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The EiAD website — Phase Two
🕑 Added 2020-07-22 14:59:10 +0000 UTCOne of my goals for the summer has been fully realized! The Evil Inc After Dark subdomain on the Evil Inc website is now fully operational! Here's what that means:
- You can use your Patreon log-in to view all of the EiAD chapters for a (hopefully) better reading experience!
- On a desktop computer, you will be treated to a full-page eBook-style reading experience
- On mobile, you can read each chapter in a panel-by-panel vertical scroll — going all the way back to EiAD #1!
- You can also use the menubar to jump to the other two 18+ subdomains — courting-evil-inc.com and commissions.evil-inc.com (although you will need to log-in again for each one*)
Troubleshooting
Some members have reported that they keep seeing the locked screen. When they click on "Log in via Patreon," they click on "Allow" but it takes them right back to "only viewable by Patreon supporters". That's a bug we've seen before, and we're working on smoothing it out. Meanwhile, try each of these four steps:
- If you log in and you've been returned to the "Only viewable by Patreon supporters" page, refresh your browser/reload the page.
- Alternately, it may be ad-blockers / tracker blockers causing the issue. Please turn them off and try again.
- Clear out the browser's cache and then try logging in again.
- If that doesn't work, if you have any Chrome extensions or Firefox Add-ons installs, please disable them and see if that helps.
As always, please report back your findings so I can help to improve the site! I know it can be frustrating when something isn't working the way it should. And that may happen in some circumstances. We're a long way from perfect, and your "field reports" — containing as much useful information as possible — are a crucial part of us getting there!
"Log in... again?!"
Each of the sites require you to log into them individually. For example, after signing-in to EiAD, you can't just jump to the Courting Disaster subsite without signing-in a second time. That... may be a problem that my vision for the site caused. I liked the idea of each of these projects to have their own "home" — and their own unique reading experience. For example, EiAD has an eBook experience for desktop users, and the Commissions have a continuous scroll of content. But that means each site must be separate — and, therefore, it must have it's own log-in.
A note about the early chapters...
When you're reading the mobile version of EiAD, you will see some panels that look... well... odd in a vertical scroll. Like this one...
That's kinda my fault. See... when I first started doing EiAD, it was my first opportunity to truly work in a full-page format. And I was soooo excited about that. If you look at the early EiAD pages, you'll see that excitement, as I toyed will all sorts of layouts!
Unfortunately, those kinetic layouts don't translate so well into a vertical scroll. You'll notice the more recent EiAD pages are a little more disciplined. For example, they retain the circular "floating" panels, but the space around those panels tends to hold visual content that can be cropped out without sacrificing much. Here's a good example of what I'm talking about...
Using what I learned from trial and error, those panels work much better in a vertical scroll:
All of which is to say... some of those panels in the early EiAD stories are going to look wonky on your mobile devices. I've taken steps wherever possible to mitigate the effect, but it was impossible to eliminate it entirely.
Comments
Brad Guigar
It’s something I’ve definitely considered. Perhaps as part of the next Kickstarter.
Brad Guigar
I will check into that!
Les Nines
Is there a plan to introduce a compilation where the Normal Evil Inc storyline and the After Dark story lines are merged? i.e. the After Dark parts of the story are linked and in the proper sequence with the main story arcs... so reading through you get the whole story. For an instance... EiAD #18 Day of the Dreamcaster. I would love the AD pages to be in the proper sequence of the main story arc
Great Scott
For what it's worth, and I know you spent a lot of time setting up the various experiences for the different environments. but would it be possible for me on my desktop to view the "mobile" experience? You see, I've got a nice new monitor, but it's, well, "landscape", and all of your pages are "portrait", so by looking at a whole page -- everything on the page is kind of small. When I look at the new pages on the main patreon site, you give the full page and then you follow it with the individual panels, and each of them enlarge to cover a good part of the screen automatically, making them very easy to read and see all the detail. Now, I will also note that when viewing the whole pages, I can spin the scroll wheel on my mouse and the page enlarges, so that about the top or bottom part of the page covers about the whole screen, and that's ok, but then I have to mouse around to move the screen from top to bottom of the left page, then top to bottom of the right page, and that's a bit annoying to me to do. I much prefer to just sit my mouse on the arrow in the display and let it bring up the next panel on each click. So -- for desktop users -- would it be possible to toggle into viewing each "issue" via the mobile mode individual panels or the comic book layout?
Jim and Rachel Trigg
NVM, forcing a reload got it working.
Jim and Rachel Trigg
The login isn't working for me. It prompts "Evil Inc After Dark would like to ... • View your public profile • View your email address", I click Allow, and it goes back to "Log in with Patreon".
Brad Guigar
Do me a favor. Click on it and wait for like five minutes. I need to discern between "slow" and "not at all."
Mr. Nobody
Am I the only one, when using the desktop version, when I click on a link to a story, it just stays on the "main menu" and the full page comic never appears? I think it might be a problem on my end, I'm using an older version of Chrome, but was just curious.
