Dang Comics.com
Parallax
in their graphic naming system. I had a page that displayed all my
strips on one page automatically, now I have to work on v.2.
Charles Brubaker
Whoa, pretty clunky. Gonna take a while to get used to this.
I like the archives, though. I finally have the start and end dates
for 'Meg!' and "Fat Cats"
AND I finally read the Jump Start storyline where Joe got shot (only
to be saved by the bullet-proof vest)
Charles Brubaker
Well, that was short. It's back to the old design.
Oh well, I managed to get those infos before it went away again.
lee
I see the new design. While I am disappointed that my library of
favorite past strips is gone, I am pleased that they have the strips
large enough to read!
racs...@gmail.com
strips. I hope that's a glitch and not part of their cunning plan.
Mike Peterson
http://nellieblogs.blogspot.com
George W Harris
confirmation link is 404.
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Paul
2e64-4486-bbc...@t39g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
> It's nearly 7:30 in the morning and they're still showing yesterday's
> strips. I hope that's a glitch and not part of their cunning plan.
Same at 0945 EDT.
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Carl Fink
> I tried to register this morning, and my
> confirmation link is 404.
I registered twice this morning. I can't log on, and the site claims that
my email address--to which they just sent a confirmation message--is not
registered.
Wow, they're incompetent. My day job is software and web service design and
support, and my tiny company would be humiliated to release a new service
this terribly flawed.
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J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> wrote:
> Wow, they're incompetent. My day job is software and web service
> design and support, and my tiny company would be humiliated to
> release a new service this terribly flawed.
There are literally millions of high-school students better qualified
to deliver web content reliably and robustly than comics.com IT staff.
Appalling.
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Just after posting my previous snark, I clicked their "Join now" link,
and got a 404 page. This isn't mere incompetence, this is ... I'm not
sure what this is, but it's not adequately described by the word
"incompetence."
Tove Momerathsson
> In the previous article, Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> wrote:
>> Wow, they're incompetent. My day job is software and web service
>> design and support, and my tiny company would be humiliated to
>> release a new service this terribly flawed.
>
> There are literally millions of high-school students better qualified
> to deliver web content reliably and robustly than comics.com IT staff.
> Appalling.
As far as I can tell, you can't see anything _without_ registering.
So one cannot but wonder what they're going to do with all the email
addresses they're collecting. Not that they would ever sell them...
I would add to the comments on comics.com competency (or lack thereof),
but my thesauri have run shuddering into the dark corners of the room.
Tove
Paul Ciszek
In article <gehs8p$i79$7...@reader1.panix.com>,
J.D. Baldwin <ne...@baldwin.users.panix.com> wrote:
>
>In the previous article, Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> wrote:
>> Wow, they're incompetent.
>
>Just after posting my previous snark, I clicked their "Join now" link,
>and got a 404 page. This isn't mere incompetence, this is ... I'm not
>sure what this is, but it's not adequately described by the word
>"incompetence."
See the .sig quote.
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Antonio E. Gonzalez
wrote:
>I knew a revamp was coming, but I was hoping it wouldn't mean a change
>in their graphic naming system. I had a page that displayed all my
>strips on one page automatically, now I have to work on v.2.
Too . . . much . . . Flash!
Seriously, it seems these guys didn't hear of KISS (Keep It Simple
Stupid); the ulitmate sign of this is the fact that just opening the
site keeps pushing my browser to the brink of crashing; I can see this
design eventually working, but a major overhaul had better be in order
. . .
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Tove Momerathsson
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:21:06 GMT, Parallax <Parallax-G@???????.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I knew a revamp was coming, but I was hoping it wouldn't mean a change
>> in their graphic naming system. I had a page that displayed all my
>> strips on one page automatically, now I have to work on v.2.
>
> Too . . . much . . . Flash!
>
> Seriously, it seems these guys didn't hear of KISS (Keep It Simple
> Stupid); the ulitmate sign of this is the fact that just opening the
> site keeps pushing my browser to the brink of crashing; I can see this
> design eventually working, but a major overhaul had better be in order
> . . .
