What's wrong with Tapas followers?

[Croik]

As you approach 1k subs and a certain number of episodes, it's going to naturally be harder to get new subs. New people sub and then see there's more comic than they're interested in catching up on. Some readers will naturally lose interest over time even if you're doing everything right. And even people who are interested fall behind, meaning less engagement on new updates than previous ones. This makes simply updating the comic less useful in growing, because it's harder for Tapas algorithm to pick you for trending or popular. All these things mean more subs leaving, less coming in, unless you're doing outside promotion.

Another reason might be if you were featured? If you showed up in New & Noteworthy that might have given you a boost which is now wearing off.

[jensrichard77]

I believe that a comic somehow has a limit to its audience on one platform. And to gain more we need to expand. But for me, I’m happy with my followers and will trade any fancy numbers for an actual reader. That said I also try to get the 100 sub check, that could be nice.
I think also that Tapas reader is very curious and jumps around and sub to anything they find interesting. But at some point, the list gets too large for them and they start to clean up.
Then after some time they also re-discover you. Therefore I think it is natural for the numbers to jump and we should be happy with the core we have.

[jensrichard77]

New people sub and then see there's more comic than they're interested in catching up on.

Oh ya. That is so true. And I’m guilty to think this way too. But I don’t sub just to unsub. I sub and become a slow reader and catch up at some point. Otherwise I just leave the first part alone and just follow the new stuff.
But yes. Somehow readers will follow you to the end if they find you in the beginning. But catching up is sometimes overwhelming.

Perhaps we should consider dividing the stories into parts and start them over? Just like movies and books?
But that will just cause the first part to never get more followers and you have to count on that the first followers also will follow the next part.

I have tried this on my first story I made. (No longer online)
And it worked. I got more subs at pat two than part one. And I dit not have that much lost from the part one followers to par two.

Problem is. Tapas only count you biggest sub on one of your comics.

[sushy00]

Same problem here. Sometimes I think there is no point updating my comics anymore. I am wondering like, am I still relevant? Maybe I should just quit etc. It is very demotivating. There just doesn't seem to be any growth...

[DasIstWunderblyat]

I'm wondering too about my subscribers who are still there (call me creepy, but I sometimes check them to make sure are they human and still alive)

I guess my story is not what they expected, or not their taste. I fully understand and accepting of that, except why don't they unsub instead I meant when you unsub the creator is not notified so it's anonymous (unless I monitor them one by one like a creepy stalker).

I felt like my own work had been blocked for any chance for it to be seen again, I believe I have no growth because empty sub is dragging my algorithm.

If only you can block people to make them unsub.

[jensrichard77]

You could also split the work and begin a part two to see who will follow the new work?

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[KoreanTacos]

There isnt any, you can see people with over 2000 subs in their libraries.

Highest one I see from my own subs list has over 12,000 subbed series so theres no limit XD

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[jensrichard77]

12,000 subbed series so theres no limit XD

? How is that even possible?

[redtaiga]

You're right... of course I've taken in consideration that's normal and 'physiological' that some subscribers lose interest on the way. Or simply they follow to put a sort or reminder on the series, read it after, and then realize they don't like it... it's ok!
But is more than a year I got featured by Tapas (Dec2017), since then I lost about 200 subscribers and gained less of 100 in the meanwhile.
One. Long. Satic. Year. ...but I can't say the same of my other socials/sites/platforms.

[redtaiga]

I’m happy with my followers and will trade any fancy numbers for an actual reader

Me neither! Absolutely, I'm happy too with my followers.
So I hope you're right and this is simply a period of settlement for my series, I don't ask big numbers... but a slow and good growth will be also ok to me.

[redtaiga]

Nuu please, don't quit... I know, it's hard and demotivating (at least I'm here because of this), but there will be always time to improve, change something to make it better, grow as an artist and widen your horizons, followers will come with a little of luck but a lot of patience...
I wasn't here to discourage others, sorry
I simply was wondering if there's something wrong in Tapas algorithm or something, but it's probably my fault because I'm not able to make an active community based on my comic

[Rhonder]

Perhaps we should consider dividing the stories into parts and start them over? Just like movies and books?But that will just cause the first part to never get more followers and you have to count on that the first followers also will follow the next part.

I have tried this on my first story I made. (No longer online)And it worked. I got more subs at pat two than part one. And I dit not have that much lost from the part one followers to par two.

This is an interesting thought, and something that I've been thinking about as well. My own story is going to be kind of episodic in nature, where you could theoretically read any chunk out of order and understand okay, so I've been thinking about whether to make a new part 2 series for the next story, or to have them all in 1 and just include a tale of contents at the beginning.

Kind of a tricky scenario to choose because there are pros and cons to both ways xD I think I'm definitely going to make a part 2 series on webtoons though, where my current comic never really took off.

[beta1042]

My sub counter doesn't ALWAYS stay the same, but yeah I have many weeks where the number of subs I gain is the same as the number I lose. I always figured it was normal.

[Panqiuyan]

I write for stress relieve and i don't look at the numbers

[QueenofBabyLoon]

THIS!

Let's just open a bottle of good, French Champaign (the real thing), sitting in an armchair with you and talking about how subscribers are the most unimportant thing and then moving on to how the last angsty moment of your life has led to your writing the best chapter in your literary career.

[Panqiuyan]

Some wine sounds good but people keep telling me i can't

[Tanako]

I stopped number watching a long time ago and I got peace of mind. unfortunately I don't have this issue. I have a pretty good following and even if I were to lose a couple of subs I gain it back in a couple of days. all I'm saying is that, pay more attention to your comic/ story and do the best you can. if you number watch it could get you all stressed up. if you feel that the reason why you lose subs could be due to your story then try to come up with a way of revamping, or restructuring the story line it in a way its more appealing ( I did that with my current work). this has worked for me.
anyway, another thing to keep in mind s that people naturally lose interest over time so don't stress.

[violin]

FWIW, I have accidentally unsubbed on Tapas before because I thought I wasn't subbed due to the UI.

I also feel the need to clean up subs from time to time because I really really hate getting spammed with tons of notifications especially for creator wall posts. Sometimes if I'm not following a series religiously the time-out posts and schedule updates really aren't relevant to me. And/or people will post updates on other unrelated stuff, which I totally understand (I do this too), or say on their other series which I don't read.

Personally, I think Tapas ought to separate creator wall posts subscriptions from comic/novel subscriptions. I would keep a lot more subscriptions if I was just subscribing to new episode updates rather than everything else at the same time.