Pretty soon we are going to push some UI changes to the website in support of the new update schedule/business model. Our change to a Patron-focused model has been really successful; the additional support has definitely balanced out what advertising has been failing to offer us for the past few years. That brings with it no small sigh of relief, so I’m immensely appreciative for all of you that joined us on Patreon.

However, while Patreon offers us a really straightforward way to connect for that “support = content” pipeline, Patreon’s own UI is fairly abysmal for my type of content. It’s fine for “here’s a single piece of content periodically” level of drip, but it’s not awesome when there’s more content that you might want to browse forwards and backwards through (like a comic series).

To that end, I have engaged a great developer to make some changes to this website, in order to clarify navigation and incorporate the Patron content into our archives. Once we go live, you’ll notice that the archive pages are a little simpler and easier to use, and also from the front page and while browsing, it will be easier to tell at a glance which comic series archive you are currently in.

More importantly, we will be able to fold our Patreon-only content into the regular archives. If you are not a Patron, these pages will appear locked, but if you are logged in with your Patreon account, you will have access to all of them using the same archive/navigation as you’re used to for all of our other comics.

This will provide Patrons an additional option for navigating their CAD content outside of using Patreon’s app/website.