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Chapter Updates notifications
I know, to send notifications to readers for every chapter update you have to create a new release and then, after some time, merge the updates together to have the chapter completed.
But I don't think it's the best scenario.
I have 25 pages chapters format for my comic. It takes me much time to have an entire chapter complete and ready to be published, so I usually release half or a third of chapter so my readers don't have to wait too much from a release to another.
It would be much better to have notifications sent every time I add pages to a chapter or every time I make some significant changes to a chapter that I want to make known to readers.
I really hope that people working in GlobalComix will consider to add this option.
Hi there! The Merge Release tool was introduced with the intended use to be merging chapters or volumes when one is complete, which appears to be how you are using it. Having notifications triggered for every update a creator makes could easily be abused and overwhelm folks with notifications.
I'll record your suggestion for review still, thanks for offering your perspective on this.
Something else that I will add is that of the Top 10 in GlobalComix Creators, very few of them updated weekly. Most of them updated far less than that with larger updates, but ALSO promoted themselves consistently on social media, were active in engaging with their audience in their various social platforms, and helped uplift and promote other creators too. In general, we have found that creators who are more engaged with their communities and updated on a schedule (frequency didn't matter) were more likely to succeed.
So if updating in small parts is because you want to update more often, you might not necessarily have to do that.
Hi, Thanks a lot for the answer!
Well, it's true that this method of updates can be abused, but other comics platforms already have the notifications on every updates and no creators are so dumb to annoying their own readers with continuos notyfications.
Who abuse of this system will not benefit in any way but would just lose readers!
I don't need it to notify every week... a chapter takes me around 2 months to be completed... I just want to release half chapter every 3 weeks or a month and then be sure my readers will get the notification of the other half of the chapter the next weeks or month. But I would like to do it without merging chapters because it just isn't an efficient way.
What about the option (after an update of a released chapter) to choose to send notifications or not?
In this way notifications will not be triggered if I just have to change a page to fix an error, but I could send notifications when I need my reader to check for a major update!
I'm also trying to be active on social media but, still, the best way that a GlobalComix reader has to know about an update to a comic he's reading is GlobalComix itself!
"..no creators are so dumb to annoying their own readers with continuos notyfications."
You would be surprised.