The new Tapas design is

Lucca_Vendramel 2020-03-05 01:26:01 UTC #1

I found the new design absolutely horrible. The banner I spent so long making is nowhere to be seen, my 120 sub comic gets even less attention now, and I have to click in multiple places to get where I want. This is depressing. Bring back the old look or I'm leaving this site, which I'd hate to do. If you're so emotionally attached to the new design (which, believe me, NO ONE IS), add an option to switch back to the old look like Deviantart did with Eclipse. If you've seen the posts, the polls, the comments, and if you're reading this developers, you know no one liked it. Out of a 226 people poll, around 80% said they disliked it. The answer is clear.
Another thing: The new design is ungodly similar to Webtoon LIVE. What happened to the uniqueness of the old design? The slickness? I've always considered Tapas a better site to Webtoon, so much that I posted on Tapas for years before I started posting on Webtoon.
Please, I ask you this in the name of everyone in this site: Give us the old design back. We do not want the new design.

BobbyjoeX 2020-03-05 01:37:58 UTC #2

honestly, all i can say is,... "screw us, we free to read creators never mattered"

Penni 2020-03-05 01:51:09 UTC #3

I think Tapas will take any and all feedback into consideration. I've never felt the Tapas team hasn't care about the community.

But they are a business and that has a lot of moving parts and people involved behind the scenes, so I can't begin to imagine what has to be done to get something like this accomplished.

I would say try to give them a chance to look at feedback and decide what adjustments need to be made. They aren't perfect and they can't please everyone.

Lucca_Vendramel 2020-03-05 01:55:49 UTC #4

I truly hope they listen to the feedback people are giving them. I haven't completely given up hope yet, I'm just incredibly frustrated.

eleoza 2020-03-05 01:59:22 UTC #5

What I think tapas should have done is involve the community.
It's their site, their rules, their say. True. But we users are important for the traffic flow, ad rev, and this is a HUGE change you know...

Instead of just hitting us in the face with this terrible new layout they could have asked our opinion beforehand, ask what we think, what we'd like to add, change, remove.

I guess just...more interaction between staff and community?

Penni 2020-03-05 01:59:56 UTC #6

Naturally so!

I think it just important to remain patient and constructive with these like this. We don't know everything that does on within Tapas and I'm sure this is frustrating for them too. It's easy to be mad when we don't like what we see or don't know the full picture.

It's all good to voice your opinion but how the opinion is presented is important (in my opinion)

UzukiCheverie 2020-03-05 04:47:04 UTC #7

I mean, I don't think anyone should discount our own opinions, as long as they're constructive in some way. Because really, this website largely operates off the traffic that the free-to-read creators bring in. We bring them traffic. We bring them ad clicks. And we do it all for free. So like... I don't think it's too much to ask that the website be usable when we're paying for it with our free labor?

Like please don't underestimate the power you all have in this situation. It's a lot. Because this website was literally built on the backs of free-to-read creators like yourselves, as well as the readers that they brought in, many in the thousands. When this webcomic website started, one of the biggest draws at the time was TheGamerCAT. You know, that super popular gaming webcomic that's been immortalized along with the likes of Penny Arcade and Awkward Zombie. Along with GamerCAT, it was HJ-Story, Fail by Error, Sarah Anderson's gag strips, Shenanigensen, among many many others that have gone on to be largely successful comics. Tapastic's earlier fame literally came from those webcomics, many of which were pre-existing prior to Tapastic and migrated over here and brought thousands of readers with them. And I know a lot of readers who only stick around because of comics like those, especially if they're comics that have remained Tapas-exclusive and haven't jumped around to other webcomic platforms like Webtoons and SJ.

So I agree that the community absolutely has more of a say in how things go, whether they believe it or not. It's just currently that 'say' is not in direct communication, but through your activity on the website and whether or not you choose for Tapas to continue to be a platform for you to upload to. Now that an open line of communication has been opened in the forums regarding the new update and other issues, I hope you guys just remember that you have more power than you think.

rajillustration 2020-03-05 06:08:23 UTC #8

yeah I don't particularly like how Webtoon makes you click on a page that has episodes listed, either. There's no art to draw people in, just a...really sterile list...Why can't it just bring them to page one?

I dunno, it feels very mobile, but my screen is wide, very wide. I have a very large, wide monitor and so it needs...something happening on the edges. There's something missing.

nostalgicroxas 2020-03-05 06:18:33 UTC #9

What's the point of them having us make a banner to have it now disappear into a solid block of color that we can't even dictate what color it is?

Also

why does it load onto Episodes instead of Details where the story summary is?

rajillustration 2020-03-05 06:19:42 UTC #10

That's weird, mine is purple. How does it decide the color of that big ol block?

nostalgicroxas 2020-03-05 06:20:12 UTC #11

No idea. and OP's screenies are two different shades of navy.

rajillustration 2020-03-05 06:20:54 UTC #12

huh, I wonder if it's a code that takes a average of all the colors in your icon

PotatoJuice 2020-03-05 06:21:06 UTC #13

I'm pretty sure the color is designated by the genre selected

nostalgicroxas 2020-03-05 06:21:21 UTC #14

I doubt it because my icon on Tapas is not this green one?

rajillustration 2020-03-05 06:21:26 UTC #15

Ahhhhh that would make more sense

Iris-Grimoire 2020-03-05 14:04:32 UTC #16

That is it. Fantasy and LGBT+ are dark purple (literally the worst choices for it, why not royal purple or magenta), GL and Drama are kind of maroon, BL is green, etc.

Kyushii 2020-03-05 18:45:46 UTC #17

I personally think they shouldn't remove the banners, a lot of people put their time and efforts into making something beautiful and artistic. It would suck to see that replaced by a big chunk of color that doesn't contribute to anything.

Rasp 2020-03-05 19:11:35 UTC #18

they put off adding a GL category for YEARS I have zero faith. Maybe this will get fixed but fixed before the decade is out? I'm not so sure.

^ This

Okay as little faith as I have in Tapas not tripping over their own feet I have even less faith that creators will organize or pull out if we don't get our way, We need to be willing to withdraw our content if we're going to leverage this. How many creators are going to accept the huge loss of followers or ad revenue that would inevitably follow? and How many readers would put up with that kind of drama?

We'd need to organize in a Union type fashion and have a central flag to rally around and I just don't see that happening yet. If there is a big name that wants the glory for getting this fixed and is willing to rally smaller creators to that cause then we'll have the leverage. As scattered individuals we just don't have the clout.

BobbyjoeX 2020-03-05 19:19:55 UTC #19

i said this around 100 times during this situation but my one friend is one of the ones to get the shortest end of the stick when it came to the banners cause he spent hours working on one the day before the Downgrade happened

imagine that, you decide to make a new banner, its awesome, you think it'll get some eyes on you, its done, its perfect, you go to bed, wake up....

Kyushii 2020-03-05 19:25:12 UTC #20

Yeah, I can feel the trauma