Yeah, the site has all these weird little quirks now despite still running the same, I usually went through the Fresh link at the bottom before the change happened. It sucks they don't have a direct link from the front page now, but at least they didn't get rid of the tab entirely, that would have been a pain in the ass. I feel you on the confusion though, every time I've tried to binge read something today I keep trying to scroll down to the next page, only to be met with a road block. You think I would be used to actually clicking to read the next page since Tapas is literally the only site that has infinite scroll, but nope! The fact that the Previous and Next buttons aren't centered and aligned with the comic doesn't help either.
Admittedly I haven't looked at the Fresh tab for a year or so since I end up finding most new comics through Twitter, the Support Webcomics Discord server... or other webcomic related servers. I probably should get back into it sometime since that was how I found some really good comics that don't get advertised anywhere!