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Gravatar Coming Soon! - Ian (14:30 9th February, 2010)

Hello all!

Hopefully you've noticed that new comics are now being listed daily. This should be the norm from now on... he says.

I completed quite a few bits of the Feb10 refresh, and then a power-cut caused my PC to rollback the file-system and wipe out a week's work... Can't say I've seen that before.
The most frustrating thing was discovering that the cloud-based backup service I use doesn't version my files, so it had actually duplicated the file-system rollback over the work I'd done...
Needless to say, I've since changed backup service.

Although webcomic news still isn't something we can focus on providing, I'd like to point to the wonderful Anders Loves Maria (WC-M (komix.org.uk)), that finished very recently.
If you've never heard of it, now's a good time to subscribe and start reading from the beginning.

Earlier News

Gravatar These things take time - Ian (11:00 21st January, 2010)

Development hasn't really restarted since the Christmas break, unfortunately; my new job is taking a lot of time. I'm hoping that February will be quieter and I can focus on some of the big issues outstanding.

On the plus side, we are starting to build up a small queue of comics, which is definitely a bigger priority than interface tweaks.

Gravatar All Quiet... - Ian (11:15 21st December, 2009)

Christmas is always a busy time of year, but with me having to start a new job as well, there hasn't been anyone to do much with Komix! for the last few weeks.

Anyway, I don't think it's likely that I'll find much time before the New Year to get any of the queued comics listed, but we'll hopefully be back with a bang in January.

Have a great Christmas and New Year everyone!

Gravatar Late again - Nov09 - Ian (17:15 5th December, 2009)

*hack, cough* I've not been well, which is the reason for Nov09 being a week late.

Over 200 code files changed and almost 100 new files - probably the largest refresh in quite some time.
"But what's changed?" You might ask (or not). Well...

The most inteersting changes are (in no particular order):


  • 10-things (komix.org.uk)

  • An Android/iPhone compatible strip viewer*

  • A new content rating system, with thanks to FamilyWebcomics (familywebcomics.com)

  • Pop-up search dialog


The rest are back-end changes and bugfixes.

Let us know if you have any issues.

* We've only tested this properly on Android, so let us know if you experience issues on the iPhone.
If you want to use another device, let us know what it is and we'll try to add support for it.

I start a new job in a few days, and I'm still not feeling 100%, so if we go ahead with a Dec09 refresh, it'll be pretty lite.

Hope everyone's well.

Gravatar No news is... err... - Ian (16:14 24th November, 2009)

Sorry for the recent silence: the real world sometimes prevents me from doing anything except for pretending to pay the bills.
My job is currently in a bit of flux, so my attention is being diverted a lot.

The number of approved comics is slowly rising. I'd love for it to be going faster, but at least it is going.
We're also starting to move on to adding the suggestions that have been rolling in over the last few weeks.

The finishing touches are going on to Nov09 right now, with quite a few new features for users.
Final beta should be live tomorrow, then release by end of week. (fingers crossed)