A few years ago, I had the idea to adapt at least part of Homestuck into a format suitable for a 4chan storytime (which is to say, every page would serve as its own image.) I stopped around a hundred posts into Act 1 after my hard drive was corrupted and most of my edits got fucked; this is one of the two-dozen or so I have left from the data recovery process.

It's not terribly hard to format most pages into a singular image, text and pesterlogs included - at least early on. That's not to say you don't have to do a bit of finagling (pic related was one of the most time-consuming to make, given it displays two gifs at different framerates) but it's not horribly difficult for anyone that knows a bit of Photoshop. It was actually kind of fun, but I figured that it wasn't worth the time it would have taken to bang out everything pre-A6.

But I see now that it was obviously a good idea, because in its wake is this abomination of a thread. OP doesn't get the fact that storytimes work because most of the thread is spent on fucking story time, not on some bullshit honor system that no one is going to follow. I would actually argue that Homestuck, specifically, is one of the worst possible candidates for a "read-along," because the fandom is so autistic and has so many different tangents to go off into apropos of literally nothing that you actually NEED to railroad the thread into a storytime to stay on-topic. Storytimes discourage off-topic bullshit by virtue of the format being page after page until the fucking thing's done, that's why you see people getting shit on every time they post an image in the middle of one.

I'm rambling by this point, but I guess I'm trying to say that if you want a reasonable HS thread where people discuss the plot as opposed to a pathetic shithole where autists like hypnofag and the fucking moron that kins Hussie get to clog up the thread with their babble, you're gonna need to crack open Photoshop and get to editing.