What are your thoughts on the New Cover Guidelines?

[KennethLopezJr921]

So if you guys didnt know, Tapas updated their new guidelines for covers so that part of it is cut off the bottom part is faded out: https://www.creators.tapas.io/new-cover-guidelines-2024

Im not going to sugar coat how I feel about this. I hate it. In fact, I absolutely despise this change. I had just updated my cover a few months ago to better fit the image dimensions tapas required since my older one didnt. Plus I thought it would be more inviting to readers, and now all of that's been invalidated pretty much.

Personal grievances aside, I don't understand why they made this change. The old layout of the site was fine, and it unintentionally feels like a slap in the face to creators who use the site. With the only benefit from this being that it'll help better promote your series (which again, feels like a spit in the face to me because that's what I wanted to do with my current cover), so I guess regardless of how anyone feels, we're all going to need to adapt......or silently protest hoping they're rollback this change like what Im currently doing.

What do you guys think?

[LostKelp]

I think silent protesting sounds innefective, and tapas will keep on making whatever changes it likes regardless of how we feel, just like with the whole inbox thing of last year. in comparison this seems like less of an annoying slap in the face, but I already needed to get around to updating my cover, and this was just a lil push. I'm pretty happy with how the new art came out, but it's annoying that comic covers have more restrictive formatting now.