The New GoComics Beta!

GoComics.com has been remodeled and the new GoComics Beta makes its live debut today! Take a few minutes (after your eyes have adjusted to the freshly painted walls) to explore all the great new interactive features:

• Tag comics with relevant keywords
• Share comics with friends
• Make a Comment under any comic
• Mark comics as Favorites
• Create Comics Pages - Subscribe to your favorite titles
• Create free online Collections; keep them to yourself or make them Shared Collections and spread the love to the rest of the GoComics community
• Connect with other fans - View shared collections and member profiles and click Follow to keep up-to-date on their activity
• Take the comics-inspired Tour - Click here!

Comics Profiles: Everyone with a free or paid GoComics account has been given a Comics Profile. To access yours, sign in to the site with your GoComics username and password. (If you don't have one, get one!) Once you've signed in you'll be taken to your Dashboard, which is like your own personal headquarters on GoComics.com. You'll find all of your Comics Pages, Collections and Tags saved there. You'll also find sections devoted to your followers and those you're following, as well as a Comics Action Feed with updates from GoComics and other users.

Toon Picker: If you're not familiar with all of the comics on our site (or if you're just feeling adventurous) give the Toon Picker a try. The Toon Picker automatically generates a Comics Page for you based on comic categories you select, then you get to read and rate them. When you're done, you've got a great new custom comics page on your dashboard, and you can come back and read the updated version everyday.

Update on Free Emails: While the new GoComics.com is in its early beta stage, the free GoComics email system will not be operational. (This does not apply to GoComics Pro members, who will continue to receive their comic subscriptions by email.) We'll soon unveil a brand new free email product with features inspired by the new site, and we'll keep you updated as we get closer to its debut.

We want to hear from you: The new GoComics.com is designed and built for comic fans, and we value your opinions! If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for ways we can make the site even better, take a moment and email us directly at support@gocomics.com.

We welcome you to the comics community at GoComics.com, and we hope you'll enjoy all the new site has to offer! 

Comments

[pearlandpeach]

i like the new look.....for me, the comics are easier to get to as the listing is a better setup.

thanks!

[johndo34024]

What are you guys thinking!?

Old style- one click on the drop down, one click on the comic. Ready for next comic? Simply repeat.

New (allegedly improved style) - Click Comics, click Explore, click Comic Strips, hunt for title and click yet again.
Ready for next comic? Just go through all this again? Not worth the effort.

Oh yeah, this is much better (sarcasm definitely intended!!)

[Suntan]

I have started an account, but my password failed. The new password sent to me failed also. I started a new account with a different user name. That password failed also.
Please go back to the old format. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." It was not "broke."

Ray

[foggy]

Hi. Looks like you worked hard on it but have to admit I really don't like it. (trying very hard not to use the h-word).

[Linda]

I must say, I hate the new page. it takes so many more clicks to read my favorite comics. I miss the drop down menu. I miss the suggestions for other comics if you liked the one you were reading.

I could care less about "tagging" comics - (be the first to tag this comic!!) maybe if I was 12 years old, this might be interesting. I don't care about favoriting, either. I just want to read the comics.

[Rebecca]

With the old pull-down list, it was click, scroll, click. Now it's click, click, click. At the very easiest it was move my mouse to the comic suggested by the current comic, and click.

This is better how, exactly?

Oh, right - it's not. It's change for change's sake. Just like Dilbert. Well, after two weeks of that crap, including not being able to view Flash movies because the programming idiots were checking for browser/OS, so because I use Linux and not Winblowz, I couldn't see them. They finally fixed that. Still, the site is now so cumbersome and time-consuming to load, that I gave up on Dilbert.

You guys are heading in that direction. You're taking a long walk on a short pier; be cautious.

[Suntan]

I just discovered my activation notice. It had gotten tossed into the Spam folder.
I've made a personal comics page, and I really like the interface now. Now more searching down the long menu for the comics I like (and sometimes missing one).
The personal page is a great improvement.

Ray

[Once Faithful Reader]

As a loyal comics reader, I find this upgrade (beta or not) a sad improvement. This site looks less and less like a syndicate's website and more like a poorly designed "fan site" every day.

Horizontally, your comic strips use less than half of the available display space. Advertisements appear to be the feature you're selling because they dominate in size and quantity. The only reminder that this site is supposed to be for comics is a speech bubble wallpaper.

And to top it all off, your "NEW COMICS" section advertised a feature called "Mal and Chad" but the most recent strip says that it will be on hiatus until next year???

Way to GO GOcomics! I'm outta here!!

[David M.]

I just figured out how tagging works. I have to admit, I like that. (Except "poopoo" is too big?)The comic page I made is working. So, no complaints here, other than the poopoo, but maybe I don't get that.

[ATLPaul]

not only is th e"new" site devoted mostly to ads, I find the pop-up ads have doubled - I am getting two per comic despite pop-ups being turned off in my browser - plus when usung your navigation system, you get ads in between and need to wait to select "skip ad" - like another user, I will bookmark the comics I want and eliminate interaction with your "improved" site entirely - however, does anyone really expect these comments to make them go back to the old method - the ads pay for the site - this is the new priority with the internet - selling ad space!!!

[G.L.]

I can't log in. It tells me that my user name and/or password are incorrect, but I know they are not. I also am not very fond of the layout. I prefer to have a drop down to get to my first comic, then click a link from that page. I'll get used to it, but only if I can log in and read my favorites.

[steve]

I am also disappointed with the changes. The curtain menu guarantees extra clicking. It always opens on a-c. I liked the drop down menu.
Have the calendar show by default instead of making me click to display the dates. Or at least a previous day arrow.
I've stopped reading some comics just because its too much hassle to get to them.

[Not Joyous]

I have enjoyed reading the archived strips on my iphone for the last several months and now I find the browser automatically lands on gocomic's mobile site, which is horrendous. If I'm doing something wrong here, please let me know. The number of strips appear to be restricted, and of those available, only the past week's strips are shown. Then of course having to click through each panel to view an entire strip. Not happy. Granted the annual subscription is very nominal . . . but I am a paying subscriber nonetheless -- not many sites can boast to having a paid subscriber base at all. Please don't blow this opportunity -- once a site loses its paid subscriber base, it is nearly impossible to urge them back. I've also emailed the site's "contact" and am eager for a reply.