Feel free to screenshot my comment (or this one) requesting their promotions be on a separate tab from the activity and messages. They want to promote? Okay, fine, they're going promote their comics. But make their promotion messages separate from legitimate fan/reader messages. It just confuses and enrages people cause they're wasting time on stuff that, were they interested, they'd click from the front page.
Also, I request they fix their "read all button." It takes several clicks in my experience to work (seen others in private discords complaining about this.
Last thing, I don't know if it's just me, but when I get to my own activity, and I've noticed that clicking "mark read" along side one highlighted message is clearing every single one. I plan on screen recording this myself and sending it on, too. I thought it was maybe a glitch, but it's happened two days in a row now, and I keep track of which messages/activities I've viewed that way.
@Calculus_Homework Thank you, also for reaching out. I've messaged them about a couple things, and get tired of having a spotlight put on me as kind of a complainer XD I appreciate you doing this!
Yes, I noticed that Mark all read only works after you press the button a few times (no particular number) in both Messages and Activity and then also reload the page, so it's very much a bug (I'm using Firefox).
Honestly, as a creator it's terrible to get a notification thinking someone left a like or comment, just to find out there's a free premium comic episode is being given out.
I already opened a ticket, but reaching out with more people's messages sounds great, @Calculus_Homework, feel free to screenshot anything from me.
Another 5 popped up today. Great fun. I just bookmarked my subs/notification "activity" tab and just access this broken ass website that way.
I'll just let them spam the bag for eternity I guess.
They wont get read. Ill read what I want to thanks.
Please quote me, I want them to know the bile I have over t his change and have always had over these stupid changes that have been made over time to promote their relentless stream of premium garbage no one reads. We finally escaped having notifications about these things in our inboxes for like a year, and now they've gone and made an even worse system out of it. Have received 3 updates today, on a comic page update day, that were not about my comic. Demoralizing. Garbage.
I don't mind my comments being quoted. At the very least, I hope they'll consider separating the premium comic notifications from the activity stuff. As other people said, it's really disheartening as a creator to get those notifications thinking they're about your series only to find out that they're for premium stuff. The drop-down list for activity was really convenient too. I hope that comes back.
Being able to mute the premium comic notifs (or having them gone completely) would be a dream come true, but that may be wishful thinking. At the very least, could they include more community series?
I'm also not really understanding the difference between the Gifts and Messages section, or why they're called that. Calling promotions "Messages" is just confusing.
I tried blocking the accounts of the spam comics in my inbox marking them as spam accounts (because that's what they are), hoping that it would make the comics go away from my inbox, but unfortunately, they're still there ._. I will still block them because I don't care who you are or on what platform you are, if you spam me I block you.
Yeah.
I feel like a lot of cliche comics get promoted. I'm not saying they're bad, but for me they're stuff I'd never read. Like never. And I've found a lot of great comics/novels on the forums, and most of them don't even have more than ten subscribers! In some cases, less.
I don't know. Forums are helpful, but I also want genuine readers. Readers that don't just subscribe because I've asked them to but also because they like my story. To be honest, I myself haven't read all of the Novels I'm subbed to, but I plan to do so in the future (plus, I do read a few episodes before subscribing).
Basically, what I'm saying is that Tapas should start promoting good comics/novels that don't have a lot of subs. What's the point of promoting something that is already so popular?
Also, has anyone ever noticed how most of the only popular comics have anime covers?
What on earth is going on... Just logged on Tapas and saw 79 notifs for those free eps when I had no interest at all in reading them.
What are they thinking??
The only way I found to reset it is to click the icon and "mark as read" the section. But every day they add new webtoons and novels there 
Unfortunately, "mark all read" doesn't seem to be working on Firefox 
been trying multiple times since yesterday, could get rid of a grand total of one (1) notification... out of 78 
marking everything as read from the phone app doesn't seem to do anything for desktop either, despite the account used being the same.
I also don't like how activity notifications have been pushed all the way down to the end and how the very first thing you see when you open the notification page is just... premium comics ads.
Just tested again. Clicked 22 times with no result. Then I tried to temporarily deactivate uBlock Origin and clicked on "mark all read" again. The notifications disappeared. Not sure if there's an issue with uBlock Origin or if it was just a coincidence, tho will have to try again with the next batch of notifications.
I'm also using it and it does clear up without deactivating it but it does take many, many attempts so you probably finally got to the right number of attempts (it's so frustrating how much it takes to get rid of this spams when single click clears up the activity tab)
btw, were spamming the button or waiting for the site to reload?
I have the same issue and use Firefox too. I don’t like how cluttered the inbox is and clearing the messages shouldn’t be a hard task.
this is so unbelievably stupid dear god
i'm going to leave for comicfury for real if they keep this up
So I'm not alone with this sudden issue that seemed to pop up. Is this some sort of bug? I'd like to only receive messages that are made directly to me or my comic. I have no interest in reading romance of any sort, so these spams are utterly useless to me. Apologies to their creators, but I just don't like reading that genre. Why did this start happening? And how do we get it to stop?
@Sstavix It's not a bug, they just made the inbox the same as it is on app. Except it's more convenient in app and there's no Mark All Read bug. You can make a ticket on their discord or write an email with your concerns, the more people are complaining, the more chances we have to make it more convenient.
Got a response back from Tapas saying that they're forwarding the email to other team members because they've been receiving similar complaints recently.
Good work, guys! xD
Hopefully, some good change will come of this...
For the people on Firefox (@Llyrel @Animefanka @NellieVP318 ), I read on discord that clicking+ctrl to make a new tab open make all the notifications go away.
I use chrome so I can't confirm nor deny.
Thanks for the tip, just tried it and it worked! 
No need to deactivate uBlock Origin either.
One additional thing I noticed: it only seems to work with clicking + holding the CTRL button to open a new tab. Clicking with your mouse wheel (which also opens a new tab) won't do the trick.
I seriously hope they fix this, btw. Fun fact, I checked the notifications from my phone today and discovered that I got a new subscriber who read and liked all my episodes (
). When I opened the website from my desktop, however, the Activity notifications were gone (because I'd already seen them on my phone). Guess which notification did NOT go away until I used the trick above, though?
...Yep, you guessed it. It was the ad for a premium comic.
I know! It's crazy!! I just logged in this morning, and I was sooooo confused why I was getting a hundred notifications about random comics I never heard of! Like you said, It's really inconvenient!!
I'm on web browser and what Kate posted is exactly what I see. As others have said there seems to be a problem with the "mark all as read button" on firefox, so you might want to switch to an alternative browser to clear all...
Is there a way to turn notifications from Tapas off entirely? I've always been annoyed when they put stuff in my notifications that have nothing to do with my interaction with the site, but at this point it's absolutely ridiculous.
Hey tapas? Please stop. Like really, actually, for realsies not kidding. Stop. I'm not going to click on any of these, ever, and making your Tapas sponsored releases more obnoxious and in my way is not going to encourage me to like them.
Can you screenshot what you're seeing? That is a screenshot of the Tapas website on my windows laptop running firefox.
I use Mozilla Firefox, and have had no problems with the ‘mark all read’ feature. I select the messages tab and hit mark all read, the notifications number reduces right away, then I move to the activity tab and do the same, and its all clear instantly each time.
This ‘upgrade’ is, in all probability, a planned move by the site, and it isn’t going away. The least they could do for us creators is move the Activity tab as the default, and the other two useless (for creators) tabs as second and third.