Links

The links segment on xkcd.com

Changes to the links[edit]

The link to the Blag was removed, while 2727: Runtime was up.
- Probably because it's not as active as it was in the early days of xkcd.
- The last post was only ten days from being a year old when it happened.
As opposed to the removed store link (from previous change) the link is still active: https://blog.xkcd.com/
- But there is no link to it from the front page of xkcd.
The Blag link was last on page on 2023-01-19], while 2726: Methodology Trial was up.

After 2575: What If? 2 was released, the links changed dramatically to make room for three new rows of links. (Note there are no archive version of xkcd on 2022-01-31 with the What if comic. The link above is from 2022-02-01, but the comic did come out on 31st).
- First one for all his books, then for the new What If? 2 page on xkcd, and below that a third line with three links for his previous books.
- The Store was closed on that day where these changes were occurring, and the link was removed from the list a few days earlier, see below.
- Also, the feed and e-mail were put on the same line to save place. And the How To link was moved down to the line with the three books abbreviated to their first two letters.
  - This was when the Countdown in header text ended and the page went from looking like this just before to this after.

The link to the Store disappeared, while 2574: Autoresponder was up.
- It was there the day before on 2022-01-28, when 2573: Alien Mission was still on the front page. But that was also the day that Autoresponder came out.

A line with TW • FB • IG got added below Email. Randall was now on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
- This was while 2348: Boat Puzzle was still up.
  - The day before on 2020-08-19 Email was the last in the list of links. while 2347: Dependency was still up.

How To got its own link over the link to the store. This was while it was still possible to preorder the book via an elaborate version of the header text.
- This was while 2174: First News Memory was up.
  - The day before on 2019-07-10 it was the same header text but without the link to How To.
    - That was while 2173: Trained a Neural Net was up.

As the header text changed to announce the How To book tour, two new links was also added to the xkcd links.
- The Feed • which is an XML file showing some details about the most recent comics.
- Email where people can subscribe to news.
  - The day before on 2019-06-10, only the original five links were present.
On 2012-04-27 while 1048: Emotion was up the five links changed to be listed in the current one column style.
- Two days before on 2012-04-25 they were still in two columns, while 1047: Approximations was up.