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GoComics “Upgraded” Their Comments Structure

Published: June 24, 2026 1 minute 15 comments

From GoComics: “What’s Changing and What to Expect”

As of June 24, 2026, the GoComics commenting system has been upgraded. This article covers what’s new, what’s going away, and answers to the most common questions about the transition.

Past experience teaches us what to expect – a rough transition.

Some of the changes include:

What’s new

  • Pinned comments. Creators and moderators can pin a comment to the top of a thread.
  • Moderation notifications. If your comment is removed, you’ll see a notification on site with a link to our commenting policy.

What’s changing

  • Reply threading. Replies display with a single level of indentation. A “replies to” link keeps the context clear.
  • Muting. Muting a user now removes all of their comments and replies from your view entirely, so you’ll no longer see a “muted user” placeholder.

What’s going away

  • GIFs are not supported in the new system and are not on the roadmap.
  • Rich text formatting (bold, italic, etc.) is temporarily unavailable. It’s on the roadmap.

What’s staying the same

  • Your account and comment history (see “About comment migration” below)
  • Notifications and the notification bell

About comment migration

We’re moving past comments over in waves. Most comments will transfer successfully and link to your existing account. Here’s what to know…

Again for the full notice go here.

Personally I seldom read the comments unless it is an exemplary comic or a comic I don’t understand. That being said I like to have the option of reading the comments and especially creators’ replies. So after getting the notice of the changes I did the sign out/sign in tactic since I hadn’t been able to read the comments for a while.

After signing in the comments for such strips as 9 Chickweed Lane and Alley Oop were still not available.

I kid.

No comments for any of the strips were visible after signing out and signing back in. However they were visible if I signed out. Some claim that is because of the Firefox ad blocker which makes no sense in this case (I see all the ads here at The Daily Cartoonist).

Checking in at the Breaking Cat News always busy comments section finds a number of people upset with the bumpy changeover.

Let me sign out to check on some of the comments, the vast majority of which are about the switch rather than the comic strip.

You have to edit within 2 minutes of posting. After that, the edit option vanishes.

All I can say is that my Adblock Plus is still working and I only see the one ad at the bottom that I mentioned before. I can’t see the comments in Firefox, though (back to that!), but I can in Safari.

The ads block so much of the screen that I struggle to see anything. No way i’m paying for this shambolic site either.

I’ll check it tomorrow, but this looks like goodbye.

Just give it a few days while they work out the glitches, as they did before. So far, my only complaint is having to reset the “Oldest” first every single strip.

Looks like complaining about this is against their comment policy. My comments keep getting removed, but without any notification.

And the “Pending Approval” is beyond bad. Either the comment is ok or it isn’t. It shouldn’t take a committee meeting to determine that.

It says their commenting system got an upgrade. When will we see it? All I see is a downgrade.

I had to download a new browser (Duckduckgo). We’ll see if things work on Firefox tomorrow.

I had to clear my cache and all my history to get the comments to work, dang!

Y’know, nothing unites people quite like cr@ppy service.

Why did they fiddle with the comments program?

Our previous system had persistent reliability issues that affected the experience for readers and creators. We’re confident the new system will be more stable.

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Comments 15

  1. The previous “imporvement” of the GC-system led me to move most of my daily links from GoComics to Arcamax. I can’t comment there either, but at least I’m not treated like a second-class citizen for refusing to pay into a system that keeps breaking down, and whose administrators refuse to adequately test their “adjustments” before unleashing them on customers who they are misusing as beta testers.

  2. I’ve done computer work for a city Government. Doesn’t GoComics TEST it before going live? Same with Comics Kingdom. They upgraded the site, and it was completely broken. How is that even possible? Didn’t you try using it YOURSELVES first?

    1. As someone who has dealt with bullpuckery from GAMA year after year when it comes to registering for events for a certain gaming convention (and has complained All The Time prior by asking/begging them to test their bloody servers before the date), no — no, they never choose to test beforehand. 🙁

  3. As of 0600 CDT 25.06.2026 – no comments at all on Go Comics.

    Not that I’m paying in order to be able to write them, but right now, I’m not seeing them, either.

    Just like the big “improvement” earlier, which took away just about everything I came to the website for, anyway.

    (That last “improvement” was putting a pay wall on archived comics)

    1. Noticed it too the comments were missing this June 25, 2026 morning.

    2. In addition to the paywall, the main disadvantage of the new website is that they eliminated (without notice or even comment) the ability to search for dialog within comics. This was the primary feature that made me prefer GoComics to all other comic websites. It wasn’t perfect (my estimate is that only about 50% of their features maintained the index data that permitted the search to work), but still, the results were an order of magnitude better than any “normal” search engine. Since the “upgrade”, the only things that GoComics can find are author names and comic names, and the search isn’t even very reliable for those two things. Since GoComics has demonstrated that they do not care about what readers want, I see no reason to use GoComics for any feature that is available elsewhere.

  4. As usual, just another “update” just because they can. No rhyme or reason, it’s only an attempt to see how they can make the readers ‘experience’ more miserable and aggravating. Don’t bother with all that tedious testing, just throw it in there with no warning. Thanks a bunch, guys. You don’t even want to know what I’m experiencing right now.

  5. I wasn’t able to see Gocomics comments for some time on Firefox, so I switched to Edge just for Gocomics. That worked for awhile, then stopped doing so. So I switched to Brave. That worked until yesterday, June 24. It’s utterly ridiculous. They make the BS claim that the system wasn’t working right, but I don’t believe them at all. They are idiots.

  6. This is extremely disruptive to a strip like Luann, which has had very high reader engagement going back to the unmoderated (or barely moderated) days at United Media. The comments there are next-level meta entertainment for the community of regulars.

  7. I keep thinking of a line I read in [i]King Aroo:[/i] “That’s what Progress [i]is,[/i] you know, making things worse.”

    1. Your King Aroo reference was to a comic I hadn’t heard of. Toonopedia paints a sad picture of Kent’s dealings with the syndicates. Fifteen years of his strip was the best he could hope for. I’m fairly sure it wasn’t in our papers, but I wouldn’t have noticed it in 1965 I was too young.

    2. p/s: according to Merriam-Webster, “Enshittification is an informal word used to criticize the degradation in the quality and experience of online platforms over time, due to an increase in advertisements, costs, or features. It can also refer more generally to any state of deterioration, especially in politics or society. Similar forms include enshittify and enshittified.”

  8. The comments page update is a disaster.
    It appears to be designed for phones, not desktops. 80 percent of my readers use desktops. I get new readers because I answer reader comments on my strip.
    I wasn’t able to use Chrome based browser Brave on my desktop or Duck Duck Go on my phone (they claimed ‘we never supported them before even if they worked”). I finally got in with Microsoft Edge. I had a lot of back and forth emails about this with two departments, heard from readers who could not log in with Safari on a Mac (a desktop?) and now all of my comments are being censored and deleted, including ‘Hello’.

    I am taking a break from the strip on Sunday for other reasons, but this was an added incentive.

  9. I read all the comments for The Born Loser and try to answer most of them. When the new GoComics system launched yesterday, I was unable to see or make comments. One of the GoComics techs (who are working extremely hard at fixing any glitches) offered this suggestion: Go to your browser’s cache and empty the GoComics cache. Then go back to the GoComics page and sign out, then sign back in again. It worked for me. Good luck!

    1. It didn’t work for me, or many of my readers. I had to change browsers. Now they are censoring my comments.

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