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May 2020

Nope. This is a loooooong issue and perhaps something to to with Google (If that is your login?)

I would be extremely saddened if this leads to comments getting shorter...

Yep, Google.
Again, I wasn't sure if it was an issue with Tapas that they could fix, but I still felt I should let them know.

Eh I dunno that that's the reasoning. The dev team makes their decisions based on finding best solutions for readers, not advertisers.

For now, we will stick with the current solution and review the data once we have it.

Did you randomly click a middle episode and then click the link?

Because in Crome that will take me to last viewed and not latest episode.
Also as @mmmmat is saying. This is when you are signed out and have no account the issue is.

I guess the best way to use this site, is to have an account :wink:

My experience of over a decade of web development is that Firefox is Firefox is Firefox. The platform it's running on doesn't matter, but thanks for passing it on. For what it's worth I just checked and I get the exact same problem in both Chrome and Opera as well.

The thing is, it's not really a browser issue, the page is rendering just fine, it's your server that's delivering the wrong stuff. Your default behaviour is wrong regardless of what browser I'm using.

Thanks. That gives me the slightly less broken behaviour the site managed to present until a few days ago. Ideally I just want the most recent episode to load when I hit my bookmark but that for some reason seems to be a feature nobody at tapas towers has thought users might like.

Would it be so tricky to have a https://tapas.io/series/[blah]/latest url available for each [blah] on the site?

Well. Now that you have an account. Please stay and enjoy all the good thing that comes. Some creators really like it when you give them a ”like” and leave a nice comment.
It helps them to know what you like.
Also. Some other readers might share some of your thoughts

And you get a notification when there is a new update

What??? But we need the $$$

I really hope comments don't get shorter or discouraged. Interacting with readers is one of the most rewarding parts of sharing my work here, way more than numbers and subs :cry:

I believe that if people have something to say. They will say it.

Just like @mmmmat that made an account just to tell us about the user experience.

Communication is key. And unlike Webtoons, Tapas is doing this part so much better. You do not even get a notification as a creator that someone has left a comment for you over there. How lame is that?

Tapas is the best place for me to call home.

IMO this is much more likely for complaints than it is for compliments...

Not really, I asked several people to check the page and they all found the comments box weird if not annoying, because if you have a computer with a smaller screen the comments box overlaps with the pages and you have to manually activate it to comment, which interrupts the reading flow, and then hide it again to continue reading. It was much more convenient to just: read page -> type comment below -> move on. Also, less clicks.

Psst @mmmmat wanna prove this wrong?

Exceptions don't prove it wrong if they are, well, exceptions.

Besides, people generally accept that the majority of your active subs are silent readers enjoying the comic without ever commenting. If that's true, then it's also true that people are unlikely to say anything. We really did not need to introduce a new factor deterring people from leaving thoughtful comments... We should be encouraging people to talk more.

I know. And I have also said that the comments do not belong in a jumpy sidebar.

If the comments start out minimized, and you click to expand them, the ads are still right there to begin with.

Respectfully, I don't understand why this would be a "solution" when there was no problem beforehand. I understand the idea of letting people comment while still reading or while scrolling back, but it doesn't have to be all or nothing. There can just be a place to click to expand the comments as well as a place to click to pop them up in the sidebar. Flexibility won't hurt.

As is, it's just not taking advantage of available space. If you can use the full space for browsing and reading comments, which is certainly possible as it's the way it was, why force it to only be visible in squished format that makes it impossible to have as much comment material on the screen at a time?

Per the comment situation:
I think a possible solution would be to make it flexible and utilize the space under an episode and the side bar.
Like you could click 'See All' in the space under an episode to expand and open all the comments there below the episode. Leave the side bar comments for readers who do like it?

Hey!
Something else here.
I just want to thank the team for making this little pr-loading logo.
I was so ignored when reading and I thought that the comic just had some white space and I needed to scroll some more to read. Then the white space was just image loading and I miss the previous image.
Now whit this little logo I know something is loading.

Thank you