New Website Feedback
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The calendar is buggy. Not only do past items not show up, but items in the near future aren't listed. Right now (September 13th), the earliest release I see listed is on September 22nd. None of the releases (subscription or digital book) between now and then are listed. So, over a week of releases is missing starting from now.
I would expect items to stay in the calendar permanently, though the current site seems to only list as far back as the previous month for some reason. Either way, the current behavior of the calendar on the beta site is clearly buggy.
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Hi again. I was checking beta again and i wanted to go to discussing page. For Lazy Dungeon Master which is currently 13th volume released, when click the "discuss on forums" it sends us to vol 1, thread. It would be nice for the put short cut for every volumes discuss thread link near their vol info OR change to the main "discuss on forums" to latest thread.
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When buying a book directly without having credits it states 1 credit is $7 for regular users and $6 for premium. But the button to actually redeem/purchase the book says "Buy 1 credit for $7 and redeem". Don't know if this is a issue here or that on the beta site I'm shown as a 'regular' user.
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I just saw this thread and wanted to say I overall LOVE the new site design! Can't wait for it to become the main page.
That said, I'm confused about follows in particular. The only place this seems to show anything is on the calendar. If I follow a bunch of series that may not have chapters being released, just as a sort of bookmark, I can't pull up a list of what I was following. I was expecting something maybe on the User page or in the header bar so I could shortcut to certain series as I'd like to treat it as a sort of bookmark for buying volumes later.
Also on the Calendar the back link isn't working. So if I missed a few days and wanted to go back say a week to see what I needed to catch up on, I can't find how to do that.
And is there a way to bookmark things? Some novels are still fully available to read, either from catchup or because I didn't follow them too closely since I wanted to binge at the end, and it's difficult to remember where I left off in the parts.
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First of all guys congrats I love the new version of the site it is intuitive, I especially like the series pages and the calendar page. I can mostly comment only on the design aspect since is also my profession. I checked the website on a surface pro in a maximised chrome window.
However thou more useful it looks more dated than the current version. Static page width is the main culprit. I would suggest to make the header and footer dynamic width.
The grey background outside the website container element makes the website claustrophobic I would suggest to make it white and increase the white space between elements. A lot of work has to be made in the typography, I would first focus on selecting a font combination for headings and paragraph text. ATM there is not enough contrast between the two
More padding in the banner, the type is cluttered at the bottom and top edge.
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https://beta.j-novel.club/user/membership
The page says my membership is
Regularbut it should list it as Premium? This happens on both places: the sidebar on the left and the membership page itself.===
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One more thing: it looks like all the pages on the beta website are missing the HTML element<title>, so they all simply show the current url as the page title. -
Have the button at the button is much harder to use then at the top on a tablet.
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A few issues I've run into:
- There's no way to navigate from your user page to the pages for series you follow
- Pages have no <title> tags, so they just show the URL in the browser
- I'm following White Cat's Revenge, but it's not showing up in my user RSS feed
- It's remarkably difficult to find your user ID in order to get your user RSS feed
- User RSS feeds use the user ID, rather than any kind of resettable authentication token, so if you accidentally post your link somewhere you can't reset it (not exactly a huge issue but it turns an accidental temporary loss of privacy, which is inherent to the feature, into an ongoing loss of privacy)
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In the User Library, if you're following a series and don't have any books purchased, it'll still create a collapsible but give you no links or way to interact. These could use either a separate section for Followed series, a link to the series' page, or just not creating an entry without one owned title.
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Looks like there's two tags for Ichiro Sakaki.
- https://beta.j-novel.club/titles?search=author:"Ichirou Sakaki"
- https://beta.j-novel.club/titles?search=author:"Ichiro Sakaki"
Looks like both spellings are used even on the covers of the different series. Might be something that should be unified going forward...
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The beta site breaks scrolling to the top on iOS by clicking on the top of safari. This works in nearly all websites
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the users section of the site says my user type is regular
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@Tiko424 yeah it's the same for mine
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@catstorm It was mentioned fairly early on in this thread, so it's not a new problem. I expect that it shows everyone as a regular member and that it has done so since the beginning. Regardless, it obviously needs to be fixed at some point.
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Similar to my recent suggestion for the beta app, I think that the website could show progress in reading individual parts in a manner similar to the unofficial JNC reader by @Crimson-Wise.
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@Shiny I actually don't think my interface works that well on a desktop browser; it has quite a lot of elements which is fine for mobile devices, but can get quite heavy on the browser depending on your screen size and machine. Still, I don't mind if it's used as inspiration or something.
I'm just happy that the website and specially the app are getting reworked (and so far, the betas are quite more usable than the old ones.)
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I think the User page needs an "Account History" page. I'm not sure if you're already tracking the data in the background and just don't show it, but basically a history going back at least 12 months, showing:
- When you bought credits, how many and for how much
- When a free premium credit was applied to your account
- When you were charged for your subscription
- When you bought a book with a credit
In addition, the ability to export your history as a CSV, so that we can keep archives of our own data.
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Is there an option to mark a series as read or keeping track of progress? I looked and it seems to only mark if you've bought the book or not. That doesn't seem very helpful as we could have bought the book elsewhere or we could have just read the pre-pub but didn't feel interested in buying the full volume later. We need a way to mark specific pre-pub parts as read. This is by far the biggest missing feature from the old site that I presumed would be added by the new site, otherwise there's not much point in the rewrite.
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Hello, I have been trying to use the
https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/<USER ID>.<rss|atom|json>with
https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/manusdei.rss
https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/ManusDei.rss
https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/@ManusDei.rss
https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/@manusdei.rssto use my "own" rss feed. It doesn't work, what did I do wrong and how to I get my id ?
Adding on the todo list a way to access prepub on kindle or another e-ink reader would be great :)
Still, the beta website is much more user friendly than the original one, great work there
