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by mcrider 5225 days ago
Great idea! I'd suggest as a next step a user account system to store your favorite comics.

Are you manually entering the number of frames or do you automate that? Its sortof a neat gimmick but I'm not sure it really adds much useful information to the UE to be worth lots of extra work.

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Thanks for the feedback! Yes I'm manually entering the frames. With the variety of comic styles and the way the frames are bordered, I'm not sure there would be any easy way to write an algorithm that automates this task. But I'm pretty darn fast at Photoshop and it takes me about 15 seconds in all to copy the url, note the number of frames, and crop out/export the first frame.

Regarding a user account system, that's definitely on my feature list. This site is just the result of a weekend of coding, so I just wanted to see if it would garner interest first before investing more time to add more robust functionality.