Ozoneocean at 8:23PM, Dec. 11, 2019

@Andreas- good comparrison! @CDmalcolm1 - yes, unfortunately

cdmalcolm1 at 7:16PM, Dec. 11, 2019

HOO. LEE. CRAP. for real? I just saw the site. It is Webtoons. Commercial for profits. Is This is the last hope for us? thats crazy.

Andreas_Helixfinger at 2:38PM, Dec. 11, 2019

Based on what I know now, If I have to compare The Duck Webcomics and Smack Jeeves to other websites. I would have to compare DD to Newgrounds and SJ to Youtube. YT used to be a plattform for independent vloggers, a home video hosting site for people who never had a a plattform to finally have one, but is now becoming more and more like the second coming of cable-TV, pushing away the independent vlogger community it was built upon, and made money off of for years, a process that has become more and more realized ever since Google bought it up and began going to work with it. NG on the other hand, which is much older then YT, has managed to maintain a diverse community of independent artists, musicians, animators and game-devs for decades now. Both DD and NG have a similar muddled through kind of history and both are by the community for the community. "Everything, by everyone" just like Tantz said about DD in the podcast. Much love to you guys<3 You're the best<3

Ozoneocean at 4:05PM, Dec. 10, 2019

That's awful Hushicho! Sometimes it's even worse when they don't care at all though and just delete your stuff because it's unimportant to them.

hushicho at 1:47PM, Dec. 10, 2019

It really is a shame. But when I first started in webcomics, I was with an adults-only comic host. One day, I logged into the FTP server (yes, really!) to update my comics, and it was gone. Only years later, I found out that it was actually bought up by someone who did so only because they hated anything adult and bought it just to shut it down. The owner sold it out from under us, never gave us any notice, never let us retrieve any of our data, nothing. It's unfortunate, but it really hasn't changed since. There will always be people out there who are simply nursing insane vendettas, and they care nothing for us at all.

mks_monsters at 9:32AM, Dec. 10, 2019

Such a shame. I was all for making it better, but the change didn’t pay off.