No buffer here. If I get ahead with drawing, I usually end up being lazy and take it easy until it's gone again xD
Of my 3 series, I have a 2-3 page buffer for one of them, and I only built that buffer a couple months ago when the comic is over 2 years old.
This! Plus, I also get really anxious if I don't show the finished material to people right away. Like, does this even make sense to anyone other than me???? It's like someone with arachnophobia needing to know if there's a spider in their bed. It's not about wanting praises right away; it's about wanting to make sure there are no metaphorical spiders lurking in my buffer!
I have a small buffer, about 1-5 weeks ahead (varies), but only because I share the buffer with my Patrons. I don't think I could maintain ANY buffer without that.
I have like half a year buffer for both my ongoing comics D:
It's not fun feeling detached to it (because I do) but I also enjoy being able to take a week or two off and not work on comics at all.
I mean, life happens so it's nice to not feel guilty (I do, even so) if you prefer a week on the couch. 
yeah, I had a thirty page buffer before starting and generally have a half-year buffer like a few people here. It's nice to not have to panic if you don't finish a page in time. It also lets you work in chunks, which for me at least, helps create flow in the pages.
I have about 2-3 pages drawn out ahead of time.
My comic style is pretty simplistic but it's still better to have stuff ready than to not.
I try to have at least a few pages, but have a bad habit of running out. Usually when starting a new story.
I didn't for my previous comics, or my first two chapters of my current on.
I'm currently building one for Chapter 3 onwards because I'm done with being stressed all the time.
This is not all in your head; I'm often told about mistakes I've made 2 months after I make them because of my patreon early access buffer. Patrons are less likely to notice and point them out than the larger Tapas and Webtoons audiences so it doesn't get mentioned until it hits Tapas and Webtoons.
HAHAHA! No, I don't have a buffer, I had a 1 page buffer, used it within 2 weeks 
That said, I would like to have a 1 page buffer. My plan is to level up my drawing speed. Which I think is working. What's been keeping me on task through a full time job and weeks of an ear infection/bronchitis for myself and viral infections for my two year old daughter has been a combination of the "pomodoro" technique and the "don't break the chain" technique.
I started out with "Don't break the chain" only, but it wasn't enough, the "pomodoro" technique seriously leveled up my time management and focus. Right now "Don't break the chain" reinforces my motivation... love that string of red Xs on my calendar Do yourselves a favor and research these two things.
BSandL updates are rather long so usually I don't have any buffer... :'D It's a bit stressful, but I've kept up with a weekly update schedule for a year and I've learned to schedule my life so that I have enough time for making the comic. And on those weeks that I can't update the story, I upload a full-colour illustration, Q&A, or something.
Yeah, everyone makes mistakes and some of those mistakes can be critical! Fortunately, I have a couple of Patrons who speak up when they spot things, but even they can't see everything...
Buffers are good until something dramatic comes up in your life. I used to have a buffer of 15 episodes - but then some family stuff happened and it went to nothing...
I'm on team buffer. I worked my ass off during six months to build it, ended up with 36 pages ( which is really 31 pages in terms of updates, since the five first pages were posted in the same update ). I agree with the fact that at time it's really complicated to be so disconnected with what you are drawing and what people are reading, but having such a big buffer actually allowed me to take two month to plan the next part of the comic and actually take a rest ( which turns out is needed after churning so many pages in so little time when you're the person who does everything from start to finish ). Now I know I'll just go back to drawing pages at the start of september without having to worry about wether or not I will be on time because there will always be at least on page to fall back on.
So yeah, you kind of feel left out of the fun because you're so ahead of time and you cannot share the cool things you're doing right now, but I feel it's worth it, because I personally despise stress. The worst thing will probably to look back on the quality of the first pages of your buffer and realize there's so many mistakes you can't fix now, but heh, it would end up happening without buffer anyway, the first few pages of every comic are meh in retrospective.
I would say maybe have a little buffer at least. So you're not too ahead of your readers but you also have a fall back in case something goes awry. As a reader it really bums me when I go to check the comic the day it updates only to be greeted by nothing and/or a message to say sorry. I'm ok with announced hiatus, I'm ok with a few weeks of little doodles/bonus illustrations instead of comic pages, but just going to see the update and getting nothing ? If it happens too often, no matter how cool the comic, the chances I go back every week to read gets slimmer and slimmer.
so yeah, keep that in mind when choosing wether or not you want to go buffer-free
I always try to make at least 1 chapter as a buffer. My only problem, is...well, I don't write so fast. I always try to set a deadline of at least 2 weeks though, so I have something to gove to Tapas.
I personally like having a big buffer (20-40 pages) so I can make sweeping edits across all the pages before they go public. If I had to post them immediately at finish and then realized a design didn't work 6 pages into the scene, the thought of having to explain the change to the fans and halting regular updates so I can go back to change those pages would stress me out SO much and be super embarrassing. I'd rather have everything finalized and done when I post, which usually doesn't happen until the 40 page chapter is complete and swept through for last minute changes.
I know I can produce 6-10 pages a month depending on life circumstances (I average 8) so I have it scheduled out that a chapter is released over ~5 months, and then I take a month break of updating on Tapas once the chapter is over to give me some wiggle room for writing, concepting, and thumbnailing. That means I need to do everything start to finish for a chapter within 6 months to not fall behind. To be honest though it took me awhile to even get that fast, I'm still working on it ;;;
Just do what ends up working for you and your process. The nice thing here is that you can see into a ton of more experienced peoples' workflow and try out different things until they stick. There's not one solution for everyone!
