Everyone starting off should definitely keep this in mind. Webcomics are a 4+ year game. Everyone had to start at day 1 as a nobody. There's no cuts in the line. Everyone has to do their time and earn their place.
The thing is creators are seeing the same series promoted over and over (series that have earned being the top spots and rightfully so) to the point of exhaustion. Seriously how many tiles for GamerCat does the app need? There was at one time where we calculuated 30% of all space on the app promoted GamerCat. Thank goodness that changed because readers are going to think the site only has a handful of comics.
The issue is that all of these things have to be hard coded in and that takes time. Time seems really limited these days for staff, so they just leave everything the same day after day. Staff needs to find some way how they can make things automatically dynamic so that each time you visit the app it's somehow different. That is more engaging to the brain. For example, the tripping section, when was the last time it changed? We don't even explore the app any more, there's nothing new. We just go straight to the coin earning video ads.
Can't they code the tipping section to present 9 comics in rotation from a pool of 100, for example? Mix things up somehow?
If everyone had a "chance" of somehow being seen if they worked hard enough, that would go a long way to alleviating this. However as it stands right now, unless you get noticed by one staff member, you won't get any sort of attention on the site other than via Trending. Only having one way of "breaking out" seems to be far too limiting.
Which forces most comics that are not of certain genres to have to advertise. Some of us are spending $100s a month in advertising all of that traffic which not only benefits our series but Tapas as whole. If we're going to be making that kind of investment in Taps, one would think they could invest in making some changes to the app to make it more dynamic.
We've run the numbers twice and the possibility of being featured once in a year is 5%.
Also the 30,000 series number is out of date. 35,000 to 40,000 is actually a more accurate range. Tapas is adding approximately 40 new series a day and that number was quoted a while back when the desktop site did not have the current level traffic it's experiencing. The site is rapidly expanding. Traffic has doubled in the past year. Now with open publishing for books its likely going to double again. Look at Wattpad's numbers. That is where Tapas is heading.