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For me the complete oppsite i almost seen a 4 times increase in likes but a huge drop in support and subs

Blue Life is still as hard to find as my homeland Denmark... But if you find it you will be charmed and welcomed.

But my Boy Love comic is as spammed with readers as always.
Nothing new here

Wow ok, I got 6k more views on one of my series' update yesterday compared to the last update prior to the design-revamp. And it's not like it was a nsfw page or anything special.

I also got 4 more subs compared to the previous update, but I think that's small enough that it's negligible.

Lucky you!
I got the same number of views.
And while the likes are up by an insane amount overall, my subs a crawling.

I used to get near the top in the popular section for comedy on update days and now I'm not even registering.
Also, I have no idea how the trending section is supposedly to work. No matter who is trending, the front page does not reflect this.

@michaelson You mentioned that to improve visibility we should get our readers to help us reach the trending section, but it appears that no matter who's trending, it's not reflecting in the front page.
Would I be right to assume that the front page is using a different algorithm?

Gonna be honest guys this kind of stats is gonna take longer then a week to understand how audiences are dealing with the changes- We're really looking more at 2 to >8< weeks (sometimes 12 depending on the sources) of watching the stats before people should freak out if this is overall better or worse ^^;;; just saying, everyone should chill on the stats.

At the very least, I think we can agree on one thing: Can't be any worse than Smackjeeves! :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Pre-New Look, updates for my Novel and Comic got an average of 15-25 views within the first few hours.
Post-New Look, barely 5-10 on average for the day and the Novel isn't showing up on FRESH either.

Like taking the wheels off a skateboard and using it to surf. :cry:

ENJOY!

We will take a look at this. Thank you :sweat_smile:

Also when looking at stats changes - as creators we forget that the majority of readers are interacting on the app and thus aren’t as affected by this change as we think. It’ll have SOME effect, but the app has been this way for a while.

I got kicked out of the app, so the website is where people find me.
I'm pretty sure other people got kicked out too... UNLESS I WAS THE ONLY ONE?!!

Yeah but that’s not true for the majority of users - only those who are posting uncensored NSFW content. In your case it would be most pertinent to see how the UI handles the changes but for most creators it’s a mix of desktop and app.

Does anyone have the percentage on active app users compared to desktop users i would just like to know the percentage.

60% percent mobile 40% percent desktop?
or maybe a little more on mobile

If Tapas is like most other sites of its kind, I think you’ll probably find the ratio is far, far higher. Wattpad for example, quoted over 90% of their users being app users over desktop/mobile.

One thing I just noticed as a bug is clicking the "SUPPORT" button in my Dashboard (url is titled tips) takes me nowhere. Upon clicking to "REVENUE" and then "SUPPORT" I am taken back to the 'home' of the Dashboard.

Well, I liked previous design a bit more, especially yellow color - it was like a trademark! But I'm not gonna complain about new one, what to do.

Though I suddenly got a problem 2 days ago, similar to a previous comment.
"SUPPORT" button disappeared from my dashboard, but I can open it by typing url with my own hands. Yesterday a couple of dear readers sent me some ink and it was counted, but it's like I don't have this option on my dashboard.

Okay, I was reading some comics yesterday, just to give the new layout a chance and there are some other details:

  • I'd love to have a "start from ep. 1" no matter what. For half of the comics which I have never seen before, the website assumed I was a continuing reader and sent me somehwere into the middle of the comic.
  • A "start from ep. 1" button would also be appreciated for comics I've been reading. Sometimes I can't manage to read a comic for ages, so I forget what's happened and basically I have to start over again. Which means major scrollage atm.
  • I've been reading a comic partially here and partialle on SJ, where some deleted scenes were posted. And srsly, I had to check the adress line on which website I was when I got up for a while to do sth else. They look TOO much alike! At least give us some tapas yellow, that would partially solve the problem ^^"
  • what I noticed too was: I only was able to access other creator's other comics via the main page of their comic. When I was IN their comic, there was advertisement for other trending comics, which does not interest me if I want to see more of the artist I'm reading!
  • Plus: Their external link is still only accessible via the main page of the comic. I know, premium comics are soooo much more awesome than anything a "normal" creature could ever achieve (that's sarcasm here), but stop shoving recommendations down my throat and rather let me know: "Hey, this creator you just discovered has some more series, lookie here"!
  • And... if we're not getting back banners, could we at least change the color of the color block ourself? x_x Aubergine is NOT the color I'd love to see anywhere my comic and it absolutely clashes with the square bannery thing that you left us as header...

Edit: And I'm still hoping for a solid DM system XD

There used to be a handy-dandy double arrow that was in the upper right hand corner of the banners for our series that no longer exists that would take you to the first ep automatically if you clicked it. I thought that was a great feature, too, for new readers wanting to jump to the first ep.