The EiAD website — Phase Two

One of my goals for the summer has been fully realized! The Evil Inc After Dark subdomain on the Evil Inc website is now fully operational! Here's what that means:

• You can use your Patreon log-in to view all of the EiAD chapters for a (hopefully) better reading experience!
• On a desktop computer, you will be treated to a full-page eBook-style reading experience
• On mobile, you can read each chapter in a panel-by-panel vertical scroll — going all the way back to EiAD #1!
• You can also use the menubar to jump to the other two 18+ subdomains — courting-evil-inc.com and commissions.evil-inc.com (although you will need to log-in again for each one*)

Troubleshooting

Some members have reported that they keep seeing the locked screen. When they click on "Log in via Patreon," they click on "Allow" but it takes them right back to "only viewable by Patreon supporters". That's a bug we've seen before, and we're working on smoothing it out. Meanwhile, try each of these four steps:

• If you log in and you've been returned to the "Only viewable by Patreon supporters" page, refresh your browser/reload the page.
• Alternately, it may be ad-blockers / tracker blockers causing the issue. Please turn them off and try again.
• Clear out the browser's cache and then try logging in again.
• If that doesn't work, if you have any Chrome extensions or Firefox Add-ons installs, please disable them and see if that helps.

As always, please report back your findings so I can help to improve the site! I know it can be frustrating when something isn't working the way it should. And that may happen in some circumstances. We're a long way from perfect, and your "field reports" — containing as much useful information as possible — are a crucial part of us getting there!

"Log in... again?!"

Each of the sites require you to log into them individually. For example, after signing-in to EiAD, you can't just jump to the Courting Disaster subsite without signing-in a second time. That... may be a problem that my vision for the site caused. I liked the idea of each of these projects to have their own "home" — and their own unique reading experience. For example, EiAD has an eBook experience for desktop users, and the Commissions have a continuous scroll of content. But that means each site must be separate — and, therefore, it must have it's own log-in.

A note about the early chapters...

When you're reading the mobile version of EiAD, you will see some panels that look... well... odd in a vertical scroll. Like this one...

That's kinda my fault. See... when I first started doing EiAD, it was my first opportunity to truly work in a full-page format. And I was soooo excited about that. If you look at the early EiAD pages, you'll see that excitement, as I toyed will all sorts of layouts!

Unfortunately, those kinetic layouts don't translate so well into a vertical scroll. You'll notice the more recent EiAD pages are a little more disciplined. For example, they retain the circular "floating" panels, but the space around those panels tends to hold visual content that can be cropped out without sacrificing much. Here's a good example of what I'm talking about...

Using what I learned from trial and error, those panels work much better in a vertical scroll:

All of which is to say... some of those panels in the early EiAD stories are going to look wonky on your mobile devices. I've taken steps wherever possible to mitigate the effect, but it was impossible to eliminate it entirely.