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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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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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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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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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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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.

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On 2/29/2024 3:07 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

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.

It looks like "Free Community Subscription" is no longer offered
(instead they have a 7 day free trial of either of their paid tiers). I
set one up back when the new website launched; it still works as
described above except the favorites page kicks me out after reading
about a dozen comics. Not OK.

As far as I can tell (their subscription benefits lists don't mention
it) having a functional favorites page will now cost $50/year. (Some possibility it comes with the lower tier at $30/year.} This is up from $20/year in 2022 and 2023. Gocomics currently remains at $15/year for
many more comics of interest.

--
Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
[I]f your political views require greatly misstating the facts,
maybe you should consider revising your views rather than
rejecting the facts. - Paul Krugman

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