Wow a big thank you to the Tapas team! 
I'm excited for the new updates, especially the more visible Support button and comments.
I'm most looking forward to the ability to place my novels under multiple genres! 
Also love that banners are back, cause I know quite a few people were a fan of those (as was I as well). And Endless Scrolling instead of the webtoon style...fantastic. Great feature all around.
It's also great you guys have also compiled this in a changelog, easy for us to look through. No surprises this time, leaving us looking through the website like this:
Yes, thank you for Dark Mode! It's very much needed for novels (hopefully eventually we can put in comics as well.)
Will there be an option to swap the comments and series info toolbars to the left? I can't stand having toolbars on the right side of the screen.
Yes, weird choice. I understand @ratique explanation, but to me, it makes way more sense to have selection on the left: first you select, then you read. Tapas comics are read from left to right.
There are already the arrows to change pages that are weirdly (and terribly annoyingly) placed on the wrong side (in this case, left) on the current design.
I wonder if someone in Tapas is not at all sensitive to this kind of ergonomical considerations? It's pretty distracting...
For the comments though, right side looks good to me; you read, then comment. I, however, understand it may be a bit problematic in the sense that it blocks the vision (it's nice to have the right side 'open'), but I suppose they disappear at will (not sure).
I don't find it very distracting after using it for a while, but I'm looking forward to getting your input once you guys can test it.
I'm not sure we would be able to separate the series selection and the comments though - that could be rather confusing and take up a ton of space.
Overall my response will be, test it out for a bit, see if it hinders your reading experience or if it just requires some getting used to. Depending on overall feedback I can review with the team what can, can't or should be done.
Oh, I'm so happy about this. Series info page is nice to have, but ever since series links changed to showing the info only, my views have gone down so drastically. There's been no point in putting up ads as well, because people arrive at the info page, look at it and leave, instead of being immediately drawn into reading like it used to be before the change.
A question, however: I see the series info as an overlay in one of your screenshots, will it be something accessible from episode view only as a quick overview, or will it replace the standalone page we have right now?
Definitely excited about endless scrolling.
Comments on the side remind me of how pretty much every social media currently has them, but I'm actually curious to see how this will work on Tapas. Seems useful.The distance to scroll down to comment section was a bit uncomfortable, it might be better if they are neatly on the side like this.
It still seems funny how everything switched from left to right, but as somebody who uses browser tabs in a vertical bar on the right, I'm not complaining, less distance to move my mouse 
There is a stand alone page also! It was a little hard to describe. If you add /info to your URL in the future, it will go straight to your series info page. It looks just like the overlay I shared in the screenshot, just as a full page. I'm pretty sure I managed to navigate to it from the episode also, but it was much easier to get to the overlay version, so I'm pretty sure most readers will rely on that one.
AHHH!!!! This is so exciting!! \(^-^)/ 
Thank you so much Tapas staff for all the awesome work you do and for helping us feel heard and appreciated!!! 
A white background can make it difficult to read, so our team added multiple reading modes for you to choose from to the novels section. The options are gray, sephia, dark and white and can be selected in the Style menu located on the toolbar.
Thank you for not just adding the typical dark mode, as someone who prefers reading on off-white/gray colors, this made my day - such a cool feature!! 
This whole update looks amazing, thank you so much for your wonderful work!! 
These changes look great! Thank you, Tapas team! The grey or sepia background for reading will make novels so much more comfortable for me! Especially because it'll reduce blue light when reading before sleep! Banners in place of the flat colours on the contents page is also a definite "YES PLEASE!"
The changes are nice overall. Great job for you guys. 
but I still don't like the idea of going directly to the chapters when you only want to check on the description and chapter list. Maybe just me.
Yay! These changes look great. Thanks to the Tapas dev team to being open to feedback, and being willing to make changes so that both Tapas team and artists/readers are happy.
I'm very excited to see the return of banners, tags, and more visible support/subscribe buttons. Comments off to the side is an interesting choice; right now they do feel very far to scroll down to, so hopefully this will encourage people to comment more.
But also: full screen! And novel reading modes! Wow!
(also, I love that coming soon note!! One genre is not enough haha, not for us genre hoarders)
I missed this thread somehow and only saw this now. (I blame being worked half to death in my real job right now).
These changes are absolutely amazing! Gotta admit, I did a double take when I saw I was being used to show what Dark Mode was going to look like haha
Good work Tapas Team! Thanks for taking the feedback to heart. The new redesign looks like it's going to be great once we all get used to it!
I'm so happy that everyone is looking forward to it just as much as I am! I'll keep you guys up to date in case anything happens regarding official go live dates.
I'm sure you will have many comments once you actually get to play with it, since I can't imagine that everyone will like every change immediately (that would be an internet first). But as you can see, the team is always ear and are more than willing to implement good ideas that improve the reading experience AND are technically feasible.
@KRWilliams, thank you for being one of my "unwilling" test objects.
I'm looking forward to this.
The only thing I'd love to try is dark mode for all Tapas to see how it renders. The only thing I'm worried about is to discover how many creators have "cheated" using a "transparent" background for their. Or dark mode for comics would be the best thing ever of it will go very bad.
Can you expand on that? I'm interested to hear more of what you're concerned about, but I don't quite understand right now.
I think Blackdevil might mean using blank white pictures to create buffer between pages, or created a smooth transition using white. It's probably going to be fine if you keep a bit of white bleed on the normal pages, the background will just "frame" the episode differently.
Oooh gotcha. I don't think that will be a widely spread issue but is certainly something to consider for novelists moving forward. It makes sense to test your novels once the change was implemented to ensure that they are still easy to read.
Honestly, thank god. This has been the most annoying thing and kept me from reading for the last few weeks. I was starting to think it was my laptop.
The dark mode /gray mode/ect look sexy AF
This all sounds and looks good! Can't wait for the return of the banners, and comments on the side is a great idea!
I think its pretty awesome how connected you guys are to the community, and how open you are to making changes accordingly! Thank you, staff! <3
