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I Was GONNA Write A Full Post Today

For why not, see here and here. While Phillip has done his usual magic and got things back, I now lack the time to do more than point you at Intervention (launching today) and the Webcomics Longevity/Frequency chart.

My only comment here is that it seems to take the “frequency” part a bit loosely, as lengthy hiatuses and interruptions seem not to have dislodged comics like Achewood and Megatokyo from their original frequencies (approximately five and three days a week, neither of which does so now), nor credited those comics that have upped their frequencies (Girls With Slingshots, say).

It does, however, show how useless averages are, as occasional behemoths (50+ panels in a Diesel Sweeties, say, or a thousands-of-panels Dr Mcninja page really have very little effect on the overall averages. I will pay a dollar to anybody that adds in standard deviation and variances to this chart, and another dollar for skew and kurtosis¹.

PS: Phillip, thanks the back end works now but it’s still wonky about displaying the editing page and Dashboard. Welp, gotta run!

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¹ Any day I get to use the word kurtosis is a good day.

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