Did you know I make another webcomic? I do it’s true! It’s called “Uh oh it’s a Dinosaur” and it’s about that weird little lizard thing over there. You should give it a read as I put a lot more effort into it. PLT is a fun thing I do each week while the dinosaur comic is the big mega comic I’ve been work on on since 2009. Oh yes, this one’s been going for over ten years and has an awful lot to read too! In fact, the first forty chapter story arc has been completed and a second one is going on right now! Wow! Give it a look as you’ll see there’s a lot of fun stuff to read.
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It is a webcomic, so it doesn’t need much in the way of fancy features. It worked fine the way it was so I don’t really know what I could suggest.
Well, anyway, good luck with your reconstruction. I hope you didn’t actually lose any/too many of your pages.
I pretty much lost all the WEB pages as well as the comments that went with them. All the comics are still safe on my computers. To me, losing the comments was the hardest part because everything else can be rebuilt. And that is exactly what I’m doing – rebuilding. With a lot of work I might have been able to get one of my older site backups working, but then I’d be back where I was before with an outdated plugin on a clunky site that could be broken in the same way again. No, I decided to use this opportunity to build the new site that I’ve been trying to build for the past year. I’ll go into it with more details later but for now just hold on to your hats, comics will return! And you really don’t want to lose your hats!
I’m gonna miss them too. There were some good ideas there. Comments should be backup-able!
Phil and the Fishtank will be back too, right?
In time, yes. I’ll probably start with PLT first. Even though it has thousands of comics it’s pretty easy since it’s daily. I have grand plans for Kyra that I’ll be talking about soon. 95 Gallons will come at a later date once the other two are all back in business. Statistically it’s not read very often but it’s still my comic and it still needs to be out there!
what happend to 95 gallons?. it might have been complete but occasionally i enjoyed re reading it. will it be returning to the site?.
It will be back again at some point, yes. Since it’s completed I want to spend my time getting the other two working first.
what other two?
Oh noes! glhf with your grand recovery plan
So glad you are getting things up and running again. I have really missed the comics. It’s the first thing I read when I go online. Keep up the great work!
Oh no, all my comments are gone? I worked so hard on those
(secretly relieved)
Hey andrew, good news: The Internet Archive has a backup of the old site! T
…the comics themselves aren’t there but maybe it can help?
It appears from the archives section one can get to browse the ye olde parts. And the comments are there too!
It will help me remember what all the titles for the Kyra comics where and when they were posted!
Ultimately that’s the problem, all the comics were broken away from their pages. I think theoretically there is a way to reload a broken version of the site then go through every single comic one by one to reload them. But the way I’m doing it now is much faster and will result in a far superior site. It will take some time, but there will be very nice nice webpages here!
“BATH then path the way for hair” appears to be the last page you can recover comments from.
[stares at comic 628] We are getting into some horrifying psychological territory here.
Uaaaaaagh how are they gonna get Paul past all the red hiveminders?
I’m glad that new Kyra’s are appearing and with a little adjustment we can read them just fine. Hopefully everything will be all back to normal size, etc. soon – keep up the good work, Andrew!
Man, I pop out for a month and everything goes to pot! What gives?
I jest, I jest. ;] Though really, MAJOR bummer on losing the comments. What exactly happened?
A plugin called Webcomic makes wordpress act like a, well, webcomic site. While the plugin was up to version 4 I was still stuck on version 2. Upgrading the plugin to version 3 required all the comics to be moved to a new folder. Since my site was so large with so many comics it was unable to do so without crashing and breaking everything. So for about five years I kept it at version 2. Then a month ago I accidentally hit the upgrade plugin button. Every comic was broken away from its page leaving thousands of broken pages. None of my backups were working properly either. In the end I decided to bite the bullet and start over fresh with brand new sites. I could finally upgrade the webcomic plugin to be this far superior version and do the site redesigns I’ve always wanted to do but risked breaking the site. It’s going to take longer than I thought to fix everything, but so far all of Phil Likes Tacos is back and Kyra will have her own site someday.
Aww shy little Beatrice was pretty brave there for a while.
I love how Beatrice is holding onto Kyra for comfort. I just hope she’s not squeezing too hard.
Don’t worry, we’ll still be here waiting for Kyra’s new home! Is there anything we can do to help?
Know anything about directing web addresses to subdomains and A mapping with DNS? I’m finding out I don’t, heh
I love the way this “suit up” sequence is unfolding.
Can’t wait to see how Kyra’s outfit turns out – she is talented!
Become what, Kyra? Even more adorable? How it it possible?!
I like panel 4 of page 631; she looks so pensive.