Tapastic vs. Webtoons! (Your Honest Opinion!)

My comic is getting a lot more attention on webtoons, but I like tapastic better. I had saved all my files as PNGs and have to change them all whenever I want to upload. It sucks.

i started in the beginning right with tapas. imho:

tapastic

only good point it's the forum. if u need help or wanna talk about anything, here u re.
there s also the feedback report who is quite good. u can know how many or who like what, where s it the new comment and how it's going with statistic.
BUT after that, tapastic it's a fail. and to me, after 1 year + here, it's a HUGE delusion. explaining: there re no chance to create an audiance by progression because tapastic carry all the traffic to the big names. maybe just sometime tapas pick someone from the ground and give a limitated highlight, but it's quite useless. 99.9% here re hidden from casual readers who spalsh in the main page.
so, tapas it's nomore a must.
gg tapas.

webtoon

doesnt own a forum for what i konw and suffer from downvote war, something that for newbie/newcomers it's really a disaster. a dirty war that cause too many problems.
another little problem it's they re more "manga oriented" (so yeha, if u re planning to do a BL manga, look like u have got an easy jackpot XD lol)
BUT they ve got more audiance than tapas, plus their management about readers it's quite wise: they dont push the readers in only 1 direction, to the "big names". they offer many choice and it's a GREAT thing. the chance to be pick by new readers it's MORE right there without any doubt.

Do you mean webtoon format (vertical scrolling style) oriented? Because actually, webtoon readers do not like manga oriented.

Less of this:
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And more of this:
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Because the majority of them read comic on mobile, so vertical scrolling format is a nom and work better for them. Also I might be popping your bubble but BL manga is easy to thrive here in Tapastic, but nowhere near in Webtoon. Actually, readers tend to be harsher toward BL/GL manga and the majority of them get low rating because of that. Just a head up/warning. (Though that doesn't stop Webtoon readers from enjoying a legitimately good BL/GL comic and some of them do make it big.)

I agree with a lot of what has been said above. Honestly, I've been liking LINE Webtoon more than Tapastic. Since I've posted my comic (shameless plug)545 on both sites on the same day in December, LINE Webtoon has reached 2.2k views and garnered 300 subscribers (just reached that number today, actually ^^), and Tapastic has only reached 600+ views and 35 subs, after a lot of advertising and some participation in the forums. I guess, because of that—the difference in readership—I have been more pleased with LINE Webtoon. However, with the new tipping program in the Tapas app, I hope to maybe turn the tides? At least in regards to revenue.

In regards to LINE Webtoon's rating system, I didn't like it at first, but that's because I tried to join the site originally during the first contest, where the site was first introduced to English-speakers. I had little to no readership then, and very few followers on any social media site, so I pretty much went in there as a nobody. It was/is also my first comic, so I was/am very inexperienced, and at the time, my artwork wasn't as good as it is now. And due to the competitive nature if the contest, my comic's ratings shot down to below a 3/10. That honestly destroyed my self-esteem for a while, and I ended up pulling my comic off the site (and never posted it here either). After two and a half years, I finally started posting my comic again, after many revisions and redraws and character redesigns.

Anyway, I imagine that some of the reason my comic is doing okay now is because I didn't join during a contest, so my ratings are pretty stable at 8.96 atm. I think the main reason that readership grows so quickly on LINE Webtoon is because they show the newest updates first on the Discover page, whereas, Tapastic mainly focuses on comics with a decent following already, trending comics, and other popular comics somehow (as has already been mentioned).

I do my the vertical style with huge text and sometimes still receiving comments saying the font is too small LMFAO and the whole too short comment too, I think it's just depend on what sort of readers you gather. Me personally have seen all sort of readers on Webtoon and have a fair share of them myself so despite updating roughly 20-30 pages an update, too short comment is a regular for me.

I just post my traditional pages. I'm not going to change up my format. I put enough work into it; I'm not going to change it up for the sake of "popularity". So far, I havent received any negative feedback to the size of my pages, so I guess they are legible.

Way more interaction over there in terms of regular commentors. I'm getting to know some of them pretty well. Used to get the same here, but not so much anymore.

I still like both places, but I've got 766 subs here and 4.16k over there, and I've only been there half as long.

My honest opinion though just post on both. It's free!

