New Website Feedback
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It seems that some clarification is needed.
Firstly, I have not suggested its wrong or unusual to use footers. I have not suggested to not put useful links in footers. When I publish websites I do this all the time. I have suggested that key information should be highly visible and easy to access and should be where, in my experience, users expect it to be (in a menu first and foremost).
Secondly, this forum topic asked for “feedback” based on my experience which is what I have done. My feedback stands as is.
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I guess the challenge is you're saying you couldn't find a link to the help page, but what did you find on the help page (or the page you ended up on) that's helped you out that wasn't on the "how it works" page that BartzBB pointed out is front and center to the user when they load up the site?
The biggest challenge we've seen on the forums from the old site layout is people subscribe and get confused with what a subscription gets them (or they just join on the assumption that subscription means exactly the same thing it does when you join netflix), so it appears they've moved that from the footer to being more prominently displayed as you enter the site.
I'm guessing based on your previous comments that the issue is that how it works doesn't exactly outline that to subscribe you need to sign up for an account and then actually buy a membership plan under your user account options, which does appear to be something that can be improved.
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@chocolatkey Still broken as of today. Same issue, header and list classes are swapped. It looks like React is augmenting the next few days with pretty countdown times, but the replacement divs are using the wrong classes. That's my best guess since the code is minified. On first load, the classes are correct, but when the react app runs the weird div's appear.
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@ackondro Could you let me know what your browser/OS is?
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Why does the main navigation points ("home", "series", "calendar", etc) appear at the top of the screen on desktop Firefox/Chrome on Windows, but the bottom of the screen on Firefox/Safari on ipad? It's not a big deal, but it's feels weird and irks me a bit.
In the calendar, each entry is basically one giant div with an associated URL. When I see the release of a part of an unfamiliar series, how do I read the synopsis of the series? When I'm trying to see what was released, my eyes make an awkward jump from the bright green "chapter 3" or whatever on the side, and then try to find the "volume 5" in light grey that's next to the title in dark grey. The light grey next to dark grey can be difficult to read as well.
Using the "Apothecary Diaries Volume 2 part 6" on Friday 26 March as an example, make "Apothecary Diaries" a link to the series page https://j-novel.club/series/the-apothecary-diaries . "Volume 2 Part 6" is combined to link to the page https://j-novel.club/read/the-apothecary-diaries-volume-2-part-6 . This pushes the "out now" (or "out in 2h") message to the left to accommodate. This way, new users can go to the series page for more information, and the volume/chapter/part information is next to each other for easier reading, and is still a large button to click to the published part.
I tried to mock this up in ugly ms paint. Original entry on top, split version on bottom
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I miss the release calender :(
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@anynamefor1 - Is there something the old calendar did that the new one doesn't? I find the new calendar super convenient; it updates live and automatically starts at today's day, whereas on the old one I had to manually refresh the page and scroll down a long way as I got near the end of the month.
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@rsog412
He's talking about the release calendar on the right side of the homepage of the old website. -
@rsog412 Really it just looked nicer and was simpler to access.
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@anynamefor1 If you look at the opening post, we do plan to add it back in:
- Add a parts/volume release feed on the front page.
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Some more feedback on the forums... Android 10, Chrome...
Several times at different times I'll click to go to the next page in a thread and it kick me back to the "unread" forum view. If I try to go back, I get an error:
Internal Error
Oops! Looks like something went wrong!
/api/compose
Invalid Data.
I have to go load the thread again, then refresh it since it loads my last, last view and not the view prior to the error.
I also tried clicking to go to the last page instead of the next page and got a Page Not Found error.
I'm pretty sure each time it's happened I've had a reply of some kind in holding on the new "clipboard" but I can't be entirely sure of that.
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@xdrfiredogx That sounds like it could be a problem with the forum software, but I'm not seeing any open issues reported on NodeBB's github about it. It could be something that's been fixed already if JNC isn't on the most recent software release though.
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I just noticed this but in the series page if you hover the mouse over a released part it shows the date when that part was released.
Is it possible to add this feature for unreleased parts as well?
I mean that if you hover the mouse over an unreleased part it will also show to date and/or time the part will be released. The date and/or time can be just based on the data in the Calendar page.
JNC LN Ranking:
1st - Rokujouma
2nd - Realist Hero
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A good feature of the new interface in the forums is that you can set default order to “Newest to Oldest” to see the most recent entries first (this makes sense to me). However the default entry on the list is still the first one (timewise). In other words it defeats the purpose of reversing the order by taking you to the end of the list.
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I really appreciate the “New Books” section in the user library, but it would be useful to have a way to mark those books as read/maybe just keep the “new!” marking on the series after you download the books, especially because it automatically expands the associated series.
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There are few things which I liked but are no longer there (1, 3), and if possible one more thing I would like you'd implement (2).
- We can no longer see the individual volume subtitle for series which have them (i.e. Holmes of Kyoto).
- Option which would solve 1, is that by clicking on the volume cover at the Series page would show the enlarged cover.
- I actually liked the "More volumes to come" "This series is completed" notes at the bottom of the Series page. Heck, if you even wrote "This series is dropped by the publisher" and "This series is stalled due to unknown reasons" I would be even happier.
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@bartzbb At the moment, our data is not stored in a way that would allow us to do this in a feasible manner, but it's something we may do in the future.
@non8 I just checked, and for Holmes of Kyoto, we do not have the subtitle for the volumes in our database, so either you saw the subtitle for another series, or it was edited in the meantime. As for the reason we removed the notes at the bottom of the page, that's because they are either: inaccurate, private, unknown, or would have to be constantly up-to-date. The potentially vague, inaccurate or private nature of those notes can create unneeded speculation about the status of the series. When we manage to come up with a more accurate set of messages that isn't automatically determined by dates (as the previous ones were, and therefore inaccurate), we will consider re-adding them.
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I don't know if this is a bug or just a mistake on the staff's part but there is something weird in the calendar page.
As you can see there is an E-Book coming out tomorrow whose title is "???".
JNC LN Ranking:
1st - Rokujouma
2nd - Realist Hero
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@bartzbb said in New Website Feedback:
I don't know if this is a bug or just a mistake on the staff's part but there is something weird in the calendar page.
I couldn't tell if that was a bug myself either cause it also shows up on the old site on the sidebar and the calendar page. I reported it earlier on discord in case it was a db entry mistake, but I was thinking it's also possible it's some sort of placeholder for something being announced on Friday's stream where it's going to be available immediately and the system just can't handle the way it was entered into the backend.
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@bartzbb J-Just a reminder that J-Novel Club is based in the United States and the time and date may be different based on where you live.
