11/19/24

Hello Sparklecarers, welcome to the new site! It's been 7 months of development on this project to revamp and rebuild the entire site, and it's finally here for you all to see!!!

For those who weren't aware of the reasons the site got remade: in short, the original Sparklecare website was built when I was 17 and an inexperienced coder that only knew HTML and CSS stuff from making Tumblr themes in the 2010s. I didn't know what I was doing, and even though I became more experienced over the years, the foundation of the website was simply too flawed to actively be fixed and improved, so I decided I would just... remake everything.

There had been many issues readers had with the site experience and features they wanted me to implement, and to be real, a lot of the original website design was just not great. I wanted to not only make the look of everything better, but improve functionality, accessibility, and include things people had been wanting on the site for a long time.

The biggest and most major thing I wanted to improve was the mobile reading experience. I am so sorry to everyone who is exclusively a mobile reader who had to use the unbearable original mobile site. Even when rebuilding the desktop site, I had to reread the original comic a bit, and to be honest I realized that the reading experience compared to what I've got coded now is kind of miserable.

So, what's improved?

The comic reader has tons of new features, including bookmarking, specialized CW settings, changing the layout, better transcripts; the site has new display settings that implement a saturation slider as opposed to a barely functioning toggler and a dark mode; the archives have images; the cast pages are way more mobile friendly than they originally were, with all the cast included; the lore page is remade and is way more fun to read and easier to get to... and many many more features. There's a lot to see and a lot to do, so have fun exploring and playing around with stuff!

If you run into any issues with the new site, leave a comment on the bug report page with details about the issue. Thank you in advance for helping make sure everything is working for everyone!

Volume 5 is also here, and updates Mondays and Thursdays as usual. Enjoy the comic!!! Thank you all so much for your patience with me as I worked on this project, it genuinely means so much. I hope you all have fun looking around at all the new stuff!!!

Lovingly, Kittycorn