Website update changes

[IndigoShirtProd]

Yea they "mentioned" it. That short little blurb at the top of the email wasn't enough to prepare people for this. It should've been more informative saying when and what was going to be changed. Anyone who wasn't paying attention, me, would've missed that and assumed the point of the email was just about the cover thing!

[BobbyjoeX]

can i mention i never even got the email for the covers and vaguely this clusterfuck of an update?

[TAMAnnoying]

Actually I’m not done yet- I DONT think tapas sould be using it’s community as BETA testers for fuck sake- the amount of problems and the amount of issues I’m hearing from >readers< the people this is supposed to be an improvement for- this is not gucci

[vothnthorvaldson]

I would not go as far as @Cavechan does, but I think the feeling of betrayal is entirely justified. I feel betrayed too. I sincerely believed something would be done to promote the website after the app censorship issue. Nothing was done. Ok. I'm not happy, but whatever. But now getting an update that is clearly ignoring website user needs (at best! Maybe even made to discourage them and encourage them to read on app), yes, I feel betrayed.
I really believed in Tapas, because the communication with creators is way better than the competition.
But at this point, I'm not on Tapas because I love Tapas, but because they are the less bad.

[Iris-Grimoire]

Instead of asking for Tapas Ink, get Ko-Fi gold and change coffee to Ink - genius!

But yeah guys, as much as it's horrible, it's poorly implemented, this WILL fuck us over views wise - it's best to remain civil. Community management and especially the people actually making these changes will not listen and will not care if you start acting violent. Be concise and clear that they've screwed up this, that, that other thing, and so much more, to the point they'd be in the wrong to say nothing is happening. But use really aggressive wording and it just sounds emotional and unreasonable(even if it's completely reasonable).

Also for the love of god let's please not attack each other

[byelacey]

okay, i'm just saying, maybe don't be mean

[BobbyjoeX]

this right here, i will admit i been getting less and less satisfied with every new update but this one was the straw that broke the camel's back

[HRAM]

I don't even use any apps. I don't have a 'phone for it and have no desire to get one.

[Croik]

That blurb totally made it sound as if the site changes and the thumbnail change would be happening simultaneously, mid-March. Why WOULDN'T those changes happen together? And why not warn us we'd be losing all our custom banners?

I and I'm sure many others already prepared new icons, sure would have been nice to know that said icon would be slapped on a plain color banner I have no control over. How is the banner color even chosen? Can it be gamed by changing the color scheme of the icon?

[TAMAnnoying]

I tots agree with you but considering half the people are waking up to this without their morning cup of coffee/Pepsi expecting 100% nice guy is hoping for a lot.

[BobbyjoeX]

go look at Webtoon, they have the same set up where the colour is indicated by genre and no joke, Tapas is using the same colours... only different is that the fantasy tab is a more muted purple and not this god awful adioactive purple slime looking colour

[jensrichard77]

Not sure if anyone said it yet, but italics are gone. Like...the words are just gone.

THIS IS CRITICAL!
Contents are missing!
@Yoon sorry for tagging. But this must be a priority

[BobbyjoeX]

i think a better way to deal with it is just to revert the site back...

[mrtoontastic]

We can't get a larger character count for novels, but we get this...?

[CodeMonkeyArts]

...shit...SHIT!

A lot of inner thoughts and trigger warnings I have are in italics!

WTF!

[Jophiel]

some customization would be nice,,

[IndigoShirtProd]

That would be nice, wouldn't it. . .

[BobbyjoeX]

thats why i think one of the biggest losses was the banners

[jensrichard77]

Italics and Bold not visible!

Please send all urgent feedback regarding bugs here:

feedback@tapas.io

Email sent about Italic and Bold text are gone
Got your back my dear Novelist

[KRWright]

are you planning on continuing using Tapas, or are you going to completely switch over to Wattpad?

Don’t make me laugh. Cut me open, and a little Tapamon would jump out. The grass isn’t greener elsewhere. Ironically, a lot of the issues with the new UI are issues I have with other unnamed platforms that I decided to move away from, but also Tapas’ novels team and literally wonderful and I couldn’t imagine going elsewhere with my work right now. I’d rather work with them to see changes made that benefit novelists than flounce off and cut off my nose to spite my face.

Yeah this is not gonna work for people with sensory issues or light sensitive eyes. My eyes are dying. Please, for the love of god, add colour somewhere and don't go with a full white site. Wattpad did the same thing and I can only use it with a user-made dark mode.

Also why I liked Tapas so much.

This isn't accessible, so please consider making a dark mode.

What was nice about the previous site was when novels were introduced, they weren't completely buried beneath the comics. Now the free ones are. It's nice to have the featured lists included to the web, but pretty much everywhere else the novels are completely buried and hidden. I know they have their own tab and all, but just purely focusing on the home page, you have to click several times to even find the free-to-read trending list. Also the endless scrolling is going to kill everyone who're not in the top 10 continuously. No one's gonna scroll that far.

Boosting this. I need accessibility for my novels. But also, even though I have Premium works that benefit, I like to see upcoming authors having their hard work rewarded and seeing their work at least take some form of precedence. I don’t feel like Tapas should become a site where novels are second class citizens.

Also, for users who are NOT premium, the hiding of Patreon links/ad banners/removal of banners at the top etc. Is insult to injury. When a change hits people’s bank balances - they will move on.