Not a "consistent" schedule - always a bad thing?

@Zanreo Zanreo
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:27:18 +0000

@Zanreo wrote:

evegwood:

For story-based comics I think consistency is best - your readers are there to find out what happens, and if updates are too irregular with no explanation they'll lose interest. I know there are some comics that do make irregular updates work for them though so it's an individual choice!

I think it's more acceptable for gag-a-day comics or non-story comics to have irregular update schedules, but I do think that some sort of schedule is still better, even if it's more spread out. Having some idea of when the next page will go up will encourage readers to come back and read more in the future.

Your plan of posting every couple of days would work fine, I think!

True, for story-based comics it might be best - and it also seems like less of an "issue" for them since there's only one story to tell anyway.

And the "posting every couple of days" would... only work for the story-based ones (for others, I'd have to pretty much make all the fun facts at once, and then I'd run out of them pretty quick) Other than those, most of them are news, which again would have a reason to be posted inconsistently. And when the 1-page non-news ones get posted maybe... once a month at most usually, I'm not sure how much it would matter if those all got posted on the same day when the rest of the comics aren't. If I had a regular update schedule where I could still be sure news would be more or less relevant when posted I'd have to update... at least 3 times a week, which is not something I'm up to, not at this point at least.