What website(s) besides tapastic do you use to post comics?

[L4213]

oh the irony used to be on smackjeeves. it barely got any hits the time it was there. (comparing to my current readerbase) smackjeeves is great because of its customizability. but you're going to have to push a little more than your average effort if you want to get a readership there.

i also post on facebook but i really don't get much engagement there. i only upload to FB so my friends and relatives can have an easier access to my work. as well as my IRL connections. the other views are just a plus to me.

other than that there's deviantart and tumblr. but i think DA is more suited for illustrations than comics.
tubmlr's just really confusing for me.

[cheeznh]

I used to post on Smackjeeves but I didn't like the community there. Also Inkblazers/Manga Magazine, but I went on hiatus before the shut-down.
Currently I post on Wordpress on my own server just so that there's a home site, but the UI/UX on Tapastic is unmatched. The community is more fun too!

I would post on Reddit but I think they like short dailies over there better than graphic novel type formats.

[lilylily09]

I used to use deviantart to post few of my art. It's a great community of art design website but that is what I dislike about it. Every art design is post in there( wallpaper, comic, animation, photography) and that make a beginner difficult to show their talent, also the searching option is suck(for me). So I started to find any specific site to upload my art, ex: inblazers to post comic(when the site is still working), minitokyo for fan art, youtube for video....

[epiale]

I currently mirror on smackjeeves (always updated a week after my other sites because tbh I really don't like sj much), and my main site is currently hosted on comicfury. I honestly like comicfury the most, it's got the best community by far (which, admittedly, still has its very notable flaws), and a great interface for hosting things exactly how you'd like to. In fact my only real complaint with cf is that the audience simply isn't that big. You just don't get a lot of readers over there. u_u'

[gateofselidor]

I post on SmackJeeves, which is where my comic started out. It doesn't have the community feel that Tapastic does, but it's very versatile. The main site may be a bit dated, but the customisation for the comic sites is very comprehensive. You have to put in a bit more work to make it look good, but it's worth the effort.

[mappypaint]

Well, what the others said. My comics started out in Smackjeeves back in 2010 and is still posted there to this day. It was a very slow start. Hardly any readers for the first few months. Had to put in a lot of effort to win some readers there. After a year, u-speed went to the comic spotlight (probably the equivalent of Staff picks in tapastic), it helped a little but still nothing like all the love the BLs get.XD For a small fanbase of below 100fans, I got alot of reader comments/feedback (I prefer one comment over 100 fans/subscribers that are silent). Getting to read comments makes me feel like they are really reading my work. In Smackjeeves, if you go over 50fans with a non-BL, non-Pokemon,or non-Sprite comic, then you did really well in my opinion.

With everything said, I will still be in smackjeeves. That place is very special to me. I met readers, fans, friends, and my love life in Smackjeeves so it holds a special place in my heart. I'm sure I will meet many readers here also and one day Tapastic will be special as well. It's just been a week since I got here. ^u^

Oh yeah, The forums in smackjeeves feels like they have their own circle of friends. XD

[UzukiCheverie]

People have brought it up in the past, but I'm pretty sure the sole reason why Tapastic hasn't offered customization is merely because they want to offer a website that looks the same all around and is thus easier on the user to navigate. It would be a pain in the ass and on the eyes to be reading several comics with different layouts, colors, backgrounds, etc. especially considering they need to be in decent shape for mobile reading and the iOS app.

The whole customization thing is why I DON'T like SJ - it looks like a toddler vomited on the screen, there are too many differently-colored webpages and comic pages, there's no consistency at all. It just doesn't look like a professional comic-making platform like Tapastic does. There's a certain standard Tapastic holds with its appearance and its color choices and layouts, and SJ just doesn't hold up the same way because of all the varying color schemes and differently laid out comic pages.

[Kura]

I mostly use other websites as mirrors, all of which have already been mentioned so far, smackjeeves, comicfury, theduck (formally drunk duck) and dA. I am not very active in their communities outside of comments left on my updates so I can't say much in that aspect of it.

I will note that my comics are page by page, not really scrolling, so those sites are actually formatted to fit my style of comic and read better, unlike here, yet still I get much better feedback and larger reader base than I do at any of the other hosts.

Another one (for if your comic is scrolling) is the LINE Webtoon site.

To be more specific about things, as others have said smackjeeves is pretty big with BL titles and readers. To the point where I have seen a good amount of creators there put their comics under "BL" tags even though the comics don't have BL or intend to have BL. Just so that they can actually ATTEMPT to get views and compete (and the tactic actually works) Sprite comics, Pokemon comics (usually Nuzzlock challenges) seems to be the majority of other non -BL series I run into there. Regardless, I still get a few readers on that site, just not as much as I do here. I also don't like the page customization, mostly because I an't got time for that bullshit and they give you the worst default selection to choose from, half of which have broken images or formatting that no longer works.

comicfury again has the custom image issue, but at least they're not as many that are broken (this could have changed, been a while since I bothered to scroll through those really...) I get a few readers there, not as much as I do on smackjeeves BUT it's the place where I seem to get the most surprise reviews (they'll just leave a comment on a page posting a link to a written or video review) and other misc offers based off my comics. (comic dub, magazine anthologies, renplay games)

theduck has done the least for me out of all the sites. The website feels dead most of the time to the point where I don't even want to spend anymore time on it than I have to adding a new page. It's also the site that has the least interactive community for me. (Personally, others may have other experiences)

dA... not formatted for comics at all so you have to do some formatting in the comment section of every page every time you update to give readers the convenience of actually being able to read through it, some people like reading there, I also notice that the most juvenal or ranty fans that cause trouble seem to come from dA... (not everyone there is like that of course) Uploading pages there is pretty much promotional at this point, and a rather weak promotional format at that.

