Slurper Love
Right, time to send some love the slurper’s way. I found about 10 comics that still had keenspace URLs (instead of comicgenesis) and they weren’t updating. I’ve fixed those, but really why don’t you people tell me that they aren’t updating???
Oh, thats right, I just ignore you. I suck.
Next, the never ending “suggested comics queue”. It was HUGE but I’ve gone through it and added most of them. Some didn’t make the grade. Also somebody keeps suggesting the NASA photo of the day. Planets are not comics. Comics are much smaller.
I’ve also gone through and cleaned out a bunch of what I call “stale” comics. These are comics that are still selectable on the slurper even though the artist has long since abandoned them. Any that are obviously dead (like the URL has gone) were deleted. On some the artist has said they are taking a haitus, those were put into “disabled” mode. This means they are still there you just can’t see them, if ever they start updating again I can tick a box and Boom! They’re back baby! (yes, Ari Gold is my new hero.)
I’m thinking about coming up with an automatic policy for stale comics. If they aren’t updated for 2 months they automatically get disabled, or something like that. Hmm.
Last and probably least, I deleted all the comics from king features. This is why.
So now, the comc slurper is as up to date as it can be. Yes!
Now its time to watch some Entourage baby! Are you feeling the love?? Boom!
Mate, get with it!
What about a ‘customers who liked this comic also subscribe to these’ option?
I did actually play around with something like that for a while. Based on the comics you have selected (which are stored in a cookie) and the comics that other people read, I figured I should be able to “predict” other comics you would enjoy.
But I’m not sure it worked very well, so I put it in the too hard basket. Maybe I should revisit it.
I have your code sitting in the bottom of my gmail, waiting for me to have a look at it, and see if the logic can be improved. When I get time…..
some of the king features comics can be found here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artsandliving/comics/index.html
http://www.sfgate.com/comics/
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/
The src of the gif files are formatted like:
http://est.rbma.com/content/Beetle_Bailey
and you can easily send a fake referer to download the gifs
the slurper is kickass
Meh, if somebody suggests them I will add them. I’m not too bothered. Kind of reminds me of Tycho’s intro in the first Penny Arcade book. Snippet: