Archive Binge: News

4 October, 2010
Unfortunately the site is taking more time and effort to maintain than we envisioned. We have temporarily suspended adding new comics to Archive Binge to give us enough time to work on other projects. Hopefully we'll be able to add more in 2011.

New strips for existing comics continue to be added automatically by our scripts.

6 July, 2010
New today:

• FRIENDS 4 EVER!!!! by AnarchicQ

8 June, 2010
New today:

• Touhou Nekokayou: Scarlet Weather Archive in Japanese Red by Kimiko Muffin

11 May, 2010
New today:

• Sunset Grill by Kat Feete

4 May, 2010
New today:

• Name Removed by Nick Wolfe

7 March, 2010
New additions have slowed down a bit, but today we have 4 at once:

• Doghouse Diaries by Ray, Will, and Raf
• The Water Phoenix King by Kyle Marquis
• Namir Deiter by Isabel Marks
• You Say it First by Isabel and Terrence Marks

3 February, 2010
It's been a while between additions, but newly added is the widely acclaimed MegaTokyo by Fred Gallagher. It's great to have this icon of the webcomics world on board!

26 October, 2009
Newly added today:

• The Phoenix Requiem by Sarah Ellerton

14 October, 2009
Newly added today:

• Busybee Comics by fluffy

8 October, 2009
Newly added today:

• Bob and George by David Anez
• Garanos by Alex Heberling
• Dead Winter by S. Dave Shabet

5 October, 2009
Newly added today:

• Cowbirds in Love by Sanjay Kulkarni
• 8-Bit Theater by Brian Clevinger

27 September, 2009
Newly added today:

• Broken Space by Kyle Marquis
• Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire by Phil Foglio
• What's New? with Phil & Dixie by Phil Foglio

24 September, 2009
Newly added today:

• Ask Dr. Eldritch by Evan Nichols
• Nature of Nature's Art by Zachary Braun

22 September, 2009
Newly added today:

• Out There by R. C. Monroe

21 September, 2009
Newly added today:

• Templar, Arizona by Spike

20 September, 2009
Newly added today:

• Unicellular by Tom Helmuth
• Yetta's Wyrd by Bertha Yetta
• Hell Has Found Me by Scott Aleric
• Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery by Rick Smith
• No Need for Bushido by Alex Kolesar and Joseph Kovell

Also, several readers have been reporting the bug in which a week's worth of strips get dumped to your feed, and then it stalls for a week (see 18 September news item). We've tracked down the error and have fixed this one. We've run a suite of test cases on the new code and it passes all the tests. If your feed has been affected by this bug already, it will rectify itself once the actual feed reaches the "future" strip that it got up to in the dump. This will take at most a week, and then your feed should run smoothly from then on. We apologise for the quirk!

18 September, 2009
There may be another bug in the feed generation. Several people have reported a sudden dump of a week's worth of strips at once. This seems to be the opposite of the previous bug - the fix for that may have introduced this one. We are investigating, although we have been unable to reproduce this error yet.

In positive news, we've just added The Book of Biff by Chris Hallbeck. These single panels reveal slices of Biff's oddly surreal and ironic life.

16 September, 2009
New today is The System by Rosscott, which derives humour from warning sign iconography.

14 September, 2009
New today is another popular and long-running comic with a huge archive: Jonathan Rosenberg's Goats, with over 2,500 strips.

13 September, 2009
Newly added today is a comic with one of the biggest archives anywhere: Howard Tayler's epic space opera Schlock Mercenary. With over 3,300 strips, this is one you'll be bingeing for a while!

Also new today is Rubber Cement by Zachary Lewis.

11 September, 2009
We've added three new comics today:

• Life in a Gun Shell by Andrew Mussey
• 2P START! by Tim Harding and Ray Hargreaves
• Pop Culture Tragedy by Josh Stoik

9 September, 2009
We've added two new comics today:

• Luke Surl Comics, by Luke Surl.
• Codex Optica, by Paul Dwyer.

We think there may be a bug in the feed generation, which causes your feeds to apparently "reset" after a week. And since it's just over a week since we launched, a lot of you may be seeing this around now. If this happens to you, please do not edit your feed. The glitch fixes itself a day later, and this is the best way to recover from it. We are working hard to diagnose and fix the problem.

UPDATE: We found the bug and we think we've fixed this problem. However the fix required changing the way the number of strips you see in your feed is calculated, so you may see a one-off glitch in how many new strips you receive at the next feed update. Things should return to normal after that. Sorry about the mess!

8 September, 2009
We've added four new comics today:

• featuring Talking Guinea Pigs!, by Jeff Mumm.
• Fit and the Conniptions, by Wayne Myers.
• Nicky510, by Crow.
• xkcd, by Randall Munroe.

7 September, 2009
We've changed the custom feed generation code to enable disk caching and reduce our processing overhead. This may result in the next update of your feeds being delayed by a few hours. If you notice that, don't panic; updates will become more regular again after this adjustment.

5 September, 2009
We've just added the award-winning Dinosaur Comics, by the multi-talented Ryan North! This giant of the webcomics genre features the philosophical meanderings of T. Rex, Utahraptor, Dromiceiomimus, and, occasionally, GOD!

3 September, 2009
New today is The Adventures of Chifley, by Elise Kendall. Meet Chifley, Ephant, Otter, Giraffe, and other heteronormative characters.

2 September, 2009
We've added four new comics today:

• Phil and Kaja Foglio's Hugo and Web Cartoonist's Choice award winning Girl Genius.
• Goodbye Chains by Alice Hunt.
• Brickworld Saga by Dave Rapp.
• Tranquility Base by Louise Dade.

And we've added an RSS news feed which will contain announcements of newly added webcomics and other features of the Archive Binge site and custom comic feeds.