What do/did you love the most about the Tapas Forum?

Fuzzyman818 2021-09-24 19:45:44 UTC #20

The forums really helped get my foot into the door on this site. I'll admit I was a bit hesitant on going on it at first because I came fresh from Deviantart and I was hoping my watchers would follow me on here. This was just a place to put all of my finished work. But since getting on forums, I've felt like I've grown closer to the community. There are so many great people with great work on this sight that I would have never found if I didn't get on forums. It's also help my series get the recognition it has and it's just sad to see it go like this. But hopefully if enough of us speak out against the change, we may get a compromise.

TedGravesArt 2021-09-24 22:03:13 UTC #21

It's a very different format compared to discord, and has it's place alongside other communication platforms I think. Discord is much more fast paced, and catching up can feel like a daunting task sometimes if you're offline for a few hours. In the forums I can catch up on specific threads quite easily, without having to dig through pages and pages of people chatting. Want to find the finished OC dog pile image? Easy. Want to see what people say about it? It's all right there. Conversations like that just don't work the same in Discord.
I also feel like it's a lot easier to get your thoughts out on a forum, because I don't have to worry about 20 other users chatting over the top of me and burying the topic I'm responding to. I know Discord has threads and replies, but lets be honest, people use Discord differently than a forum like this. If I respond to someone's post from yesterday that's 200 posts up in the chat log, I'm not going to get to have that conversation with them like I could here, I'd just be ignored.
Promotion is something I've heard people complain about a lot here, but tbh it's netted me lots of readers. It just doesn't work the same way on Discord.

thedude3445 2021-09-25 23:14:52 UTC #22

I like the relative lack of drama and toxicity on these forums. There's some jerks here and there, but overall the community is so much warmer and less fighting all the time than most any other author community I have been in.

Shomin 2021-09-25 23:54:46 UTC #23

Things a moving into Discord nowadays.
The advantage of forum is that you may track your topics easily.
But in discord, a lot of features can be done, and it helps to grow the community there.

azzy-m 2021-09-26 06:37:14 UTC #24

I like being able to look at the archive of my comments and mostly topics. I used to use the forums a lot for tips before I joined a comics server (not tapas, i have no interest in tapas's server lmao) and it's nice to look on it every once in a while.

Of course, I'd lose all that valuable advice if the forums ever do go down, so :

dominioncomix 2021-09-26 07:04:22 UTC #25

Probably the fact it's the last forum dedicated entirely to webcomics. Nowhere else I've seen has one. I really liked the sketch a day thread.

samiluu 2021-09-26 10:15:53 UTC #26

I agree 100% with all your opinions... Discord is stressful, I just hope the forums stay

samiluu 2021-09-26 10:17:28 UTC #27

same, I feel you a lot

iHateFridays 2021-09-26 11:17:29 UTC #28

I like getting to interact with other creators here, if these forums do go, I'll miss that

sushy00 2021-09-26 13:15:31 UTC #29

Discord is nice for chat, but I don't think it can replace a forum. A forum feels more "slow-paced". Also, you can check other people's profile to view their comics/websites etc. You don't really have that in Discord.

fleurravenbooks 2021-09-26 13:43:57 UTC #30

Being able to see/ask pretty much anything, from writing advice to pictures of beans
Also, it's really easy to interact with other creators here , to be honest, when i created this acc (august) forum is what convinced me to do so, wattpad had it once but not anymore so we interact via book clubs

milkae 2021-09-26 13:54:13 UTC #31

I used to be on Wattpad long before the forums shut down but even the forum was toxic af. The Tapas one is anything but toxic. One of the most heartwarming forums I've ever seen. periodt.

fleurravenbooks 2021-09-26 15:38:04 UTC #32

oh i should of said i wasn't on wattpad during forum era, i joined recently, i'm sad to hear that
But to be fair, you could of guessed it, if you look at certain comments they will be "savage" ,but actually they are straight up hating on book (there are few comments that are kinda mean, but to characters not to creator,and i don't mind them)

ar-ninetysix 2021-09-26 15:39:11 UTC #33

Never underestimate us. We're so toxic that all the problematic users dipped out

nathanKmcwilliams 2021-09-26 15:45:16 UTC #34

One could argue that all that's left is the toxic users, all living in harmony in our toxic waste dump XD

ar-ninetysix 2021-09-26 15:51:20 UTC #35

milkae 2021-09-26 15:51:52 UTC #36

That escalated quick-

milkae 2021-09-26 15:53:17 UTC #37

Bingo on the right answer lmao. I left Wattpad for the sole reason that some a**hole kept sending me death threats and as I kept blocking them, they still kept making new accounts and dumping the same crap.

Wattpad is weird, humans.

milkae 2021-09-26 16:54:36 UTC #38

I wanna reply to everyone in this thread with how much I agree and type out a hypothesis that even Wordsworth might approve of but I'm restraining...smh my head

Melinda 2022-09-01 20:46:22 UTC #39

Tapas forum is always on my top of mind whenever i’m in need to ask about art related advices.
About 2 years ago, due to some circumstances, i was really stressed out and depressed and it’s affecting my career as a full time artist but i can’t really talk about it with anyone around me cause most of them didn’t really understand my work-scope since they weren’t working in the same field as i do. Pandemic didn’t help either and i didn’t have any fund to go to therapy.
I decided to consult my problem to the community here and got so many kind advices and encouragement. It really helped me a lot! I’m really grateful for this community, and i hope it stays kind and supportive to each other.