Website update changes

[phoenixrenaissance]

Why oh why to endless scrolling?

And where did the dashboard go? I haven't looked at the site on desktop yet but I would think even on mobile if I'm viewing it "desktop mode" I should be able to find it.

[KRWright]

Don't know if it's just me, but I'm having lots of issues with scrolling when I access tapas on my phone (Android, chrome browser). It doesn't scroll at all, or it jumps right to the bottom of the page. It's not frozen because tapping on buttons still works. It doesn't happen with any other site or the tapas app shrug

I’m having this problem too. I also can’t click “see all” on the staff picks list.

[Azifri]

When looking at them side by side, webtoons actually looks better

[RandomWebComicFan]

Don't know about mobile, but you can click to pull up the menu on desktop.

Everything else I agree with you. That picture posted comparing the new design to Webtoons is quite telling. It's great how they've sunken the website into becoming an inferior knockoff of Webtoons. I always loved Tapas for how infinitely better its website design was compared to Webtoons.

[CodeMonkeyArts]

The colorblock of grey helps with that. Man this is making me even more frustrated...

[amberberry]

Oh you're right, clicking does bring up the menu. I was on desktop too. My initial reaction was just hover my mouse on the bottom of the screen, lol. Thanks for letting me know.

[jensrichard77]

I'd like to keep my audience from moving to other comics that are more "famous" right under my nose.

I got that concern too. When someone click into my series. Then there are links to other series but my own series description are hiding.
Not good

[Birbmagadon]

Yeah... I'd be fine if the section was promoting people who need it. But here it's just giving others a stick to beat you with, especially when it comes to comedy. I know there are tons of other more successful relatable af comics out there, no need to smack them into my audience's face and go "you should try that instead, it's more successful than what you've been reading..."

"We're all about promoting small creators, duh", yeah right.

[jensrichard77]

That space should be a Creator feed space.
Welcome to my channel here at tapas.
Here is what I also do. And here is a support button. and here is a nice description of what you are about to read.

But no, you are right. This feels just like. "No read something trending instead"

@ratique Not that urgent to send a direct email about. But if you are collecting feedback to daddy, here is some.

[Birbmagadon]

Yes! This should be the spot to see the comic's description, the links to your social media, etc.

But nooo, let's just put the bloody description in another tab, lost somewhere behind a click. After all, descriptions aren't THAT important now, are they?

[ratique]

@ratique Not that urgent to send a direct email about. But if you are collecting feedback to daddy, here is some.

Yeah, this whole thread is already being tracked.

[nerdykitty200]

I hate how they changed it too, it almost looks tacky and I hope the tapas staff listen to the large majority of their audience and change it back!!

[morinavis]

I'm on desktop and a page to my comic just went up. We got a comment on it but for some reason it gave them the Creator tag.

[ella190831]

what happen on the novel section, those huge covers are so bad and blurry
takes forever to scroll through
i prefered the older layer there

[michaelson]

Hey everyone,

I started a new topic to help answer some questions as this topic already has 223 responses and felt like my answers would get buried.

Hello everyone, One of the many challenges we face at Tapas is simultaneously developing the mobile web, web, and mobile app experiences for both readers and creators. We’ve been focusing a lot of our attention recently to the development of our mobile apps which caused a lack of parity between the reader functionality of the website and apps. Our goal was to address this along with other reader experience issues with the new update, but we also acknowledge this update missed the mark on a lo…

[phoenixrenaissance]

When I'm viewing a comic page I'd much rather see the order be comic page, ad, author comment, comments, "read next", ads.
I'd rather not see "more like this" if it's not going to be even remotely related to what I'm reading.

[sefra114]

It was a shock to see this new update today. Somehow, this actually looks a lot more like Webtoons, especially when you click a series and choose from an episode. In my opinion, this makes Tapas less unique and stand-out as its own thing. It's a bit disappointing, and searching through comics feels very cluttered. I have no idea how much more cluttered it will look when they switch to cover pages.

[claiborneart]

Yeah, I've always wanted a 'Creator's Picks' section, or something like "Other [this series] Readers enjoy these comics:", though that second option would require a lot more calculations pulling data from people's subscriptions and might cause a lot more problems of its own.

What I would like to see is the comic recommendation section have stuff in at least somewhat the same magnitude of popularity, like Smackjeeves used to do back in the day with its 'similar comics' section.

If a comic has <50 subscribers, but almost all of them are also subscribed to a series I already read and enjoy, then I'll probably like that comic as well(maybe even more so than whatever's popular sitewide.)

[jensrichard77]

@phoenixrenaissance @sefra114
Click the link from Michael and fill in the form.

that way it will go directly into the right chair

[phoenixrenaissance]

Just saw his post, filling it out now