New Archive Page!
My new web guy set up a new archive page system for the website! Now you can scroll comics FOREVER
Comments (65)
Crap! Am I gonna have to read it entirely from the beginning AGAIN? Ain't nobody got time for that!
I was about 1/3rd through a read through when we lost the website…gonna be awesome to restart!
This is officially a Big Deal. Thank you Jeph and congratulations!
My RSS feed just blew up. Love it
Copied to "Favourites". It always was.
Any chance for a random button for a starting point? Would make my hit random habit even worse
Spoilers to new readers- it ends up with more green blob girls than you anticipate!
So... I enjoy the Random button on the website page. I go back and read like ten right after another. I don't know why I enjoy that but... anyway. A Random button on the scroll archive might get a roll of the eyes... but I would use it. Anyway! Again! Thanks for the comic!
I am a random button girlie. Been reading the archives that way for over a decade. Every night I would pop in to a random starting point and read until falling asleep. It’s the only feature I really care about
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Dear web guy. It's /u/Kusko25 not /r/Kusko25 therefore I have won. In all seriousness I really hope I didn't come off as malicious in my comment, I've written much worse myself and it really doesn't matter, I was just nitpicking.
Oh, you can switch the order of the comics. Nice; that's exactly what I wanted.
Wait. Infinite scroll QC? Oh. That's dangerous
Will there be PDF books beyond volume 6?
Thank you people in the comments for reminding me that web design fucking matters because people do notice and care. I'm working a UX Design job for my state, and it can get really demoralizing at times.
As a web dev guy in healthcare IT, I concur. Always nice to see people that actually appreciate good web design because it can get quite grueling.
I would suggest that your web guy add some way of making it possible to preserve where you are, so that if you close the window and come back later you don't have to struggle to find where you left off. A cookie or local storage to keep track which updates as you scroll would do the job. Also, because of the page layout, it seems to be impossible to scroll the right-hand side, where all the links are.
Something like the Freefall Archive Binge Speedreader would be wonderful: https://tangent128.name/depot/toys/freefall/freefall-flytable.html
Looks great! On chrome on my iPhone I’m seeing squished images
Got a bug in the rendering for it, btw. img { max-width: 100%; } and @media screen and (max-width: 750px) img.lazy { min-height: 650px } are conflicting for very small width windows, around 350px wide, 1000px tall
This site has always had good navigability. Arrow key advancement is awesome. And I use that "random" button so often. I wish other webcomic artists were as decicated to presentation, in addition to content, as Jeph has always been.
Amazing! Any word Jeph on the new adults-only patreon page?
Great news!
That's cool! A little CSS bug to report though, the images are stretched vertically on my phone.
Yeah, they are fit width-wise but aspect ratio isn't preserved. Give Hanners more to eat, she's terribly thin!
Delicious! Will do another reread soon 🤤
Three cheers for rebuilding the site leaving the images in their original URLs!
Please tell your new web guy that we love him
Well, there go my 4th of July plans.
whoah, that's cool.
Well that's going to make my twice-yearly archive dive easier. That might not be a good thing.
Aaaannnd the first several ads I see are scammy.
I would recomend that you use an adblocker. They are very nice.
saw it, read it, clicked the next button several thousand times, loved it
Okay, didn’t know BookBeard is a professional web guy. Does he sob when C# web language is mentioned?
When WHAT is mentioned?!
This is good, Jeph. This is very good.
New web guy deserves a beer.
Not just ANY beer. A Wurmvater Totenkopfgeburstag dunklebrau, served at 66.6 degrees in the proper stein. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3342
New web guy? I hope that doesn't mean it was the old web guy who took down your site!
Nice option to have, but I definitely prefer the old option of one per page, both to read the news posts, and to better preserve my reading spot (it’s going to take me months to slowly catch up to real time! 😄).
Tbh, like Randall also mentioned, I liked the old possibility to view the titles and pick a starting point based on that. I've used that a number of times in the past. Now unless you know the number, you'll just have to guess. So personally I like the old way better.
Yessss....
This is fantastic for quickly finding an old comic or story arc!
Very well done to your web guy
Wife is going to come home and find a me-shaped skeleton with the archive set to "Oldest First"
Hey, I'm on my phone, so I can't inspect to check, but I wanted to make sure that, with a giant scrolling page like that, the comic images are lazy-loading. Otherwise, every visitor is gonna download your whole archive as part of the page load. I'll also suggest, you should preload the image dimensions in the image tags, so the scroll positions are correct, and the browser doesn't have to relayout as they load up. Not a big deal, but without it, initial lazy loads are too greedy, and the page constantly eats a bunch of extra CPU.
Haha, I should read the comments first.
That is amazing! Thank you so much
I'm ecstatic that you're back online, and this is a definite step forward from the old archive page (and implies some intelligent backend web design behind the curtain; yay!). But :-). One thing I liked to do (occasionally) was scan the titles of the old comics to figure out what comic I wanted to go back to, and this doesn't allow that without much more scrolling. Bright side, if I do the extra scrolling I can be sure I've found the comic I'm looking for :-).
Also, somewhat bigger deal, after I clicked around a bit, "Comic" was a hyperlink, and I clicked on it and got to a page claiming my computer had been infected with malware and I needed to download something to fix it, which locked up my browser. I had to force quit and restart the browser. *That's* worth fixing.
Questionable scrolling
Amazing 🤩
YES!
Reverse order and enter page number here... PERFECT FOR BINGING! Nice design.
Woof! I hit “oldest first” and got a wad of 2003 art in my face. I was unprepared. (Several years back, I wrote a tumblr piece on how Jeph was my pick for “most improved” webcomic artist.)
For me, it wasn't even the drawing style: my first thought was "Marten isn't a robot, why is he talking in rectangles?"
Wooooah
Long webpage is loooooooooong!
So that is cool, but from a technical side... is it lazy loading these? I hope so, because otherwise it is going to kill your bandwidth.
Ok, quick inspection and it does seem to be doing lazy loading. Looks like first 20 comics are loaded, and then in blocks of 10 as you download them... that should stop your bandwidth from completely tanking out <3
Oh no. What have you done! This is a public health hazard! Better quality of entertainment than doomscrolling though.
*maniacal cackling*
MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!