Thread "Why Did You Choose Drunk Duck to Host Your Comic?" in forum "Meet, Greet, Show and Sell*"

Posted at 3:12PM, Dec. 16, 2006

We chose DrunkDuck to host our comic, because out of the free comic sites, it seemed to be the best with a good interface, ease and expanse of customization, a good front page that shows top comics and also encourages people to check out some lesser known comics, and especially a great community of people. I'm really pleased with the site so far.

Posted at 6:12PM, Dec. 16, 2006

Overall well managed community. Most importantly, the admins here DO LISTEN. If you've got any problems on webcomic hosting, they'll look into it. I had difficulty trying to get keenspace(now known as comicgen) admins to listen to my plea. That's what draws me here.

Posted at 6:12PM, Dec. 16, 2006

I would definitely say touche, but neither requires its name in your URL – for SJ it's http://yourcomic.thewebcomic.com and at KS it's http://yourcomic.comicgenesis.com.

That's why I was hoping DD offered a redirect too.

Well, don't count that out yet. I'm pretty sure that's on Volte's list of things to do. ;)

Stick with us. We're better. We've offered people things here that other comic hosters can only dream of, and it's only gonna get better. :)

Posted at 11:12PM, Dec. 16, 2006

longtime DD lurker ejb made me do it….
errr… or maybe I did it because of him always talking about it and I got curious?

well, either way ^_^

Posted at 4:12PM, Dec. 17, 2006

The brothers of Alpha Shade recommended drunkduck to me at Anime Detour.

This place… just seems to have more involved people and easy site to work with.

SJ seems like a manga/anime comic hosting site (top fave comics were about 90% manga/anime. I looked I swear.)Only the top comics get comments on every update.

KS My computer didn't seem to like it. Always freezing and stuff whenever I went there… Sure many of the top dogs started there, but nowa days with so many comics out there… the social aspect of Drunkduck is more enjoyable. (an artist is not an island?)

HyperComics main form of comic update communication is a shoutbox.:P

Posted at 9:12PM, Dec. 17, 2006

Everywhere else sucks. Plus this place is easily trolled. Oh and because people here like me for some reason. I don't know, other then I'm gay.

Posted at 7:12AM, Dec. 18, 2006

I chose DD because Keenspace was a horror to sign up for. Once I got here I really enjoyed the ease of posting my comics, the people in the fourms, and a wealth of other things Im to lazy to name right now. I came back when DD crashed so yeah i would come back again.

Posted at 10:12AM, Dec. 18, 2006

I chose DrunkDuck because I was looking for a free comic host and Smackjeeves wasn't working for me and jelly comics was crap. Even though DrunkDuck was down at the time I came back 2 weeks later and it worked! If I had to start again I'd still use DrunkDuck because I like the people and all the good comics.

Posted at 10:12AM, Dec. 18, 2006

i choose DrunkDuck because out of all the other webcomic sites, (comic genisis, webcomic nation, etc.) drunk duck was the easiest to use. everything else was way to complicated. here, i just have to upload a jpeg. and i'm done! (^^) plus yeah the community, i love all the comments and such. so yeah if i started over i would go with DD.

Posted at 12:12PM, Dec. 18, 2006

I chose DrunkDuck pretty much because a friend of mine had his comic here. And that's pretty much it.

If I were to start over again I'd still be here. Friendly community, easy to use, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Posted at 5:12PM, Dec. 18, 2006

The main reason I got on DD was its inclusiveness. Like other people have said, ANYONE can host a comic here, regardless of experience or quality.

Which, admittedly, is a double-edged sword, but still.

The loads of friendly people, great atmosphere, and constantly-updating feature list are just bonuses.

Posted at 5:12AM, Dec. 19, 2006

Well, before DD was the only comic hosting site I knew of. Then when it went down, I went all around, looking for a new site. I finally went over to Smackjeeves and reposted all my old comics there, ready to continue on. Unfortunately, none of them folks really cared for me. I gave up on webcomics and looked for an artist do draw for me. Then, DD came back up, i found bghq.com and got a scanner. My comics have improved heaps, because I was encouraged instead of flamed.

That's why. People give good advice here. They don't just say 'Man, you suck. Just quit while you're ahead'. (Yes, I did get that before)

Posted at 5:12AM, Dec. 19, 2006

Ironically, I wouldn't be here if the word DrunkDuck wasn't typed before Smackjeeves.

