Thundervolt Update
Since my crisis of faith, I’ve seen the light and have been working on Thundervolt with semi-reckless abandon. So much so that I still haven’t done yesterday’s or today’s strips, which is very remiss of me. I will catch up tomorrow morning with tomorrow’s strips (it’s easier to do it all in bulk, after all)
For those wondering why the strip count has dropped by almost 1,000 strips, it’s because of the change-overs happening at inktank.com at the moment, where the site is being retrofitted and as such all the strips transcriptions are pulled until the strips themselves are back up and I have sorted out all the URLs.
Thundervolt - the admin system - is moving quite nicely. The login and underlying permissions system is in place, and the ability to edit core comic data (as you see on the Copyright page) is working nicely. There’s still an awful lot to do but it’s getting together quicker now I’ve solved the hurdle around handling UTF-8 in CodeIgniter (or more accurately, it’s not CI’s fault, it’s how everything else interacted that meant data was being received as ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8 which broke accented letters spectacularly.)
I still need to XSS-protect the comic data form, though, as it could still be a route for XSS hacks at the moment.
Tomorrow’s jobs, after doing the strip back archive, are to XSS-protect the data form, and to implement the user editing system, so I can edit users in the system, add/remove permissions, that kind of thing. It won’t be a free-for-all. I’m not accepting random sign-ups. Maybe one day I’ll do that, but for now, the intention is invitation only.