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GoComics “Upgraded” Their Comments Structure

Published: June 24, 2026 1 minute 24 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 24

  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.

    1. Today (June 29th), just five days after GoComics inflicted the new commenting system upon us all, it finally appeared on my browser. I think I will read as a lurker for a while before I decide whether I will bother actively using it.

  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.

    3. After this ‘upgrade’ I can’t see any comments in all comics, not just some. Also, they announced that GIFs are officially not compatible anymore! Hello, CK and Arcamax.

  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.

  10. As of 9:00am (EDT) on Fri 26-Jun-2026, I still see no comments, despite logging out, deleting history, and logging back in (using two different browsers: Firefox & Safari). Especially aggravating is that at the end of the “What’s changing and what to expect” page, GoComics asks “Was this article helpful?“, but the only rational answer (“No!“) leads to a broken login page that refuses to accept valid credentials.

    1. Their response to me and my Firefox browser was that, after jumping through the hoops, “If you still do not see comments, [it] may be a temporary issue for Firefox users.”

      1. I had to log completely OUT of my account and log back in and verify my account before I could see comments (did that today, finally). Now I can see comments (thus far) only with Chrome….. not Firefox nor Safari.

      2. Firefox on Windows: I cleared my cache and cookies – a PITA, since I now have to log in again everywhere – and the comments are back. The comment COUNT isn’t – there’s nothing next to the word balloon for each comic until I click on it, after which it populates with the number.

  11. Very interesting “moderation” apparently is the new norm at GoComics. Here is what I have found so far:

    1. If you make a comment (respectful, but less than positive)….. the comment is “deactivated”.
    2. If you even use the WORD “comment”…. the comment is deactivated.
    3. If you focus on talking about the comic…. but you put something akin to “I am not fond of this arc and hope we soon move to….. (naming other characters who are in the comic)….. the comment is “deactivated”.
    4. Apparently any form of “disagreement” appears to deactivate your comment.
    5. A “positive” comment does not get “deactivated”.

    Now, I am 100% not using “naughty” words, nor being in any fashion “bombastic” in any of the “deactivated” comments….. I assure you. So, in my opinion, the new “upgrade” is designed to NOT ALLOW actual discussion….. but instead only allows very brief quips of limited value and depth.

    Perhaps this “conversation” section in GoComics should simply be called the “accolades” section?

    1. GoComics’ troubleshooter responded to me and suggested that I modify my Brave browser settings to delete moderation for this site. It did not work. I still can only see comments with Microft Edge. Chrome does not work any better than Brave. Surely they must support Chrome?
      My comments that mention ‘comments’ are immediately deactivated. At first I thought that I was the only one with this problem.

      Since I am a creator, I asked that all moderation be removed for me and for all other creators who post responses to reader comments. We should also be allowed to post more than one comment per minute. I am a fast typist and formerly would post up to three times a minute. This permission was granted in 2024 by the old site managers. Most of my regular commenters disappeared after the comments update but I suppose I’m still optimistic in spite of all the evidence.

  12. Today’s “Barney & Clyde” revealed an unexpected disadvantage of using Arcamax to read the comics. The image of this Sunday strip measures 804×396 pixels at GoComics, but the Arcamax image is only 600×295 pixels, rendering the note on the “Exit” sign in the last panel illegible. I would have thought that the syndicates would transmit the same images to all of their subscribers, but it appears that they offer multiple formats (similar to the adjustable Sunday strip template), or it may be that Arcamax is reducing the resolution to make it “fit” in their page design.

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