Y'all have any news on whether Tapas will put the Writers Camp on the Front Page?

[Penni]

Hopefully it will be a lesson learned for the next Camp? Who knows? There's still time so maybe they will have something on the front page. It's not over till it's over right?

[violin]

I am a dev. I can confirm if you have the image ready it isn’t particularly difficult to add one more item to an existing carousel. Should be trivial send out a text announcement with a link, since they already have the infra to support that. If there is any delay it’s coming from product, not engineering

[violin]

Just wanted to add - I am from the Bay Area where Tapas is located. In my time I have seen many a startup come and go due to mismanagement and other reasons. Tapas is absolutely a startup in these parts (5 years is a baby) and whether it can survive and maintain quality of its product remains to be seen.

ON the flip side of that, last round of VC funding they got was Aug 2017 for $5 million. Around here for a team of 15-20 that’s gonna last 2 years tops. Sure they’re making some money from premium comics, but I can also understand if they’re trying hard to focus on profit atm (which sadly is not novels)

[ratscout]

Ah, I see. I still think they could maybe sneak it on the front page somewhere and also send a link in everyone's inbox, but I understand a little better now. Thanks for the info <3.

[violin]

Yes... with all that said, unless it’s going to detract from their revenue somehow (which I doubt an inbox message or a promo in the back of one of the carousels would), I don’t see any reason not to send an announcement other than negligence... I really, really want Tapas to do well so I’m really hoping that this isn’t a warning sign of mismanagement/inefficiency, but it is the sort of thing that would be a red flag to me when I am assessing whether to work somewhere

[OneHappyChap]

I'm still on board with the something great is coming we just don't what theory, they must have something planned esp after what was stated about featuring camp and all that!

[violin]

That's true... it's also possible they're planning something larger scale that involves coins or something, which would take more work!

[OneHappyChap]

Yep, we won't really know until the contest ends so we should just focus on making our stories the best we can for when the end does come!!

[ratscout]

If that happened I'd do a dance of joy!

[Teowi]

I really hope this is the case. My entry is the sixth one down in the list after you tap the banner and I've only been getting less views since it went up on the front page. Unless 5 views in one day for a ten-episode novel is already a decent amount...?

[ratscout]

I feel you XD it's really frustrating how little they're advertising it and it seems as if whoever had the most subs to begin with before the camp started is going to win without any promos on the front page. (which is okay by me. I love Peni's work) But holy smokes! I was hoping to get more subs and views than this--hopefully get my name out, you know?

5 views isn't bad, however. I think I got 11 views on mine so far today so mine's definitely been going down too. We all also have to keep repeating to ourselves that how many views or subs you get does not reflect the quality of our work.

[Alex9Wolf9]

I thought Lucille was removed. If there was a problem with Lucille when it was in the first place, why isn't it a problem when it's in the second place? This Camp confuses me

[jiemae]

we're asking staff and waiting for a response

[Penni]

Wouldn't be a Camp without some drama huh?

[SilverLugia456]

I can understand that frustration I have felt with my video editing. For me personally I can understand my novel not getting that much attention in the first place because I'm a new member. To get what I got now for this novel I think its a miracle.

Maybe if there are enough suggestions they can add other competitions to the site for different goals and such. Since I think from what i saw when I looked into this, this is only the second writer's camp right?

[Alex9Wolf9]

During the first Camp they promoted the collection of stories on the front page of the app on the second week. Now, I don't know what they are doing...

[wendywakabayashi]

i saw our Writers Camp card on the 3 card down and 1 swipe right on the app haha

i guess thats...something(?)

^.^;

[ratscout]

LOL. I wonder if there's something something going on at Tapas? I noticed they're also like... Three weeks behind on changing out the noteworthy novels as well as not advertising the camp. How strange!

[ratscout]

I am so confused! Maybe there's some internal stuff going on that we don't know about? 0o0

[OneHappyChap]

What's going on, did I miss something?