History Platform / SmackJeeves

One of the most popular webcomic hosts in the early 2000s, the site began to decline as TheNewTens wore on, largely because little effort was made to make the site compatible with users on mobile devices (a mobile app was never produced), and competitors like Website/{{Tapastic}} (later Tapas) and Website/{{Webtoon}} emerged which filled this void, along with presenting pages in [[InfiniteCanvas the more trendy]] [[KoreanWebtoons Korean style]] (albeit at the expense of customizabilty and side content), and providing creators with opportunities to monetize their comics on-site. Gradually, many popular Smackjeeves creators migrated there.

* ''Webcomic/RockPaperScissors''

In early December 2019, the site's new owner [[https://webcomicnetwork.com/Articles/SmackJeeves_Outrage_Mass_Exodus_From_site launched a redesign]] which reduced the authors' ability to customize their pages by enforcing a uniform look and limiting strip sizes. The change also deleted blogs, cast, and info pages, stripped authors' ability to moderate comments, closed the community forums, and reset passwords deemed weak. This eliminated all of the things that kept Smackjeeves distinct from other webcomic sites, leading those authors who had remained (because they ''liked'' the Smackjeeves format) to leave in large numbers, mostly migrating over to Website/ComicFury and other, similar sites.

* NotSafeForWork: Although explicitly pornographic comics were not allowed, this prohibition was often loosely enforced in the site's early years, and occasional nudity and sexual situations (as long as there was at least an ongoing ExcusePlot to break them up) were generally allowed to be displayed uncensored. This was one of the reasons why the site continued to be popular into TheNewTens, as competitors like Tapas and Webtoon were ''much'' stricter about even non-sexualized nudity. However, once the site changed hands in the mid-2010s, the new owners began to crack down much more harshly on NSFW content, which helped to speed the site's collapse.

In late August 2020 the site temporarily "region-locked" access from outside the US and Asia. The reason is rumored to be the refusal to abide to privacy laws of EU and countries that followed suit. This caused yet more people to leave, although by this point almost all of the few webcomics that still regularly updated there were mirrors that were also hosted elsewhere. Finally on November 3, 2020 the owner [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/El7WDWMWMAMB785?format=png declared]] that the site would close on December 31. Trying to access Smack Jeeves now results in a redirection to Pocket Comics.

One of the most popular webcomic hosts in the early 2000s, the site began to decline as TheNewTens wore on, largely because little effort was made to make the site compatible with users on mobile devices (a mobile app was never produced), and competitors like Website/{{Tapastic}} (later Tapas) and Website/{{Webtoons}} emerged which filled this void, along with presenting pages in [[InfiniteCanvas the more trendy]] [[KoreanWebtoons Korean style]] (albeit at the expense of customizabilty and side content), and providing creators with opportunities to monetize their comics on-site. Gradually, many popular Smackjeeves creators migrated there.

One of the most popular webcomic hosts in the early 2000s, the site began to decline as TheNewTens wore on, largely because little effort was made to make the site compatible with users on mobile devices (a mobile app was never produced), and competitors like Website/{{Tapastic}} (later Tapas) and Website/{{Webtoons}} emerged which filled this void, along with presenting pages in the more trendy Korean style (albeit at the expense of customizabilty and side content), and providing creators with opportunities to monetize their comics on-site. Gradually, many popular Smackjeeves creators migrated there.

[[https://www.smackjeeves.com Smack Jeeves]] was one of the oldest free webcomic hosting services on the internet, allowing users to upload and organize their own webcomics. Since 2005, Smack Jeeves had come to host over 47,000 comics online. It had a lot of {{yaoi}} and {{sprite|Comic}} (usually [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]) comics, [[SturgeonsLaw but also hosted some hidden gems]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Rain}}''

According to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/DHExchange/comments/l012n1/s_smackjeeves_web_comics_archive/ this Reddit post]] some nice people managed to save about 34,700[[note]]34,757 as of May 2021[[/note]] out of 36,100 comics before shutdown and uploaded them to [[https://archive.org/details/smackjeeves-web-comics archive.org]]. All webcomics that were neither hosted elsewhere nor preserved at archive.org should be considered [[MissingEpisode lost]].