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The site has RSS feeds now, so you can sub to them instead of a newsletter or checking every day!! Had no idea Neo supported this feature, how neat! Also the extras page is now the encyclopedia. It includes original worldbuilding but also folklore basics for those not in the loop so that the story can be followed better.
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Okay, extras tragedy yesterday aside...tadaaa! The novel up to what has been edited is relinked, and the comic is now linked too, since I'm cracking down on it. The first 2 pages of the comic are there to fill the space/test rarebit and give some insight into the sudden changes beyond these status posts.
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Oof...bad news. I accidentally deleted all extras pages attempting to set up rarebit :/ and I didn't save them before hand. So all of that is gone. Apologies if anyone was reading those/followed for those. New versions will be up in the coming months.
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capaxinfiniti
2 years ago
oh no! maybe your site was archived on the wayback machine so there could be traces left?
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tovera-chronicles
2 years ago
Oh, I checked! My poor little extras pages weren't saved :/ they needed a HUGE revamp though, so it all kinda works out in the end.
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solarisrpg
2 years ago
Try setting up a WebDAV connection using WinSCP (free). Keep your website files in a local directory but turn on syncing through WinSCP and as you make changes locally they will sync to Neocities automatically. This means the files on Neocities are just a copy of those from your machine. Then setup regular backups of your local directory so you never lose anything.
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Lastly: Webcomics have a wonky format. Turns out, 7 chapters in webcomic language is like, literally almost 10 years. Hivework's long running comics are JUST now getting to their story's climaxes and twists and that's...whew. So I'd like to treat Tovera like a tradtional manga, with lots of liberties since y'know, I'm one person. We'll see how it goes!
I MEAN, personally, I could watch Luana dilly dally around her home country for 10 years straight before she even hits the shores of the titular kingdom, but the average reader probably wouldn't. Thinking about inking 3-5 pages a chunk and posting them once a week to speed stuff up.
i'm about to bust in with a hot take regarding trad webcomics (esp those published by hiveworks): most of them aren't well plotted if it takes like 5 years IRL to reach the second act, much less the first climax. many of the creators are artist's first and writers second, which isn't always bad since their art is S++, but that doesn't mean they're the best at writing well paced stories (coughavasdemoncough)
Oh agreed. I also find that with all the time taken, often the worldbuilding still falls flat/truths are revealed with little forsehadowing even when they had years to do it, and this applies to comics I like too. Blindsprings is so well drawn and is right up my alley, but I got confused at a certain twist due to lack of even seeing magic system in action-can't spoil it in case there are readers on here :/