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

[thedude3445]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[samiluu]

same, I feel you a lot

[iHateFridays]

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

[sushy00]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[nathanKmcwilliams]

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

[ar-ninetysix]

[milkae]

That escalated quick-

[milkae]

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]

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]

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.