Comments on: Works-in-progress survey

By: Areinh

Areinh — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:25:48 +0000

I was thinking about my other feeds, and how they keep my reader uncluttered. I personall favor the “click here for more” space at the end of the page. It keeps all of your content togather on one site, but keeps feeds tidy. I was thinking you could add a short introduction after a strip, something like, “If you’re still reading this, prepare to keep reading, for I have written random writings to be read.”

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:52:31 +0000

However you do it, I’m looking forward to seeing more.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:22:54 +0000

Just wanted to second (or nth) the request for the unparseable symbols shirt.

By: sven

sven — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:20:38 +0000

I’m sorry I just made the vote count 1338.

But I say start a tumblr or something, because I would totally look at it. I mean, I wouldn’t worry about people not looking at it. By nature the site will probably by pretty random so you can put as much effort into it as you want to, whoever is interested in that kind of thing is going to like it whether it looks organized or not.
…I mean I would love to see a Dinghy Bob website.

wait
what?

By: Nolan

Nolan — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:12:47 +0000

So… you don’t love moose?

By: tikitu

tikitu — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:05:56 +0000

Something to think about: duplication. If you put weekly digests, I’m gonna follow both feeds… and see some stuff twice. (Unless you put all “main” content into the “extra” site/feed as well, which seems daft.)

As noted above, WordPress lets you categorise posts and provides category-specific feeds and pages with very little hassle. Sounds like the way to go to me (should be easy to divert your existing feed and frontpage to a new “majorstuff” category, people who want to can follow “minorstuff” as well).

By: robin

robin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:09:01 +0000

I don’t bother with an RSS feed, so I don’t see any problems. The comic is always at the top, and if I have time I scroll down to see what else is going on. Like someone else said, if you’re adding a lot more content, it will make sense to shorten up what actually shows on the front page. If we’re hooked, we’ll click a “read more” link. I don’t think you should have to create a separate site just to manage RSS content. It’s your site, with your personal brand of messy genius all over it; I vote let it all hang out here. It’s the difference between jumping at the chance to look through Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks, or demanding someone else sort and edit them first so only the stuff you might like is on top. For free, no less.

By: brenton

brenton — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:39:03 +0000

leave it as it is. when I’m not interested in the non-wondermark related stuff I simply just don’t read it. Its not distracting or imposing, because I have to scroll down to see it anyway.

Everything you are doing is okay by me. (what a nice sentiment)

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:01:10 +0000

Whichever you decide, don’t do the digest. We’d love it, but it will just take up extra time you could use to create more stuff. Slipstream the workflow.

By: Trish

Trish — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:21:40 +0000

Hi David,

It depends on the amount of labor you want to put into another site, or part out to the weekly gremlins, if at all.

The third option (of establishing a separate site from WM, and just posting highlights on here) is probably the most comprehensive, but also the most labor intensive of the three choices.

Luckily, you’re powered by pure caffeine, which makes any extra expended energy by you insignificant in the scope of things.

I personally don’t use the RSS feed; prior to Long Beach, I’d check the site whenever, or just come back religiously Tuesdays and Fridays, and once I was added onto your mailing list, I get all the content I can sit around for via the Phonograph update.

I’m with Victoria on this one though; do whatever you feel fit, and I’ll end up accommodating — it’s all free to me anyways.

P.S. I squiggly unparseable symbols too. Make a shirt!