@morbelek said in Premium Manga First Opinions:

@Weasalopes Running it Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.11.187303 using Windows 8 compatibility mode seems to work for me for the two page mode! Thanks for the tip.

That really does seem the best option using the software I've already got installed.

Bear in mind that Adobe Digital Editions has an upper limit for the number of books it will allow in your library.
I think it's 500?
Anyway, it won't let you have more than a certain number of titles in your library at one time, and it gets weird as it approaches that number, so removing stuff from its library if not reading them frequently is wise.

@strangeattractor said in Hidden entries?:

Isn't the epub format basically a zip file already? You may be able to use an epub as a zip file simply by changing the filename extension from .epub to .zip without needing to use Calibre. Unless Calibre does something more in its conversion process.

Are you perhaps talking about cbz? (cbz and cbr are pretty much same as zip and rar, respectively, a cbz/cbr is a zip/rar with only images in it)
No, while an epub IS compressed, it uses xhtml and css, and while some comic/image viewers may handle the epub format, many do not or do not handle it very well.

You can convert a comic epub to zip(or rar etc) manually too if you first uncrompress it(with 7zip or whatever), navigate to the folder with the image files, and archive(with 7zip etc) those image files into a zip/rar file(rename the extensions to cbz/cbr if you so desire). But it's easier to just use calibre if you're doing it in bulk.

@garantiertnicht Yes there are, but I imagine most people nowadays would prefer the convenience of a push notification without the hassle of setting up an RSS client

The only thing I dislike about the website is when I go to my account to look at my titles I get pop ups for all the books that have been updated etc so I have to close all those and then scroll down to see the one I actually want.

@vinfang I just downloaded the file that we uploaded for Kindle, and it correctly has the volume 3 content. You may need to ask Kindle support to forcefully resync your account with whatever the newest content is, regardless of what they see on their side. You could also ask them to refund the volume so that you can purchase it again to see if that would solve it.

@chocolatkey Fixed

I would also like to see the ability to send gifts on the site. Either via coins or products.

Coins that the person may choose to spend how they want. This just needs a good, privacy respecting UX to select the correct person and the amount to send. Username is probably the most suitable identifier. Email would be unsuitable.

A product (book, manga, comic, audiobook etc) that people may choose to accept or not. This makes for a more personal gift in my eyes, showing that some thought went into it by the sender. Ideally this could be combined with a wish-list feature, though building the UX and back-end code around that would likely be more complex. Something like how Steam does this would work though. The accept step would be necessary to avoid forcing products on people they do not want in their library, aka the Steam PC Games store problem with "Bad Rats" back in the day where people intentionally flooded their friends game library with bad games like "Bad Rats" before it was possible to decline a gift.

Either way of sending gifts could optionally include the ability to attach a short note/message, again like Steam. However it might be a good idea to limit these messages to a curated selection like "Happy Birthday" or "Merry Xmas" to avoid undesirable messages. How tightly to regulate that depends on the level of moderation such a system would require.

I look forward to seeing what possibilities the new coins system and other back-end rewrites may bring in the future, even if its a bit off in the future still.

@jpwong said in Payment system:

@stefan230 I would imagine the problem is not that they don't want to use stripe to it's fullest, but more that the payment system is still basically using the original code that was thrown together when JNC got founded so it's not really in any condition to just add the code to support all these other things. Basically the payment system code they're using needs a full rewrite, and unfortunately up until now, there are other higher priority things to get re-written. I can only imagine that now that the web site front end has been overhauled, the web service backend has been overhauled, the credit system has been overhauled and the app store apps have been overhauled, the payment system is nearing the top of the list as their next to do action.

All they ask is that you rebuild the entire system from scratch in six weeks.
No bugs allowed, and you have to maintain the existing system at full capacity level while under a continuous DDOS attack the entire time.

Sounds like a normal day in IT to me.

@terabyte said in The Sorcerer's Receptionist missing tag "fully translated":

@kurosov said in The Sorcerer's Receptionist missing tag "fully translated":

@terabyte said in The Sorcerer's Receptionist missing tag "fully translated":

That's only a sequel web novel on Syosetu for now. There's nothing "published" that JNC can license.

Being Published in japan isn't a hard requirement for licencing as it is possible to licence directly from an author. Just look at Cross Infinite World, Their catalogue is pretty much all direct webnovel licences whose first novel release is their English translation.

Unfortunately it's not quite simple like that for JNC. Sam made a post a while ago about why they won't license WNs directly. Can't find it right now though.

I believe the summary came down to this:

"If we start licensing WN's directly, it would put us in direct competition with JP publishers, which would negatively affect our business relationships, and thus our ability to license LN's from them."

@Terabyte Found it!
@sam-pinansky said in Gear Drive Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@xdrfiredogx That's basically it. The two biggest things holding us back from this (and they are both big):

It puts us in the position of being not only a localization publisher but also a full-fledge Japanese publisher, responsible for the editing/artwork, and relations with the author. That's not something we have any infrastructure for, and we can't just hire 2 people for a one off project.

It puts us in a position of competing with the publishers we are licensing from. Now, for cancelled series like Gear Drive, it's not necessarily a big deal, but once we have the structure in place, what's to stop us from grabbing the next big narou novel ourselves? What would our publisher partners in Japan think about that when we are competing with them for content?
Not a good place to be.

@jpwong True, there isn't an automatic way to tie portions of the commentary to specific frames within the commentary. You would still need to create a new thread, which could die just a few "frames" away, even within the same day's section of the commentary.

@poisonedbite I figured that by the first post. Just informing you, incase you didn't know.
I do agree with your wish for more features.

NodeBB docs say there's a "From Name" config option next to the "Email Address" option in the admin control panel.

@myskaros Perhaps you guys can upload 1-2 volumes of a series each time the series is put on the catchup schedule? That way it won't be quite as overwhelming. It'll take a long time for the longer series to be updated, but it'll slowly get done. Also, and I could very easily be wrong, but I don't think the series that are completed get put on the catch-up schedule, or if they do, it's very rare, so that means there are fewer pre-pubs that need to be replaced.

@jpwong said in Fushi no Kami Library Volume View lists longer names:

Your drive link isn't shared out to people

thanks for mentioning, i though once i had set the file to "for everyone", it would also apply to the underlying image, not just the "view in drive"

i have now got imgur to work (made a account), so for reference my image was:

https://imgur.com/0gqoSvu

This has been suggested before. See https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/5349/what-are-the-chances-for-kokoro-connect-to-get-a-physcial-release for the relevant discussion.

While I enjoyed the anime it appears that there weren't enough ebook sales to justify a physical release. More people calling for it on the forum might help but I have no idea how well it sold as an e-book so it'd be difficult to speculate.

If you want an official take on it you would probably need to ask as part of a Q&A at a convention or announcement stream as JNC don't usually comment on specific commercial see decisions on the forums. You could also try getting the attention of Sam aka Quarkboy on Discord or Twitter or Reddit.

@lisast
Oh, I will try that. Thank you!