"Peanuts no longer appears on Comics.com."
This is a problem guys. Not only does it mean I can't use my normal procedure to update the blog while in-lining strips, it also means there is a chance that all the links on the previous strips are going to suddenly break again like they did some time back. At over 700 strips up now, that would be a large amount of time to fix, even if I could find a drop-in replacement for the links. I don't know if my mad Python skillz could fix such a problem again, and even if it did all the "funny/cool/depressing/weird/etc." votes that have accumulated since the last time this happened would get reset again too. (That's a fairly minor thing, true, but I pay attention to those.)
I am quite peeved at comics.com now. To think they had finally gotten that loathsome "TV Pigs" link off of every damn page on the entire site, then they do this. I can only assume they lost the rights to Peanuts, but a little advance warning wouldn't have hurt.
Peanuts seems to be hosted at gocomics.com now, and I don't yet see in-lining instructions. I'll keep you posted as to what this means for the blog.
Apropos of nothing at all
2 hours ago
Nooooooooo!!!! Oh my god, how sucky.
ReplyDeleteOh man. That is bad news. I've read all these peanut strips, but I've enjoyed revisiting them via your site.
ReplyDeleteThe Schulz family switched distributors to Universal a while back... so I guess this was inevitable. OH, my Metafilter post must now be fubar too. Crap.
ReplyDeleteWould that be a "scribble of ire" or a "chagrimace."
ReplyDeleteGocomics.com is pretty unfriendly when it comes to viewing its comics off its site. Their RSS feeds just contain a link to that day's comic; you can't view it through your RSS reader, as comics.com allowed you to. Likewise, sharing a gocomics.com strip on Facebook just throws up a link instead of showing the comic. I hope you'll be able to find a way around the problem.
ReplyDeletethat explains why the votes are so low nowadays
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