I'm curious: most webcomics load most-recent-update-first on the home or top page, but you've arranged yours to show the first-update-first. Why did you choose to go with FUF instead of MRUF? Was it for aesthetic or mechanical reasons?

1. I do some crazy things with layout in this comic. The first chapter is essentially designed to ease you into reading two or three parallel storylines at once. I used to have a popup that told you how this works explicitly but I think it's a hell of a lot more elegant to just say START HERE.

2. The essential reading unit of this comic is the chapter, not the page. It's rare to have more than four panels of any one particular storyline on any particular page; it's really profoundly unsatisfying to read one page at a time of it. I mean, look at the page this is excerpted from - it's half of a panel from one world, and the very end of a conversation from another.

3. Given 1 and 2, there are a hell of a lot of pages that are just really confusing and/or uninteresting as someone's first encounter.

So when I redesigned the site to focus on serving up whole chapters rather than single pages, I decided to focus on making the best new reader experience I could: here's the book, start reading, let it teach you how to read it.

I really think the "latest update on the front" is an artifact of the early web, before folks had many options to subscribe to a site's updates.

Thank you! That was very informative!