We don't have enough promotion threads

[Bokyongyo]

That could work, think the only issue is splitting the brand could be a disservice to the lesser known works. There is a chance more people whom solely read would stay on Tapas and not move to Tapastry.

[Eyre]

This is great, but not only do both brands have atrocious SEO, but Tapastry so far has just been used as a never-ending hashtag party to promote Tapas itself, more than any actual comics/novels.
It's like how lots of newcomers to Webtoon don't know that 'CANVAS' means 'independent' and assume there's no difference because they've no idea what 'CANVAS' is supposed to mean. Tapas at least does us the honour of placing Premium alongside its other series in search results without some weird bit of jargon (with equally bad SEO) to separate them.

[Capsona]

Here's my opinion:

I don't think tapas needs to promote more community comics or less premium comics. I think tapas need a definitive way of knowing which comics are free and which are premiums.

The app front page is currently all over the place. Community comics and premium comics are mixed together is some places which might make new readers stop checking other comics in a particular space like "staff picks" because the first one they checked is premium. Specially when they don't have money. So why bother check the rest, all of them must be premium if the first one I saw in this section is premium right?

I saw a lot of readers complain why tapas doesn't offer free comics in the app review section in the app store. So a lot of potential new reader don't realize that tapas offers 2 fronts of comics and novels. Both payed and completely free generated by users.

I did this visual overview of tapas front page so you can see what I mean:

[jensrichard77]

I saw a lot of readers complain why tapas doesn't offer free comics in the app review section in the app store. So a lot of potential new reader don't realize that tapas offers 2 fronts of comics and novels. Both payed and completely free generated by users.

I fully get your point and we did had one reader here at the forum trying to address this. Mostly because they followed on Twitter and clicked on new stuff they were promoting only to find out that this new series become paid after X- episodes without telling this in the beginning. So they could not found out where the free comics where when the "free" eventual become paid.

Sorry cant find that post, but it is here somewhere.

Anyway the free sections are not that hide-a-way. It is here

[littlelilylee5683]

I've mostly left this thread since I'm generally happy with my Tapas experience, and I'm a novelist and this has become about comics (or always was about comics). What I find most interesting in @Capsona long scroll of the front page is that there is ONE SINGLE section out of all of those sections with visible novels. EVERYTHING else is for comics. Free or not. (If you don't count the "novel to comic" which is still mainly advertising comics...)

I, however, am not going to complain, because one of the three visible novels is mine. I've also been shared twice using the Tapastry hashtag, so I know it does happen. I'm on Instagram, though, not Twitter, so that probably helps.

I'm definitely not "YAY TAPAS" or "BOO COMIC ARTISTS" and I think many of these issues are completely valid. I knew Tapas was a comic place before I came. I was just trolling and thought how obvious the complete lack of visible novels was on that screenshot. ^^ Just to interject a little novelist perspective into the mix.

[Jenny-Toons]