3074: Push Notifications - Revision history

81.179.199.253: Adding the next (2026) AFD comic detail.

2026-04-01T22:20:27Z

Adding the next (2026) AFD comic detail.

DollarStoreBa'al: cat

2026-03-31T16:56:56Z

cat

Qwertyuiopfromdefly: fixed number

2026-02-01T04:43:47Z

fixed number

FaviFake: added Category:Turtles using HotCat

2025-07-28T13:03:16Z

added Category:Turtles using HotCat

FaviFake: removed Category:April Fools' Day comics using HotCat

2025-06-24T13:22:57Z

removed Category:April Fools' Day comics using HotCat

FaviFake: /* Notifications */

2025-06-16T11:00:26Z

‎Notifications

FaviFake at 10:58, 16 June 2025

2025-06-16T10:58:45Z

FaviFake at 10:56, 16 June 2025

2025-06-16T10:56:39Z

FaviFake: /* Notifications */

2025-06-16T10:53:14Z

‎Notifications

FaviFake: /* Explanation */

2025-06-16T10:52:28Z

‎Explanation

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 | prev_title    = 2916: Machine
 | prev_date     = April 5, 2024
-| next_title    =
+| next_title    = 3227: Creation
-| next_date     =
+| next_date     = April 1, 2026
 | extra_text    = [[#Trivia|Learn why this comic was released late]].
 }}

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 {{series
 | series        = April
-| number        = 16
+| number        = 17
 | date          = April 9, 2025
 | days_late     = 8

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 {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-expanded floatright"
 |-
-!Title
+!Zoom Notification
+!
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 *The current explanation is too messy (unrelated paragraphs and too many bullet points). If needed, reorganise it, use tables, or divide it into subsections. It might be easier to navigate to have [[#jump|the notifications]] divided into subsections, one for each type of notification, so we can have smaller, separate tables that are easier to browse. In that same section, we can move the explanation of when they appear and move the image they are related to.
-*The [[#Trivia]] section doesn't explain the apparent delayed launch of the comic.
+*The [[#Trivia]] section doesn't fully explain the apparent delayed launch of the comic. Give examples of other delayed comics and add more information about this one, sucha as the text of the first notification and what it means.
 *The gallery is missing many image links! Links to all images are on the index.js at ''https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/index.js?v{{=}}1''. You can easily identify them, they look like this: '''static/xyz.png'''
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 | The cat that appears after returning to the comic window after leaving it idle for long period of time. It has a unique title text of ":3".
 |}
 ==Transcript==
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 [[Category:Cats]]
 [[Category:Computers]]
 [[Category:Multiple title texts]]

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 ==Explanation==
 {{incomplete|
-*The current explanation is too messy (unrelated paragraphs and too many bullet points). If needed, reorganise it, use tables, or divide it into subsections. Also, the explanation for the title text is too far down, make it more prominent.
+*The current explanation is too messy (unrelated paragraphs and too many bullet points). If needed, reorganise it, use tables, or divide it into subsections. It might be easier to navigate to have [[#jump|the notifications]] divided into subsections, one for each type of notification, so we can have smaller, separate tables that are easier to browse. In that same section, we can move the explanation of when they appear and move the image they are related to.
 *The [[#Trivia]] section doesn't explain the apparent delayed launch of the comic.
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 *Most of the transcripts for the additional [[#Comic images]] are not descriptive enough.
-* Need to finish explaining the [[#jump|table with all the notifications]] and copy the images that go along with them. Notifications that are confirmed to be related to image changes should have the image in its explanation. (You can take the image from the section [[#Comic images]].)
+* Need to finish explaining the [[#jump|table with all the notifications]] and copy the images that go along with them. Notifications that are confirmed to be related to image changes should have the image in its explanation. (You can take the image from the section [[#Comic images]].)}}
 The comic uses {{w|push notifications}} to change the comic image over time and make other statements. Upon viewing the comic for the first time, a sequence of notifications will be rendered over the comic itself. The notifications have a fade-in animation and appear one after another. The sequence is divided into several "groups" of notifications, each containing up to 4 regular notifications and an interactable button, which has a circled arrow icon to the right as well as a different text color. Clicking the arrow removes all notifications on screen and proceeds the sequence to the next group.

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 A general list of notification types include:
 * A few starter notifications about this comic, the successful sending of a notification of this comic, and the lack of another comic.
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 <div style="clear: both"></div>
 {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-expanded floatright"
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 * It might be easier to navigate if someone put [[#jump|the notifications]] into sections, and then put them into separate tables to make it easier to navigate. Then we can use that space to explain when they appear and display the image they are related to.}}
-}}
+The comic uses {{w|push notifications}} to change the comic image over time and make other statements. Upon viewing the comic for the first time, a sequence of notifications will be rendered over the comic itself. The notifications have a fade-in animation and appear one after another. The sequence is divided into several "groups" of notifications, each containing up to 4 regular notifications and an interactable button, which has a circled arrow icon to the right as well as a different text color. Clicking the arrow removes all notifications on screen and proceeds the sequence to the next group.
 At the end of the sequence, a red-background option to sign up for xkcd notifications is presented. This part differs depending on if the user is "playing" from a mobile or desktop browser.
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 The title text references the {{w|Lernaean Hydra}}, a multi-headed serpent-like monster from Greek mythology; the Greek hero {{w|Heracles}} was tasked with slaying the Hydra as {{w|Labours_of_Hercules#Second:_Lernaean_Hydra|the second of his twelve labours}}. When he cut off one of its heads, however, two heads would grow in its place, resulting in more heads than before; Heracles soon realized he could not kill the Hydra in this fashion. It describes a similar situation with the "Notification Hydra": a push notification "head" of the Notification Hydra was dismissed, which subsequently spawned two more push notification heads providing updates about the status of the dismissal. If one of these new notifications were to be dismissed, it would again spawn another set of the same two push notification heads; thus, the Notification Hydra is unkillable in a manner similar to the original.
-The subdirectory where the images and scripts for this comic are stored is titled 'marconi,' which is likely a reference to the Italian engineer and inventor of the same name, {{w|Guglielmo Marconi}}, who is credited with inventing the radio, and did much work in the field of early communication systems.
+Up to 7 clickable cats periodically spawn at predetermined positions around the page, including one on the edge of the Emergency Stop button. The subdirectory where the images and scripts for this comic are stored is titled 'marconi,' which is likely a reference to the Italian engineer and inventor of the same name, {{w|Guglielmo Marconi}}, who is credited with inventing the radio, and did much work in the field of early communication systems.
 ===Notifications===