Posted at 9:12AM, Dec. 19, 2006

As a long-time lurker, I can say DD's front page seems best for encouraging readers to explore new comics. To go along with that, maybe a DeviantArt-style random page browse option would be a nice addition to that someday.

I have one more question for the moderators that "theleast" has already asked here:
http://www.drunkduck.com/community/view_topic.php?tid=25031&cid=231

Thanks again to all the people who've commented, especially those who've had experience with other sites. You make DD hard to resist.

Posted at 9:12AM, Dec. 19, 2006

Everything in between the DrunkDuck header and footer are yours to edit…

Posted at 9:12AM, Dec. 19, 2006

I signed up for Comicspace to start with, it being the only free comic hosting site I knew of. But I was disenchanted pretty quickly. They make running a comic site a lot of effort! I had to have a friend help me with what to do, and realise that half the time when I thought I was doing something wrong, it was just a problem at the site's end. Confusing and difficult. >_>

I googled "free webcomic hosting", and found DrunkDuck. I signed up on a "temporary" basis, until I could figure out CG a little more.

I never did bother doing that. ;)

I realised DrunkDuck had fantastic promotional prospects (the new and recently updated comic lists), and a toplist that was achievable (I got into it, too, when it was a top-25 list ^_^), and above all it's REALLY easy to use. I love it. The comment system is great, too. I've started getting e-mails occasionally now, but for a long time I didn't, and STILL had great feedback in the form of comments. It's really exciting when you wake up and got a whole bunch overnight.

I did a quick html tutorial, knocked a site together, and I'm really, really happy here. :)

Posted at 2:12PM, Dec. 19, 2006

I personally chose DrunkDuck.com because for a long time I was looking for a place to host a webcomic. I'm pretty good with everyday tasks on the computer such as checking e-mail and instant messaging, anything beyond that I'm pretty clueless. So making a website was more than a little out of the question.
One day a friend of mine called me up and told me she found this great site called Drunkduck.com. ( You can probably guess my facial expression) She (being more computer illiterate than me–which is saying something) had started a sprite comic that afternoon. After telling me how easy it was, and me checking out the site I decided to give it a shot. Works great for me. ( I also began to notice a lot of other webcomics I've read are hosted on Drunkduck.com–go figure)

So, I'm happy with it and if I had to do it all over again? I'd stick with the duck. It's proven itself to fit my needs just fine.
Thank you Drunkduck.com~!

Posted at 3:12PM, Dec. 19, 2006

DrunkDuck - "We fit your needs just fine"

Posted at 3:12PM, Dec. 19, 2006

i stayed cause you can get a lot of comments and network with people. I meet a lot of cool people here in dd that i would not have otherwise. The staff tries to keep a safe environement to post, unlike other sites(i.e. newgrounds) who are very elitist.

ditto.

and plus.. I tried to start out at keenspace, but they had such an complicated system and plus they were very elist and stuff… they actually deleted my account and stuff like that when I had barely started due to my comic not being good enough, and also on the fact that I didn't go for an paid account.

Posted at 5:12AM, Dec. 20, 2006

I like the community, the non-intrusive adverting, the page formatting options, the fact that it's owned by a big comic publisher and that DD features a new comic every day. You can also really keep track of page views, ranking, etc.

Posted at 6:12PM, Dec. 20, 2006

It's free :)

oh and nice, simple uploading of the comics lol

Posted at 12:12AM, Dec. 21, 2006

whated to

Posted at 5:12AM, Dec. 21, 2006

All you guys who love drunk duck, we love you too! :D

All you guys who hate drunk duck, we're um… impartial to you, but thanks for being here!

I'm here 'cos Ronson harrassed me back in the day. I totally wouldn't join until Volte let us change the colors of our comic page. That was a big thing back then! Once we could change the colors and graphics I was all on board. And now I'm an admin and going someplace else (if I even HAD a comic anymore…) would be all traitorous and junk…

Posted at 6:12AM, Dec. 21, 2006

Why Did You Choose Drunk Duck to Host Your Comic?

…because It Rocks.

Posted at 4:12PM, Dec. 21, 2006

i chose DD because well…. it was the only thing i could find…