It’s occurred to me, poking through the date-stamped muck that constitutes apache’s access logs, that loads* of people appear to be accessing the main page, but very few seem to be clicking through the previous postings to have a look at earlier work. The way I see it, there are two possible explanations for this.

1) Most people, after getting their first taste of Iambits’ unique flavour of poetic pointlessless, are completely underwhelmed, have no interest in perusing further readings, and write a strongly worded posting on the referring page telling them to remove the link to Iambits or face trolling wrath.

2) Some (I won’t say most) people might have an interest in poking around further, but it’s not clear to them that there are back and forward buttons that move them through Iambits postings separately from the main blog portion.

There isn’t much I can do about number one, other than continue to refine the art as best I can and hope to one day gain an appreciative^ audience. As for the second point, I’m not sure. I will poke around a little bit on the site to try and draw more attention to the navigation controls and see if that changes anything.

Would some kind person care to comment on whether the navigation controls were obvious to him or herself? Whenever you can, no hurry. Thanks to this funky theme, (excellent for similar purposes, BTW, and available at http://mindfaucet.com/comicpress/) this question will remain on the main page independent of Iambits updates.

*(In Iambits terms, 1 ‘load’ is roughly equal to a group of 3 people, usually composed of about 66.6% family members)

^(In Iambits terms, “Appreciative” means “Doesn’t actively threaten my family”)

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