I used to think the site at <http://www.timesunion.com/comics/> was the
height (depth?) of stupidity, but the new comics.com site has got to be
a record for the Bells and Whistles category. Not to mention Look How
Clever We Are.
If it ain't broke, don't freakin' fix it, ok?
Tove
Jim Ellwanger
<9250198b-3a9a-4c85...@d42g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
lee <Lee.K...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While I am disappointed that my library of favorite past strips is
> gone, I am pleased that they have the strips large enough to read!
Unfortunately, on the site, they've switched from the 1960 "Peanuts"
reruns to the 1995 "Peanuts" reruns.
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comics page. Problem solved.
-Mike
Default User
>
> In article <gehs8p$i79$7...@reader1.panix.com>,
> J.D. Baldwin <ne...@baldwin.users.panix.com> wrote:
> >
> >In the previous article, Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> wrote:
> >> Wow, they're incompetent.
> >
> > Just after posting my previous snark, I clicked their "Join now"
> > link, and got a 404 page. This isn't mere incompetence, this is
> > ... I'm not sure what this is, but it's not adequately described by
> > the word "incompetence."
>
> See the .sig quote.
See also "Google Groups".
Brian
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racs...@gmail.com
It's a good deal more ornate that I like, but the comics were all
there. The "remember me" button on sign in doesn't seem to work, but I
can remember me anyway.
Mike Peterson
http://nellieblogs.blogspot.com
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, pete...@SPAMnelliebly.org <racs...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Comics.com worked fine for me this morning.
>
> It's a good deal more ornate that I like, but the comics were all
> there. The "remember me" button on sign in doesn't seem to work, but I
> can remember me anyway.
I see no difference whatever, though all I've visited so far are
"Frazz" (brilliant) and "Brevity" (amusing).
Welmoed
wrote:
>I knew a revamp was coming, but I was hoping it wouldn't mean a change
>in their graphic naming system. I had a page that displayed all my
>strips on one page automatically, now I have to work on v.2.
This new layout has also messed up the feed to iGoogle, which I really
like for reading my daily comics. This morning I couldn't get 9CWL to
load at all, and Luann only came up after a very sluggish load.
Yes, the archives are nice but...
--Welmoed
J.D. Baldwin
I wrote:
> > It's a good deal more ornate that I like, but the comics were all
> > there. The "remember me" button on sign in doesn't seem to work, but I
> > can remember me anyway.
>
> I see no difference whatever, though all I've visited so far are
> "Frazz" (brilliant) and "Brevity" (amusing).
Ohhhhhh ... *there* it is, now. Horrible. Far worse than I even imagined,
and what I imagined was pretty damn bad.
Carl Fink
those pages are overly decorated, but they do seem to be somewhat
functional.
What idiot at United Media decided that the weekend was the time to roll out
the new system, or decided to roll it out for every customer at once?
Paul Ciszek
In article <gekjns$965$4...@reader1.panix.com>,
J.D. Baldwin <ne...@baldwin.users.panix.com> wrote:
>
>I wrote:
>> > It's a good deal more ornate that I like, but the comics were all
>> > there. The "remember me" button on sign in doesn't seem to work, but I
>> > can remember me anyway.
>>
>> I see no difference whatever, though all I've visited so far are
>> "Frazz" (brilliant) and "Brevity" (amusing).
>
>Ohhhhhh ... *there* it is, now. Horrible. Far worse than I even imagined,
>and what I imagined was pretty damn bad.
I can't get it to display any "Jane's WOrld" more recent than September
26. The months of October and November don't exist on that calendar.
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Mark Jackson
> In article <gekjns$965$4...@reader1.panix.com>,
> J.D. Baldwin <ne...@baldwin.users.panix.com> wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>>> It's a good deal more ornate that I like, but the comics were all
>>>> there. The "remember me" button on sign in doesn't seem to work, but I
>>>> can remember me anyway.
>>> I see no difference whatever, though all I've visited so far are
>>> "Frazz" (brilliant) and "Brevity" (amusing).
