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Mar 2020

you know you've fucked up when pretty much every single person has said "this update hurts us" and "your update rips off the competitor" maybe focus on those....

Ohhh! I just saw 2 very problematic things I had missed. If someone knows a way to do, please tell me, but in any case, it's bad because at best, it's more difficult to do.

  1. No more access to full site from mobile
  2. No more possibility to read a comic on the mobile website without being redirected to the app (even by doing 'open in new tab')

Now it's pretty clear, they don't give a damn about the website. Everything is done to make the website unusable and force people to use the app. Extremely upsetting.

I think farther up Michael said that they they were deliberately removing the full site on mobile feature.

I could never access the full site on mobile myself; my ipad always led to the app regardless if I was on an internet browser or not. : /

Does that mean no more way to use Tapas on mobile other than the app? If so, this is terrible. A big big issue for me, actually a dealbreaker.
That could be enough to make me leave as a creator and a reader.

I think I saw Michael said something about that full site on mobile was removed.

But I’m on mobile web and reading stuff. Not forced to app. (iPhone safari)

Same, I can access the full site on my Android phone (chrome browser) and no attempts of redirecting me to the app so far. Sucks if this will be the case at some point D:

On Android, one out of 3 browsers I tried makes it possible. Before, it was 3 out of 3.
Thank you for the info, that what made me try the other browsers :). Still, it's more and more difficult.

Redirecting SHOULD BE A CHOICE!

Sorry, one more thing to bring back.
The preview when you share on other platforms.
Right now it shares the icon, people will not understand it's a new page.
Also the function to crop a preview is still up for creators, it just does not appear when you share.

Thank you guys :smiley:

Agreed! I know I’m one of the few but I always use the full site for all the websites I go to on my phone- it allows me to be in control of all of the benifits of the full site so I’m not lacking in communication or updates that would normally go under the radar with mobile versions.

We're reintegrating the "FULL SITE" function back to the mobile web experience for creators that want to publish using the mobile website. The current mobile web does not the "FULL SITE" functionality and is mirroring the main web's homepage but doesn't include our publishing tool. Does that answer the question?


I'll still be answering questions, just getting slightly overwhelmed by the number of responses that need to be addressed.

That's something I have definitely considered too, but that still begs the question about why he can't answer the question. Like if it's tech/time reasons, why not just say that?

I definitely don't expect the site to roll back and we just have to move forward with what we've got. At this point, at least we are at a point where we know they are at a minimum pretending to care, which is more than what other sites have done.

I definitely don't want to conspire on this anymore either. :stuck_out_tongue: At this point, best thing we can do is the wait and see approach.

Okay, that is definitely NOT good, given the mature content apocalypse caused by Apple. >___________>

And um, isn't the purpose of the update to match the website to the mobile version and apps? What's the point then?

Yep! I don't get it, more and more people don't have computer anymore and do everything by mobile, but more and more often, people are forced into dumbed down, censored apps, and no one seems to care. (Yes, I know, this is going much more far than the Tapas issue. But Tapas is a good example).

Yeah, that's what I thought the redesign was for (and did terribly, since the mobile website is iffy, namely with loading). To bridge mobile and desktop, even though the two were completely fine as they were.

It's looking more and more like this was thought up and coded by investors instead to piss us off.

We'll definitely take this into consideration. We've done some creator newsletter related polls and we might integrate those more into our messaging. Thanks for the suggestion.

No. That's not the case.

We are working on that fix currently.

We are rolling them out gradually and will keep this topic updated.

Part of the fix has been shipped.

We are bringing back infinite scroll, it's part of our hot fix in the parent post.

We hope to address this in a future build, we are tinkering with some ideas currently.

I hate how much of a pain it is to just read a new page on desktop now. Before, I could just refresh my library, click on what was new, and be taken right there to the new page. Now I have to click on the comic, scroll and find the start of new pages, and hit that. Or hit continue, and then hit Next. Its supposed to be better design to have FEWER clicks to do the same thing as before, not more. And the huge amount of white space sometimes keeps me from realizing a new page has even loaded. Not to mention having to fiddle around to get that awful black bar to appear or disappear.

I've already seen several creators announce they are ditching or stopping updates. I don't want to have to start using Webtoon; its ugly and not easy to use.

I've already started uploading on both Tapas and Webtoon so I can cut and run if necessary.