Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 09, 2017

Scooter is thinking, "Blaehh! All toy terriers are a waste of space…..

Well, except Trixie-Bell over on Maple St …

cos of the way she fills out that fluffy pink dog sweater and wags her tail at m…"

OK, you don’t need to hear any more of what Scooter thinks…..

How about what I think?

Cos I think we’re still on the “old” site, don’t you?

Was our flight cancelled?

Delayed?

Scooter is not a dispassionate observer of the proceedings. He has several close personal relationships among the competitors, and they have shared some of the “circuit secrets” with him.

Don’t know, Susan, since I never tried the beta site. But you can’t just click on the comic to go to comments. And the comments keep disappearing.

Trixie is such a tease!

2 out of three are tipsy.

Scooter is waiting on the “working dog” section of the progrtam. He always had an affinity those working girls.

If you have a PRO account (or even if you don’t), I recommend you log into your account at beta.gocomics.com (before the transition), and check your profile (MY PROFILE in the dropdown menu shown by clicking your avatar). You may be surprised by what’s there (may want to change it, like I did). If you change it, I don’t know that the change will be effective after the transition (may want to check your profile again).

I see Google has been harassing Gocomics to make everything stupid big so people with phones can easily see it. I’ve changed my main page on my site to make them happy but I’m not changing any of the other pages so they also look stupid.

Dogs are not toys.

What i just noticed is that none of todays comments here are on the beta.

Another not-so-funny thing.

Endtown always posts late in my queue. I always figured that Aaron was just posting it up latter for some reason.

I just found todays Endtown comic on the beta, but its not in my queue here.

And we’re off! Looks like our old comments have been added up to Friday, no Saturday, Sunday or Monday morning yet.

My screen name is WoodEye with capital W and capital E. When I comment, GoComics changes it to all CAPS.. They didn’t change their name to GOCOMICS…

Not fond of the distortion on the Avatars.

I hate that I have to into the comic to reply or add a comment, AND sign in. Before I could just click on the comment icon and see who was the last commentator,,,,sigh.

yeah, Ling, I don’t like the “fish eye” effect on the avatars either.

Still no editing.

BTW The above Judith Erickson is Last Rose of Summer, I don’t know how to get my avatar back! HELP! And can we change avatar pics? DOUBLE HELP!!!

It appears the comments on this comic from early this AM, before the new site went live, are gone. Didn’t make the cut, I guess.

This is a different set up. It’ll take much getting used to, for me.

nighthawks – Good one today – I like it!

Well, at least the

new line

is still working!

My queue won’t feed.

PERMIT meh to ELABORATE…!!!! Ah HATES this new format…!!!

Still not feeding.

I’ve been navigating my comics using the “filmstrip” at the top of each page. It shows six comics from your cue (with the current comic in the middle) Click on an icon to go to the new strip without reloading the main page. If you click and drag the filmstrip left or right you can move the strip one frame at a time to bring more comics into view. Does this help?

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 anew 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.

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).

Creating a Blank Line: Type Enter Enter   Enter Enter

sniffle….

So I’ll post a couple of other things…

Cleo and Company is now (temporarily, we all hope) HERE:

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Cleo and Company COMMENTS are temporarily located HERE:

http://www.gocomics.com/goats/2015/09/16

There’s no “refresh” for the comments without refreshing the whole page and risking losing all this….

so if x_Tech beat me to this one, I can’t tell yet.

If you do want to re-paste and edit your comment and delete the first one…

Delete is now a small red trash can you can only see if you mouse over the upper right of your post.

BTW… Replies now nest, but there’s no option to view them expanded…

So…IMHO, better to type the name, even shortened or abbreviated, cos if you use the “reply” button, no one will see your comment without yet another click.

Some comments seem to be missing from when I looked at this an hour ago….

and I’ve seen user names be different when opening the same page two or three times.

Hopefully they’ll shake out some of the wrinkles soon.

My comics queue won’t load. When i try i get this message.

“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.”

It sucks. The only way that i can navigate my queue is to use the list at my profile, or through “Comics A to Z”.

SNARF!!

About the whole thing!!!Comic too!!

@Susan

Every time I refresh the page to see if there are new comments it takes me up one level and i have to click the speech balloon to see the comments. Have you found any way of avoiding this?

I just noticed that even old replies are now nested and have to be expanded.

Two of us didn’t make it to Goats. Nighthawks and I went to Ballard St. 1-9-2007 instead.I hate this.

hey everyone!—-sorry about all this!

I think Susan had the right idea about going to Ballard street for comments on Cleo andCompany—-but for the same month and day but 10 YEARS AGO.

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that way, we can move from day to day without cluttering up Ballard street.

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thus, to comment on Cleo and Company ( and I know it’s a lot to ask!) go to

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http://www.gocomics.com/ballardstreet/2007/01/09

and then TOMORROW’s place to comment on Cleo and Company would be:

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http://www.gocomics.com/ballardstreet/2007/01/10

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note that the year for each day is 2007 and the day and monthare the current day and month.

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again, I apologize, but Susan had a better idea originally.

Wow. For a while there GoComics was showing my comments with my real name instead of my screen name. I find that to be a violation of trust.

Really poor job there, GoComics. Incredibly poor.