The tapas 'new look' poll

[CarltonIsaac]

Website updates and collecting feedback

[rajillustration]

Moved my "maybe" to a "no" after I spent the time reading some comics, tbh.

[DiegoPalacios]

Now when i get notified about a new episode, when i click, instead of going directly to that episode, it goes to the episode list, which to be honest, is kind of inneficient. Also, going to the next page is way less intuitive and harder.......

Guess i`m a normie who joined the "no" club (i voted maybe earlier).

But i trust the staff will listen to the creator`s opinion. (and the numbers of this poll)

[UzukiCheverie]

i have a novel that's 330k words and is formatted like house of leaves, with tons of weirdly placed text that moves about the page

i'm not fixing it

it took me like 2 weeks to reformat the frigging thing just to upload it to Tapas and that was only a month ago, one month later and it's all gone to hell lol

if someone actually gives a shit they can message me and I'll give them the PDF download, at least that one has the image files that I couldn't upload here /shrug

[amberberry]

They have already made changes and are working on other fixes. While I don't like this new look either, I feel like we should calm down a bit and let them work on the changes. It has to be really stressful for the staff too and it doesn't help if we're just constantly yelling at them. Surely we should point out issues if we see them but I don't think there's need to keep talking about the same things other people have already mentioned so many times

[indigodrawing]

New looks come and go and people usually calm down pretty quickly after the change so I don't really care that much one way or another about the aesthetic update.

But the new comic navigation system is objectively worse than the old one. What happened to the everscroll? And why does it think you're one comic behind where you really are?

[azzy-m]

Proposal to the Tapas team to add a dark mode.

Sorry, I already have dark mode on for Reddit, Twitter and Youtube. I don't wanna be reading comics at the middle of the night and get blinded by the overwhelming amounts of unsaturated white. Even Webtoons (which the new interface is eerily similar to) doesn't have this much white, they balance it with the green... kind of. Or maybe I just got used to it.

Okay, now that I've tried to read comics on the website (a long tapas comic to really get a feel for it btw), I have some thoughts:

• i kind of liked the one in the old interface where you just scroll down to the next episode. Now you gotta click a button.

• In your subscribed list, when you click on a comic with new updates, it takes you to the episodes list instead of the new episode?

• Maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a lot of empty space now? In the old interface pretty much most of the screen was used. Maybe I just like crowded interfaces, if my CSP interface is anything to go by.

• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BANNERS?

[draweththeraven]

also where have the banners gone lmao i loved mine!!

[Rasp]

Are they ever going to get around to fixing this? because its not getting less terrible the more I use it.

[CarltonIsaac]

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BANNERS?

also where have the banners gone lmao i loved mine!!

You can still see them (thumbnail) when you link your series in the link-box here in the forum.

[Iris-Grimoire]

As an extra, you can also drag and drop only the picture to get the banner at full size and save it again for posterity. I don't remember who but they were asking to get the picture to download, so here's how after I thought about it.

[MochoStudios]

Oh damn I know you
Love your work

[jensrichard77]

Woohooo. Thank you @MochoStudios

[MrTwennysebben]

I changed my vote from "maybe" to "no" because I just found out that my banner has been replaced by some kind of near-puce brownish poop color. And the option to upload a banner is still there, but if it's only for link-sharing purposes that's very disappointing.

I came across this blog post on Twitter, seems like they also think adding extra clicks to get to comics seems like a bad move but almost everything else is... kinda okay?
https://herald.comicadia.com/2020/03/06/the-tapas-redesign-a-walk-through-with-a-ux-strategist/

[Snooze_R_tist]

Waiting for the fixed version of site..
It's definitely a no for me
If it still remain without :
Banners, ad banners, difficult navigation for readers and creators both, hard to find support buttons and inconveniently bright for eyes.
I really like the Tapas team to fix these issues Asap
I don't want Tapas to be like Smack Jeeves or something

[Jophiel]

went to the mature tab just cause'
the banners (?) or images looked pretty stretched and condensed.. it looks pretty unfinished and the titles are unreadable bc of it.
dunno if it was always that way since i only know of the separate mature tab just now rip

its the same on the comics section and it really hurts to read. there are series where you can see the title but some do not have it, only the genres and likes...it kinda looked like someone just an archived webpage than an actual and readable page

[jensrichard77]

Seeing how the team is listing and changing things. I have now re-changed my vote to a YES.
I start to like the new thing. And the more I feel the Tapas team is fixing the more I live it.

We are not the ones in charge to say what is best. But Tapas is listening and tries to make us feel home again.
Thank you @michaelson

[ratique]

went to the mature tab just cause'the banners (?) or images looked pretty stretched and condensed.. it looks pretty unfinished and the titles are unreadable bc of it.

What browser are you on, Internet Explorer?

[Jophiel]

im using google chrome :oc
the layout is pretty weird on my end but it appears just fine in the novels section

[Rasp]

Being forced to stare at this aggressively WHITE background every time I have to check on something in my dashboard is getting really old. I'm starting to feel like I'm going to go out and get a third party plug in to do Tapas's job FOR them. I'm seriously considering not updating my comics here anymore because the experience for creators really is that awful and I don't even have all that much to manage.

I mean I gave them credit for getting the GL section up - it took WAY longer than it reasonably should have but they got it done. If we have to wait years to get a dark mode I'm not going to be happy. I cant help but think there must have been a better way to Beta Test their garbage revamp than pushing it out to live servers without warning.

Why they would inflict this mess upon us the way they did really does make you wonder who's left in charge and why nobody has saved us from them yet.

Its just... To whomsoever is in charge of this deplorable train-wreck - this isn't working. Restore the old, less eye bleeding, frontend until the new one is actually is a usable state and THEN push it to live.

You cant seriously tell me you still haven't gotten enough data by now... I'm begging you, this isn't funny.

Its just cruel.