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If I may ask, where does she consume them?


Line Webtoon [0] has a ton that I enjoy reading. It does just about everything perfectly that I have wanted over 20+ years of reading web comics.

I enjoy reading a lot of web comics (Girl Genius, Gunnerkrigg Court, PA, etc), but have _always_ wanted an RSS feed or similar that would make it trivial to read / continue-reading a comic that doesn't update every day. (I very nearly wrote a scraper to scrape some when getting to their archives proved hard, but decided not to.)

The webtoon app remembers which ones you read, which episode you are on, and _where in the episode_ you are. The only down side is that reading progress seems to be saved on the device, so reading on a web browser vs reading on a mobile device. The mobile app will ping me whenever one of the comics I follow has an update. (I dislike that it pings me for random "you might like this comic ..." notifications, but it's I think the only thing I dislike.)

If you like Romance, I recommend "Siren's Lament". If you like post-apocalyptic/horror, HIVE is well done (though I stopped reading it, it was what got me hooked on the platform).

I still periodically open a half dozen browser tabs to check up on the web-only comics I enjoy, but finding/consuming more than a few is a pain in the neck, and I frankly would read them 100% on Webtoons if they were published there.

0: https://www.webtoons.com/en/


> I enjoy reading a lot of web comics (Girl Genius, Gunnerkrigg Court, PA, etc), but have _always_ wanted an RSS feed or similar that would make it trivial to read / continue-reading a comic that doesn't update every day.

I don't know what PA is, but Girl Genius and Gunnerkrigg Court have RSS feeds that tell you when a new page is available. Of the webcomics I read, only a very small minority doesn't support RSS, although that might be selection bias on my part. Most seem to be using some kind of WordPress plugin specialized for comic websites, which provides RSS support out of the box.


That's a good point though. Webtoons have the app, english-speaking manga communities have gathered around scanlation hub-sites like the now defunct batoto and their like. However, webcomics are in general stuck on late 2000s individual webpages with a small roll of "friends of the creator" links.


I wouldn't know specifically about OP but probably one of these: https://www.webtoons.com/en/ https://www.lezhin.com/en




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