I'm not sure how much I'll actually be posting anymore. My frustration levels with this new blogger update seem to be just another sign telling me to put a cork in this once and for all. I had a ton of great things to post here and at THOIA this month, but I just don't feel like uploading any of it when you can't even see 'em in the proper size I scanned everything at. Annnnyway, here's a couple of Halloween things from the October 1946 issue of Treasure Chest V2 #5, and per the new blogger norm, there's no need to click on the images below because they only get smaller for some stupid ass reason, so just read them here (if you can) on the main page, or do the extension trick that was mentioned a few comments ago.
Card Punch? Now where the heck did I leave my card punch!
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing has rather a Winsor McCay feel to it.
ReplyDeleteThis story is hilarious. I mean, I cannot possibly believe all this innuendo was accidental, especially after the last panel. I don't usually love the idea of forcing my modern, dirty-old-man subtext all over the likely innocent and fun childlike purity of stories from the past, but it's just not possible to avoid it this time.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, see if my enlargement trick works. Here are the URLs for the story with the size tag added back on: Page One, Page Two, Page Three.
Oh and also: Happy October, everybody! Finally!
ReplyDeleteThis was some great Halloween fun.
ReplyDeleteIf THOIA & And Everything Else Too posts must come to an end it will be a sad day indeed, but if blogger is going to run worse than Windows Vista or Windows Millennium there may be no other choice.
(Google is getting as bad as DeviantArt, talk about user UNfriendly!)
Does any other platform offer a blog setup?
You have to do what's best for you, Karswell, no point in fighting terrible tech and getting frustrated about it.
That's odd. I don't seem to be having the image issues you are. I'm assuming your setting them to "Extra Large" when added to the post? The difference I see is when I click on your photos from the blog, it takes me to a https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ link. When I click on images on my blog, they take me to https://1.bp.blogspot.com/ (which the trick you mentioned uses). Are you uploading from your computer directly to the blog, or are you pulling them from a Google photo gallery?
ReplyDeleteHang in there, I'd hate to lost another fellow blogger.
Whoa. Your blog still posts images with the "blogspot" URL. I see it with my own eyes, but I don't understand why. I was imagining that switching the whole shebang over to "googleusercontent" was the driving idea behind all this change--or at least the file-handling part of the change. As for the trick, it doesn't actually rely on either URL stem, just a size tag at the end of the address (but before the file name) that looks like "s1800/" (or higher). Adding that tag to either URL will make it display up to the variable used (can be higher than 1800) or the original size, whichever is smaller. I discovered that looking at older, pre-changes posts from this blog that did, indeed, use the "blogspot" domain.
ReplyDeleteBut this may all sound like gibberish to you, Tom, since (I don't really know what I'm talking about, and) your own image URLs do not seem to rely on that tag to open correctly. I can only imagine the differences are somehow baked into the differences between the templates that you and Mr. Karswell use. But I can't fathom what those differences might be. And no amount of reading "page element" code on this end gets me to the relevant place in the programming.
Happy Octoberween, everyone! And thanks again to those of you still supplying the suggestions and just simply writing in regarding my THOIA technical issues... hope to get this resolved soon! Hugs!
ReplyDeleteThat's a serious bummer about the images. I'll have to scroll back to find the extension trick and see if it helps. I freaking LOVE that they give you instructions on how to make one of those bizarre-ass jack-o-lantern head costumes. Those really need to be brought back. They're just so cool and strange at the same time.
ReplyDeleteAnd also I tried your trick Mr. C - and it worked! I wanted to upsize the punmpkin head costume directions and I changed the url to 1.bp.blogspot.com, kept the long string of numbers and letter the same, then before the /filename i added/s5000 and it took me to the big size version. So weird! and prob totally impossible on mobile :(
ReplyDeleteBut thank you for that tip! I'll remember it!
Excellent, CPC! For the record, you can get the same effect by just adding the s5000/ tag. That's the part that changes the view. It works whether or not you change the "googleusercontent" back to "1.bp.blogspot." And it's a lot easier to remember on the fly.
ReplyDeleteContinued thanks to those of you for helping others experience these scans the way they were intended to be experienced-- and not the way Blooger currently thinks they should be (the wankers)
ReplyDeleteReminiscent of Little Nemo In Wonderland. At least Jimmy didn't fall out of bed in the last panel.
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