LINE Webtoon... I really wish it was better at helping me interact with readers. People keep posting comments or questions on episodes but the site doesn't give me notifications for those. So unless I go back and check each page manually on my own I miss a bunch of that kind of thing. It's also a very competitive site with the ranking system, and the community can tend to get very impersonal.

[Alli]

There's LINE Webtoon, which many comics from Tapastic have switched over to. I tried it out around December last year for a contest but I didn't care for the site. Couldn't find a forum so there was no sense of community. Couldn't edit a post, had to delete the episode and reload it entirely if you noticed a typo on the page. Everything seemed to be controlled by a rating system, which is normally fine but during a high-stakes contest it's a pretty terrible idea. There were that people would give low ratings to whichever comics were out front in hopes of moving their own comics forward.

All that being said, it's been months and the site might be very different now. I only ever use it to keep up with one series so I don't poke around it much.

[Pandastrophic]

I read through most of the comments and I'm not sure if this website hasn't been mentioned before.

There is this website called Komikia where you can make money through their revenue system that seems all well and good, HOWEVER it's been weirdly taken over by arabic comics. Most of the users are arab and a lot of the top comics are in arabic, there are english comics but it might be hard to get exposure, I haven't looked through there much but the community seems nice and supportive.
As an arab myself I was thinking of putting my comic on there too but my current comic looks more like a webtoon and the system there isn't like a scrolling system here, its more for manga-like comics.

But I just thought I'd mention this if you'd like to check it out.

[ashriott]

Smackjeeves is the only one. While I post according to schedule there(once per week), I'm not very active in the Smackjeeves community >< I dunno, I'm not a big fan of their interface and site design, and the forums I'm interested in are pretty much... dead... Other than that, I've been debating whether it's worth uploading my comic on dA for years. Tapastic is the best for most webcomickers atm I think : )

[Kura]

Yeah, I forgot about that one, mostly because I no longer post on it anymore because if it's rules against homosexual content (not to say my series is BL, just the cast is very diverse when it comes to various types of sexualities) so pretty much when my comics hit certain point or character introduction I had to stop uploading there, and eventually forgot about the place.

So if your comic features that kind of content I can not recommend.

[ikushina]

i also post 'manyak comics' on my dA. I don't really use dA so much, and I agree that the site is a bit mehhhh, but I still follow some awesom-o artists there

tumblr (fan comics)
smackjeeves (i post unfortunate yaoi there, and people are thirsty for BL anywayz lol)

and heeeeeeeere : D <3

[winglesscomic]

I use SJ and my main site (the Tap mirror gets more traction in 3 months than my main site in 8 which is kinda pathetic).

But, I'm thinking of deleting my comic on SJ because it gets little traction there. As stated multiple times in this thread, SJ is basically a hub of BL, so if you have a BL comic I'd recommend putting it there. Anything else, not so much. I think once my current chapter ends next month I am going to call it quits there and give them the option of either reading on Tap or the main site. I like their upload/comic management system better than Tap but I feel like, much like Tumblr, I am posting in a void.

[JigokuNeko]

Aside from here? Just SmackJeeves and that only because my entire archive is there, since way back in 2009 when I started out. Plus, I got some readers there that have been following me for years so it's more sentimental than anything. SJ, like people said, is pretty much a mess of random stuff, looks pretty dated and rundown and is the kingdom of BL and sprite stuff. Theoretically you could generate some interest if you were social there, like commenting on popular comics...or uploaded pretty boys kissing, but I'm not sure it's worth it.

While I love Tumblr I don't think it's suited for comics at all, more for sketches, previews, random stuff and fanart. That last is big on Tumblr so if you are part of a major fandom it might generate some interest towards your other art.

On dA it's more useful to be a member of comic clubs and post some good pages there or in the forums while providing links to either here or your own page.

I've heard some people are posting on FB. I hate FB with the fiery intensity of a thousand suns so I might be a little biased on that but it's an option I guess? (Just like drinking from the toilet bowl is an option...)

[Silerna]

I used to be on Inkblazers, sadly it went down. Besides posting here I'm on Smackjeeves and post extra pages on Deviantart.

[aspiderjonny]

@Silerna I also used to post on Inkblazers. I started there around the same time as Tapastic, and honestly I think I did better there than here. But I got no real complains about Tapastic now.

Beside that I pretty much do the same thing as @AnnaLandin: Tumblr versions for my two comics Jonny Comic and Valve Comic as well as a main site for everyhing. It's still a new site so I'm not sure if many people know about it.
The only problem is that my current business cards don't have the website url. Just the url's for my Tumblr and Tapastic sites. Have to change that soon.

I was considering uploading on Webtoons but all the comics their are in vertical format, with each panel above/below each other. The why I do pages I can't really convert them to that style. Also I remember a post on the Tapastic forums that said the community their isn't the best and is kinda harsh.

[Silerna]

Same, I had more readers on Inkblazers and alot more views. Still guess I shouldn't complain though

[StevenDacasin]

I used to be on Inkblazers but since it closed i moved to smackjeeves, however im starting to move away from there and more toward Tapastic reason being that the forums here are much more active when compared to smackjeeves. I also have my own website which i post art work and my chapters on first. Im also on Deviantart to but i mostly go on there to post art or for reference.

[killersteak]

Comic Fury is pretty cool, though not very active half the time, you can set up your own site the way you want it to look, and add extra pages for cast and info.