>> Ohhhhhh ... *there* it is, now. Horrible. Far worse than I even imagined,
>> and what I imagined was pretty damn bad.
>
> I can't get it to display any "Jane's WOrld" more recent than September
> 26. The months of October and November don't exist on that calendar.
The 9CL back door leads to
http://chickweed.com/comics/janesworld/index.html, which is currently
showing the comic of October 31. Presumably the new-look comics.com
site will catch up eventually.
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sanford sklansky
"pete...@SPAMnelliebly.org" <racs...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:0f58b11a-cb74-4875...@v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
I use Evan Reynolds comic reader. The other day it wouldn't bring me to the
new comics page. It didn't display comic.com pages yesterday, but when I
clicked on the link it brought be to the old page. I use Belfry to read
some comics that the Renolds reader won't bring up, but are comic.com
comics. Just now it took me to the new page, but I had an error of sorts.
When I clicked on it again it brought me to the old comics.com. Very weird.
Just what are they doing?
Chris Brown
"Carl Fink" <ca...@panix.com> wrote in message
news:slrnggorlf...@panix2.panix.com...
> On 2008-11-01, George W Harris <gha...@mundsprung.com> wrote:
>
> Wow, they're incompetent. My day job is software and web service design
> and
> support, and my tiny company would be humiliated to release a new service
> this terribly flawed.
Well, clearly that's why it's so tiny. Big companies and governments are
reliably shameless about releasing online projects that don't work properly.
Chris
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> "Carl Fink" <ca...@panix.com> wrote in message
> news:slrnggorlf...@panix2.panix.com...
>> On 2008-11-01, George W Harris <gha...@mundsprung.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, they're incompetent. My day job is software and web service design
>> and
>> support, and my tiny company would be humiliated to release a new service
>> this terribly flawed.
>
> Well, clearly that's why it's so tiny. Big companies and governments are
> reliably shameless about releasing online projects that don't work properly.
>
> Chris
papers, I was jonesing bad for my comics, and tried to play catchup last
night. I find their new site annoying, even more so than when the Other
Guys changed their site a few months back. I may have to sign up and
build a page, just to get away from the annoying floating boxes and
flashy toys and extra clicks to get where I want.
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Jym Dyer
> from the 1960 "Peanuts" reruns to the 1995 "Peanuts" reruns.
=v= This is a good thing, because it means you can now get
*both* tracks of reruns online. The 1990s strips weren't
available online at all before:
http://www.comics.com/peanuts/
=v= Plus, you can still get the 1960s strips at the
_Houston_Chronicle_ site:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/buildcp.mpl?c=72&cpp=1
And also at Yahoo! a bit smaller and with a slight delay:
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/peanuts
<_Jym_>
P.S.: There's also the Japanese "history" site:
tc...@lsa.umich.edu
Jym Dyer <j...@econet.org> wrote:
>=v= Plus, you can still get the 1960s strips at the
>_Houston_Chronicle_ site:
>http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/buildcp.mpl?c=72&cpp=1
Does the Houston Chronicle carry Sunday strips? I didn't see one there today.
>And also at Yahoo! a bit smaller and with a slight delay:
>http://news.yahoo.com/comics/peanuts
Aren't these the 1995 strips?
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Jym Dyer
> Aren't these the 1995 strips?
=v= More changes. Now we're back to only one track of reruns
again. Comics.com went through the following changes:
o Before September 15th it was the 1960s track of reruns.
o From September 15th through October 26th, they provided
the 1990s track of reruns, and colorized the dailies.
o On October 27th they stopped colorizing the dailies (yay!)
and were still running the 1990s strips.
o They started running 1980s strips rather than 1990s strips.
o On November 10, they switched to the 1960s strips.
Now all sources -- Comics.com, the _Houston_Chronicle_, and
Yahoo! -- are all running the 1960s strips.
=v= More exciting is the fact that they seem to have every strip
archived:
The first strip is here:
http://comics.com/peanuts/1950-10-02
<_Jym_>