Surely, albeit slowly…
Hi folks, just a short update on progress. The rebuild is, as you’ve probably noticed, happening. Not as fast as I’d like; but since I have to juggle this task with the day job – and other real life activities including continuing to work on the current story and upcoming stories – I’m happy I’ve managed to make it this far.
So yes, it might be a couple more weeks until I’ve reloaded all the content. Despite having a back up, there were certain elements that I decided to redo, including larger file images for all past content. This isn’t 2005 any more and a 510px wide image is pretty dinky. Also, the new WordPress theme and plugin that I’m using has changed every single page URL for the comic. SO that sucks, especially for the various external pages that link back to me, thinking especially of TV Tropes 🙁 .
Also, a major suck for this new theme is that, despite working in many browsers, the [left sidebar|comic|right sidebar] seems to be totally stuffed in many versions of Chrome. Ugh. I’m sure there’s a fix, and it’s on my To Do list, but in the meantime, if the page looks all over the place in your Chrome browser, please consider enjoying Magellan in another browser.
As mentioned above, I’m still working on the current story… three additional pages are in the bag now. For people who are Patreon supporters you should have received notifications that I’ve posted these to my page there (if not, pop over to check them out!). Those pages (and maybe a few more) will hit this site once I’ve got it all sorted. I’m also working on the next main story (scripting and drafting) and the next vote incentive… included in this post is a teaser image for that story! Look familiar? They should!!
More news as it develops!!
Of course I remember them, in particular because of that horrifying visual. I’ll admit (sheepishly) that I only remembered Comrad Katya’s name 😳
I’m happier to say that, at least in my version of Chrome (Version 73.0.3683.10, 64-bit) the page seems to be displaying normally now 👍
I think that the message about the problem that I put at the top of the page somehow (unintentionally) fixed the problem.
I usually get a 500 error when trying to load this site in Firefox, but reloading usually fixes it. Today was the first day I didn’t.
Yes, the 500 errors are a bane. The webhost keeps blaming my site for one thing or another. Possibly time for a new webhost… except they’re also relatively cheap for the amount of bandwidth I chew through in a month.
Hey, who could forget Comrade Whatshername and that other one?
Grace, will past user comments return, or no?
Unsure at this moment. Hope there is a way to extract and import them. Once I have all the pages back I’ll focus on adding my commentary and then reader comments.
The reupload is doing interesting things to my feed.
so.. how damn long more until this reuploading is finished? at this rate we be reading old comics even at 2024
Well, I’m doing about 100 pages a week and have about 300 pages to go… 🙂
oh, well, good excuse to reread the great stuff in the past that makes me want more new content. Good luck with getting everything back up.