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
Reporting a possible bug I encountered today.
Got an alert that a promoted comic updated, but didn't get an alert when a regular 'ol free to view comic updated today. (The comics in question were, I was told FANGS updated but was not told a new comic, The Search for Henry Jekyll updated.)
As in, the little bookmark icon didn't have that little yellow dot, but when I clicked it, it says the comic had updated.
Was there lag and I just happened to see it in a weird window of time? Is this intended somehow? Or maybe just a problem I'm having?
I've got the latest updated Firefox, and I'm on a PC and thought it was odd enough to report. Thanks all!
Dark mode
Retain formatting, including paragraphs and spacing and italics, in novels.
Also, nice to see Tapas is jumping on that bandwagon of so many other sites of "subtle messaging of showing likes on the main page to push and pull traffic, to already liked stuff, and away from new/less known/less liked stuff." This isn't an original idea, and honestly makes me want to quit the site since every single site I've been on that shows this kind of stat upfront punishes smaller and lesser known stories and stories that may not have "the best" eye-catching thumbnails.
There's also a limit to vertical scrolling on the FRESH/Novel section. No suggestion for pages or anything. Just, stops short suddenly.
In addition to noticing that I can no longer see who liked which comments, I realized there's no longer a button to downvote (though I'm not sure if that did anything before?). Also, didn't there used to be a way to flag inappropriate comments? I'm not seeing a way to do that anymore. Apologies if I'm misremembering.
Alright I do gotta say I am getting used to the site, but I still don't like the all the whiteness. I would like the yellow to come back and for there to be more dark areas. I also still haven't gotten used to all the clicks we have to do to read episodes. The old episode/description combo design needs to come back
This thread has been a rollercoaster lmao. I respect and appreciate the tapas team for going through this and hosting an open review forum.
However can someone enlighten me how the algorithm changed/broke specifically for the popular section? Trending is bad/different too but at least it’s mixed with recent updates (feels 30% like the old Popular)
Currently, on popular: (Comics - BL - Free to read)
- Most of the NSFW comics previously loved by Popular on an upload/engagement basis don’t appear (the reach could've been from 5 to 50k; regardless of sub count - they’re not there for one second)
- the usual sfw popular comics appear
- ghosted comics appear
- ghosted comics # 2
- comics who have 100 subs and have not uploaded since 2019 May appear
If we could get an insight on how popular changed and how these were/are selected, at least until it changes again, creators could think up some counter measures so their nsfw comic would appear somewhere on the desktop site.
I’ve been an avid looker on all charts/trends for 3 years on here. Tbh this is the first time I haven’t seen any of the nsfws I read (including my own comic2) on popular/trending. In the past, any comic could’ve crawled up there for a bit. So what changed? And how can we do better?
Yeah the variance in titles is definitely different from before the update.
But I'm still seeing nsfw stories displayed?
Ten on the popular main page of all comics, censored, but the characters are still nude and engaged in intercourse.
And Blood Moon, Nival, Crossing the Moon, Cuddlefish, and a bunch of others are visible in Trending Novels. And a number of other novels with nsfw scenes are appearing in Popular atm.
@michaelson Since this update is meant to align the desktop more with the app, does that mean the app's algorithms have carried over as well? And since a number of nsfw comics are shadowbanned from the app, did that affect what's displaying on desktop? Like I can still see some so not all comics with nsfw scenes are gone, but they aren't appearing in the amount before the update, we've noticed.