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Fellow webcomic creators. Do you host your webcomic on your own site? What tools are you using to host it? Is Wordpress still the preferred choice? do you use Webtoons like sites?. Which way would you prefer to do it having the option to choose?

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David Revoy
David Revoy  
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I started with publishing it on my self-hosted blog: Pluxml, a blog system like Wordpress, but lighter and not using a mySQL database (only PHP files and XML for data). When the project started to get bigger (around episode 5) I made the series its own Pluxml and moved the data and post on a new self-hosted space. At ep36, I written a new website in php from scratch because Pluxml was hard to maintain with the size of the audience. I avoid Tapas/Webtoons: I disagree wth their Tos.
Juank Prada Art
Juank Prada Art  
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@davidrevoy thank you for your reply! I’ve been actually looking for options to self publish my comic online and so far I haven’t liked the options available, so I was thinking on building a CMS specifically tailored for this. But I wonder if it’s useful enough so people will use it (in which case I will try to focus on making it user friendly) 😅
@David Revoy
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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I understand. Maintaining a CMS for other artists can be difficult (dealing with constrain like 'ease to install', making a top secure backend to upload things). It's a project in itself, difficult to handle that aside of your own webcomic.

I see nowaday many strips directly on social media + a https://linktr.ee/ with their patronage and other social media plaform for URL in their bio. An also interesting approach for near to 0 maintainance and having a GUI familiar for users.


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Juank Prada Art
Juank Prada Art  
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@davidrevoy thanks. I understand the concern and I’m aware of the implications of building a software project. I’ve been doing this for half of my life now 😅 but I’m mostly a software developer more than an artist so I want to make something for the community to use if it’s possible.
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Juank Prada Art
Juank Prada Art  
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@davidrevoy also I’m looking to provide the means to integrate patronage and support options natively into the CMS. Either through 3rd party tools like patron or liberapay, or directly (I still need to figure out this one how)
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Juank Prada Art
Juank Prada Art  
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@davidrevoy it would be interesting to know how different artists manage their update workflow. I think from what I’ve seen yours is mostly automated?
I wonder how other artists manage it
@David Revoy
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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Yes, mine is in a nutshell a set everything local then mirror it to my website. A bash script connect to sFTP and rsync my local to distant.
To manage my local folder, I have tools. Mainly scripts that automatize exports (to update Git translations, to render Krita files, render Inkscape files, mix them, get small jpg and large jpg export the website can catch).

I'm curious about how other artists with a selfhosted website manage their uploads.

Juank Prada Art
Juank Prada Art  
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@davidrevoy I think you would not be the target for my future CMS hahaha. Your process is very tech heavy ,which is cool but I want to provide something easy for non tech-savvy people 😅
@David Revoy
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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Oh yes, I'm not the target at all; totally. 😺

I'm 100% encouraging you on targeting the audience who right now only have Tapas/Webtoons/etc as option and can't self-host (or be independant) for technical reasons. This is great for creators.

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