Unload Inactive Comics

Reinder · Post by **Reinder** » Mon Nov 05, 2001 1:13 am

Sorry if I came across as a bit crabby. I get that way sometimes. I wish I knew how many people actually used the main list for finding comics. I do actually think that some more sorting of that big list would be useful... but the problem is that someone would have to do it.As for the non-updated comics taxing the server, well, all of Keenspace accounts for less than a quarter of Keen's total bandwidth, and most of that comes from a few relatively big Keenspace sites (I wonder if mine is among those <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">). I think it's safe to say the dead sites aren't a big problem.
Dead comics do get looked at by the updater every day but my understanding is that the updater is smart enough not to waste a lot of time on them.------------------
Reinder Dijkhuis
<A HREF="http://www.rocr.net/" TARGET=_blank>Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan</A>, Humorous fantasy strip, updated Mon-Fri, and really rather good. <A HREF="http://www.rocr.net/d/20000701.html" TARGET=_blank>Read it from the first strip!</A><A HREF="http://whio.keenspace.com/" TARGET=_blank>White House in Orbit</A>

Brian Young · Post by **Brian Young** » Mon Nov 05, 2001 2:36 am

I agree with Reinder here, I would expect that most people find Keenspace comics through links on sites they visit (this including through the dropdowns, or the newsbox). It would take extreme luck to a find comic you liked through the big list even if it had just included active comics. Honestly I don't care what they do with the list because I doubt there's anyway to make it as useful as browsing through the link pages at my favorite comics.------------------
Brian<A HREF="http://prettymagic.com" TARGET=_blank>Magical Mage Pretty Magic</A>, everyone's favorite magic girl.

NBAddict · Post by **NBAddict** » Mon Nov 05, 2001 8:05 am

I'm sure this has been suggested many times, but I have an idea how this could be done.Perhaps one of the esteemed moderators could survey keenspace comics (letter by letter, or some other systematic method), and identify dead comics or comics that never started posting. Next they could email the creator to ask their intentions. If the creator has quit creating or doesn't respond, then the comic is taken out of the system.Another suggestion is that the keenspace list have a page for each letter as the whole a to z list sometimes takes a long time to load. This discourages people from surfing from comic to comic.Or another idea is to have Keenspace categories such as anime, scifi, adult, comedy, sports, etc.I would love to see the Keenspace improve. It is great to have an opportunity to post my comic and I would like to make it easier for people to find while surfing Keenspace.
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Reinder · Post by **Reinder** » Mon Nov 05, 2001 10:42 am

And again, I would like to ask in what way you expect Keenspace would benefit from this. So far, I haven't heard any convincing answer to this question from anyone proposing that old strips be removed.------------------
Reinder Dijkhuis
<A HREF="http://www.rocr.net/" TARGET=_blank>Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan</A>, Humorous fantasy strip, updated Mon-Fri, and really rather good. <A HREF="http://www.rocr.net/d/20000701.html" TARGET=_blank>Read it from the first strip!</A><A HREF="http://whio.keenspace.com/" TARGET=_blank>White House in Orbit</A>

NBAddict · Post by **NBAddict** » Mon Nov 05, 2001 11:37 am

Must be an oft asked question. Sorry to bother you.The benefit to keenspace would be the ability of surfers to get to posting comics easier. But I see your point. An ad on any page is revenue. The more the better.I assume this means that all these comics are not taxing the server.
<A HREF="http://nbaddict.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>http://nbaddict.keenspace.com</A>

Post by **Kisai** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 1:17 am

For one single person to go through all the comics and make a manual listing would take about two years adding. I calculated this from the fact that I was only able to get through about 30 comics a day, considering I was counting all the comics. (And when you hit a comic with more than 10 comics it takes a VERY long time to count.) An automated script with all the keenspace links could do it faster, but ... gee that's what the Keenspace list page does.

TPau · Post by **TPau** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 1:41 am

um, if it is automatic, how come i can't find myself on the list? or rather my comic. is there a lag time of greater then 4 days?-annA(lostland)

NBAddict · Post by **NBAddict** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 9:32 am

Thanks for the info.NBAddict <A HREF="http://nbaddict.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>http://nbaddict.keenspace.com</A>

TPau · Post by **TPau** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 10:03 am

how does one get on that list of all comics? or does it just kinda happen automatically?thanks

Brian Young · Post by **Brian Young** » Tue Nov 06, 2001 12:47 pm

If your on Keenspace, your on the list of Keenspace comics automatically, yes.------------------
Brian<A HREF="http://prettymagic.com" TARGET=_blank>Magical Mage Pretty Magic</A>, everyone's favorite magic girl.