As you can see, the comics are bigger. 70% larger, in fact. We've been doing comics at 650 pixels wide since 1999. Back then, that was pretty big for a comic. You didn't want to get much bigger. All our readers were on dial-up, and they'd get impatient if the page took more than a minute to load.
650 pixels wide was a pretty good size. Then one day we looked around and you know which comics were larger than that? All of them. Nobody has to resize and downsample images like they used to. Most of you have transitioned off of dial-up. My current phone loads websites faster than my computer did back then.
Also, the sites got redesigned a bit. Hopefully this will make navigation a bit cleaner and less crowded around the comic. You Say it First got a new logo. The donation bar got a makeover and looks a bit sharper. It looks especially good when it's filled, but I may be biased.
We've still got a bit of work to do, like resizing the donation rewards box, creating ads for Namir Deiter (which is why You Say it First is currently advertising You Say it First), and putting the new logo on all of the pages. NamirDeiter.net has evaded the previous upgrades, and is in need of more attention. But I could keep puttering about with the site design for months, getting all the little details just so or I could put it up and fix the little things over the next week.
I'm sorry about the lack of poll last week. I meant to get this switched over last Monday and ask if you thought the comics were too big, too small, or just right. Turns out that the changeover was more work than I expected, which means that it happened on Thursday, too late for a poll, and that I'm not going to readjust the comics' size unless something catastrophic happens. No point asking if you want it bigger; I'd just be looking for you to validate a decision I've already made.
We've got all of You Say it First resized, and Namir Deiter going back through May 2004. I've done an automated check to make sure all the comics are there. That's not quite the same as looking at them to make sure they're all good, but it's a decent first-order approximation. They're probably all intact and correct, but if you see any problems, please tag them "resize" so we can get to them.
In the meantime, enjoy the hugeness.