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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.

You can't use Tapas on a mobile browser anymore? That's kind of upsetting, I use that to show my comic to people IRL quickly and opening the whole app takes a lot more time.

No - so the mobile browser or mobile web is operational in terms of reading but publishing a story has not been updated.

Another Bug Report:

Already read episodes continue to be marked as not read.

I have an android and some sites force me to do that, I wonder if they are site related or the smartphone just tries to be smart and make you use the app. For example when I force chrome to show me the desktop version of patreon on my samsung, some parts of the site will try to force you to either open with the app or a different browser (which will go mobile mode).

I don't know if this works with tapas specifically, but when it pulls the "wanna open this in the app?" Or just automatically takes you to the app, I copy the link and open in a different window. For whatever reason, chrome behaves differently then.

I haven't attempted reading on chrome on the phone though. I use the desktop version on my phone to check my earnings and access episode editing when I'm on the go.

That's good to know. I'd not be surprised if there is an interaction website/browser as I found one that does not redirect (the Samsung default one)
But it got worse with last update. Before, I could use 'open in new tab'. Now, this only open the comic icon.
I think the issue could be resolved by having redirection as an option. I can get how some people like it, so having it as an option would make sense.

@michaelson are there plans to give new authors more stage time I guess you could call it like I suggested above?

That's weird.
I have that issue since a few months (never before). I already tried to reinstall the app.
The only thing that works (obviously) is to remove the app.