[Site Update] Website Change Notes

[ratique]

Yes - this is the best thread!

Are you on android or iPhone! I'll let the team know!

[Kelheor]

Android! And Chrome browser if this helps somehow.

[ratique]

It is trying to open the app, right? Instead of the Mobile site?

[Kelheor]

Yeah, when I click the app is opening, but it just leads to the front page as if I simply opened the app without any link.

[ratique]

How very annoying - I'll make a bug report. Thank you!

[vothnthorvaldson]

That explains everything! As it's what happens when people delete their comic/novel, I though it was that, but I was wondering why so many people were advertising their work and then immediately deleting it, these times

[Niharika]

@ratique Hello! I love all the new features. I also had a question/suggestion. Are in-line comments something the staff is interested in introducing to the site?

Love the infinite scroll being back, btw.

[ratique]

Are in-line comments something the staff is interested in introducing to the site?

I'm probably being stupid, but... what are in-line comments?

[KRWright]

Et voila

Basically it allows you to quote what you're responding to. This is Wattpad's UI.

[ratique]

Oooooooh! Neat! I'll share it wish the team in case they are interested to add something like this in the future.

[emmauss]

The current page design is really bad, the previous was much better. my screen is a 720p(768px) screen, and with the browser own bars taking up space, I don't have a lot of viewing space. Now with the permanent nav bar, and the footer, I have even less viewing space. and they don't even auto hide. the episode list style is just them moving from left in the classic tapas to right, so that doesn't bother me, but that footer and nav bar that doesn't hide on scroll doesn't do it for me.
and example

[jensrichard77]

Hey? The Tapas preload logo is interfering with the uploads

[ratique]

Lemme make a report! (iOS app, right?)

[ryoko]

I think I saw someone mention this regarding the descending toggle for creators a while back and noticed that it's still doing the following:

I have my series marked to appear in descending order with the newest ep showing first, but for desktop(Chrome) and app(android), if you click on the series it goes to the first episode.

For mobile it works correctly and goes from descending order.

[ratique]

I just checked your series on desktop on both Chrome and Safari - both times the series appear with oldest episode on the bottom, newest episodes on top. I'm brought to the first episodes because I haven't read your series yet.

Can you view your newest episode, close your comic and then return to see where it drops you off that time?

[ryoko]

It worked that time when I clicked on the newest episode, closed, then reloaded. Not sure why it was messed up before. Probably something I did, I'm sure.

[jensrichard77]

Mobile web. Ios safari

[Zeedom]

Every time I go to read a comic it takes me to the latest page instead of letting me pickup where I left off.Also I don't seem to be able to share comics on social media anymore, I can share pages but not the comic which is inconvenient. I've noticed a hard decline in ad impressions despite increased views however I'm not sure if it's related to the pandemic since despite still having impressions I don't see any ads on the site whether it's my work or reading the comics of others so I'm just confused.

[jensrichard77]

@ratique newer mind the pre-load logo issue. It was a transparent background on the series images that made this

Edit: But you may ask them why the heavy loading of a series? It brakes the reading flow when you have to wait for each image to load. I do not see this at other comic hosting sites

Edit edit: And I do not record that there was a heavy loading before the update?
This is especially something that bothers me when reading big art series with black background like Queen of gods. All those white brakes are bad for the flow.
(And yes. I read that series many times)

[ratique]

It was a transparent background on the series images that made this

Interesting! I didn't even think that was a thing. I updated the team on this, since it's still a problem if more creators use transparent backgrounds.

Regarding slow loading times, the team is reviewing why this is happening.
And thank you for re-reading the story!