Editing User Friendly (section)

=== Success ===
Writer Xavier Xerxes said that in the very early days of webcomics, Frazer was probably one of the bigger success stories and was one of the first to make a living from a webcomic.<ref name="COMIXtalk">{{cite web|last=Xerxes|first=Xaviar|date=January 2007|title=Biggie Panda: Old Skool Webcomics|url=http://comixtalk.com/old_skool_webcomics|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902073144/http://comixtalk.com/old_skool_webcomics|archive-date=September 2, 2011|access-date=2008-07-05|work=COMIXtalk|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Eric Burns attributed initial success of the comic to the makeup of the early internet, saying, "In 1997, a disproportionate number of internet users... were in the [[Information technology|I.T. Industry]]. When ''User Friendly'' began gathering momentum, there wasn't just little to nothing like it on the web -- it appealed and spoke to a much larger percentage of the internet reading audience than mainstream society would support outside of that filter.... in the waning years of the 20th Century, it was a safe bet that if someone had an internet connection in the first place, they'd find ''User Friendly'' funny."<ref name=":1" />

On [[April Fools' Day]] 1999, the site appeared to be shut down permanently after a third party sued.<ref>{{cite web|title=Segfault.org and UserFriendly.org get shut down|date=1999-04-01|access-date=2024-10-05|archive-date=2019-06-06|first=Dave|last=Whitinger|website=Linux Today|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606180327/https://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999040100310NW|url=https://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999040100310NW}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999040100410NW|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211213829/https://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999040100410NW|title=April Fools!|date=1999-04-01|first=Dave|last=Whitinger|archive-date=2020-12-11|access-date=2024-10-04|website=Linux Today}}</ref> In future years, the April 1st cartoon referenced back to the disruption that was caused.<ref>April 1, 2000 Cartoon, https://web.archive.org/web/20220225214636/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000401</ref><ref>April 1, 2004 Cartoon, https://web.archive.org/web/20220226103320/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040401</ref>

In a 2001 interview, Frazer said that he was not handling fame well, and pretended not to be famous in order to keep his life normal. He said that his income came from sponsorship, advertising, and sales of printed collections.<ref name="autogenerated12" /> These compilations have been published by [[O'Reilly Media]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oreilly.com/pub/pr/916|title=O'Reilly Releases "The Root of All Evil"--Latest Exploits of User Friendly's Dust Puppy & Gang|website=[[O'Reilly Media]]|date=2001-09-04|access-date=2024-03-02}}</ref>

Since 2000, ''User Friendly'' had been published in a variety of newspapers, including [[The National Post]] in Canada and the [[Linux Journal]] magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/1999/09/dilbert-killer/|title=Dilbert Killer|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|first=Josh|last=Lucas|date=1999-09-01|access-date=2024-03-01}}</ref>