This is confusing. On the advanced search page, the "Story was NOT reprinted in" is immediately followed by "Story was reprinted in". Could this be fixed?
There seems to be an error on the indexing page for Journal de Mickey 3705. For story D2006-163, the indexing page says the hero is Miss Tick, but she's not a character in the story. I wonder if the French title for that story on the indexing page is correct?
There seems to be an error on the indexing page for Journal de Mickey 3705. For story D2006-163, the indexing page says the hero is Miss Tick, but she's not a character in the story. I wonder if the French title for that story on the indexing page is correct?
I have redirected your message to the French maintainers shortly after you reporting it, but haven't got a response from them yet; in any case, your message is received by them.
I can confirm this. An unexpected server problem related to the hardware showed up over the weekend, which caused the services to stop. The problem has been resolved, and the system is now doing a lengthy recovering; we hope to be live again tomorrow, but that depends on the circumstances then. I will post a message here when the site is up!
Post by donaldistducktoons on Jul 19, 2023 10:34:43 GMT
Will the INDUCKS site be fixed or not? I know there have been failures before, but it would be a great loss to lose such a precious site where you could always find by code what the comic is and who drew and wrote it, since not everyone knows the authors of Disney (Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck) comics.
The recovery process takes unfortunately much more time than expected on our server, related to the disks storing the data. There are ongoing discussions on hosting alternatives feasible for a site our size; please give us some time to resolve the issue while this is taking place.
The good news: the I.N.D.U.C.K.S. site *will* be fixed, and we won't be off-line forever.
Since the folks that keep Inducks running had a hard week, let me second corrado's comment. I know I've said this before somewhere, but it was probably years ago now: Inducks has contributed *greatly* to my enjoyment of my Disney comics hobby in my adulthood. Of course it's great to be able to identify creators in older comics where they're not listed. In addition to that, Inducks has been a way for me to find the stories I want to read, then find the issues they've been printed in. Because of this I've been able to purchase a slew of comics from French and German eBay which include stories I love and which I wouldn't have known about or been able to track down any other way. I have all the stories including Minima De Spell! Or for a more weighty example: Kari Korhonen has become my third favorite Disney comics author after Barks and Rosa, and most of the stories of his which have found a place on my favorites list have not been printed in the USA. I've only been able to read them thanks to Inducks. Then there's Cimino and Hedman and Astrup (*love* her Magica stories, including the origin story!), Rota and Paco Rodriguez, Pascal Oost & Wilma van den Bosch...Brazilian Daisy stories...the Midthun, Nærum & Løkling Christmas stories...Stabile's l'ultimo scrigno (Italian eBay!) and Radice & Turconi's l'isola senza prezzo: so many favorites I never would have found without Inducks!
It helped that, when I asked on the forum whether there was a way to see a particular creator's stories listed by Inducks ranking, a certain Inducks person created that means! (The "top stories" tab on a creator's page.) So I can easily find the highest rated stories by my favorite writers and artists. I don't always go by rating alone--I've found in particular that stories highlighting the female characters are not generally what the Inducks raters are looking for. But there's where the character list and plot summaries come in handy. I do find that the ratings, while they certainly don't accord with my own interests or judgments consistently, are quite reliable as relative rankings when I'm comparing two similar things.
As an American Duckfan, I often find myself having to explain/justify my love of the Duck comics to the non-cognoscenti. What I most often do nowadays is bring up Inducks on my phone and show them the page for, say, Lost in the Andes. They are invariably impressed by the international interest in these stories over generations, and that generally makes the teasing subside! (that emoji signals: yes, my interest in Duck comics is cool, in *some* parts of the world!)
Matilda Could not agree more! Inducks creator Harry Fluks and everyone working on the site have been doing an amazing job! No other corner of the world of comics has a database as extensive and well maintained as Disney comics do thanks to Inducks. In fact, Inducks is such a great tool that it has affected the history of Disney comics over the years because of the writers and editors using it. All in all, I cannot imagine a Disney comic fandom without Inducks and really hope a succession plan in place for the time when Harry Fluks decides to retire from working on the site.
Absolutely. There are alternative websites for looking up stories etc (comics.org and the like), but Inducks' ability to search and crossreference stories and publications on a worldwide level is both unmatched and absolutely invaluable.
I want to add something to my comment because of the beautiful testimony of Matilda. I would have never enjoyed Disney-Comics so much without Inducks. It made it possible for me to understand much deeper the connections of various Disney Comic culture (for example, the Brazilian one mentioned also by Matilda) and the research of authors and stories. I think Disney comic fans are blessed to have the possibility to use this website (together with the possibility to read Alberto Becattini´s history of Disney comics which are a kind of background for the Inducks website). Thank you!
Thanks! Turns out we'll probably switch to a new machine so our problems will be over or at least easier to fix. There is no risk that the Inducks data can be lost, we have plenty of backups.