Nicolas Kratz wrote:
Ahem. You DO know that tools like this one are actively damaging online
comic creators?
Most of them are getting a fair share of their revenue from ad sales,
which stripclub, komics etc. pp. are bypassing, or merchandise, which
the user of stripclub will not know about since s/he is never visiting
the site. This is a recurring theme, last seen on the UF board[0].
I'm not saying that this should not be packaged. There may be users who
can't get their daily fix otherwise. But I think they should be damn
well aware what they are doing. If that means plastering a warning
across a splash/nag screen, amen. The rest of us, please support online
comics. I for myself want them to stay.
Bye,
Nick
[0] http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/read.cgi?id=20040407&tid=1118150
Point made. While I, personally, don't feel any regret (I've been a
Premium Keenspot member for two years, have every Sluggy book). I'll be
sticking a splash screen into the next build saying just that. Perhaps I
should move the "Per-comic donation links" todo item up in my list. A
"store" link sounds like a good idea too. One reason I've not done this
already is my lack of knowledge of any "standard" way to have a Linux
system spawn a webbrowser with the URL. Coding for specific browsers is
an option, but is there an easier way?
