topwebcomics website no longer works properly

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Topwebcomics decided to "improve" their website today and it doesn't work at all well now:

• There's meant to be a menu bar at the top (if I go to firefox) but I only see the first 2 entries and one of those triple . character (which does show the other menu items but the width calculation seems to have gone wrong)

• Logging in and going to the favourites page just takes me to the generic list of comics

• the images for the buttons at the top right don't appear

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Initial entry to page

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unreachable code after return statement[Learn More]  
ad-manager-bundle.min.js:2:573441
dom ready!  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:3791
topFrame:  Object { frame: Window → /, isExceptionThrown: false }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:12419
params:  URLSearchParams {  }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:5079
Cookie enabled, set cookie  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:8778
session:  Object { id: "e46d4935-2208-474a-95f0-b544cf37e79c", referrer: "", campaign: Object }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:7772
Send pageview now  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:11280
formatedPageview:  {"timestamp":"2025-08-29T06:45:49.772Z","user_data":{"session_details":{"id":"e46d4935-2208-474a-95f0-b544cf37e79c","referrer":"","campaign":{"source":null,"medium":null,"campaign":null,"term":null,"content":null}}},"embed_context":{"site":{"id":"cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c","page_url":"https://www.topwebcomics.com/?home=3","hostname":"www.topwebcomics.com"},"environment":{"device":"DESKTOP"}},"event_data":{"type":"load","data":{"pageview_type":"HEADER_CODE_ONLY","integration_type":"HARD_CODE","ads":[],"embed":[],"header_code_version":"STANDARD-VAdX_3_9_G-2020-06-23 18:02:37"}}}  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:11526
unreachable code after return statement[Learn More]  
ad-manager-bundle.min.js:2:574484
dom ready!  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:3791
topFrame:  Object { frame: Window → /, isExceptionThrown: false }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:12419
params:  URLSearchParams {  }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:5079
Cookie enabled, set cookie  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:8778
session:  Object { id: "e46d4935-2208-474a-95f0-b544cf37e79c", referrer: "", campaign: Object }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:7772
Send pageview now  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:11280
formatedPageview:  {"timestamp":"2025-08-29T06:46:11.560Z","user_data":{"session_details":{"id":"e46d4935-2208-474a-95f0-b544cf37e79c","referrer":"","campaign":{"source":null,"medium":null,"campaign":null,"term":null,"content":null}}},"embed_context":{"site":{"id":"cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c","page_url":"https://www.topwebcomics.com/?home=3","hostname":"www.topwebcomics.com"},"environment":{"device":"DESKTOP"}},"event_data":{"type":"load","data":{"pageview_type":"HEADER_CODE_ONLY","integration_type":"HARD_CODE","ads":[],"embed":[],"header_code_version":"STANDARD-VAdX_3_9_G-2020-06-23 18:02:37"}}}  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:11526
TypeError: val is null[Learn More]  
pageInfo.js:649:1
unreachable code after return statement[Learn More]  
ad-manager-bundle.min.js:2:574484
dom ready!  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:3791
topFrame:  Object { frame: Window → /, isExceptionThrown: false }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:12419
params:  URLSearchParams {  }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:5079
Cookie enabled, set cookie  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:8778
session:  Object { id: "64921526-5c44-4411-a786-48b6a8fbe7fa", referrer: "", campaign: Object }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:7772
Send pageview now  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:11280
formatedPageview:  {"timestamp":"2025-08-29T06:47:17.226Z","user_data":{"session_details":{"id":"64921526-5c44-4411-a786-48b6a8fbe7fa","referrer":"","campaign":{"source":null,"medium":null,"campaign":null,"term":null,"content":null}}},"embed_context":{"site":{"id":"cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c","page_url":"https://www.topwebcomics.com/?home=3","hostname":"www.topwebcomics.com"},"environment":{"device":"DESKTOP"}},"event_data":{"type":"load","data":{"pageview_type":"HEADER_CODE_ONLY","integration_type":"HARD_CODE","ads":[],"embed":[],"header_code_version":"STANDARD-VAdX_3_9_G-2020-06-23 18:02:37"}}}

After confirming you don't want any 'legitimate interest' cookies:

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TypeError: profileMenu is null[Learn More] 
www.topwebcomics.com:43:9

Then there is an invisible button at the right (it's visible on firefox) which on clicking produces a login option. (It's free to set up an account by the way)

click that and you get

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dom ready!  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:3791
topFrame:  Object { frame: Window → login, isExceptionThrown: false }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:12419
params:  URLSearchParams {  }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:5079
Cookie enabled, set cookie  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:8778
session:  Object { id: "b8a2c724-c98d-4d5e-954d-415e0518cec0", referrer: "www.topwebcomics.com", campaign: Object }  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:7772
Send pageview now  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:11280
unreachable code after return statement[Learn More]  
ad-manager-bundle.min.js:2:574484
formatedPageview:  {"timestamp":"2025-08-29T06:51:22.442Z","user_data":{"session_details":{"id":"b8a2c724-c98d-4d5e-954d-415e0518cec0","referrer":"www.topwebcomics.com","campaign":{"source":null,"medium":null,"campaign":null,"term":null,"content":null}}},"embed_context":{"site":{"id":"cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c","page_url":"https://www.topwebcomics.com/member/login?mode=select","hostname":"www.topwebcomics.com"},"environment":{"device":"DESKTOP"}},"event_data":{"type":"load","data":{"pageview_type":"HEADER_CODE_ONLY","integration_type":"HARD_CODE","ads":[],"embed":[],"header_code_version":"STANDARD-VAdX_3_9_G-2020-06-23 18:02:37"}}}  
cef84740-9041-4d60-90de-75eb461ab40c.js:1:11526
Error: Could not find the Identity Toolkit widget element on the page.  
gitkit.js:205:405
unreachable code after return statement[Learn More]  
yhg0IW0PMx-vYJBFi1TDNnEYVA5-S-RNPj0TPR0aXss.js:4464:24330

You actually get a LOT of that unreachable code from different presumably minified js files.


Click the button with no picture in it just to the right of the button with the opened parcel and select 'view favourites' and it apparently decides it's going to go straight to the top 100 page - no errors or anything (I had to turn on request logging for this)

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GET 
https://www.topwebcomics.com/member/favorites [HTTP/1.1 302 Found 527ms]
GET 
https://www.topwebcomics.com/ [HTTP/1.1 302 Found 148ms]
GET 
https://www.topwebcomics.com/

[adoxa]

Looks like there's going to be another change in a few days ("Mark your calendars for September 1st."), so might wait for that.

[adoxa]

Here's a Modify HTTP Response filter to address some of the styling. Sorry, not going to create an account to test favourites.

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[["www.topwebcomics.com",["/tailwind\\.css/",["/@media.*\\s*(.*)\\s*\\}/g","$1","--color-black","--color-orange-100: #ffedd4;--color-orange-800: #9f2d00;--color-blue-600: #155dfc;--color-blue-800: #193cb8;--color-gray-100: #f3f4f6;-color-gray-200: #e5e7eb;--color-gray-300: #d1d5dc;--color-gray-400: #99a1af;--color-gray-500: #6a7282;--color-gray-600: #4a5565;--color-gray-700: #364153;--color-gray-800: #1e2939;--color-gray-900: #101828;$&"]]]]