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Comics Kingdom reboot - seeing next week's comics?!

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From: smtuttle@alumni.rice.edu (Sharon Tuttle)
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by: Sharon Tuttle - Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:12 UTC

Writing about 12:30 pm on Wednesday, February 28:

Is anyone else seeing comics through March 6 (!) when logging into the
revamped Comics Kingdom site and trying to read today's comics...?

Weird! (And of course I can't resist reading ahead...!)

-- Sharon Tuttle
Arcata, CA

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From: mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu (Mark Jackson)
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by: Mark Jackson - Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:22 UTC

On 2/28/2024 4:12 PM, Sharon Tuttle wrote:
> Writing about 12:30 pm on Wednesday, February 28:
>
> Is anyone else seeing comics through March 6 (!) when logging into the
> revamped Comics Kingdom site and trying to read today's comics...?
>
> Weird! (And of course I can't resist reading ahead...!)

This apparently is the vaunted "early access" for subscribers. There
doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off, or to redirect to today, or
to read from today to March 6 without loading your favorites page (three
at a time) to work backwards through all the intervening days.

Complete garbage redesign.

--
Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
I have tried to bring scientific thinking to literary
criticism, and there's been very little gratitude for this.
- Kurt Vonnegut

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by: Freezer - Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:17 UTC

If I don't reply to this Mark Jackson post, the terroists win.

> On 2/28/2024 4:12 PM, Sharon Tuttle wrote:
>> Writing about 12:30 pm on Wednesday, February 28:
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing comics through March 6 (!) when logging
>> into the revamped Comics Kingdom site and trying to read
>> today's comics...?
>>
>> Weird! (And of course I can't resist reading ahead...!)
>
> This apparently is the vaunted "early access" for subscribers.
> There doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off, or to
> redirect to today, or to read from today to March 6 without
> loading your favorites page (three at a time) to work
> backwards through all the intervening days.
>
> Complete garbage redesign.
>

And that's why I switched to Arcamax (well, one of the reasons).

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by: Mark Jackson - Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:07 UTC

On 2/28/2024 5:22 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:
> On 2/28/2024 4:12 PM, Sharon Tuttle wrote:
>> Writing about 12:30 pm on Wednesday, February 28:
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing comics through March 6 (!) when logging into the
>> revamped Comics Kingdom site and trying to read today's comics...?

> This apparently is the vaunted "early access" for subscribers. There
> doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off, or to redirect to today, or
> to read from today to March 6 without loading your favorites page (three
> at a time) to work backwards through all the intervening days.
>
> Complete garbage redesign.

The good(ish) news is that they have a new Free Community Subscription
tier that doesn't offer (impose) early access, and supports building a
Favorites page. The result still presents the annoying three-at-a-time
interface, with no useful control over sort order, but at least it's
usable. Log out, then use another email address to sign up that way.

--
Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
I have tried to bring scientific thinking to literary
criticism, and there's been very little gratitude for this.
- Kurt Vonnegut

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From: smtuttle@alumni.rice.edu (Sharon Tuttle)
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by: Sharon Tuttle - Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:01 UTC

On 2/28/24 2:22 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:
> On 2/28/2024 4:12 PM, Sharon Tuttle wrote:
>> Writing about 12:30 pm on Wednesday, February 28:
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing comics through March 6 (!) when logging into the
>> revamped Comics Kingdom site and trying to read today's comics...?
>>
>> Weird! (And of course I can't resist reading ahead...!)
>
> This apparently is the vaunted "early access" for subscribers. There
> doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off, or to redirect to today, or
> to read from today to March 6 without loading your favorites page (three
> at a time) to work backwards through all the intervening days.
>
> Complete garbage redesign.
>

That's a feature?! Yikes!

I noticed having to click "show more" twice to get to that day's comics
-- ick!

And I see today that if I don't log in and just open a particular's
comic's page, I see today's strip (until I hit their free limit, I suspect).

If I wasn't subscribing to try and support cartoonists, I would *stop*
subscribing due to this redesign. 8-P

-- Sharon Tuttle

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by: Sharon Tuttle - Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:03 UTC

That's a feature?! Yikes!

I noticed having to click "show more" twice to get to that day's comics
-- ick!

And I see today that if I don't log in and just open a particular's
comic's page, I see today's strip (until I hit their free limit, I suspect).

If I wasn't subscribing to try and support cartoonists, I would *stop*
subscribing due to this redesign. 8-P

-- Sharon Tuttle

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by: Freezer - Fri, 1 Mar 2024 08:38 UTC

If I don't reply to this Mark Jackson post, the terroists win.

> On 2/28/2024 5:22 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:
>> On 2/28/2024 4:12 PM, Sharon Tuttle wrote:
>>> Writing about 12:30 pm on Wednesday, February 28:
>>>
>>> Is anyone else seeing comics through March 6 (!) when
>>> logging into the revamped Comics Kingdom site and trying to
>>> read today's comics...?
>
>> This apparently is the vaunted "early access" for
>> subscribers. There doesn't seem to be any way to turn it
>> off, or to redirect to today, or to read from today to March
>> 6 without loading your favorites page (three at a time) to
>> work backwards through all the intervening days.
>>
>> Complete garbage redesign.
>
> The good(ish) news is that they have a new Free Community
> Subscription tier that doesn't offer (impose) early access,
> and supports building a Favorites page. The result still
> presents the annoying three-at-a-time interface, with no
> useful control over sort order, but at least it's usable. Log
> out, then use another email address to sign up that way.
>

The last week of "Olive & Popeye" is MIA. If you use the search
function to try and find the main page for it, it gives a 404 error
on the offered link.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

arts / rec.arts.comics.strips / Comics Kingdom reboot - seeing next week's comics?!

Subject	Author
Comics Kingdom reboot - seeing next week's comics?!	Sharon Tuttle
Re: Comics Kingdom reboot - seeing next week's comics?!	Mark Jackson
Re: Comics Kingdom reboot - seeing next week's comics?!	Freezer
Re: Comics Kingdom reboot - seeing next week's comics?!	Mark Jackson
Re: Comics Kingdom reboot - seeing next week's comics?!	Freezer
Re: Comics Kingdom reboot - seeing next week's comics?!	Sharon Tuttle
Re: Comics Kingdom reboot - seeing next week's comics?!	Sharon Tuttle