keii4ii
keiiii
Creator of the comic Heart of Keol // Owner of an Alaskan Malamute (pictured in the avatar) // Lover of mozzarella di bufala
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I doubt it. I only use the app to read the comments on my own comic X'D and read other comics on desktop. And the episodes I get sent to are all different! (The episode list/comment sidebar also won't stay closed for me, so yeah, my Tapas desktop experience does not seem exactly glitch-free. App…
Took me years to realize what I wanted out of my story. This was the process: -November 1994: come up with the progenitor of what eventually led to my current comic. I was in middle school, and the story smelled exactly like a middle schooler's dreams. -Summer 2003: revival. Start toying with th…
Near-strictly a desktop reader. At least half the comics I read are vertical scroll (my own comic is vertical scroll!), and I greatly prefer them on desktop. I feel claustrophobic when I try to read on my phone. That being said... Tapas as a place looks a lot better on the phone than it does on de…
The biggest reason creators want more subscribers is because they hope subscribers will actually read. After all, why wouldn't someone subscribe if they fully intend to follow the story? You only get notifications for updates if you are subbed. That being said, active readers who don't sub are pro…
Studying examples is a great way to learn. My suggestion is don't pick examples solely based on "I like this comic overall" or "this comic is popular." Pick examples based on "I like the layout / visual flow of this comic/ how this comic utilizes the format." Because that's what you're trying to l…
You don't need to put that much space just because you're doing a vertical scroll. Excessive empty space is an artifact of 1) pro creators being forced to churn out a lot of content every week, so they resort to putting white space to create an illusion of the comic update looking longer than it rea…
I think for people coming from a prose writing background, it might be a good exercise to do a short story comic (either a self-contained one, or just one scene from a longer story) that's entirely told through visuals. No text. And imagine how the scene would play out in a movie. For example, the…
Whenever this topic comes up, I feel like I'm the only person who enjoys reading vertical scroll format on desktop...
Exceptions don't prove it wrong if they are, well, exceptions. Besides, people generally accept that the majority of your active subs are silent readers enjoying the comic without ever commenting. If that's true, then it's also true that people are unlikely to say anything. We really did not nee…
IMO this is much more likely for complaints than it is for compliments...
I would be extremely saddened if this leads to comments getting shorter...
This might actually confuse the heck out of me and I wouldn't want it. 
Yeah, I feel this is great for super short comments. But who doesn't love getting long, in-depth comments?
I do appreciate the return of infinite scrolling, so hopefully with a couple more tweaks, Tapas can Reach Perfection™®
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Thanks for sticking with me. I appreciate it, and I hope they change this.
I'm also on desktop, currently using Firefox. It actually looks like your screenshot and I hate it, because when I click "see all," it just opens the right side scrolling thing for me. I want to see ALL the comments at the bottom. Not just the highest voted one. [image]
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I was looking at the most recent episode. There really needs a way to view the comments at the bottom for the most recent posted episode. Just tested on less recent episode, and nope, they don't appear between episodes. Only 1 comment does for each episode, and the rest is hidden.
That just hides the comments for me. Can't get the comments to appear at the bottom.
Where are these options? (The fact people like me WANT that so badly yet can't figure out how is probably an issue that needs to be addressed...) Do I need to be in fullscreen mode to access them? Saaaaame.
I really, really hate to say it, but in the US at least, the "romance" label requires a happily ever after ending. I personally loathe that, but it's how the market defines it. It's what the publishers go by, and it's what the established audience of those publishers expect. That being said, the U…
Agreed. If someone can't see any value in what I'm trying to do, they CANNOT help me do a better job with what I'm trying to do. Even the harshest critic has to be able to see some hope in order to be helpful. Like, it doesn't even matter if they're right, because if they're right... then the o…
How about posting your work in here so others can point out the tangents (if they are present)? Sometimes it helps to have someone point them out in YOUR own work.
Bad fever, mild shortness of breath (a completely new experience for me -- I didn't even know what "shortness of breath" in the lungs felt like until this), also mild dry coughs on some of the days (very uncommon for me even though I constantly get sick throughout winter). I would be very surprise…
They recently opened a drive thru test center near my area (I'm in the US), but it reached daily capacity within like 30 minutes of opening. So I ain't getting tested. Buuuut I'm 95% sure I have it, and am recovering from it. Currently on day 14 of showing symptoms. Been staying home the whole time 
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I voted every damn day, but that's not strictly true. It's just easier to count the good days than the bad. Yep, this. I have a beautiful, poignant story to tell, but I'm not convinced that I'm doing that story justice. (Though in my case, it's not about the quality of the drawings.) There are a…
Having romance in the story is different from the story being a romance genre. I recently learned that even if your story completely revolves around the romantic relationship between the MCs, in the US it doesn't belong to the romance genre if the MCs don't get a happy ending as a couple. That doe…
Tragic romance is extremely common and popular where I come from (Korea), so people don't feel cheated when this happens. They kind of half expect it. Not necessary deaths, but yeah... That audience doesn't really expect happily ever afters, and they don't even take the possibility of a confession f…
This is an excellent point (though a complex one. "I create for myself" has at least two big, very different meanings. Do you create what you enjoy creating, or what you enjoy consuming? Very different considerations even in cases where the answers overlap.). People say write what you love, and …
Honestly? I would feel very relieved... It's the "oh, thank goodness, SOMEONE can see what this story is about. It's not too confusing after all" kinda thing. The appeal of my story doesn't come from plot twists, anyway. My most recent chapter, for example, gave out some semi-unexpected informati…
Great! Though maybe "updates" isn't the best term when considering comics that put an entire chapter into each episode?
Question: for comics with long archives, are you required to read everything before providing a response, or is there something like "read at least 10 page equivalents"?