They did it again!

The content of the penance page failed to change on Friday. The
previous *two* changes resulted in largely content-free pages that
didn't advance the plot at all. This is getting ridiculous. If you
cannot keep to a weekly schedule, please do not promise to by calling
it a "weekly webcomic", and instead change the official period to
twice-monthly or whatever you can genuinely manage without
interruptions and delays, taking into account the amount of work
involved and the other things you do besides the comic.

I don't intend to be insulting or suggest you should be working harder
on it; rather I intend to suggest that if for whatever reason it is not
realistic to expect it to be updated weekly, then you shouldn't claim
(falsely) that it will be updated weekly, and should set a more
attainable goal, such as once every two weeks, and announce that as the
official publication schedule. Even if you had a good-faith intention
to actually update it weekly, as I'm sure you did, the events of the
past couple of months have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that this
initial plan was too optimistic given the amount of work involved and
that peoples' lives involve other tasks as well. It seems to be high
time that was acknowledged. I'd rather a bimonthly comic that actually
was invariably updated on schedule than a "weekly" comic that sometimes
gets changed every Friday and sometimes goes several weeks in a row
"stale". Both involve the same actual amount of work, just distributed
differently in time (or with just the page updates distributed
differently; no reason not to build up a surplus so if you have a
hectic period for some reason or a period of little inspiration you can
dip into the surplus to keep the web site updated regularly; the comic
you were working on could then be several pages ahead of what's on the
site, with the site catching up when you're less productive, and
falling behind when you're more productive; this way the site can be
updated like clockwork even if you can't produce new pages on a
strictly regular schedule, so long as you retain ftp access to the
server).

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