How to upload comics INTO THE PAST! (and future!)

[ZOMBIE USER 7782]

Yeah. I sussed it. If you missed a gap in the archive and you just crave neatness, it's possible to plug that gap. Make a comic and number it something like 20010101.jpg (or whatever date you missed) and put it - not in workspace/comics, but public_html/comics. Then request a standard update. The new archive pages will be created, and your comic will from 1st January 2001 will appear in your archives as if it had always been there.

You can also send strips further back in time. I made a strip for 19831112 - the day I was born. Go read it sometime

You can also upload future comics as well - and if you leave the ***next_day*** tag on your index page, then this link will point forwards to comics from the future. This makes it possible to upload a bunch of comics simultaneously and have them all available to view - but still only one a day. You could let people who want to view later comics if they so wish, or, if you were feeling arty, run a comic backwards in time, starting today and adding a new comic at the start of the archive every day. I actually did this by accident when I first created my comic - I put them in the wrong folder and people were reading comics I'd not intended to be available yet.

Well, just something I thought you might like to know.

[ZOMBIE USER 11601]

Actually, you can just put past comics into the workspace folder and wait for the normal update. I do this all the time when trying to pretend that I'm not too lazy to stick to my schedule.

[McBean]

What you have discovered may be new to you....

[ZOMBIE USER 7782]

It's not common knowledge, though, is it? And it's not mentioned in any of the tutorials.

[McDuffies]

Nah, but back when I was starting, I was testing the possibilities and that was the first thing I found out. Thanks anyway.

[ZOMBIE USER 8296]

i figure it'd be more common sense if you understand how to use FTP, i barely had to think about how to do it after i saw the public directory

[KedaDibandion]

I'm not even on keenspace yet, and I knew it...

[Odd1]

Actually there probably are people who weren't aware of those possibilities. They're probably too shy to say so now. It was nice of you to take the time to explain. 8)

[ZOMBIE USER 8296]

anyone who did not know this beforehand should be beaten with large, plastic breadsticks

[ZOMBIE USER 11601]

I've gotta say though, everyone might have known this already, but I don't think anyone else has thought to do something like your new "first" comic. That is pretty damn funny.

[ZOMBIE USER 7782]

Thank you! See? Everyone else read my first comic. I was only drawing attention to this because of the comedy possibilities.

[ZOMBIE USER 11601]

Or you could do a weird thing with a storyline where your characters go back in time to 1840 or something, and have it actually appear in 1840!

[Odd1]

Or you could do a weird thing with a storyline where your characters go back in time to 1840 or something, and have it actually appear in 1840!

Ooh! That would be really neat. ^_^ But you'd have to manually enter the "first comic" so that it doesn't lead to the first strip of the flashback/time travel to the past...

[McDuffies]

That's great idea. It would actually allow readers of comics with messed us complicated time-travel cause-consequences storylines to read it as it happened from the wievpoint of characters, or from the viewpoint of... um, time.

[KODAMA]

I feel stupid now. ehh.. duhhh (drools)

wait.. wait!! :O I have known about this technique for a long time actually..

Xd (isn't this what auto keen was made for in teh first place?!) ehh... (drools more)