Tapas – Comics and Novels 17+

Locking out low budget readers

Tapas used to be so generous to low budget readers, with lots of ways to earn free ink. But now, they’ve slowly started removing the options one by one. Bingeathons became harder and often needed ink; the ‘watch ads for ink’ function was removed and replaced with ‘unlock three extra chapters per day with ads’; prices for chapters went up; the watch ads options became even more limited as they shrunk the pool of unlockable chapters to old series and their first season only; and now they’ve made bingeathons so much rarer. We used to get three a month. Now we’ve only had two in the last three months. Tapas, if this continues then you’ll see a large portion of your readers emigrating to different sites. I switched from Webtoon to Tapas because their selection was more in line with my tastes, but now that Webtoon is starting to add more otome/villainess manhwas I find myself reading there more and more. If there’s one thing you bring back, *please* make the bingeathons more frequent again.

Developer Response ,

Hi! We appreciate all feedback and will submit it for consideration. Feel free to reach out to us at feedback@tapas.io with more suggestions of how to improve our app! :) - Team Tapas

Reporting problems

All in all I have no problem with the app it has good stories and really that’s all I care about but today I got a notification that a story updated so I went to the app and it said ‘something went wrong. Report the problem to help us fix it’. The only this is it’s not clear AT ALL how I’m supposed to report the problem especially since I don’t know what the problem is.
I went to ‘help’ part of the app and it came up with problems that other people had and the answer to them but I it’s not clear where to report a problem or ask for help.
So if anyone relevant sees this can you add a feature that lets people report a problem instead of only being able to see solutions to other people’s problem and can you also help me fix mine 👍.

You ruined it

You’re pushing out the people who don’t have deep pockets. This site used to be available for everyone to read on; as long as you were willing to watch ads or do surveys you could read. You burnt that to the ground. I loved this app but I can’t afford to read with the prices doubling and now the free ink options being demolished. You’ve changed. I can’t stick around. I’ll miss some of my favourites, maybe I’ll come back and read them if I can. Tapas used to be the best, now it’s just a burnt up, sucked dry, repetitive post apocalyptic wasteland of a site that can’t even pay its creators properly. You don’t have a monopoly-you need to realise there’s only so far you can push us before we walk out to another site- and soon enough your greed will force everyone away.

This was the last straw. I can’t do this anymore.

TLDR: greed ruined tapas and I’m done with it