Only TWO full-time devs?
Is Tapas not bringing in enough revenue for more full-time employees? Because that seems grossly understaffed.
Not sure if they are planning on hiring another dev anytime soon.
On their About page2 it lists 2 devs and a couple more engineers, which seems enough to handle day-to-day issues concerning bugs and stuff like that.
But yeah, 16 people. That's Tap's full time core group.
I write a personal one usually. Mostly because I only have 52 subs on my comic. A new sub is an event for me.
I personally love them? I feel like it shows that the creator cares about their subscribers and I also really like snooping around other people's pages and seeing the thank you posts on their walls to find new comics~
I do send them myself but if I notice that the subscriber has reacted negatively to them before or something like that, I try to avoid posting them.
I have never thought about them as being "desperate". To me is like collecting posters or stickers of the music bands you like. Also is an acknowledgement by the author. Is an extra piece of art asides the comic. In this case I really fail to see why would I consider that annoying. As Daknight said, randomly posting images and messages asking for subs is tasteless. Yes those a despearte and annoying.
I believe users have a way to disable people from posting on their walls. I do post "Thank you" notes because I genuinely appreciate someone going out of their way to subscribe. I've noticed that on some users when I click on them to post a 'thank you' that there isn't an option to message them. I'm not sure if it's when they choose to 'hide library' or if it's another setting.
I always thought was a nice gesture and never as a desperate one.
But I've never done it, because I'm super awkward with this details and I knew about it too late :_)
When someone subscribes to my comic, I check their wall. If there are thank you-messages there from a while back, I figure they probably don't mind, or they would have deleted those.
I've been doing thank you posts for awhile, they're pretty helpful when you're just starting out because it helps you make a more direct connection with your readers, early on I got into some friendly one-on-one chats with some of my readers because of the thank you posts, I even got some good feedback sometimes. The other thing that's helpful is, if another creator follows you posting on their wall can be a little bit of a signal boost for you, I would also use it as an opportunity to thank those creators directly for their support and comment on how much I liked their work. Later on I was able to go back to some of those creators who I had started a dialogue with (many of which I had continued to chat with outside of the thank you post) and ask for guest comics (I ended up getting 9 of them!!!).
So yeah, thank you posts are great. They may not be the most effective way to grow an audience, but they're useful for connecting with your readers directly and building up a little bit of a community.
All of that said I'm going to stop doing them once I hit 500 subscribers and start doing something else, because I feel like I've outgrown them, and when I post I tend to get a decent number of new subscribers so it's much more time consuming than it was when I first started and I only had to make 2-6 posts in a week.
I've always seen the " Thank you for subscribing " posts as a way of people advertising themselves??? XDD I usually send people private messages saying thank you hahaha. Not that everyone does it for advertising, of course. I used to make " thanks for subs " post because I really felt happy about my first subs xDDD. Now I only do it in private hahaha.
Speaking as a programmer I seriously don't think this is easily achievable, because for a system to opt out thank you posts it has to 'learn' in a way what is a thank you post and what is not. And for that a machine learning specialist will be needed and also there is no way a filter like this would have a 100% accuracy on catching all thank you posts. (I mean if they just post an image, oh boy is it gonna be hard to be categorized as unwanted ...)
It's a lovely idea though, and if computer science advances further it will be possible to implement 
Ps. I dont mean to sound rude, and sorry if I do
Ps. ps. If someone finds an easier way of doing that , that'd be great 
Also I think there is an option where you can deny posts on your profile (dunno for sure tho)
Honestly I like getting 'thank you posts' , even if it is meant as advertising it's a nice gesture
I've also been doing thank you posts as a creator and naive as I am, I only realized they can be advertising a while back XD
Thanks for all replies! It's good to see that most people see these posts as nice gestures. I will definitely consider sending them in private or uploading on the wall. I've got one more dilemma: should I send 'thank you' to the people who are already subscribing my story or to the new ones only?
(oh god I'm so awkward in these things haha)
I made my thank you image recently and went back and said "Sorry this is so late! Thank you for subscribing! :D" or the like. But I only had maybe a dozen subscribers at the time. If you have a lot of subscribers, might want to just start anew.
I do thank you posts just to show a new subscriber that I appreciate them, however I don't post them on profiles that have their messages deleted since I know that would only annoy them. when people post them on my wall I honestly don't see them as advertisement, and I like getting them tbh
Nah is not rude, I know is impossible to do via actual stopping someone from posting cause it would need a lot of 'what if he post this' kind of rules.
The idea I had was a simple pop-up that appear to the one that will post to alert them that the person rather not receive a thank you for subbing message. This of course can be bypass since is just a notification, but is something I think most creators will probably honor this message or people will complain about them ignoring it which is pretty bad way to get a reputation xP
I dislike them because they are on my wall, and when I got flooded with them the most was ALWAYS when I was on break and posted a message saying so, resulting in quickly pushing down my hiatus / my family member died / my pet died announcements, which resulted in more people than normal harassing me for updates even though I announced I was taking a break because they couldn't find the announcement on the wall (downtime you would THINK would be a great time to catch up on other webcomics... guess those authors proved me wrong)
Honestly, the only ones I truly hate. Is when I get the "thanks for subscribing" posts when I NEVER ACTUALLY SUBBED TO THE COMIC. As apparently, there are certain individuals that will disguise their attempts to advertise on other peoples walls with FAKE 'thxs for sub' messages. After that I just started deleting them from my wall as soon as I see them unless I personally know the artist (before I would leave them up for a few days if I didn't have an important message I needed to stay visible on my wall)