Also gotta note that the episodes themselves load slower than they used too - even on short comics.
I agree. There is nothing to be gained from attacking each other. Everyone's experiences, positive or negative, are valid and should be considered.
I just hope that the folks who are reading our feedback and emails take us seriously. Already a few of us feel like we are being pushed aside as smaller/newer creators (I mean we have been feeling that way but this is certainly the biggest straw that broke the camels back). I would like to hear from the Tapas folks and I'm willing to wait a few days before making a decision to abandon ship (or building another ship to check out another port).
Creator Bug: As the creator of a comic you can no longer view your scheduled chapters unless you edit them. It says "Coming Soon!" when I click on a chapter that's not live yet. I need to be able to see the scheduled chapters so I can create links for twitter. Please fix this!!
This update is terrible. I think pretty much everything I don't like it has been mentioned but I want to complain.
Everything is too white. It hurts my eyes. Please give us a dark mode or make this white less screamingly bright. Add some colour in the top bar. I miss the yellow.
Why is the subscribe button hidden? It makes literally no sense. No one is going to bother finding it after they finish reading. There is a perfect spot for it between the comment and text size icon. Please change this.
Why is series subscription hidden too? It makes no sense. I want to be able to see quickly what the story is about, not go searching and clicking.
But I do like the new chapter view from the most part. I like it that the view is wide and that the bars go away when you scroll. I just wish I'd easily get them to show up without having to scroll to the top or bottom. The series view is quite nice too apart from the hidden description. I also think that instead of showing the support messages it'd be nicer to show for example the latest posts on the creator wall made by the creator. That way the reader could easily get some information about for example hiatuses or other news.
ALSO why does the "other series from this creator" look how many likes it has? I guess it makes sense to show how many people 'like' the series but not that many people click the like button from my experience.
So showing subs or views would make a lot more sense to show how popular a series is
All in all I wish we could go back to the old website while you make changes. Right now I don't really like this new look and the site is not enjoyable to use
I'm not being mean, I am being blunt and there is a difference. The updates these sites make directly affect our lives. People have poured not only countless hours, but REAL money into their comics. I have done so myself. I have spent hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to help refine and perfect my craft. I have also given Tapas money directly by purchasing ink. So, yes, this does actually hurt me and I stand by what I said.
And as I stated in one of my posts, I am not one to overreact like this. Like I defended to hell out of Smack Jeeves even when it was initially changing (until we found bugs/changes that were too huge to ignore). I would love it if Tapas would redesign their site, that would be cool. Improvement is always better.
But this is literally a copy of another website. And I'm going to tag @michaelson and @Yoon here because this part is really important. This is to the point where I am honestly concerned for Tapas well being. They could be SUED for infringement because of how similar it is. I took a screen shot for comparison:
If I look at these two sites, even the COLOR of the bar is almost exactly the same. I'm a graphic designer and good at telling difference between colors and there's hardly a shade of difference between them.
People were even saying they were mistaking the new Tapas for WT. Even the size of elements are very similar. I would be worried for them because they stand zero chance against a huge corporation like Line if WT were to decide it is too remarkably similar, especially given they are are the same business.
I don't have time to look through all comments since I'm on break at work and today is super tight for me with things to do, but if @Yoon is able to come back with some reasonable path forward after this disaster, then I would be willing to change my no forgiveness stance. However, I have very little faith this will happen.
Additionally, if we could edit the comics appearing right beside our own episodes, that'd be great. The "Trending [insert your genre here]" section on the right:
As a mildly successful creator, I'd like to keep my audience from moving to other comics that are more "famous" right under my nose. I believe the comics shown here don't really need to be promoted anymore. I also believe the old version of the website would promote "noteworthy" comics and novels instead of trending ones (correct me if i'm wrong) and I think that'd be a lot clever in order to give visibility to smaller/less known creators.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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!!
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. 
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
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.
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.
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.
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.)
@phoenixrenaissance @sefra114
Click the link from Michael and fill in the form.
that way it will go directly into the right chair
Filling out the feedback form now, but all I gotta say is
TAPAS LOST ITS SOUL
It's a kid trying to be like its cool brother Webtoons but lost a lot of what made it special in the first place.
Aside from a lot of clicking to reach to the next page it bugs me (a right-handed person) that the Prev/Next buttons are on the left, so I have to reach for them 
I believe you can use your arrows keyboard keys too, instead of clicking. They're on the right side of the keyboard too cuz keyboard-makers simply want left-handed people to suffer I guess but... Would that help?
I just... never use a keyboard for that, haha =) But maybe I just won't be reading comics on website at all now, we'll see ^^
f/ it, i'll say it: they pulled a Smackjeeves and lost what made their brand special : (
the only feature that made them standout is hosting novels, and even that is broken now 
That's fair. I don't use the keyboard for that either, or haven't until now at least.
I guess all we can do now is fill the form and wait for (hopefully) changes.
Hey, now they haven't gone complete smack Jeeves and got rid of their forums. The're is always a Bright side.
Tapas was good about taking user feedback the last time they made a desktop update so it's way too soon to get up in arms.
I'm looking forward to them polishing this into something, you know, more functional. 
