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Insanely Chronologically Accurate Mode - Comic pages are locked for the exact amount of time between uploads, the design of the website shifts to be accurate to the time of upload, etc. #525
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Not particularly, but I do think a "complete accuracy mode" could be interesting to have as an option. The experience of "the gutter" is missing from the archvial read, and this would partially restore it.
Describe the solution you'd like
Basically, one would set the current date as the equivalent of 4/10/2009 (or earlier depending on the desired MSPA to start with.)
From there, the reader would (so long as the option remains turned on) have to wait the exact same amount of time as a
serial reader would in order to experience the next panel. The site's design would also reflect how it looked at the time of the most recent page's upload- for example, if you look at https://web.archive.org/web/20091110132949/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002744 (an archive on Nov 10, 2009), it looks different from https://web.archive.org/web/20130509024529/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002744 (an archive on May 9, 2013)
Controversial content settings would be used and would also be timed to the current time compared to when the content was uploaded/changed. Of particular note would be for [S] Rose and Dave: Shut up and jam., the content would shift according to when music was added/removed, or for those panels that were uploaded before a flash that was taking too long (which one I forget, was a troll one though), then removed and re-uploaded to have the flash come first.
Any flashes that historically crashed their hosting servers would experience a (roughly guesstimated) period of "downtime" or "lag"
News posts would change according to the date and time they were uploaded.
Describe alternatives you've considered
This might work better as a mod, in all honesty. It's a lot of work for something that probably wouldn't get used much, except for some really dedicated people with nothing else better to do.
A more reasonable version of this might be to just have this happen but without the timed element to it. Ie, have the styling change along with the most recently read panel, instead of a 100% accurate time gap approach.
Additional context
The examples of different styling in question, linked above
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Not particularly, but I do think a "complete accuracy mode" could be interesting to have as an option. The experience of "the gutter" is missing from the archvial read, and this would partially restore it.
Describe the solution you'd like Basically, one would set the current date as the equivalent of 4/10/2009 (or earlier depending on the desired MSPA to start with.) From there, the reader would (so long as the option remains turned on) have to wait the exact same amount of time as a serial reader would in order to experience the next panel. The site's design would also reflect how it looked at the time of the most recent page's upload- for example, if you look at https://web.archive.org/web/20091110132949/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002744 (an archive on Nov 10, 2009), it looks different from https://web.archive.org/web/20130509024529/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002744 (an archive on May 9, 2013)
Controversial content settings would be used and would also be timed to the current time compared to when the content was uploaded/changed. Of particular note would be for [S] Rose and Dave: Shut up and jam., the content would shift according to when music was added/removed, or for those panels that were uploaded before a flash that was taking too long (which one I forget, was a troll one though), then removed and re-uploaded to have the flash come first.
Any flashes that historically crashed their hosting servers would experience a (roughly guesstimated) period of "downtime" or "lag"
News posts would change according to the date and time they were uploaded.
Describe alternatives you've considered This might work better as a mod, in all honesty. It's a lot of work for something that probably wouldn't get used much, except for some really dedicated people with nothing else better to do.
A more reasonable version of this might be to just have this happen but without the timed element to it. Ie, have the styling change along with the most recently read panel, instead of a 100% accurate time gap approach.
Additional context The examples of different styling in question, linked above
