Scott Adams: Clueless Luddite, Episode 64,036.

[theweaselking]

So, a recent "site redesign" of Dilbert.com has left them deep in the horrors of 1998. Content is hidden, navigation is difficult, direct links are annoying, etc.

This broke the RSS feed, but that's "okay" because they set up a new one. Which worked for five whole days before they decided that feeding the comics and/or the permanent links to the comics would be a BAD thing to have on a COMIC feed, and so they've "graciously" improved it... by changing the feed location again, so anyone who had it the first time now has had to change it twice this week.

Dilbert: A funny comic about clueless incompetents, and yet written and supported by clueless incompetents. How's that work?

(PS: dilbert_cartoon is the working one. For now. Until dilbert.com fucks it up again.)

Comments

[calysto.livejournal.com]

thanks for the heads-up

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Gah.

Thanks for the pointer, though.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Eh, I just read his blog.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

He's also an atheist creationist somehow.

[leighdb.livejournal.com]

That's... quite an accomplishment.

(??)

[skington.livejournal.com]

I particularly like how they moved the archive's location - so my bookmarks went to a 404 page - and then made it close to impossible to go back e.g. one week, and then read back forwards one strip at a time. Instead, you hit the "Strips" link, and you get all strips on one page, in reverse chronological order, which is spoilerriffic if there's any sense of continuity.

Surely how you organise a webcomic's archives is a solved problem?

Oh, and the comics are now in colour (mild win), but also smaller (much bigger fail). And the Sunday comics completely suck - they're 8 panels, but they're presented like regular 3-panel strips, so you have to scroll to see the whole thing.

I've removed Dilbert from my bookmarks.

[autobotsrollout.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, you mention a "funny comic" in your post, but then the rest of the post seems to be about Dilbert. Please explain this.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Dilbert is occasionally funny, and, when it is funny, it is hilarious. When it is not funny, it is usually nonoffensive, and so I don't mind the 5 seconds it takes on my Friends list.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

http://www.dilbert.com/fast

From Scott Adams' blog:

Let me get this out of the way: I realize the Beta version of the web site has lots of issues. It’s overloaded with Flash, slower than it needs to be, and the navigation is confusing. We’re fixing most of that over the next few weeks. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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For you first two groups, if you promise to keep it to yourselves, we created a stripped-down Dilbert page with just the comic, some text navigation, and the archive: www.dilbert.com/fast. This alternate site is a minor secret, mentioned only here and in the text footnote to the regular site as “Linux/Unix.”