Webcomic Tracking?

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:07 pm

I don't know if any of you ever heard of this. It sounds like a great idea for start, and it would be better if it were more popular.

I've been getting a few hits from it on my webalizer but never bothered to check until a few minutes ago, and I was surprised to see this is a feature that lets you know when your favorite comics updated. It's like the webcomic list, only you can choose the comics you can keep track of and add new ones yourself.

I was happy to see one of my readers took the effort of adding me to one of those lists again to save me the trouble. And the synopsis that person wrote is better than anything I could come up with!

Anothe thing that site does, albeit in a very early stage, is to measure the popularity of webcomics, by counting the number of readers each webcomic has.

So what do you guys think? Should you all give a try? And tell your readers to do so?

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:19 pm

Hmm... Looks interesting, I suppose. It's kinda what my favorites list does already, but I might give it a shot.

I suspect a lot of comics would need to be added, I wasn't seeing much of the keenspace family there.

Addendum: I notice the description for A&I is very good (it's accurate and such). I wonder who wrote that?

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:20 pm

I've found myself as a part of Comic Nation, which is a similar service. I even got an email from one of the administrators asking me to check it out.

Xmung · Post by **Xmung** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:27 pm

both look like very useful resources... anything that lets me know when a comic updates has gotta be a good thing!

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Sun May 30, 2004 12:27 am

;_; They have my update schedule listed as "sporadic"

And it would be wrong to correct them.

Jops · Post by **Jops** » Sun May 30, 2004 12:55 am

that's a very cool site.
I guess it just needs a bit more advertising.

Deathbringer · Post by **Deathbringer** » Sun May 30, 2004 3:46 am

Anyone gonna post an actual link to it then?

EDIT: Found it!, here is a more obvious link for people skimming the thread and not hovering thier mouse over every word spoken on the off-chance one is a link

http://comics.dragonwire.org/

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Sun May 30, 2004 4:26 am

Sortelli wrote:;_; They have my update schedule listed as "sporadic"

My schedule is listed wrong too. Understandable, since my Monday is still Sunday for you US folks.

I just realised this service do not warn you when updates occur. All it does is list webcomics, put a link to their forum and count how many readers they have. Maybe it's nice for a guy that only wrote this because he was bored. But somehow I think this could be much more.

For start, they could merge this with the webcomiclist service, and list the comics that updated today. I always dream of the ultimate webcomic list, one that allowed us as readers to have a good personalized service, an as artists to widen the word about our works.

My perfect list would have a way to switch lists between other users, make suggestions to your friends, put on something like the spotlight of the day/week/month, add reviews and scores, and that's just a few.

I feel like mailing the guy this. Anybody else? I really feel that this could become a great thing, with a little more work and time.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Sun May 30, 2004 4:49 am

Send it to Ash. I think he's busy - god knows there's no end to the webcomics around - but there's no harm in showing it to him. I know he's quite open to criticism and ideas - 'coz he's used a couple of mine - but I doubt he'll want to do any sort of major revamp of the list anytime soon, given that he just did.

- Joel Fagin

Kensou X · Post by **Kensou X** » Mon May 31, 2004 11:28 pm

It's shameless promotion time!!!

Amberchrome · Post by **Amberchrome** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:10 pm

Thanks! I just made an account of my own.