I uploaded they first 3 chapter of my series on Webtoons (my series currently has 7 on Tap) and well I really hate the format of the website. It takes a little too long to load, I can't really view followers and I find the rating system weird. I don't like the feeling of just throwing my work out and not getting much feed back and I feel Webtoons does a lot of that.

In general, I've been far more successful on Tap. Tap is more user friendly and uploading is easy. Tap does has issues with loading pages but it's much faster than Webtoons.

Is it just me or have Webtoons readers gotten more understanding and positive lately?
I could swear, despite me going back to daily 1-page-updates (since I forget to even update at all if I don't lol I'm a clutz) on there, the "why so short" comment is much less rare these days and the comments are blooming with love and appreciation. They've also become weird and quirky as all hell (in a good way). It's almost like they decided to switch on me and become a mirror of my tapastic audience.
I dunno if anyone else is experiencing this, but combined with Webtoons being a place that's easy to gain an audience on and their readers somehow being more inclined to financially support creators, this is a really positive development in terms of their community.
Tapastic is still my fave due to my appreciation for how the staff on this site operates, but in terms of the audience I'm reaching out to and communicating with they've now become rather similar.

Yeah I havent gotten any negative comments so far, but while my subs & views have amassed quite quickly, the whole financial support thing hasnt. Not impatient; just waiting...

Maybe Webtoons is becoming more aware of Tapas as a competitor and is trying to improve the community experience since that's one big draw that Tapas currently has over Webtoons.

Tapastic is a lot more fun compared to webtoons, we got the forums n the readers are more interactive so its a really nice combo especially since I actually want that interactive situation between me and my readers

Just putting a little advice out there: Right now it's really difficult to find your patreon. I'd have to google it to find it as a tapastic reader. Put it as the link in your series' editor (where you can add a link to elsewhere that you update your comic), make your custom ad banner actually link to the patreon (last time I checked it links to your tapas series). You could also link it once in a while in your author's comments with a short note of your main "selling point". Basically the most appealing reward you can give them for their support. If you've got early access on your patreon, that's probably your selling point.
I haven't checked you out on webtoons, but I would advice you to take similar measures there. Link your patreon up to your webtoons account, and your readers will see a small "support this creator on patreon" notice with a link to it at the end of each episode. If you add a very small banner to your updates (goes both for tapas and webtoons) where you mention that little selling point you've got, and just casually link it in the author's notes, that will actually be more effective and appear less naggy than if you constantly mention it in author's comments is what I've noticed. But that's just a little tip, you decide for yourself which you prefer more, if any.

I am unsure of how Webtoons as a company would be able to affect the way individual users of the app behave? But Tapas is definitely becoming a good competitor.

It is possible to communicate with readers on webtoons but due to the way the site is built it is much more difficult to carry a conversation or notice if anyone replied. Thus they are also less likely to reply overall. So in that aspect, I do very much prefer audience communication on tapas.

Tapas audience also appears to still be more closely attached to the creators and more likely to agree with their personal choices. That being said, this is something I've definitely seen improvements in on webtoons lately.
I think it could be because the Discover tab is being filled up faster every day with more and more good quality content, to the point where webtoon readers are now more familiar with seeing independent, non-contract creators with more varying update rates and methods. Being exposed to more of this, they begin to see creators more like humans than just as vessels of comic creation. It's no wonder they didn't view it this way before since the contracted creators are rather distant.

I just don't like the fact that I haven't heard from Webtoons after I tried to contact them for tech support since I unintentionally created another account and I can't delete it and I've been sending emails asking them to remove the extra account. And now I'm stuck with an extra account. I don't understand why they didn't have a "delete your account" option in the settings section.

They probably didn't get back to you because it sounds like a very minor issue and you can just let the account be and not log in to it. But yeah the inability to delete an account is kind of... well, it's like the website is missing something that most websites have.

Edit: On the topic of audience, one thing I noticed is that my comic that will be centered around an interracial lesbian couple is going beyond expectations here on tapas so far, whereas it still hasn't broken 100 followers on webtoons. I hope this is just a coincidence...

@JohnVincent thanks for that tidbit of info(I did not know that). I'll make the adjustments with the Tapas banner...as for Webtoons- that's a whole big clusterf**k altogether. For some weird reason Webtoons isnt allowing my Patreon to sync/connect with the Webtoons page- Ive e-mailed them about it, but they still havent fixed it(been months).