The "trending banners" you're talking about are staff picked comics that are I guess popular or something, they approached me and asked me to make a banner for that section when it was still app only. I dunno why they would do that lol but I got super happy. Total "senpai noticed me" moment （*’∀’人）♥
Yes, the tapastic.com URL will always redirect to the new tapas.io.
Whoa, send me an e-mail about your name cards and comic booklets! I think the staff would get a kick out of seeing that
michaelson@tapasmedia.co
@JohnVincent - Senpai has acknowledged you
And yes @Devika , there are two rows of Trending. Forgot to be more specific.
@konori - have you tested that old URL. It will still redirect to the changed URL, at least for me.
Ideally, any knew cards you make should probably have the new url on it but "tapastic.com/username" will automatically redirect to "tapas.io/username"
I'm guessing they still own the old url. Will it eventually go away? donno
With the site update, the episode "Title" field has become pretty much invisible to me : o I miss it every time and then get a red warning nastygram when I try to update the comic because the title is missing.
I guess the field just isn't quite where I expect it to be, and is is hard to see, with no border, no bold label, and just a light gray (on white background 8o) background text insert to indicate that it is there at all.
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Oh also, the new comic comment font is sort of big and bubbly and crowded---it is harder to read than the previous font was, and less of it seems to fit into view before you have to click to expand a comment to read the rest of it.
So far I haven't had much problems with the new set up.
However, in the notifications, having everything in white makes it hard to scan and separate from users and topics (I.e. [Username] has liked/subscribed/etc [Comic name] ) and it becomes this jumble of white lines.
@michaelson - I've sent you the email. 8D
@jjfresh - Ah yes, I have tested the old URLs. It's just that when I wrote that post, some of the old URLs (like episode and series links) have not been redirecting to the new tapas site. Now they're working, though (thank goodness).
Hah I knooow. I just uploaded with the new thing and it gave me the red banner and it took me a second.
Also, seriously, tone down on all the colors. Reds, greens, orange, in addition to regular greys, far more than necessary. Though, it works in this case.
Is there any way of adding the "Edit Title" further down on the upload page?
I keep missing it all the time when I upload new pages, I think a good placement would be underneath "Episode Info" (as it's where the error message comes up all the time whenever I missed entering the title).
Or maybe change the placement of the error message?
Since premium books and comics are now more visible on the front page (especially with the addition of books on desktop), will the availability of keys and coins on desktop be considered? So you'll be able to to purchase keys, coins, and maybe watch ads or tips creators on desktop too, or would you rather keep it app exclusive?
From what I can tell, it's for creators who are a part of the Premium/paid program through Tapastic. So for comics like Moonlight Hair, They Say I Was Born a King's Daughter, etc. and all of the novels right now. There's no way to join this program without being contracted by Tapas (either by invitation or by having your work accepted by them). I can't check much else except for the main tab that the "Publisher" button redirects to because the links lead nowhere (they might be broken, but they could also be for contracted workers only, and not available to the general creator public that just uses the open-platform part of Tapas). But yeah, judging by the "Unlocks" and "Keys purchased" links, I can assume it's for people whose series have these functions, most (if not all) of which are only paid series, in which case, see above.
It was probably just easier to let it sit open for all users while they were still overhauling the site. It takes a lot of work to do that alone, having to change the priviledges and such for different users takes quite a bit of time and it's ubdoubtedly easier to just let it sit at zeroes for everybody (for now at least, which is what I'm hoping lol)
I really liked the old Tapastic name. The new name just sounds like you forgot to type out the rest of it.
I don't really understand the new ".io" for the url? if anyone that knows about websites could you explain what the difference between it and ".com" is?
All of that is explained it the blog post.
https://medium.com/@Tapas_App/hello-tapas-io-b41cb5f2d1e72
It's like they read your mind!!! OAO
Also, that was a cheesy input/output gag in that last answer. : P
