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.
@michaelson I'll be honest! I was pretty surprised when I saw the update! I was just on the site a few days before it happened! And I do see what others are saying about copying webtoons!
But! I thought it was a pretty cool idea updating the site! It's good to change things every couple years are so. I would suggest. Since "I feel like you're not gonna change the way it's design" It would be best to at least change the colors back to normal! In stead of the plan white look! Trust me the new design of the site with those iconic colors would look perfect together!
But most importantly we creators have to have our series banners back! That's a must! Banners make our series feel way more on brand! And helps potential readers become more drawn to our comics!
Also just so you know my series ad picture goes on and off between clear and blurry! Just in case that needs to be fixed!
I still love Tapas, but there's still some things that need to be fixed!
I would like to thank you for taking the time to read our concerns, and dealing with all the unnecessarily overboard hateful comments! Keep up the good work Tapas Staff! I have faith!
Added the updated fixes to the parent post.
Not entirely - we did modify the algorithm a bit more in order to hopefully diversify the featured series within that section, however, we are being cautious of making sure that NSFW marked series are still being represented on the web as that prominence is less visible on the app. That being said with every major revamp of the web, the algorithms do take time to gather new data so it's initial selections will be slightly confusing.
@michaelson I have another problem with the mature section, although that also happened in the old layout.
I tried clicking through most of comic there, but half of the time I got this:
"not available in my country"? O____o" Whut? Is that a bug on tapas' end or should I blame Germany? XD
@ratique: Will do gladly u_u"
Soviel zum freien Internet XD;
This was probably already mentioned, but when I'm reading a comic on my computer and open the episode list, I can't right-click on them to open a different episode in a new window. It's really annoying I think it's important to be able to quickly check on previous episodes, especially for long comics.
Hey so on a very serious note, I was able to read 3 separate comics updates early. When they specifically say the updates aren't available for a few days. You can't access them when you try to click on the episode directly, but when you're on the comic page and hitting the next button...yeah, you can access queued episodes.
None of these comics are mine.
You should really work on fixing that, as it can really screw up people's comics. ><
Hey so on a very serious note, I was able to read 3 separate comics updates early. When they specifically say the updates aren't available for a few days. You can't access them when you try to click on the episode directly, but when you're on the comic page and hitting the next button...yeah, you can access queued episodes.
None of these comics are mine.
You should really work on fixing that, as it can really screw up people's comics. ><
I second this, just checked my series in private mode and I could access first of the two scheduled episodes (trying to go further resulted in a "the page you're looking for doesn't exist" message)
On PC
@michaelson There's no way to get the arrows and /Dashboard button tab things at the top to appear when you're in the middle of a long vertical comic.
I noticed I had to use the scroll bar or the arrow keys to make it appear before, but it ONLY would trigger near the bottom or near the top, but not in the middle or too far from the top/bottom sections. Comic that did this : https://tapas.io/series/That-awkward-magic1 on newest update
I had to go all the way to the top or bottom to trigger the drop-down to get the link to return to the Dashboard or anywhere. Very annoying.
No @Azifri stop reading. But thanks for the like.
I can't see any view count. But I got the like
Psst. If you read you have to pay for early access.
Oh well. Might just publish the thing now. the big secret is out anyway and the stats broken.
Here you have it. Early access to all.
https://tapas.io/episode/16837773