Editing 2615: Welcome Back

{{comic
| number    = 2615
| date      = May 4, 2022
| title     = Welcome Back
| image     = welcome_back.png
| titletext = 'We're shocked by the Notre Dame fire. Click for our tribute to--' [okay] 'Now that we're all staying at home these past few weeks thanks to this new coronavirus, we--' [okay]
}}

==Explanation==
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Cueball is opening an app called TornadoGuard, which was the subject of comic [[937: TornadoGuard]] and described there as "plays a loud alert sound when there is a tornado warning for your area". In the background, a tornado is approaching, so presumably a loud alert sound has just played and Cueball has opened the app. It is also possible that the app didn't play any alert (see reviews of the app in comic 937), Cueball saw the Tornado and opened the app to check whether it had any news. However, before he can interact with the app and learn more about the tornado, he has to click through various old messages from the app, since he hasn't opened the app in a while. This is feasible because [https://weather.com/storms/tornado/news/2022-05-02-may-tornadoes-2020-2021-recent-luck May, which is the month in which this comic was published and typically the most active month for tornadoes, had seen fewer-than-average tornadoes in the previous two years but not during this year], so Cueball would have been more likely to have to worry about tornadoes this year than in the previous two years. The comic is poking fun at the obtrusiveness of these kind of messages by presenting a scenario where they make it more difficult to read sometimes very urgent information about current tornadoes.

The messages include a description of a big update, a response to user feedback about one specific feature, and a social post seemingly unrelated to the app. In the title text are two messages that refer to specific world events and can therefore be dated: the fire that {{w|Notre-Dame_de_Paris_fire|damaged the church of Notre Dame}} in Paris April 15th 2019; and the early attempts to limit the spread of Covid-19 disease, which was {{w|COVID-19_pandemic|declared a pandemic}} on March 11th 2020. These were about three and two years before the comic was published, respectively. Neither of these are important to know right now, whereas an announcement about an [[2224: Software Updates|update]] that [[1172: Workflow|changes its functionality]] could be [[1328: Update|important to know about]].

Although it is possible that there are no more messages to click through if nothing of significance has happened [[2459: March 2020|subsequent to the title text ones]], the reader can easily imagine that the development team has posted further 'real time' messages that Cueball will still have to scroll through and/or dismiss, with very little immediate importance compared with the imminent proximity of an actual funnel-cloud.

==Transcript==
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[A large cloud (indicated by curved lines at the bottom of an empty space) fills the upper 3/4 of the panel. Paragraphs of text fills most of this space, connected by a series of lines leading down to Cueball's phone.]
:Hi! The TornadoGuard™ team is proud to announce a big update! We've added-
[In a rounded box right and below the text:] ''OKAY''

:Note to users of sentinel mode: We've heard your feedback, and the controls are now-
[In a rounded box right and below the text:] ''GOT IT''

:The TornadoGuard™ team saw this cool leaf shaped like a spider; do you want to see...

[Below the cloud line is a tornado in the background that is throwing up dust and creating a dust cloud. In the foreground Cueball is standing holding his phone, which is on (indicated by light lines).]

[Caption below the panel:] When you open an app for the first time in a while, you have to wait around while it tells you about all the cool adventures it's had.

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Tornadoes]]