World of Avania Blog

I haven't seen this personally, but it has been brought to my attention that at least a few visitors to the classic WorldofAvania site (now https://avaniacomic.tumblr.com ) are getting a "rate limit exceeded" error when looking at the comic, even just loading a single page. Apparently this is new behavior since the classic site was restored following tumblr's sudden nuking of it.

R-R-RHYS VIKT... nah just kidding!

So it has been just over a month since @avaniacomic abruptly disappeared and I filed a ticket, but since I hadn't heard anything back I tried again and this time used "Terminated Account" in the dropdown, and it got restored within an hour! Thank you to whoever @staff (or automated process lol) restored it, but I really appreciate it. Hope I don't lose it again as I make more updates!

That said... I've already invested a bunch of time in building out the NEW worldofavania.com, the domain is switched over, and I'm really liking the new features, so I will be keeping the new site as the official main one. Now that @avaniacomic is back though, I will continue where it left off (with the new updates I promised right before it went down) and will continue to maintain the site.

More like post-mortem, since @avaniacomic is still down, but I'll get to that... Anyway, I hope everyone reading this on @worldofavania enjoyed the small update to start off Avania Issue No.9. I'm sure it will be to the surprise of no-one if I told you I'm busier than ever and that progress on the comic is very slow, and tumblr nuking my comic's main site did not help matters.

As mentioned, the old comic site is still down, but I was able to stand up a new look-alike version of the old site on ComicFury and point the worldofavania.com URL at it in relatively short order. Since then I've built out the site to nearly everything that it had before, save for the gallery page, and of course the full complement of regular comic pages and AvaniaMail entries--which are queued and will all be posted in time (the regular comic will update with one page every day until it runs out of pages. AvaniaMail will update one page a day for a little while before throttling back to every other day or so).

Other than the shock and disruption of an unexpected termination of the main site, I think it has turned out better than all right, and has made for an impromptu upgrade to the site's user experience. All previous functionality is either there or improved/expanded, and though I am bummed to not have the old Disqus comments visible (they still exist, but only on my admin console at the moment), the built-in ComicFury comments system allows for posting without requiring an account of any kind, which is nice!

I kept the two-sites-same-UI concept for the main comic and AvaniaMail (that is why @worldofavania and the classic mail page are still up by the way) but improved it on ComicFury by making AvaniaMail a true comic unto itself, with navigation and archive for the 110+ pages it now has--It even has a distinct variant of the title banner to make it readily apparent which section of the overall WorldofAvania site you are currently on!

Now that the newest pages have been posted here, and the old pages have been queued on the new site, it is once again time to get in the drawing grindset and finish out the chapter. This upcoming section is a longer one, so it may take me quite a while to finish... But if you've seen the Issue No.9 cover, you may guess where the story will be taking place!

As far as the old tumblr site, I will try reaching out to tumblr support again to see if I can get it restored, but who knows if it will be or how long we might have to wait. At this point I will be keeping the new main site and WorldofAvania.com URL on ComicFury, but if the old one comes back I will continue to update pages there too for old time's sake.

That is all for now, so thank you to everyone for your patience and support over the years... Going back through all those old pages made me nostalgic for the now-ancient-feeling before-times of 2018 (and even earlier, as AvaniaMail started before the actual comic was first published)! It has been quite a journey, and a relatively trouble-free one until now, but even so I look forward to continuing Avania and expanding on it in new ways in the years to come!

Onward and upward,

Emergency comic update 4

That concludes the updates for now, but be sure to stay tuned for a status update detailing everything that happened and what my plans are now!

Since @avaniacomic was nuked out of nowhere, and I'm still waiting on support to get to my ticket, I'm posting the new pages I was planning to here instead, at least until I get the main comic back up again.

Emergency comic update 3

Since @avaniacomic was nuked out of nowhere, and I'm still waiting on support to get to my ticket, I'm posting the new pages I was planning to here instead, at least until I get the main comic back up again.

Still no word from Tumblr support on why @avaniacomic was terminated, but at this point I'm pretty well into rebuilding the old site and making it Avania's new home! The worldofavania.com URL now points to the main page there, and AvaniaMail is now a subdomain of it (though in that case the classic blog is still around too). I'm posting a page there every day to gradually catch back up, and a page of AvaniaMail too!

Updates to the new site are ongoing, but some recent ones include:

- Added the full About page with numerous updates to the text given all that has occurred over the last year or two.

- Added the full Cast page, though it will only expand to the full Cast as the comic catches back up to where it was before.

- Many characters now have links to their Toyhou.se pages, which contain biographical info and a gallery of stand alone artwork.

Emergency comic update 2

Since @avaniacomic was nuked out of nowhere, and I'm still waiting on support to get to my ticket, I'm going to post the new pages I was planning to here instead, at least until I get the main comic back up again.

Emergency comic update 1

Still haven't got beyond the initial acceptance email for my support ticket, but after doing some reading on r/tumblrhelp, I'm assuming that @avaniacomic got nuked by automatic spam filtering for some reason after I made some updates to the pages.

I've used the same custom webcomic theme for almost 8 years, and I don't think it contains any redirects, but it seems like side blogs getting nuked after saving edits is unfortunately fairly commonplace... Good news is that it seems like it should be recoverable, just a matter of time for support @staff to look into it.

After looking at the cover for Avania #9 for months, it's finally time to crack into this issue! As with the last few updates, this update will be about one half of the chapter (with this installment being shorter and the next one being longer).