@kurzaa said in "Not allowed to read" even things i bought?:

Is buying the epub the same as reading the pre-pub?

I assumed that they weren't connected. So in order to read the book you purchased, you have to download the epub file and open it with an appropriate digital reader.

If you buy the premium e-book you get permanent access to the pre-pubs for the associated volume. Though do note that if you want to read the final retail release with any bonuses/corrections you do need to download the ebook and use your preferred reader.

Sorry. It’s not called iBooks anymore. As of 2019, it’s now Apple Books. Unless they changed the name again.

I got my credit on the 15th just fine, as did several others (because we mentioned it on discord, noone mentioned not getting one there)

@terabyte
Thank you very much. That was very helpful

Nothing to see here, let's all move along.

I think that error may mean that it's a problem with 3D secure which JNC currently doesn't use (it's on their to do list). I'm not sure anything can be done if that's the issue at least until the payment part of the site gets updated.

@unknownmat
Most of the time all I get is the generic "thanks for submitting this, we'll forward it to the appropriate translation team" thing.

But there was one time where they really did disagree with my suggestion, and emailed back concerning why they disagreed concerning it being in error.
It was a really weird section of text in how it could be interpreted, whether it was spoken aloud or a mental thought to self, and that was made worse by the title of a book showing up as part of it; book titles go in italics, and if it was spoken that's how it should display, and if a mental think... it was a truly weird formatting issue, to put it mildly.

But they discussed it with me.
They disagreed, and still disagreed at the end of it all, but they didn't round file it when they decided they disagreed, they informed me as to why they weren't in agreement.

That impressed me.

These days, my submissions tend to be screen prints with highlighted text and text boxes explain what I see as the problem.

@elkensteyin If you create or edit the first post in a topic it's down at the bottom of the editor

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@Tensu What series/what parts specifically is that happening on for you? And what browser version and operating system?

@robd Thank you! We have reuploaded the book, and it can take 24-72 hours to reflect on their site.

@myskaros Okay, found it, thanks.

Sorry to hear you're experiencing these issues. I'll make sure the developers look into this.

Basically all light novels in america have tuesday releases. Well, physicals at least, digitals are less constrained by shipping and inventory and such.

Amazon also has difficulties with consistency in ordering name components of Japanese authors in romaji format; they will have part of a series attached to [Latin Alphabet: Last Name First Name], and part to [Latin Alphabet: First Name Last Name], and of course they will only accept the word of those authors that it's the same person.

@manusdei

AFAIK failed payment means that you'll keep your membership status for a couple of days while they try to charge you again. After a few unsuccessful attempts it will simply downgrade you to from expired (still kind of member) to user (non-member) and you can resubscribe after that.

Just wanted to chime in that _08 is correct; once Stripe has sent an invoice out for collection, there's no way for us to recall it, so it'll just keep trying to charge your now-invalid card every couple days. Once the 3rd attempt fails, your subscription will be automatically canceled, at which point you can sign up for the normal membership if you wish.

@taapaye This has been fixed! Thanks for pointing it out!

If the new app doesn't support your device then you could try https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3353/yet-another-pwa-jnc-client?page=1 as an alternative to the regular website.

@myskaros I don't have to bother with that... Running my own mail servers, I can generate aliases as needed. The one I use for JNC is unrelated to any others I use.

My mail program allows me to manage them just fine. It also makes it simple to figure out who's database got compromised when the spam (or threat) emails start flowing.

"Salted" emails are a bit of a pain for me, as a forum moderator. The same spammers hit relentlessly by simply adding periods within their gmail addresses. If I thought I could get away with it, I'd pre-ban all gmail.com addresses.

@basuga you can use credits on preordering books to access their prepubs (including as they come out). It's not great for trying new series, but at least helps you follow your existing favourites.

@lyokoninja We're aware that this is not ideal and looking into a solution; check back later this year to see if anything has changed!