Kid Radd has disappeared

With Worldnet being cancelled, the site is kaput.

Even if it ended in 2004, it's sad to see it go dark... Kid Radd was one of the great examples of the medium's potential.

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

...And now I'm glad I Archive Binge'd the whole thing earlier today.

"Only now, after being besieged by a flock of talking ponies, did he really understand what he'd lost. "

Is there a mirror, out there?

What that cannot be! *checks Kid Radd on Opera* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Dammit, that was my favourite Webcomic! I guess all I can do now is uninstall Opera.

edited 14th Apr '10 12:48:36 AM by JustaUsername

Some people say I'm lazy. It's hard to disagree.

I do wish there was some way to save it in some preservable form. The references would be quite confusing a hundred years from now, but I think the story itself would retain a certain power, and if nothing else it would be valuable as an insight into the culture of our time.

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

Man, that sucks. it was one of the first series I read.

Whoops. I had started reading it some day, but never got around to binging it completely. And now...

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Awww. It was really well done, that one.

There was a downloadable archive on the site. One of you nerds has to have a copy! ...please?

edited 14th Apr '10 8:07:28 AM by GGCrono

Does this work?

http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

Seems so.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Now I'm glad I downloaded it before it died.

I draw this comic-like thing sometimes.

Thanks for the DL, Tangent.

It is now every troper's duty to download a copy of that archive, in hopes of preserving it. I just did my part.

There's gotta be a more permanent way though. Someone who owns a website should make a little shrine to Kid Radd on one of their side-pages and let people download the archives from there. Actually, now that I think of it, I wonder if it'd be at all possible to have TV Tropes itself do something. It's only 13 Mb, after all. I don't think we can afford to start hosting things like this on our site (and at a minimum we'd have to convince Fast Eddie that it is both a good precedent and something our servers can afford), but if any of us come up with a good, permanent place to host it, we could definitely have the works page link to that, so we would never have to worry about people being able to find it. Does anybody here have an idea of where to put it?

Thanks very much, Tangent.

Kid Radd was one of my favorite webcomics, and even today, it remains one of the best stories I've ever read. I agree that some kind of permanent home should be made for it, but if nothing else, we can Keep Circulating the Tapes. ...so to speak.

Anyway. I noticed that some of the animations don't seem to work properly on the offline archive. Does anyone know what (if anything) can be done to remedy that?

edited 14th Apr '10 4:31:45 PM by GGCrono

Thanks Tangent.

Fight smart, not fair.

Thank you, Tangent.

Would it be bad if we added that link to the Kid Radd page?

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!

I guess that could work for the moment. I have a 50gig/month account and I'm not heavily using it right now.

It deserves something more ceremonial, though.

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

Finally finished my Archive Binge...

I downloaded the archives (thanks a lot for that Tangent!), doing my part in preserving a great comic :)

However, viewing it in the most recent version of Firefox, the pictures are blurry, like they're zoomed badly. I'm also not sure of the sound plays where it's supposed to.

Is there a better browser to view it in? Or any other way to improve quality or compatibility?

Supposedly, it ran best in Opera back in the day.

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

I think I was using IE 6 when I read it, and didn't have any problems.

Opera 10.5 blurs it too, now...

For properly preserving it, I think it'll need a remake  ^*

soon. An HTML 5 viewer would be pretty easy, except for that antialiasing issue...

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

I'd be happy if there was something to view it on that made the animations work again, really.