Board Thread:Policies/@comment-18172179-20170103063927/@comment-1257201-20170110003533

FeRDNYC wrote: .... APN is such a limited-utility feature. The only time it's really particularly useful is on extremely irregular characters, where their previous appearance within a title may be dozens or hundreds of issues earlier.

I definitely disagree. And this isn't just a matter of opinion, because I myself have found this feature useful dozens of times. IN fact, I've spent a lot of money on comics I wouldn't have known about otherwise.

For example, as a big fan of Batman: Year One, I was interested in what other modern-age Batman stories take place during this same year. Using the APN feature, it was easy to find a complete list (in case you are interested, this includes the "Shaman" story which begins in, as well as the first story in.

The "appearance lists" would not have shown this information, even if they could be sorted by cover date (which they can't). Nothing else on this entire Wiki enables our readers to discover this information; it is located entirely within the soon-to-be-deleted APNs.

As I've said before, I was massively outnumbered in my support for APP and APN, and I respect the process here. The admins have put far more hours into this site than I have, and they have a right to a larger say. Moreover, I can still access the information I mentioned at dcuwiki/dcuguide! So when this site deletes the APP/APNs, they will still be available there, and used comic dealers will continue to receive my cash as a result.