Open Letter to GU Comics
Dear Woody Hearn, author of GU Comics,
Please make it easier to permalink the latest comic. If I want to share it with people, it takes me a few seconds to figure out how to link directly to the page the comic is on.
- Clicking on ‘comic direct’ takes me to a screen that helps crybabys and whinermotors get to their precious comic faster now that it’s not on the main page. Thanks but I want to link directly to the comic.
- Oh, ok, what’s this? Clicking on ’share’ opens up a new tab, and a gmail window, as it appears to be a mailto: that I can share the comic via email with my friends. I have gmail set up to handle all my email, as well as all my mailto: links. This is awesome. Thanks for this. Except all that this does is put the letters GU into a subject field of a new email, and nothing in the body. Perhaps this works for other people, but not for me. My problem or your problem? I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I’m probably not the only person who uses firefox and gmail as their main tools of the trade. Thanks but I want to link directly to the comic.
- If I link to http://www.gucomics.com/comic/, the comic will roll off the page a few days later and the historic post I’ve made will no longer make sense.
If I click the comic itself, I’m brought to a discussion of the comic. Thanks but I want to link directly to the comic. - Of course, I can directly link the picture but I’m sure you’d like it if my friends and fellow internetters were taken to the actual page and not just a jpg, so they could learn more about what your comic is about.
What I ended up doing was copying the ’share’ link location into a text document, snipping out this link, and using that. So much work. I am a busy person and this completely ruined my day.
I don’t understand why this is such a hard concept. Don’t make me think.
I apologize if I’ve made you into an example of good website use and useabilty, as well as good webcomic site design, but I get frustrated when I see people succeeding while still doing stupid things. I guess it’s just jealousy.
Yours Internetly,
-Tom Mannino