Very interesting article in Fleen today regarding Comicpress.
Check it here. And the direct link to comments from Phil "Frumph" Hofer (he is one of the developers of the software) can be found
here. This is interesting in light of all the Comicpress site hacking lately. Additionally it makes me wonder what so many other folks who use Comicpress are going to do since it won't be updated ever again (beyond bug fixes). Will they jump on the pay bandwagon and buy Comicpress 3.0 once it's out of Beta or will sites like Smackjeeves, Rampage, DrunkDuck and even alternative CMS's like the ones created by our own DrBlkKnight and DragonPowered be the wave of the future?
Although he doesn't come right out and say it Hofer implies that with the departure of John Bintz from the project as well as the with the changes made to the core Wordpress program they are starting somewhat from scratch with a whole new way of doing things and Comicpress 3.0 will be very different indeed from what they are now referring to as "Comicpress Legacy" (you know... that program many of you are using).
Even Hofer is departing the project leaving it in the hands of Adam Kellogg for health reasons.
I don't mind telling you this
feels to me like the core group of guys making this program are tired of working on it and are just moving on to other things and this Comicpress 3.0 is in fact a whole new program that is being "anointed" by the previous developers.
I think perhaps the most interesting discourse on this subject will come from the Half-Pixel guys. Both Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub use Comicpress (Brad Guigar and Dave Kellet have sites that I would guess are Comicpress but they don't have the Comicpress disclaimer at the bottom so your guess is as good as mine). So to hear what they have to say on the subject as a group might be pretty interesting.
Some of us sadly will never know but if you have a free $30 now might be an interesting time to join Webcomics.com.