I want to edit a page from my comic but I don't want to change its date. But when I try to edit the page it sets a date from 2019 since 2018 isn't available in the dropdown menu anymore. Is there a way to keep the date?

No.
You can message me with a link to the page and a note about what date you want and I can fix that for you.

stinger9 wrote:

ozoneocean wrote:
That page count (29 according to your profile and I counted your pages and it matched), accurately reflects all pages of your comic that are “live”.
You may have more that are scheduled to update. Those aren't counted until the date they go live as well.

Oops, you're right, the live dates on any page I edited from last year had their year changed to 2017, putting it at later this year. Weird, guess it must have messed up when I edited them! Sorry about that!

Edit: Never mind, just realised when I tried to fix them, it's just because 2016 isn't an option any more!

Hello everyone,

I have a problem that is related to this.
I often go back to update older pages to fix typos, etc.
However, lately whenever I do, a huge bunch of pages from the updated page onward are updated as well with the year set to 2020. Which makes some pages disappear as they are scheduled to upload later the year and as soon as it hits end of 2020, pages are scheduled beginning of 2020 and so on.
I can see why the page I edited might get a new year assigned as in the dropdown there's no option to choose any year <2020 but I don't know why pages I haven't touched get new years assigned, too. :/ (I did update ALL pages some months ago…maybe that's why all the years are messed up? Oh dear :/ )

Everytime it happened, I picked a random date earlier this year to make the pages reappear. About 250 pages are affected by it.

Can anyone help?

Thank you very much!

~Freiha

Freiha wrote:

stinger9 wrote:

ozoneocean wrote:
That page count (29 according to your profile and I counted your pages and it matched), accurately reflects all pages of your comic that are “live”.
You may have more that are scheduled to update. Those aren't counted until the date they go live as well.

Oops, you're right, the live dates on any page I edited from last year had their year changed to 2017, putting it at later this year. Weird, guess it must have messed up when I edited them! Sorry about that!

Edit: Never mind, just realised when I tried to fix them, it's just because 2016 isn't an option any more!

Hello everyone,

I have a problem that is related to this.
I often go back to update older pages to fix typos, etc.
However, lately whenever I do, a huge bunch of pages from the updated page onward are updated as well with the year set to 2020. Which makes some pages disappear as they are scheduled to upload later the year and as soon as it hits end of 2020, pages are scheduled beginning of 2020 and so on.
I can see why the page I edited might get a new year assigned as in the dropdown there's no option to choose any year <2020 but I don't know why pages I haven't touched get new years assigned, too. :/ (I did update ALL pages some months ago…maybe that's why all the years are messed up? Oh dear :/ )

Everytime it happened, I picked a random date earlier this year to make the pages reappear. About 250 pages are affected by it.

Can anyone help?

Thank you very much!

~Freiha

That's a nasty pickle :(
The only way is to just go though methodically and edit each date :(

In the admin system it's even slower because I have to fill in missing info about the page in the forms like file type and stuff. :(

ozoneocean wrote:

That's a nasty pickle :(
The only way is to just go though methodically and edit each date :(

In the admin system it's even slower because I have to fill in missing info about the page in the forms like file type and stuff. :(

Hi ozoneocean,

Thank you for your reply.

That's OK. I don't mind that the dates are all mixed up now as long as the pages are visible and I understand why it happens.
Seeing that a lot of people have the same issue, I'm wondering if there's a way to prevent it in the future.
Maybe like this: Lock the date of pages that were uploaded before beginning of the current year and add an “Edit the date of this page” button with a small text that says that one can't choose a date in the previous year. Clicking the button will enable the date drop downs, otherwise they'll stay unchanged.

Regards
~Freiha

You're right! It's something that needs tweaking!

my page count seems to be wrong. it says 24 even though there are actually 27 pages as of this post. and yes they're all up, not waiting in the future or something. (could it be because I retroactively added a page in the middle of the comic?)

also, unless I'm wrong, comic subpages can only be viewed by registered users. why? this means anonymous guests can't see my About page :/

Matt Comics wrote:
my page count seems to be wrong. it says 24 even though there are actually 27 pages as of this post. and yes they're all up, not waiting in the future or something. (could it be because I retroactively added a page in the middle of the comic?)

also, unless I'm wrong, comic subpages can only be viewed by registered users. why? this means anonymous guests can't see my About page :/

I fixed your page count issue- you'd obviously edited 3 pages and the “live date” had switched over to today's year although the month stayed the same:
So they weren't due to be seen again till September this year. :(

The Subpage stuff is weird :(

ooooh. I didn't notice that the dropdown doesn't go into the past. heck I didn't even notice it's already been addressed in this thread when I skimmed through it.

