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

@Zanreo Zanreo
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:00:31 +0000

@Zanreo wrote:

Mane:

If keeping the same day isn't possible , try to at least keep the same number of pages per week. Seeing a regular update schedule keeps people interested. But of course you need to have a lot of pages done in advance in order to manage that. Look at me, my buffer shriveled down to almost nothing without finding the time to add to it, and now I'll miss my planned update for the first time.

Yep, and in my case... many of them would not be possible to do in advance since they're about recent news that wouldn't have happened yet back then (and if I had a long queue behind here, they'd get old long before I could post them). Other than that I usually keep it at "one page a week" though, though if I get time/energy for more I've been known to upload 2 a week a few times.
Again it WOULD be possible for the comics that aren't news or longer stories... though again, those are the least common type. In the end, it all boils down to the "news" being what they are and not working with a regular schedule in the same way (and not wanting to choose between interrupting the longer stories -- don't want to move comics back and forth anymore at this point - OR posting a new comic WEEKS later just to finish up the storyline first. Unless I post all the pages in the story at once... and I'm not feeling that, I like posting each page by itself to get its own impression by itself and more comments for each page)

It seems like a lot of big gaming comics commenting on recent events update quite often... that's not possible for me though.

AnnaLandin:

For gag-strips or the like, a regular schedule isn't as important - people don't need to keep track of long-running plotlines, etc. - but it certainly doesn't hurt, as the more regular the updates, the fresher you comic is in people's minds, and the more often it appears in the Fresh category, which can net you new readers.

Even if it updates less often as long as it's regular? Would a comic updating once a week every Wednesday go "above" a comic with 2-3 (as in, sometimes 2, sometimes 3) irregular pages every week in this category?