Workblog

I’ve followed the herd and set up a Twitter account for the purposes of letting everyone know when we add new features or have specific news that it would be useful for you to know. Check it out at:

http://twitter.com/comicbookdb

Chris

It’s finally here: mobile-friendly access to the site! We’re starting things off slowly, working on the collection/wishlist aspect of the site (the most requested when it comes to mobile access). Once I’m sure everything is looking good, I’ll be adding more features to the mobile site. Let me know how it looks and works for you and what you think!

Happy holidays to everyone from us at ComicBookDB.com. Just for a little fun, at DarthSkeptical’s suggestion, I’ve changed today’s issues on the front page for a holiday theme across the board. I hope you enjoy the selections!

That’s right, it’s the third anniversary of our beta launch back in 2005. So happy birthday to us! Year #3 was another great one for us as we expand both in data as well as users and popularity.

We’ve already got a bunch of great stuff planned for the next year and I can’t wait to roll it out for everyone to see. Thanks to everyone for all of the hard work!

Chris

I’ve mentioned it before, but I have to give huge thanks to Josh at Lost In Space Hosting. Whenever we run into issues, he’s right there to help us out and get everything squared away. If you’ve seen the major speed improvements in the last month, you know who is responsible. I recommend their services to anyone looking for a web host

Chris

Thanks to a sudden flurry of donations this past weekend, the fundraising drive has finished! Thank you SO much to everyone who donated to the site, it will always be greatly appreciated. I’ve placed the order for a new laptop and it couldn’t come at a better time - my current machine is about to die any day now. Again, thank you to everyone who contributed!

First off, I hope all of our American users had a happy Thanksgiving!

Second, an update to the fundraising efforts - after just two weeks, we’ve already raised 53% of our goal! This is fantastic! I really appreciate everyone’s help! If we can keep this rate up, the begging can stop and I can get back to adding more great stuff

Third, as an added bonus for our wonderful donors, I will be killing the “ComicBookDB.com Needs Your Help!” banner if you have donated. You don’t need to see that anymore

Fourth, we’ve got some fairly significant additions to the site coming in soon, possibly as soon as this weekend. So keep any eye on the forums for more news!

Chris

Our second birthday passed by and I didn’t even notice it! Happy (belated) birthday to us Where to go in year three? We passed 100,000 indexed issues in under two years, moved to our own server, added a ton of features - where can we go from here?

A breakdown of issues by publisher in the database:

Marvel: 27997
DC: 27469
Image: 5819
Dark Horse: 4954
Other: 37315

This includes variants, TPBs, hardcovers, manga, everything. Most of the modern mainstream stuff is in the site. We have a lot of silver age stuff and some golden age books as well. My guess is that our strongest area for growth is in indy books (despite them being our largest category), non-US books and older mainstream books.

What do you think? Where can we grow? What would you like to see done for year three?

House of Mystery (1951) #145, you are our big winner as the 100,000th issue contributed to the site!

Fantastic work, thanks everyone!

If you haven’t already, check out this thread in the forums.

Skyhawke has come up with a fantastic idea to greatly improve the database and we’re giving it a test run for the month of July. I really hope everyone gets into this because it could really make the site special

As always, if there are any questions, don’t hesitate to ask!

Chris