Would it be possible to include the title on the comic page?

[silvadel]

When clicking a new comic you can read the title of it before you click, but if you are going back and looking at a few, unless you are using the archive page and going back and forth rather than using the arrows, you never get to see the titles.

It could be down by the copyright notice or up by the comic number.

[Kish]

Yes, it would be possible.

No, Rich is not going to do it; he doesn't think it's desirable.

This is a recurring question.

[ThePhantasm]

Kish is right. You can read it straight from Rich here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9802104&postcount=3) if you wish.

[oppyu]

If you're anything like me, you can just save all the comics onto your computer one at a time with the comic titles. You can read the titles while you go through an archive binge, and binging is faster thanks to the 0.01 seconds you save per comic on loading time.

Of course, if you're anything like me, then doing obsessive, impractical things for little to no real benefit is common practice.

[Smolder]

Or use the RSS feed. It gives you a list of comics by title, and is a quick way to check if there's been an update lately.

[Emanick]

Or just have two windows open as you read through OOTS - one for the comics themselves and one for the list of comic titles.

[silvadel]

Well if it was last discussed in 2010 things may have changed -- plus with the site redesigns you never know -- it may be possible for it to be optionally there or optionally not there(An invoke titles option). If I simply missed it being discussed much more recently then sorry, it is easy to miss something like that.

[ShikomeKidoMi]

If you're anything like me, you can just save all the comics onto your computer one at a time with the comic titles. You can read the titles while you go through an archive binge, and binging is faster thanks to the 0.01 seconds you save per comic on loading time.

Of course, if you're anything like me, then doing obsessive, impractical things for little to no real benefit is common practice.

Oh, I've done that and handtyping the titles (before I just started keeping the archive page open in a separate window and copy pasting them) was a real pain so I can see why someone would hope for them to be on the page.

[Hamiltonz]

someone posted this helpful link: latest comic (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript), but is bypasses the page with the comic's title. I like that I get to experience the comic without the title giving away the joke, but I dislike having to manually hunt down the title when it is necessary in order to get the joke.

The best of both worlds would be a spoiler button on the page that would work like it does here. So I can choose to click on the title and read it after I've read the comic.

I'd vote for keeping things as they are if the only other option is a splashy title that is always visible.

[The Dark Fiddler]

Well if it was last discussed in 2010 things may have changed -- plus with the site redesigns you never know -- it may be possible for it to be optionally there or optionally not there(An invoke titles option). If I simply missed it being discussed much more recently then sorry, it is easy to miss something like that.

Nope, it's come up several time since then. It's just that last time it came up, people were pointed to that quote (and, I think Rich himself may have pointed to that quote in answering it, maybe).

[jere7my]

someone posted this helpful link: latest comic (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript), but is bypasses the page with the comic's title. I like that I get to experience the comic without the title giving away the joke, but I dislike having to manually hunt down the title when it is necessary in order to get the joke.

After following that link, the title is visible in the sidebar.

[Hamiltonz]

After following that link, the title is visible in the sidebar.

HA! So it is...problem solved.

[jumpoffduck]

If this won't be fixed officially, you could always fix it yourself with a browser user script. For example:

http://jumpoffduck.co.cc/oots/OOTS_Comic_Title_Alt-Text.user.js

If you have Chrome, or Firefox with the Greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/) add-on, just add that user script and it'll make the comic's title the alt-text of the image, xkcd-style.

[bobothegoat]

If this won't be fixed officially, you could always fix it yourself with a browser user script. For example:

http://jumpoffduck.co.cc/oots/OOTS_Comic_Title_Alt-Text.user.js

If you have Chrome, or Firefox with the Greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/) add-on, just add that user script and it'll make the comic's title the alt-text of the image, xkcd-style.

This is pretty neat. Probably the solution I'd most prefer implemented if there was something official.

[SaintRidley]

The titles are conveniently present in the books, which is a nice touch.

[Cuthalion]

Somebody should start a count of how many threads people have started on this topic.