@pcj It's probably planned to be added at some point, but seeing as how age rating systems for books is based on what the publisher decides rather than some sort ratings agency or governing body it may be lower on their priority list, especially since there's no filters for age ratings at the moment.

Rather than a pure suggested age filter (which may be applying a specific country's standards), I'd like to see something underneath that indicates what in the book got it that rating assuming it's not some sort of "E for Everyone" rating. For example, Suggested 12+ for Mild Fantasy Violence. That way people can see it's rated whatever due to violence, gambling, sexual situations or whatever since different people place different emphasis on different particularities.

While you're at it, could you also allow searching by Japanese title? The Japanese title is displayed right above the English one on the main page, but attempting to search for it yields no results.

Stopped my sub after it became clear that having those 'final' tags back wasn't a priority. Really disappointing.

Just wanted to drop in to say this is already a project that's in the works, there are just a lot of considerations to make regarding integration with internal processes and catalog assignment so we don't have an ETA yet. Suffice to say we're aware of the problem and actively working on a better solution.

As someone who only used the app that'd be really handy!

@Geezer-Weasalopes
This is a common issue for English websites that display Japanese works, which means you don't have to figure out a solution from scratch by yourself.
Instead you can just shop around for inspiration and pick the solution that aligns best with situation.

For example MangaUpdates use aliases to solve this particular challenge for names and titles. Per author, or per title there's a list with Associated Names that can contain kanji versions, kana versions, translated versions for different languages and different romaji styles.

Something like that would be helpful here as well

@doceirias the ones I'm reading do not have the audio version. Thank you

@Serah this is possible to do dynamically in CSS if they wanted to do it in the reader at run time:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { img { filter: invert(100%); } }

Of course, they'll probably want additional tags to decide which images to do it on because I'm assuming you wouldn't want to invert actual illustrations.

@sorvani Honestly I think it really comes down to too many things they want to get done, not enough devs to do it.

@Blank46 CAT tools are frequently used in games translation to keep terminology straight, especially when the scope of the project requires multiple translators.

For a solo translation job, a basic excel term sheet does the same thing.

Machine and AI Translation might be helpful in an office environment if you just need a quick peek ahead at what this email says before the proper translations come around, but are actively damaging to fictional translation.

There is no grunt work; every line of a novel is someone else's creation and you are being entrusted with the responsibility of rendering that into the best English you can. Working from canned or rough translations makes it far too easy to settle for something that's good enough when a far better translation is out there and could have been found if you'd been working normally.

Literally every professional translator agrees that editing AI/MTL translations is far more time consuming than just doing it themselves; it's just an excuse for moron executives to pay less money, and the only way to make it worth the lower rate is to phone it in. No one who cares about the final output or has any real understanding off the process would even suggest that they count as 'tools.' They're useless garbage peddled by conmen and propagated by greedy asshats who don't care about art.

@Elijah203223 I believe the age rating system was put in because of some EU regulation, so they're likely assigning ratings to content based on EU standards, not American ones.

@Nubz_Unite I did some checking around after finding the same problem.
If you see a book you where interested in on the readers list on the site and pull it up in the app as long as you are at the right subscription level to access it it will pull up and let you read it, you just have to ignore the expired text that is displayed and mesmerize which books are actually available rather then being able to causally browse for now.

@sorvani said in Put Critical News On The Site - AKA Subscription Changes:

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That's not how it works from a legality standpoint. There are numerous cases showing you cannot unilaterally change material terms in the contract like this.

Also anything that is "included as free" in a purchase is also part of the consideration as it treated the same as the purchased goods or service.

But who actually cares for legality anyway when no one in the consumer sector ever sues anyone as its not worth it.

I wholeheartedly agree with this suggestion. Most of the series I've found on here were through the monthly catch-ups, and specifically the discussion that arises as a result of them. It's not unusual for the summary of a series to not catch my interest, but the input from another reader does.

Even this last month, I read through Miss Nicola the Exorcist, which I thoroughly enjoyed and was going to purchase (that's another discussion). I was subscribed as a premium user when this title was first licensed and wasn't sold on it, but the discussion in the catch-ups thread convinced me to give it another shot.

This type of interaction is absolutely valuable to foster, and it would be a shame to lose it completely.

@Paul-Nebeling - there's details and analysis in this thread - https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/9632/can-we-still-get-something-like-monthly-recommendations-once-monthly-catchup-is-gone/23