Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 10, 2017

Bernice is clueless.

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I wish they had left gocomics the way it was. I don’t like this new site at all. It took me an hour to have it show my username instead of my email name. And you still have to double click for a good line break. And you still can’t edit a comment without doing a cut and paste.

Read more: http://www.gocomics.com/luann#ixzz4VKuFvyfv

And what the heck is that “read more” thing at the bottom of my previous comment?

1) Sounds like GoComics’ new format is going to be hard to get used to. 2) Cannot wait to see Bernice’s and Ez’s adventure begin on this kind of patrol.

Hey. It looks like Dez has LOST a few pounds.

Or is it this new site….,

The downside of connectivity is intrusiveness.

What was wrong with the old format? This one is more difficult to use.

I will have to get used to this format for comments. I don’t see too many people who had been commenting, so I will see where it goes. Change can be disconcerting.

For those wanting to change their UserName:Click on your Avatar (such as it is) next to the Search icon at top right. Pull down to MY PROFILE. That will show your Profile and current username/DISPLAY NAME.Click EDIT, and type in a new DISPLAY NAME. Add a BIO, or Update your Avatar if you wish.Click SAVE CHANGES.Come back here.

Bernice Buzzkill, R.A.

Is Bernice majoring in Buzz Kill?

B.B. King: “The Thrill Is Gone”

She’s harshing Des’s vibe big time.

I miss the old comics.com site. You could “dislike” comments. It was hysterical.

EDBG1000, I left you a comment under where you asked Flash a question. I hope it helps.

Tips for the New GoComics:

 

Navigation Tip: Instead of right clicking the strip title and opening in a new tab|window as we use to do, right click on the speech balloon and open in a new tab|window. This way you won’t have to reload your comic page when you want to go to another comic.

 

Screen Name/Avatar: Click on your Avatar (top of the screen to the right of SHOP) and select MY PROFILE and click EDIT. Then you change your display name and/or update your avatar. Note: Your display name will appear in all caps regardless of how you enter it.

 

Editing a comment: Until you refresh the page pressing Ctrl + Z in the comment box will re-display your comment so you can edit it and then repost it (then you can delete the previous one). Note this does not work when using Reply.

 

Creating a Blank Line: Type Enter Enter   Enter Enter (  stands for non breaking space)

On the new site, many of our usual display names got somehow reset to the prefix of our email address, or some such. If you notice yours is not displaying as usual, go to edit your profile and set your display name to what you want.

The new Go format (sorry) sucks.

Yup, the new site blows

Thanks Wizardgoat. I changed my display name!

Now Dez is getting to experience rudeness like she forced on people! Karma!

I’m trying to align my chakras with the new site. It ain’t working.

Aligning chakras.

Get over it and get used to it!

No I don’t have to get used to it. This is not what I want to pay for.

So what the hell is a “GC Insider”? What classified information are you privy to, or what are you inside of that we’re not? Can you reach inside the GC site design team’’s collective behind and pull their heads out?

This seems to me to be very similar. Click on faves, there’s all my comics. And they’re larger. What’s the big deal? Having to redo your defaults?

But then there’s this:

“Inside every server there is an internal error, just waiting for its time to shine. This one’s ours. We vow to cease its infernal shining ASAP.”

THAT’S the error message when something goes wrong?

In my profile, my followed comics overlap my recent comments. Nice.

Vote early, vote often.

http://www.gocomics.com/help/contact

Bernice: “the ultimate cold shower”

I’ve read the complaints about the re-do. You can click on an avatar to look at someone’s past comments, but it no longer tells you how many they have made. Because of this we won’t be able to celebrate Bouncing Betty or The 20% Solution reaching the 50K milestone. Sad. Obviously another crooked, lying media ploy.

Hmmm … Bernice has been using tech as seen in today’s strip, and she destroyed Dez’s moment of peace and serenity … That’s it! Bernice started this new website! Let’s blame HER!!!! :)

Hmm … I seem to have given Bern a yellow thumb. Gotta get THAT fixed before the Sun defenders get on my case.

Those stupid, annoying pop up ads don’t interfere with reading the strip or the comments. Much better. The strip is also larger for guys like me that need reading glasses. Also much better.

This interface is really awful.

Is Bhutan what one does to the Bhu-ty on a nude beach?

10¢ says Piro will be involved in a Common Room issue.

I don’t like having to sign in every day, having to click on the icon to read the comments and having to go to the bottom of the comments to add one. I do like the larger comic format, it is much easier to read.

Or as they say, “Walk with me, talk with me.”

Agree, new format is the pits!! Guess will get used to it in the future???

This new site is awesome. Keep up with the technology GoComics!

Love the new format – don’t have to see the inane comments anymore…bye-bye

My sister-in-law actually went to Bhutan. It’s not an easy place to get to or back from! Where does Dez get her dough?

I like the new format. How refreshing it is that we don’t have to see the comments unless we want to.

@Bigboxes: On the old site, you also did not have to see the comments if you chose not to. You just looked at the strip and moved on to the next comic in your rotation. Easy Peasy. No Brainer.

I like: The replies are in-line with the original poster, making it so much easier to see who is being replied to. 

I don’t like: The “Reply” link button visually is too similar to the “nn Replies” button; should have a different font to make it easily stand out better. Better still, the tree should open automatically for the entire comic, as others have said here. 

I also don’t like: The comments counter at the top of the page only counts original posts. It said “43 Comments” when I looked; in fact there’s over a hundred when replies are included. This is misleading as to the reach of the day’s conversations.

A family lived like it was 1885 for six months. When they returned from the 19th century they weren’t so enamored of the electronic heavy, time restrained, stressful 21st century. They in fact used their electronic devices less, spent more time outside and felt relieved not dealing with them. I found that very telling.

If I did that I’d be spending ALL my time outside, probably under a bridge having lost my ability to earn income and keep a roof over my head. I’d love to be able to do things the old fashioned way in my line of work, and that was as recent as the early 90s, but it’s gone — not from memory, however.

Wow. 6:46 CDT and only 47 comments. Definitely different. Change is …. I’ve always disliked change, but one has to deal with it.

@ Frank Farkel: The wonderful new system does not count any of the replies, just the visible comments. If you include the replies the way the old site did, the number would probably be closer to 100.

I am not going to be the guy who fills in all of the psychobabble that is missing today from the comments section. I’m thinking of Fred Astaire singing to Ginger…“Heaven, I’m in Heaven…”

@ Frank Farkel: Sometimes ignorance is bliss…

In JayBluE’s absence, I offer the following “titles”

 

“This May Come As A Chakra To You”

“Bhutan Scootin’ Boogie” (♪♫)

“The Alignment And The Assignment”

“One Moment, Please”

“Perish The Thought”

OCD RA Bernice is a real buzzkill, especially if she can even overwhelm Dez’s newly aligned chakras!

One more “title”:

“Walk This Way, Talk This Way” (♪♫)

Another problem I see with the “Replies” staying hidden unless chosen for a specific original comment: it’s going to suppress the total comments count since people will no longer be replying to replies as much. You have to click every comment/reply combo to read them all, and re-read if new replies posted since your last visit, something less likely to be done. So you may not know, for example, that AGENTX gave a reply to CINDERELLA327 that in turn you would normally post a further comment on. Long discussions will in some ways be stifled.

While I don’t love the new format, I do appreciate the fact that the strips are now shown in a larger format. For example, I had never seen the nameplate on the Cottage 4-2 lady’s desk that revealed her name as “Emily Love” before. (Other people in the comments had mentioned her name but I hadn’t seen where that came from.)

SPOILER

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Bernice is distracted from a major truth, but Dez sees it right away…