Maybe the difference is what kind of "thought" we're talking about? When I have to split a scene, I try to end each part with a small punchline or a pause, sometimes I reorganize the script or add/remove one or two panels to achieve that. But the actual "thought" that I wanted to resolve was the big one, you know? Like, the point of the whole scene. But it's only resolved after the last page of the scene, so... if I could, I'd release the whole thing at once, because it was written to be read like that. When I release it in small parts, even if the parts have some sort of small conclusion of its own, the whole scene feels longer than it should.
I agree with that, but I believe there's a difference between the "turn the page" cliffhanger and the "come back next week" cliffhanger? The second one tends to be more impactful to the reader and (ideally) to the story. So when you write something to be read weekly you gotta reshape the whole story to fit that nicely. I feel that with premium stories on Tapas. Some of them ended up being too fast-paced, have too much stuff happening with no room to breathe (not to mention much of it is filler), when you binge-read them. But if you read it weekly, I guess the wait of one week makes it easier to digest. Kinda like a soap opera.
Honestly I'd love if my current readers did the same thing
Because the page/week schedule is good to gain new readers, but not necessarily to make the reading expericente better for the current ones, I think...
Wow, that's interesting... and sad. With the weekly updates, did you actually change the content to make each episode more conclusive, or did you just split a full chapter in small updates and that's it? Currently, I'm doing the second one lol plus some minimum effort to make the episodes self-contained. I wish I could just release the full chapter at once, but it's not worth it if it hurts the engagement...