Oct 12, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
Sometimes, the internet isn't forever. https://tapas.io/newsfeed/272 https://tapas.io/newsfeed/271 Where to Find us: Matthew \- Bluesky: @matthewglenn.bsky.social \…
Kate SanchezHost
Matthew GlennHost
Uh, they're gonna be s- actually fully shutting down service on March 31st, 2027.
Uh, and you might be asking, "Hey, can I export my, my comics to some other platform?" Maybe another platform that the parent company of Tapas owns.
Uh, artists and in fan community stuff that are trying to do what they can to try and, like, hard export everything out of Tapas, whether it is, like, the stuff that they bought or the current projects that they've been working on or past work.
Like, it's creating, like, a really big issue for the, for the creators themselves, and I think that that's like...
I think there are two things that, like, not being able to export your work does.
Um, and on top of that, I think the other thing that it's doing is, like, it's really...
How do you say? Like, it's funneling everything into unsustainable pathways, and it's gonna make it harder and worse for new stuff to come up.
Um, and I just, I don't know what to do 'cause, like, Tapas and Webtoons are, like, probably the two easiest, like, platforms to create for, which sometimes gives us a lot of [laughs] trash, like Gentle Forest.
so having an, an artist being able to use a platform like Tapas, um, to, Tapas, uh, to, to learn and create art and everything, like, and get an, like, meet an audience, it's like it's important.
I think that you're right in that it's pushing people into, like, new pathways, but I think there's hopefully, um, going to be some options f- around, like, maybe, like, open source platforms, um, to, like, to host your own content and, like, even fucking net, like, web rings.
Like, in some ways, like, if, if people can go to a website and then, like, actually archive it or save it and export stuff as PDFs-
Uh, they're gonna be s- actually fully shutting down service on March 31st, 2027.
Uh, and you might be asking, "Hey, can I export my, my comics to some other platform?" Maybe another platform that the parent company of Tapas owns.
Uh, artists and in fan community stuff that are trying to do what they can to try and, like, hard export everything out of Tapas, whether it is, like, the stuff that they bought or the current projects that they've been working on or past work.
Like, it's creating, like, a really big issue for the, for the creators themselves, and I think that that's like...
I think there are two things that, like, not being able to export your work does.
Um, and on top of that, I think the other thing that it's doing is, like, it's really...
How do you say? Like, it's funneling everything into unsustainable pathways, and it's gonna make it harder and worse for new stuff to come up.
Um, and I just, I don't know what to do 'cause, like, Tapas and Webtoons are, like, probably the two easiest, like, platforms to create for, which sometimes gives us a lot of [laughs] trash, like Gentle Forest.
so having an, an artist being able to use a platform like Tapas, um, to, Tapas, uh, to, to learn and create art and everything, like, and get an, like, meet an audience, it's like it's important.
I think that you're right in that it's pushing people into, like, new pathways, but I think there's hopefully, um, going to be some options f- around, like, maybe, like, open source platforms, um, to, like, to host your own content and, like, even fucking net, like, web rings.
Like, in some ways, like, if, if people can go to a website and then, like, actually archive it or save it and export stuff as PDFs-
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