Also, I've found that I'm using the icomic interface (
http://www.ruxp.net/ ) for reading various online comic strips ...
archives. It has a neat visual interface which shows which days of
the month strips were published - makes it easy to go back and view
past strips.
Seems like it's just Dilbert and Penny-Arcade at the moment, but I
imagine it'll grow. I'm curious about what effect it might have on
those sites advertising revenue (if the process takes off).
don't expect too much too soon, rather than grow from here this is
pretty what it has shrunk down to over the last 2 years or so.
Many sites pulled their own scripts off the download site or even
changed their site architecture to stop iComic access.
For several reasons:
Loss of click-through and/or self advertised merchandise revenue.
Understandable as most places make pretty slim pickings as it is.
Heavy hits on (the usually substandard) servers that host them when
people chose to harvest (download in one hit) the entire archive,
particularly of long running publications like PVP, Sinfest,
Megatokyo.
Megatokyo, PVP and Creatures in My Head have at one time or another
blamed server crashes on multiple simultaneous iComic archive
harvesting)
Changes/upgrades/crossgrades to site management software that
(intentionally or coincidentally) renders iComics scripts unable to
access a directory with the actual image file, or sites using flash
graphics instead of PNG/JPG/GIF format
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