I think I'll just move my pages to the current year just in case I need to edit notes again. I'm still figuring out a lot of stuff on this site!

I'm glad to have been some help :)

I'm back with another question!!

is there a way to post links in comments?

I tried BB Code (which works in the author notes iirc) and html but it didn't work. so I simply pasted the link at the end of my reply…

Matt Comics wrote:
I'm back with another question!!

is there a way to post links in comments?

I tried BB Code (which works in the author notes iirc) and html but it didn't work. so I simply pasted the link at the end of my reply…

No. There's no way.
It was done as a way to protect against spam.

Heyo. Hope this is the right place to report a possible bug? My comments notification (the one under the username right over there –>) just showed 4 new comments, but checking my ‘Comments Received’ tab didn't show anything new. Just old comments i already marked as read/responded to. Clicking ‘Mark All As Read’ removed the (4) and it's back at zero now.

I think on other sites this can happen when the comments get deleted, the comments gone but the notification is still there, maybe that's what's going on?

TheJagged wrote:
Heyo. Hope this is the right place to report a possible bug? My comments notification (the one under the username right over there –>) just showed 4 new comments, but checking my ‘Comments Received’ tab didn't show anything new. Just old comments i already marked as read/responded to. Clicking ‘Mark All As Read’ removed the (4) and it's back at zero now.

I think on other sites this can happen when the comments get deleted, the comments gone but the notification is still there, maybe that's what's going on?

They were probably from a spammer I just deleted today.

They were probably from a spammer I just deleted today.

Ahh really was just spam then, thank you~

TheJagged wrote:

They were probably from a spammer I just deleted today.

Ahh really was just spam then, thank you~

Yup :/
It's rare that they actually leave comments though!

I hope this is a bug/glitch of some sort, because I cannot think of any other logical reason why trying to view custom/subpages on a comic site brings up the prompt to login instead. I mean whether or not you're logged in, being able to see subpages should be a necessity, especially if the subpages are essential to informing and educating readers of your comic, such as in my case in which I have created both an About page (which, if I could, would use as my comic's actual homepage) and a Characters page.

Freiha wrote:

stinger9 wrote:

ozoneocean wrote:
That page count (29 according to your profile and I counted your pages and it matched), accurately reflects all pages of your comic that are “live”.
You may have more that are scheduled to update. Those aren't counted until the date they go live as well.

Oops, you're right, the live dates on any page I edited from last year had their year changed to 2017, putting it at later this year. Weird, guess it must have messed up when I edited them! Sorry about that!

Edit: Never mind, just realised when I tried to fix them, it's just because 2016 isn't an option any more!

Hello everyone,

I have a problem that is related to this.
I often go back to update older pages to fix typos, etc.
However, lately whenever I do, a huge bunch of pages from the updated page onward are updated as well with the year set to 2020. Which makes some pages disappear as they are scheduled to upload later the year and as soon as it hits end of 2020, pages are scheduled beginning of 2020 and so on.
I can see why the page I edited might get a new year assigned as in the dropdown there's no option to choose any year <2020 but I don't know why pages I haven't touched get new years assigned, too. :/ (I did update ALL pages some months ago…maybe that's why all the years are messed up? Oh dear :/ )

Everytime it happened, I picked a random date earlier this year to make the pages reappear. About 250 pages are affected by it.

Can anyone help?

Thank you very much!

~Freiha

Hi, I'm having a problem that sounds like it may be similar to this.
I recently redrew the first page of one of my comics (from back in 2014) and edited the page to replace the old version with the redraw.
However, now the page isn't showing up at all when viewing the comic logged out. Looking at it while I'm logged in, the redrawn first page is there as intended. Logged out, the second page is showing up as the first page instead, like the first doesn't exist.
On my control panel's pages list, the date on the redrawn one is showing up as 2022, then the others as 2014, so this may be a date-related issue as well?

