@kurzaa said in New Part Release Alerts:

Perhaps a similar feature could be introduced for announcing when the new Catch-Up series are announced each month (so we aren't checking the site on the east coast all day). Or perhaps setting up a newsletter to send out an email to those that opt-in once the Catch-Up rolls over?

While a permanent solution would be nice, here's the current work-a-round:

Go to @myskaros's profile page and press the plus sing to "follow" (they typically post the catch-ups). Go to your forum settings -> Notifications -> When someone you follow posts a topic -> set this to get notifications, either through the forum or via email.

@kilocron said in Forum option to mute specific threads in the "Unread" list:

@shiny

So, what I mean though is from the "Unread" list.... you click the "Unread" then from there, I'd like to be able to select multiple topics to Ignore... see this screenshot...

You can "Mark as Read" but not ignore.

I agree that would be an improvement. The people to suggest it to aren't JNC though but the developers of the forum via https://community.nodebb.org/category/5/feature-requests

@sicks said in Allow the right arrow key to advance between sections and chapters:

A minor QoL suggestion that's probably been made before.

It has, though the other one was a bit... aggressive.

I would put this as being on the list of things that might be considered after they finally get the back end upgrade sorted out.

@derdotte-fgn34d9 We hope so! I completely understand everyone's frustrations and wish things could have been improved earlier. There are many things we could have done better over the past couple years, but ultimately we chose to prioritize other technology improvements first like the new website and the new app.

@shiny Yep, that doesn't sync with google calendars.

Yeah, I'm not really a fan of this NodeBB forum script either. Especially when I work daily with a completely different (and much better imo) forum script. If JNC ever decides to convert to something else I'm available to help. 😋

@shiny said in Since Gatou Shoji's work is so successful, why not physical releases of Amagi Brilliant Park:

The fact it had an anime at all should be a plus for it though, especially as the show and author are both successful.

Unfortunately, the simple fact of the matter is that it's usually the opposite outcome. An older anime has been shown time and time again to be detrimental to light novel sales of that same series in English. A new anime (within the last year or two, but preferably airing after or during publication) has been shown to increase sales, though. Some exceptions exist such as republications of old Tokyopop releases such as FMP and Slayers, but those require considerable fanbases and reasons for fans to rebuy them (higher quality hardcovers and a modern retranslation, for example, both of which require a lot of up-front cost). If Kadokawa were to up-front the cost for Amagi and/or Kokoro Connect physicals, then it could be feasible, but I personally don't see that happening.

Will throw in a few coins as well: Current way of discovering what exactly in premium content is not optimal from UX perspective. I'd even say it's pretty bad, as it's not obvious where details are presented. Obviously I talk only for ones which have the premium content field filled out (I'd expect ones with missing fields to be slowly filled out over time as admin time permits).

Since data is already available to page renderer (otherwise it won't show the premium content icon), I'd suggest adding a hover tooltip (akin to one when you hover over the part link) that mirrors the information shown when you press buy or at the very least add a title attribute for use of native OS tooltip. For mobile-friendliness first one is better with a behavior to appear on touch.
This is pretty minor issue and definitely not a priority, but as someone who spent way too much time improving UX in various programs such minor problems tick me off, all thanks to profdeformation. :)

I can relate, except "work from home" hasn't been a change for me; I thought about getting a shirt that said something like "socially distant for decades". Or maybe "remember when social distancing was a symptom rather than a goal?"

Concentration issues are exasperated by this; starting out with issues as a kid aren't helped by advancing age.

But trying to keep track of multiple stories help...

@freyr said in Korean Fantasy/Romance Novels - Why don’t they ever get licensed?:

I hope j-novel continues to focus on Japanese light novels.

While it's possible there are JNC staff members who could do stuff with other Asian languages than Japanese, to date that's the only Asian language they've been working with for translations.

If it weren't for the recent batch of European language works being brought over by JNC I'd have been willing to make grandiose (and fatuous) statements concerning JNC not doing any TLs of anything other than Japanese, with no actual basis for saying so...

There's a sufficient difference in 'feel' between most Japanese LN/Manga and the equivalent Korean & Chinese works that I'm still willing to make unfounded pronouncements to the effect that I consider it unlikely that JNC will branch out to including non-Japanese Asian lit.

Reporting: the bug is still here.

PS: Can be overcome by using mouse taking the circle and moving to the rightmost position (while keyboard and mouse scroll are stuck and do not scroll there)

@shiny I should make an official feature request on this, specially since I haven't managed to get the UI to work with the new APIs without loading everything.

Edit: done.

@myskaros An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride Volume 7 release date is now showing 11/17/2021 as the release date

Yes that's usually what I do, I expend credits for series that I can actually catch up. Don't take me wrong I know we cannot like catch up all series we want but a catch up should not mean like having the whole series open free to latest chapter but for example if we have like a very long series some times that is a blocker to actually buy it or at least for me, but if for example we can catch up till a point where we can keep buying the remaining volumes maybe it could make more sense.