@Rahul-Balaggan
Thank you for your follow-up!
BTW I really enjoyed the story!

@philhouse Confirmed that V1.2 fixes the problem, thanks!

Okay, fine, get rid of catchup for premium, I'll give you less money since I lost features to the readers library existing. Really pissed that catch-up was REPLACED by it and my premium membership doesn't include it. Honestly was tempted to just cancel altogether but then I'd have to either pay way more in the end or pirate your content so I might as well "downgrade" my membership to something I actually get a better value for. No the 799 coins doesn't remotely make up for removing catch-up or come close to comparing to the readers library. Won't forget anytime soon and definitely more open to going over to a competitor should one appear after this because I don't even know how to get across how much this pissed me off.

@Rahul-Balaggan I think this wasn't clear in the blog page where the new subscription details were updated. I thought renewal would be possible only with an upgrade to new premium. This does change how I would have handled my subscription. I am actually mildly annoyed with this "hidden" detail.

In any case, please add this detail explicitly to the subscription explanation page.

The manga reader is now loading for me in Firefox. Thank you!!!

I've tested this on Fedora Firefox and on (an ancient) MacOS. It was flawless. I'll continue testing for a while with differernt settings, BUT I no longer need to turn off privacy.resistFingerprinting in about:config to make this work.

So nice... I just open manga and read. :-)

@Eisentefel

Hello,

Thank you for letting us know. This seems to be an issue with Google Play. It has affected more than this one title.

We have reached out, and will get it corrected as soon as we are able.

Thank you

@Rahul-Balaggan
Thank you very much for answering my questions.

I believe I have enough information to make a decision regarding my subscription.

@Diego-Alonso-Santoyo-zm5ud67 Yes, there's no more catchups. Read this post for their official introduction to the new system.

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/9661/important-update-new-subscription-tiers-readers-library-now-live-as-of-october-3-2025

Both app and website are currently working for me. I did notice the app not working earlier.

I see, I thought it was on the renewal date but it's on the 15th. That makes sense. It probably was buried in the transaction history because I bought some coins on the 15th as well and just didn't notice the extra at that time. Thanks!

I am using a Galaxy S24+, the App is now named rika for me, too
I bekame aware of it, sometime yesterday..
Aunt edit: Read the staff comment only after posting..
Rika and Nina, maybe something for an april joke?

@Infichan said in Lagging Site:

The site tonight is very laggy and i can't view and read the manga which expires tomorrow:

even-exiled-she-s-still-the-beloved-saint-st-evelyn-s-weird-and-wonderful-friends-manga-volume-1

is that normal or am i the only one? i tried different pcs, linux, windows, with vpn without vpn, chrome and firefox everything else is loading fast only jnovelclub is slow even when opening the top series tab and loading pics.

Just tested it.

In general I have no issues - but specifically the series you mentioned seems to have issues.

At first it did not want to load. I switched to another manga which instantly worked. After switching back it worked for the other series as well. I suggest to keep trying and eventually trying loading it in incognito mode to check for you if it is a cache issue.

Have you tried sideloading the app? I don't have any issues with running it on my Fire Tablet, but I used some 3rd party software to install the Google Play Store on my tablet, then loaded the J-Novel app from it.

Once you've downloaded the updated copy, you need to refresh the User page so it acknowledges you have done so.
It's kinda sorta a cache refresh type thingy?

@GeorgeMTO Right x) thanks for the reply!

@Rahul-Balaggan I just tried and it seems to work now.

More details, In the event someone looks into what happened.

I first tried several hours ago, I managed to download the other two released volumes fine. I attempted to download Looks like a Job for the Maid! last, and it timed out. I did try several times all with the same result. So I figured there was a temporary server-side issue and I'd try again later.

About an hour ago I saw more volumes had released and downloaded one of them just fine. So I retried Looks like a Job for the Maid!, but still encountered the same timeout. I then downloaded the rest of the volumes also without any issues. I then tried Looks like a Job for the Maid! one last time and still encountered the same timeout.

After that last timeout, I made this thread in case something server-side needed prodding. Since it was quite clearly limited in scope.