We’ve noticed a number of users stating they’re experiencing what we believe to be a caching issue, where they visit the front page at cad-comic.com, yet “Barrel Awareness” from April 5th is always showing as the latest comic on the front page instead of the newer comics.
My guys have made some changes to the way caching works, but if you’re still experiencing this issue you may have an old local cache that needs to be cleared. Try refreshing, or Ctrl+F5 for a cache refresh and see if that remedies the issue.
That does the trick 🙂 Thanks!
Separate issue: the buttons above and below the comic aren’t pointing at the correct links on the front page (permalinked comics look fine).
Hrm, can you clarify? The navigation buttons are working fine for me…
The links are standard ajax links (#).
The problem that I’ve run into with those is that they don’t update history at all (no use of history api on newer browser) as a result, the back button does not work to go back through your navigation selections. So the home page is a slick ajax tool, right up until you hit back because you wanted to look at the “page” you were previously on.
This keeps happening to me for example after hitting random.
Yes, we’re looking at a way to remedy that problem.
either cookies or sessions, take your pic 🙂
Or just utilize history api: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History
It’s pretty much standard now if you use ajax.
Had the issue for some time, thought there were no new comics. All fixed now.
Just noticed however that on the page cad-coming.com/caching/ if I click on the Last button then it brings me to the same page (this one) and not the latest comic.
Ha, my work is literally dealing with this exact issue. It’s been difficult to narrow down because not every user has the problem, and not all the time. I’ve been writing little snippits to attempt to prevent it, so I hope it works as well as yours seem to.
For your information, Mac users should use Mac/Apple: Apple + R or command + R
If someone is actually using Opera, Ctrl-F5 does not work. Hold down the Shift key and click the refresh button in order to do it.
Whatever they did must have worked, I was immediately shown the new comic today without having to do anything.
*sigh* Caching isn’t even the worst ATM… your guys as you called them, have widened the right side container since a few days ago.. Now in order to see the comic I need to scroll down a fair bit and yes, that means this thing runs in a “low” res monitor (1280) frankly, your guys make this website a real pain to use! Sure sure in chrome on 1920 it’s alright (still crappy code though) but when not on chromium based eninges it starts to suck. tell them to learn about the w3c validator to at least reduce the error… Read more »
A decade of reading, following, and enjoying a comic: priceless
New format that means a guy needs to scroll on a webpage: cause for never reading said comic again.
Oh first world problems, how you manage to be ever-present in the most amazing ways.
that’s not what I said, but close enough 😀 You’re right, this website was priceless.. not really being a gamer it helped me stay in contact with that inner kid, I enjoyed E&L more than anything else, shed a few tears because of it even. I got “over it” with the reboot, I understood why Tim had to -for his own good- I still enjoy the comic.. but I really cannot enjoy the malcoded webcrap this site has become. A new design offers new challenges, and frankly I know better than most being a fricking coding monkey myself, I understand… Read more »
The comic obviously doesn’t mean that much to you if some viewing inconvenience is cause to drop it.
Or you’re lying because of some belief that lying about leaving will get your problem fixed faster.
It probably doesn’t “mean that much” to him, nor should it. We’re talking about 30 seconds of amusement 3 times a week (possibly much less than that if you aren’t up on the latest gaming news), and as such, it is not a critical component of our lives. One issue here is that the comic is notably less funny (for me and apparantly for itsid) since the reboot. The E&L comics were THE reason for visiting. Sure, there were topical gaming jokes then, but they were the exception. The comic is still enjoyable – especially “Console War” and “Analog and… Read more »
Yes, “displaying a new comic and blog post” is not all that difficult. But that, at its simplest level, is not what I asked for. I asked the folks at Screenwave to give me a website that had an archive for my 2500+ comics, that ALSO pretended to be six smaller archives that could be sorted/navigated individually within the whole, so that people could sort by particular series. That required some custom work, some of which may have led to a couple of issues we’re now sorting out. Issues that, I will add, are in the minority. Based on what… Read more »
Sorry Tim to break that out to you, but they cheated on you a fair bit.. the archive is nothing but “harddrive” space, the ordering is nothing but “labelling the files” and the rest is nothing but a simple if then else query, no matter if stored to the filesystem or a database… one’s quicker the other more convenient, both can be done by a coder in less than 20minutes reliably, bugfree and scalable.. since it’s not special, it’s everyday typewriting. (well it is for me at least.. it should be for them ;)) The bugs are far far beyond… Read more »
Sorry you feel that way.
I’m running 1366×768 and the website shows up fine for me. And i just adjusted my resolution down to 1280×768 and it still looks fine.
I have no clue what browser you are using but you may want to re-evaluate your browser settings, just saying.
It could be the link you followed as well, I had the comic bookmarked on the old site, but on the new site it always took me back to the same one. So check to make sure your bookmark is pointing to the new comic location too. Otherwise I think it’s just redirecting to the barrel awareness one.
sweet new website! I wonder why he quit making comics.
Well, it no longer loads the sniper barrel comic. Now it loads the JRPG comic.
That’s after clearing your cache on Wednesday?
The issue still exists. I cleared my cache this morning before today’s update, after today’s update it’s defaulting to “This will be the one.” So the cache gets set to whichever comic is the current at the time the cache is cleared.
Can confirm. Cleared my cache Wednesday, now loading Wednesday’s comic by default.
Browsers and versions, please?
Chrome 57 windows 7 and windows 10
I did notice (don’t know if this is relevant) two things: 1) Synchronous XHR requests are being done somewhere (I haven’t taken the time to figure out where). In Chrome, this can be blocked depending on what else is running. 2) Adblock plus is blocking several requests, two from pubfig.min.js and one from pubads_impl_113.js These blocked resources might be related, unknown for sure. Finally, I noticed that you are using cloudflare. Cloudflare depends traditionally on the etag. If etags are not configured correctly and updating with new content this could cause part of the problem (in a generated content type… Read more »
OS X, Chrome Version 57.0.2987.133 (64-bit)
Chrome Version 48.0.2564.116, running under Ubuntu 14.04. Yeah, old computer. It did default to barrel awareness for a while, now defaulting to JRPG
Firefox 49.0.2 Windows 7
The caching issue is on both home and work computers Chrome 57 here. The other odd one is the buttons aren’t always visible, in particular the next seems to be gone but last works fine. Also after clearing cache it defaults always to whatever the last page was after the clear.