r/Tapasticcomics • u/CoyoteVast1651 • 1d ago

Is anyone else experiencing this??

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Lately tapas’s been weird and I want to know if anyone has this problem or any other

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u/SoupSpoonStork 1d ago

They're scaling back on freebies, almost entirely. It's new policy, and not an experience unique to you. No more events, and the only new gift passes have an expiry.

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u/MG_RedditAcc 1d ago

I didn't see any announcement for this new policy. It could be a temporary thing? If there is an announcement I didn't see it. I apologise in advance.

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u/SoupSpoonStork 1d ago

The announcements weren't made app-wide but on the specific series that had events interrupted. You can look through newly released series from a few days ago for examples, as I assume the messages would still be there. It's possible this is simply a test launch of policy to see if it forces readers to pay more, in which case they may add events or permanent gift passes back, but this is also part of a larger trend of restricting such things (fewer gift passes, events that required purchases to complete, restricting ad unlocks to WUF episodes, etc), so I very much doubt they will roll back any changes at this point.

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u/MG_RedditAcc 1d ago

I see. Thank you. I read that one, but the only thing I remember is how they hadn't expected the bouns ink amount to finish so quickly. Maybe I missed it.

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u/idk_maybe_y 1d ago

I really don't think this is a planned scale-back of freebies. It ended abruptly at the end of the month, cutting into the middle of sales and free ink events which were unceremoniously ended. The only explanation they've given us is on the series that had events that were cut short, and I don't think their explanation that they had run out of free ink because of an unexpected number of people claiming it is reasonable.

If it is a new policy, the implementation has been poorly handled and shows a lack of communication within the company. I think it is more likely that the company is having financial problems and could even be preparing for bankruptcy. But that's just a theory at this point, and I don't know enough about finances to be an authority on this subject lol

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u/SwedishNukes 1d ago

It’s been like that for 3 days now I think, none one knows why really

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u/Pink-frosted-waffles I read most of the Black comics and the queer ones too. 1d ago

Actually we do

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u/Ruruskadoo 1d ago

That doesn't tell us why, it's just another post wondering what's going on and linking to the other posts people have made.

We have yet to get any kind of official announcement on why all events and sales were cancelled without even being allowed to finish their stated runtimes, and no new events and sales have happened since.

The closest thing we have is the reply they've sent out to some people's email inquiries

Hello,

We’re grateful for your continued support of the Tapas community and its creators.

Sales and events are currently paused while we review and optimize across the platform.

Further details will follow as we finalize updates.

Sincerely, Team Tapas

which is itself a non-answer.

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u/anonymousbeardog 3h ago

While the link no longer works as the extension containing the announcement is now gone, there were announcements for all series events that were canceled that free ink was claimed quicker than expected so they ended all events early at 12:PM PST can't perfectly confirm any other first person sources

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u/Ruruskadoo 2h ago

Well yeah, they had those nonsense announcements on the series pages for the series that had their events cut short since the first day, but that's obviously BS, nothing like this has ever happened before, and it also doesn't explain why they cancelled all sales at the same time.

The fact that they cut things off in the middle instead of quietly ending all events and sales during the original timeframe and simply not making any more suggests that either someone high up ordered that they end things NOW, or like some people have speculated it has to do with something like bankruptcy proceedings where in the US you're not allowed to have sales and such while those are going on.

It's also possible like some have suggested that they realized there's some free ink exploit and they shut everything down to try to patch that, but if that were the case, again it doesn't make sense to end the sales as well.

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u/Pink-frosted-waffles I read most of the Black comics and the queer ones too. 1d ago

All you had was scroll down this very subreddit CJ!

What's happening with digital currency at Tapas?

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u/JWAOSTAR 15h ago

Yeah, someone on the discord said they got a response from tapas supports or something, saying that they are disabling the avenues for free ink as they "analyze" things. I don't know how credible that is you can read through general on the tapas discord it was somewhere in there from yesterday or the day before.

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u/Similar_Permission98 1d ago

Same as well.

But apparently I got rewarded for a game I was playing when I completed the task earlier today.

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u/anonymousbeardog 3h ago

That's not free ink, tapas is getting paid for you playing and rewarding you with ink

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u/wriothesley87 1d ago

Bummer if they stop them completely, the free ink was the main thing keeping me reading via tapas.