@Rahul-Balaggan said in Can someone please make this more user friendly by add a "read" "reading" "plan to read" function,:

Hello,

Currently there is a site update underway, and the site is currently in beta, one of the final features is a “follow” button, but to my knowledge it is not live yet.

I've not used the beta website recently, but I can confirm that the follow function works on the beta Android app.

@Jon-Mitchell You, me, and a whole host of us I'd imagine.

It's not something that would work for many titles much less most titles but I could see it for a small handful, where there would be enough of a demand and where the author is aware enough of who and what J-Novel is to entertain the idea. In that regard at least AoB would probably be the idea target.

Though one can always hope that someday J Novel reaches the same heights as Yen Press and Seven Seas.
Though a better and faster version.
I'm waiting for the physicals for Seirei Gensouki to arrive in their omnibus forms.

Thanks so much! I appreciate the information.

@Abigail-Cid-cgax6rh To expound on what Rahul said, we have resubmitted those two volumes to Amazon countless times but they keep getting removed.

@drugan Demon Lord knows not that Yukikaze is male; most of v3 is from his perspective.

Since v4 has been published as an ebook already, you should email the name change to support@j-novel.club so that it can be updated.

Hummer is also used in v5

@TheGrimLich you'll never know what will happend. If you promise X person will come to the convention but for some reason they cant able to, visiters would be angry, annoyed etc. So yeah, on the other hand, telling X person will come would boost the ticket sales.

@Ira_meow Could you please provide a little more detail? What operating system, what app version, what error message etc. Thank you

Yeah, it'd have been awesome to be able to do that. By my count I have purchased 116 J-novel volumes from Amazon since October 2018. It wasn't until earlier this year I considered membership -- I'd have been aboard long ago if I'd known I was missing out on premiums with short stories, not just larger filesizes.

The membership never made sense to me, since I prefer to read fully edited books on my e-reader and dislike reading novels on my monitor or phone. This is my first premium credit sale, though I'd already snagged enough to add volumes 117-140 and another 15 preorders. I can't really justify rebuying 80+ volumes that contain stories I missed, though.

At the very least I'd love the new site to add an option to mark old volumes "purchased" once they get it working better.

Same questions was asked and answered here - https://forums.j-novel.club/post/64999

@LegitPancake I didn't even know there was a beta site! Thanks for the reply! 🙏🏻

oh and i hope the beta site will get google login because i think i registered with that... :)
but at least now i know how not to summon a demon lord is releasing soon so yay!

@pcj Yes, I am aware of that backdoor, but you can't track anything if you do it that way. I'll try the beta.

Got a response to my GitHub suggestion, which I'll copy here:

It's up to the theme to determine what the .deleted class does, in persona it just adds opacity: 0.3 to the content element.
Unprivileged users don't see the contents of deleted posts this is separate from the styling. So you could override the css and remove the opacity but regular users still won't see the content of deleted posts.
It is very simple for a theme to add additional messaging to posts if they are deleted. ie
{{{ if posts.deleted }}}
this post is deleted
{{{ end }}}
This can be added anywhere in the post.tpl and it will show a message for deleted posts.

Bought their version. Quality of translation isn't very good, to be honest :( Well, maybe just me.

@Jon-Mitchell said in New J-Novel price band.:

umm...can you buy/pre-order a premium if you're not a member? I was under the impression that you cannot.

You currently cannot, but I’m pretty sure one of the (WIP) features of the beta website is to allow non-members to purchase credits. Don’t know when that will be established or what the price will be, but seems to be in the works.

If you have Android just download FullReader. Pauses at the end of sentences and has text to speach with a drive function so while you travel controls are easy to use. I love the app even with the advertisements which are small and dont bother me at all.

@Kineko Have you tried the beta website, which has this function? https://beta.j-novel.club