@Korppi Thanks so much! I downloaded Calibre and was able to pull up the book immediately~

I'm still pretty new to a lot of this stuff, so I didn't really know of any of the specific readers available. I really appreciate it.

Thanks for reporting this!

For the second issue, you can still access the chapters from within the web reader, just not directly from the series page. I've escalated this to the development team to investigate. For the first one, it looks like we hit the far-future temporary release date for those simulpub volumes; they should disappear from the front page in a few minutes.

Hello,

We apologize for the mix-up. It seems part 10 was released in place of part 8.

The issues has now been corrected, We hope you enjoyed a brief look into 2 weeks into the future. You can now go back are fill in a bit of how we got there in the story.

Please note, you may have to refresh the sit to get the correct part.

Thank you

@Maeldictus This should be fixed now! Sorry about that!

@jpwong Later, the problem was cleared up. However, during the “episode,” I clicked on the three dots to the right of the number of upvotes. Nothing happened; the usual menu didn’t appear.

Firefox current version (110.0) on a Mac desktop cptr. Thx!

@Ingraman thanks … now it works …

5h later and Off-On and after a fresh login … :)

@Evisic That's a bug with the Chrome browser. I've seen it recently somewhere else. It was introduced around version 108, and they've fixed it for version 111 as far as I know.

Fixed. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
In future, please make sure reports have clear titles re: the series and problem location as different teams tend to check different sub-forums by default.

@Wellwisher said in Preordering & Prepubs:

@Shiny There was a bug a few months ago that prevented new subscribers from accessing those forums, so they were made free to access for everyone (at least for now).

Ah I didn't know that was still in place. Thanks for the clarification.

for now this seems to be fixed

firefox 109.0.1

@Rahul-Balaggan Thanks for info. I did not manually unsubscribe. It might have been a glitch or some problem with payment. Anyway since I subscribed mainly for Ascendance of a Bookworm I might as well take yearly subscription :)

@Campans Yeah, it's some kind of technical issue with the ability to calculate how many pages are in each chapter on that old manga server. Our migration to the new backend is a very long time coming, we just need to get it done :(

@xdrfiredogx said in J-Novel meaning for Tags:

15 of 20 licensed and released - Ongoing

[...]

15 of 20 licensed and released but the 16th volume either hasn't been licensed or the team is busy with other stuff - Hiatus

I'm not sure if there should be a distinction between these two as the effective differences from a user facing perspective should effectively be nil.

Suppose, in an extreme, J-Novel changes their translation model such that the entire volume is fully translated and edited before starting weekly prepub serialization. Additionally, they also start inserting a random 2-to-12-week delay between volumes based on rolling a pair of dice. At that point, the only real difference between the two is whether or not a prepub is active.

A good example of that last one would actually have been when Holy Knight's Dark Road was being released... it shared the same team as Tearmoon Princess so the schedule was one volume of Tearmoon, one of Dark Road, then back to Tearmoon, etc. Whichever one was being released would for been Ongoing while the other would have been Hiatus . Now it's only Tearmoon, it would remain Ongoing and Dark Road would be Caught Up

It honestly doesn't seem like Hiatus is really communicating much more than is already being communicated. If someone randomly checks out Tearmoon while it's on Hiatus, all they really get is that there's no new content right now. They'd have to go elsewhere (e.g., forums) to find out why Tearmoon is listed on Hiatus. There'd be little difference from listing Tearmoon as Ongoing and people posting on the forums asking where is future Tearmoon. If someone really only cared if there's new content, that can be trivially inferred by there not being prepub and no upcoming release date.

Another side to managing the tag is knowing when something switches between Ongoing and Hiatus. A super conservative world where the tag effectively means there's an upcoming volume release doesn't add anything new. A very loose use of the Hiatus tag that can switch before even licensing contracts are signed also doesn't really communicate anything. And in the broad in-between, Hiatus doesn't appear to meaningfully differentiate itself from Ongoing.

I do agree the first three tags do meaningfully communicate something (Ongoing/Caught Up/Dropped). Ongoing/Caught Up reflect what the state of the series is relative to JP. Dropped communicates J-Novel's intention of no longer publishing the series, compared to their FAQ's stated intention of maintained publishing of the series. Otherwise, I think being able to search/filter the list by series that have an incomplete prepub and/or pending ebook publishing should cover what you're defining as the Hiatus tag.

@Sataporn-Chaochonpun-izp9b25

This issue should be resolved. If you still have issues, please let us know.

Thank you

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to post. Yes Infinite Dendrogram V19 will eventually be put up for sale on Kobo.

Due to numerous issues with the way Kobo handles pre-orders we wait to create pre-orders on Kobo to avoid past issues that have arisen.

The pre-order should come up as we get closer to the release date.

Thank you

@saffire The LN prepubs usually get an extension:
@myskaros said in Expiring Volumes (Light Novels):

Since today is a US holiday and staff aren't working, LN expirations will be tomorrow, January 17, instead.

Finally got my physical copy today. I really hope the next one will not take that long.
Topic can be closed.

Just checked Chrome and Edge:
Same thing.

(I may have forgotten to check multiple browsers...)