Toby Durr wrote:



Hi, I'm having a problem that sounds like it may be similar to this.
I recently redrew the first page of one of my comics (from back in 2014) and edited the page to replace the old version with the redraw.
However, now the page isn't showing up at all when viewing the comic logged out. Looking at it while I'm logged in, the redrawn first page is there as intended. Logged out, the second page is showing up as the first page instead, like the first doesn't exist.
On my control panel's pages list, the date on the redrawn one is showing up as 2022, then the others as 2014, so this may be a date-related issue as well?

That's it unfortunately.
You have to redate it to a date in 2022 that's already been. It's a stupid system I know :(

Dang! I wish I had seen this yesterday. I just changed the first page of my sketchbook to be an index page and replaced the image. Does that mean the index only shows up for me now,?


Your text to link here…

NSFW
I can't check it myself cuz when I log out I can't access it.

Is appreciate it someone could tell me if the index is visitable

Thank

That's it unfortunately.
You have to redate it to a date in 2022 that's already been. It's a stupid system I know :(

Ahh, I see now it had just switched to the date it was originally uploaded… but in 2022. Which would be later this month.
Anyway, it's working now! Glad it was a simple fix, thanks.

lothar wrote:
Dang! I wish I had seen this yesterday. I just changed the first page of my sketchbook to be an index page and replaced the image. Does that mean the index only shows up for me now,?


Your text to link here…

NSFW
I can't check it myself cuz when I log out I can't access it.

Is appreciate it someone could tell me if the index is visitable

Thank

Looks like an index page to me.

Thank you

Is the inability for our published comments to include whenever we drop down a line also a bug/glitch? I see we can do it in our author notes and forum posts obviously, but it appears that comic comments are published as one single paragraph.

I think you just have ti hit return a bunch of times

The ability to add a video to our public profiles doesn't appear to be working; is this another bug?

J_Scarbrough wrote:
The ability to add a video to our public profiles doesn't appear to be working; is this another bug?

No line breaks in comments is part of the stupid system they programmed back in 2011, same as the lack of video.
We used to have video uploads on forums and video embeds in the forums but that was disabled due to some reason… I have no idea why…
Probably to prevent underage kids seeing offensive stuff.

It could be restored easily I think

Ozoneocean wrote:
We used to have video uploads on forums and video embeds in the forums but that was disabled due to some reason… I have no idea why…
Probably to prevent underage kids seeing offensive stuff.

Ah yes. "WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!" That came up in conversation regarding my ban from ComicFury, though to be fair, both of these sites (and others I presume) clearly offer adult and mature comics and content as it is, seems like this wouldn't be of much concern, but I get it I suppose.

J_Scarbrough wrote:

Ozoneocean wrote:
We used to have video uploads on forums and video embeds in the forums but that was disabled due to some reason… I have no idea why…
Probably to prevent underage kids seeing offensive stuff.

Ah yes. "WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!" That came up in conversation regarding my ban from ComicFury, though to be fair, both of these sites (and others I presume) clearly offer adult and mature comics and content as it is, seems like this wouldn't be of much concern, but I get it I suppose.

I think now that since Youtube handles its kid ratings itself that it shouldn't be an issue for linked embedded videos- which is what we should go for instead of uploads.
It means that if a person isn't signed in to youtube or is signed in but is underage they can't see certain vids. Means we wouldn't have to worry on our end.

Hahaha "WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!" Usually a good sign that the person is bit of a c**t.
- I have to censor myself because I'm an admin but you don't have to. lol

Ozoneocean wrote:

Toby Durr wrote:



Hi, I'm having a problem that sounds like it may be similar to this.
I recently redrew the first page of one of my comics (from back in 2014) and edited the page to replace the old version with the redraw.
However, now the page isn't showing up at all when viewing the comic logged out. Looking at it while I'm logged in, the redrawn first page is there as intended. Logged out, the second page is showing up as the first page instead, like the first doesn't exist.
On my control panel's pages list, the date on the redrawn one is showing up as 2022, then the others as 2014, so this may be a date-related issue as well?

That's it unfortunately.
You have to redate it to a date in 2022 that's already been. It's a stupid system I know :(

OK, there has been a fix introduced.
-the published date of live pages has been disabled. You can't change it once it's live.
I know that creates other issues but there we go for now. I think it solves more than it creates.

Ozoneocean wrote:
- I have to censor myself because I'm an admin but you don't have to. lol

Well, thanks a fuckin' lot then! :P

Okay, that was uncalled for, but I couldn't resist, lol.