Aaron, any way to fix the update so we get pages regularly instead of (approximately) 3 at a time? For example, the previous page (http://ps238.nodwick.com/?p=1389) says it was posted 12/11 but it didn’t show up until today. This happens regularly for this comic.
Seconded! This has been a general problem for quite a while, with several comics in a row not appearing until some seemingly arbitrary and ever-changing threshold of “stored” comics is met.
That’s not an excuse for this level of slowness. The Giant in the Playground site, for instance, is fairly speedy, and handles at least as much content, with at least as many viewers, as this site does.
It took me a while to figure that out, since all my bookmarks pointed to the old domain; I think I only found out when someone commented about it somewhere (I’d seen comments about it being back before then, but not about the new name, so those didn’t really help me much).
I guess we’ve all been spoiled – machines and the ‘Net are so much faster now, compared to only a few years ago – in some cases, months ago. How long before stuff is obsolete on it’s release date?
Chrome times out but FireFox waits until it loads. Why would the two be different? Also not everyone is patient. If they don’t hang around for the page to load how will newbies learn there is merchandise for sale.
19 thoughts on “12/13/2013”
Unmaker
Aaron, any way to fix the update so we get pages regularly instead of (approximately) 3 at a time? For example, the previous page (http://ps238.nodwick.com/?p=1389) says it was posted 12/11 but it didn’t show up until today. This happens regularly for this comic.
Prairie Son
While that’d be nice, I’d settle for the site not constantly timing out when I try to switch pages.
Freak
Not to mention fix it so that the Nodwick comics display again.
Ptharien's Flame
Seconded! This has been a general problem for quite a while, with several comics in a row not appearing until some seemingly arbitrary and ever-changing threshold of “stored” comics is met.
RayNAiken
Is it on my end or is this site really slow loading?
Ptharien's Flame
That’s the case for me too, so it’s not just you.
Frith Ra
That seems to be my experience too, and on multiple platforms.
scifijoe
Ditto!! on both.
Victor had better watch out.
Christopher
The server Nodwick.Com handles 3-4 webcomics (very image intensive applicatons) plus Comments on a per page basis.
Plus a Blog.
That this might tax out the bandwidth and processing abilities is not a wonder.
Ptharien's Flame
That’s not an excuse for this level of slowness. The Giant in the Playground site, for instance, is fairly speedy, and handles at least as much content, with at least as many viewers, as this site does.
Jasae Bushae
Considering webcomic servers like drunkduck, thewebcomic and keenspace can mannage hundreds however….
David Nuttall
DrunkDunk isn’t serving any right now. At least not when I have checked in the last few months.
EdorFaus
Drunk Duck is actually serving comics again, but only under its new “The Duck” name, not the old “Drunk Duck” name – the http://www.drunkduck.com domain doesn’t work, but http://www.theduckwebcomics.com does.
It took me a while to figure that out, since all my bookmarks pointed to the old domain; I think I only found out when someone commented about it somewhere (I’d seen comments about it being back before then, but not about the new name, so those didn’t really help me much).
NOTDilbert
Yep, it connects slow, loads slow, and changes pages slow.
David Nuttall
Slow is better than never. Also, isn’t the quality of the content worth a little delay? I find it a fair trade-off.
Partigal
Agreed.
NOTDilbert
I guess we’ve all been spoiled – machines and the ‘Net are so much faster now, compared to only a few years ago – in some cases, months ago. How long before stuff is obsolete on it’s release date?
RayNAiken
Chrome times out but FireFox waits until it loads. Why would the two be different? Also not everyone is patient. If they don’t hang around for the page to load how will newbies learn there is merchandise for sale.
dains
Slow no more! Nice fix Aaron!
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