Forget "Discover" and "Community Comics", no one is finding your comic on the app that way. The only way left for us is direct marketing and word of mouth.
I've said it a dozen times by now, but if Tapas actually followed Youtube's model instead of just using a slogan, they'd put up a 'recommended episodes' area after every update based on a smart algorithm. Think about it, you start up a Youtube channel, do you honestly sit around waiting for people to find your videos by expecting them to start on the homepage and endlessly scroll through channel logos?
I went to the app and put "Contemporary Fantasy" in the search bar, and got a list of comics and novels with the word 'Fantasy' in the title. Huh?
So if I want to improve my reach, do I need to re-title my comic "Contemporary Fantasy & Alternate History Graphic Novel"?
Tapas, your app is like a brick and mortar bookstore at the moment, with hundreds of book covers competing for attention. That's fine I guess for the ones that are being promoted in the window and on the bestsellers shelves, but for the rest of us crammed together in our genre sections down the back, with only our spines showing, it's kind of frustrating to know that in today's day and age, with the technology that exists out there, and with sites like Youtube having already proven the concept, that you've chosen to adopt a legacy method of delivering your creator's content to the audience.
Ahh, I'm ranting now. I guess I'll just step away.