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.
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?
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.
@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)
@jensrichard77 Can you send me a link to the episodes you screengrabbed, that had the logo in the background? I need to test something. Thank you!!
Hello!
I got back to see the changes are back like good old endless scrolling, banners and other stuffs which are very good
However, when scheduling or uploading the episodes now :
I am not able to see how the episodes will be viewed in desktop or mobile version (episode preview). It's it a temporary glitch?
It is a major step forward from the previous update. Thank you for listening to the huge wave of user feedback you received.
These are the suggestions I have as an ex(? now independent, I guess) web developer:
Make it so that the top and bottom bars on Tapas are smaller. Right now they're enormous and take up an insane amount of screen space and detract from the reading experience. Frankly I don't even see why the bottom bar is necessary at all, and the top bar is 2.5-3x as large as it needs to be. It makes comics very hard to read, even on a 1080p screen and even in fullscreen mode. The bottom bar should disappear while scrolling down at the very least; it is a distraction and a visual blockage.
Having the episode list on the left would be preferable to having it on the right. Most comics are read left to right, so having the list in a position where your eyes are consistently shifting forward to is distracting. Maybe make this able to be toggled, as users who read more right to left comics may have a different preference. (There is a reason, visually, though, why most navigation menus are on the left-hand side)
Since you are scrolling down, it makes sense to have the episodes in the navigation menu increase going down rather than going up. As is I can't tell how many episodes I have to read because they are going in the opposite direction than I am scrolling.
The like button should ALWAYS be clickable while scrolling through episodes and should be placed with the episode description at the end. It should not be off at the bottom on a separate bar, as this breaks the reading experience and heavily discourages users who are catching up on comics to like the episodes.
Likewise, comments deserve more visibility than only the top or one two being shown (and with no threads). A big part of Tapas is community, and by giving visibility to only a select few and minimizing the comment section to a point that it's so easily missed is going to take that away (especially on smaller comics with less viewers). The sidebar is also far too small to play this role and has no business being a comment box, so please move comments back onto the main scroll area.
I still don't quite understand why Tapas made the move to make 99% of their site a Webtoon clone and overhaul the site only to have to bring features back (in a far less than ideal way). It would still make far more sense from a user and usability standpoint to simply revert Tapas to its old design from before the update earlier this year. It's just a thought, but honestly I still can't see what this new design has brought except for headaches for everyone and an annoying series description page. That being said, finally seeing some glimpse of what made Tapas' desktop site worthwhile is nice. It'll be a whole lot nicer when a whole lot more keeps getting done to it though.
Possible bug (sorry if already mentioned).
The Ascending/Descending Order doesn't work. While visiting a comic without being logged in takes you to the very first episode. This is not ideal for comic strips with many many many episodes.
"New readers will start from your most recent episode." Just reverses the order of the episodes at the moment.