'm on a Mac, if that helps any.

Thanks for the updates, and I appreciate y'all taking in community feedback.

EDIT: I think what kind of computer IS actually important, since as soon as I resized my window, it adjusted to fit the screen, but if I reloaded my page or go to a different comic, I have the same problem. I'm on a 13-inch Macbook Pro Retina.

[vvbg]

Honestly thrilled with how hard Tapas staff works to listen to users and to think about both mobile and desktop experience. The team works really hard and deserves kudos all around!

However I also want to add our vote for the ability to expand comments/expand the comment box. Receiving long, in-depth comments is the joy of every creator I'm sure, and for us, it's how we build a relationship with our readers!

Right now it's just a mess, when we can't click on "Add a comment" to expand the page

It would be awful if we discouraged readers from leaving long comments because of the UI! (Already on our latest chapter update everyone is much less chatty )

[RandomWebComicFan]

If you mean the menu on the right: click the list button to get rid of it.

For the top and bottom menus? I completely agree. On my laptop and computer they take up far too much space and you can't hide them without full-screen. Which, will its existence is great; I'd still prefer clicking to hide the bars without resorting to it as I like to browse other tabs while I read. Going in and out of fullscreen frequently would get old rapidly.

PS: Hey Ingress! I remember finding that on Smackjeeves before that website dived into an Olympic swimming pool filled to the brim with burning dumpster slurry! Great comic.

[kayartics]

Thanks for the heads up! I could NOT figure out how to hide that side menu. Silly me. But, I think there's something to be said about all of the menus taking up way too much space. The right sidebar just looks bad when it's covering up a good chunk of the page. I agree about clicking in and out of fullscreen getting old.

Also: Thanks! Glad you liked the comic!

[amortelito]

add our vote for the ability to expand comments/expand the comment box.

YES!!! I support this, please it is frustrating to type a comment in that box. It is already very hard to get any comments. I wanted to rage quit writing a long comment seconds ago but I know feedback is the only reward some artists have.

[BlairFujin]

Not sure if it was mentioned already but it seems like the bug from the previous update allowing people viewing scheduled episode is back in some form as 2 people have managed to like mine somehow

[kytri]

I haven't read most of the thread. Despite the weird little bugs I'm very glad the site is no longer visually indistinguishable from webtoons.

But issue I have right now is if you go to info page for a comic the "creator" info pulls the info text from the ink donations page. And on my ink donations page I didn't write about myself, I wrote about donations. I'd expect most people would? The ink system has nothing to do with who I am as a person so I have no idea why the creator info would pull that text and not, say, the text from my profile.

[jensrichard77]

I had to admit. The sidebar is a great tool to give extra information about the series and the creator and stuff.
But the comments do not belong there. It belongs under each episode.
Also to avoid spoilers.

It is not good to click on a new episode to read and the first thing you see in the sidebar is ”The butler did it” that information is for me to chat about after I read the episode with the other readers.

[Azifri]

100% this. It's pretty much impossible to have a good overview of the comments. I really hope it doesn't discourage people from commenting

[mmmmat]

I created an account just to make this comment, because the site is currently completely unusable for me.

Every time I load my daily-read bookmarks - eg, https://tapas.io/episode/35594 - comics hosted on tapas now load at the first comic, often first from hundres. I have to scroll through the little box on the bottom right, letting it repeatedly load more, just to get to the most recent comic. I spent 3-4 minutes this morning to read a five panel comic.

This is so wrong it must be some kind of mistake. It was bad enough when the site stopped letting me bookmark the latest comic and now this?

[jensrichard77]

Hey @mmmmat welcome to the forum.

First. there is a way to change from top to bottom with the small up up and down arrows.
But then I see something funny going on when I use them.
The order get mixed up???

[KRWright]

I’ve received good feedback from my readers on the comments being where they are. They like that the comments are right there, easy to see and get to, and they enjoy being able to comment while they’re reading rather than it waiting until the end where they might forget.

[jensrichard77]

I’ve received good feedback from my readers on the comments being where they are. They like that the comments are right there, easy to see and get to, and they enjoy being able to comment while they’re reading rather than it waiting until the end where they might forget.

THIS is important to know. Thank you KR
We creators might not think like the reader and the dev team.
I guess it is hard to make everyone happy.

But what about any issue with spoilers? Reader might not think that as a problem as we creator does?

[Azifri]

I've received the exact opposite feedback from some readers.

Edit: ah but your write novels don't you? Might be a difference there.

[KRWright]

But what about any issue with spoilers? Reader might not think that as a problem as we creator does?

Some people really don’t care about spoilers but also - they can hide the sidebar I believe? No one has said anything about it yet to me.

ah but your write novels don't you? Might be a difference there.

I think that’s a really important point. Reader behaviour and interaction really isn’t the same across both mediums. But I do also have a moderately successful webcomic - and no complaints there either. I do have an older fanbase though, who are quite moderate and accepting of changes, so they may just be more prepared to seeing how it goes.

[mmmmat]

Hi Jens, thanks for the reply.

Those arrows change the order the list is displayed in, yes, but I still have to scroll it. The page still loads on comic 1 when I want to read comic 629 (or whatever the most recent is)

I'd really just like each comic I want to read to have a static url which loads the most recent comic, eg tapas.io/episode/35594/latest, then I can bookmark that and load it along with all the other comics I read in the morning with my cup of tea. The previous version of the site loaded a list which had the most recent episode at the top and I could click on that, which was mildly annoying but bearable. Most comics I read on other sites don't have this issue.