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[sholio]

Could someone who uses the Tumblr mobile client please go to http://suncutter.tumblr.com on your phone or other mobile device, and tell me if you see a link to the first page of the comic at the top of the page, and if it actually works?

Since Tumblr's mobile theme overrides all other theme settings on the mobile client, my webcomic navigation doesn't work -- you have to scroll through the pages backwards to read it. I've known about this for awhile, but I'm still struggling to figure out what to do about it. This is about the best (stopgap) solution I can think of, but I can't test it since I'm the blog owner and when *I* click on it, it just takes me to a page for editing it. So I need to know if the link is live.

ETA: I now have an answer, and unfortunately it's the answer I was hoping it wasn't. (But thank you!) I'm leaving this post up just in case anyone has ideas for getting links at the top of Tumblr's mobile style. I mean, I don't HAVE to (obviously the comic hasn't had it for the last year+) but I hate the idea that I'm in essence shutting out a lot of potential readers by not having that. At the very least I wish I had a way of letting people jump to the start.

Comments

[sophia_sol]

I use the browser on my phone instead of the mobile app and what I see is a bare unclickable link that I would need to copy and paste into the URL bar to go to.

[sholio]

Thank you! And also, aargh. I was afraid of that, but I couldn't test it myself. And that means there's no way I can think of to do it - at least no way that isn't an enormous pain or requires several extra steps. Why can't it put the regular nav/askbox/etc links at the top in the mobile style???

vaguely unhelpful but hopeful

[alatefeline]

I don't use the mobile app. I went to the website on a computer and got it just fine, but your problem is with mobile applications, so I'm going to repost this with the added information that I just started reading your comic and it is SHINY!

Re: vaguely unhelpful but hopeful

[sholio]

Oh thank you! <3 <3 That's awesome, and I'm so glad you're enjoying the comic so far; thank you so much for stopping by to say so! :D

[recessional]

Could you not put a jump-to-start link at the bottom of each entry?

[sholio]

... SEE, I KNEW SOMEONE WOULD HAVE A BRILLIANT SOLUTION. :D

Yes. Yes, I can!

Thank you! It's still kind of a workaround (there will be a million jump-to-start links unless I go back and clean them up later) but ... yes! That would work beautifully.

THANK YOU!!

[recessional]

Np! Glad I was useful instead of Totally Missing Something. XD

[ratcreature]

In Tumblr's native app I can click the link, but then I get to an empty page with just the header where Tumblr tells me "this Tumblr hasn't made any posts".

In my browser (chrome) the link works on my tablet, and I can navigate.

[sholio]

Thank you!