The updated site user interface is now live, with a number of quality of life changes. The archives interface is paginated for all comics by default, though you can still sort by month and by series if you want.
When navigating, it should now be very clear which archive a comic belongs to. We have two RSS feeds, one that will notify when all new comics are posted, and one that should notify only when comics go free-to-read.
That will come into play in stage two of this update, when we start rolling out Patron-only access to locked content. We want to make sure the UI updates are working as intended, as well as give you a chance to weigh in on any issues you discover, before we start integrating locked content.
So please feel free to leave a comment below with your thoughts or concerns as you navigate around these minor changes, and let us know if you run into any problems.
The feeds are a bit difficult to distinguish which is which, at the moment. currently, the only difference is the URL (one is the main site with no further specificity, the other adds “/feed” at the end, which i assume is the one for free posts, but many people may miss this difference)
Huh? The links say “Free Comics” and “All Comics”. The original RSS is the Free Comics one.
I don’t use RSS, so can you be more specific about how they are hard to tell apart (other than the fact that there are no locked comics yet for the ‘All Comics’ feed to notify about)?
Oh i missed the icons entirely, i was on my mobile and pasted the site URL into my app’s feed finder, which returned two nearly identical site urls, my bad. That said, clicking the button prompts me to save a file, which is not how it’s supposed to work. Usually it would take you to a page of entirely html text which is the feed instructions, and you then paste the url into your rss app or other tool. If you want, i can link another webcomic that has theirs hooked up in that manner for you to see as… Read more »
Right click and select copy link address and paste that into your feeder instead.
Ahh okay. I’m on desktop, and was looking at the added menu items.
However, neither of them ask me to save anything? They just take me to html text pages.
They both look fine to me, maybe some explanation about the differences could be added to the description tag in them but it’s hard to say since currently they both reference the same content. Not sure how prominently some readers display the description (mine doesn’t show it at all). Only feedback I have is that for the All Comics feed, embedded comic images are nice, but would like to also like to have a link to view the comic on the site as well (the free feed just has short text and a link to the comic page with no… Read more »
I’ll look at that.
Thank you for splitting the RSS feeds! I know it doesn’t matter to a lot of people, but it’s the only way I can keep up on webcomics and remember to actually check in on them. I appreciate keeping the same RSS feed for the “free comics” version, so those who aren’t patrons won’t need to change anything. I like the new look, personally, and it definitely makes it easier to distinguish which comic’s archive you’re currently in.
Thanks for splitting the feeds. I’ll have to figure out which is which. Using Quite RSS.
I couldn’t get my RSS feed reader to recognise the new feeds, but did manage to manually paste the free-only one into it.