Irrational annoyance
Apr. 28th, 2006 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyFor such a massive internet presence, the Penny Arcade news-comic linking process seems somewhat lacking. In fact, it is somewhat aggravating.
When the links on the front page started turning up as just /comic/, I assumed it was some kind of auto-generated thing, that a news post on the front page links to "current comic" and updates to a direct link once it's been archived.
This makes sense, since apparently they do not like people direct linking to the comic's page until it's moved into the archive. Try, for example, linking to today's comic, though obviously that'll start working when the new comic appears on Monday. This in itself aggravates me, since I occasionally feel the urge to share some nugget of comicky goodness with the world on the day it is published rather than waiting a few days, but I can at least see their reasoning.
However, I note that archived news posts retain their stupid current comic link. This aggravates me. It's a stupid aggravation, I know - there's a proper link to the comic at the bottom of the page, and anyway it's a webcomic - but it offends my sensibilities that you can click on a link saying "this comic" and be taken to an entirely different comic. It smacks of wooly thinking and inattention to detail.
People just don't think.
When the links on the front page started turning up as just /comic/, I assumed it was some kind of auto-generated thing, that a news post on the front page links to "current comic" and updates to a direct link once it's been archived.
This makes sense, since apparently they do not like people direct linking to the comic's page until it's moved into the archive. Try, for example, linking to today's comic, though obviously that'll start working when the new comic appears on Monday. This in itself aggravates me, since I occasionally feel the urge to share some nugget of comicky goodness with the world on the day it is published rather than waiting a few days, but I can at least see their reasoning.
However, I note that archived news posts retain their stupid current comic link. This aggravates me. It's a stupid aggravation, I know - there's a proper link to the comic at the bottom of the page, and anyway it's a webcomic - but it offends my sensibilities that you can click on a link saying "this comic" and be taken to an entirely different comic. It smacks of wooly thinking and inattention to detail.
People just don't think.
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Date: 2006-04-28 11:11 am (UTC)All web comics and blogs should have a permalink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permalink) that works from the day of publication.
I assume that they would use a permalink in news articles if it worked on the day of publication. And that they just don't get around to editing the articles later.
But their site has a stupid literal interpretation of "archive" ("we won't file that because it's current") that should surely be easy for them to fix.
Actually, any chance of a permalink on SS?
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Date: 2006-04-28 11:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-28 11:23 am (UTC)Incidentally, the permalink's only as permanent as the Spiderforest hosting, but I guess that's implicit.
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Date: 2006-04-28 11:31 am (UTC)