@Serah said in This volume has no parts! (yet?):

@Ingraman said in This volume has no parts! (yet?):

@Serah When I look at v4 on the app (iOS on iPad), it shows me part 1 (from “2 days ago”) available… I’m not sure why you’re seeing that.

Ah, no - I am not seeing that right now. Sorry for causing the confusion!

It was from a few days ago, when there was no part yet.

Just think of me as a very enthusiastic fan who checked more than regularly. alt laughing emoji

So when I checked the site on the app, before it was released, it showed that cute image of Yurika.

What you said here was why I went back to my post and edited it, adding my second paragraph/last sentence. I just didn’t do it quickly enough. :p It’s something that I’ve seen a few times before.

@Serah said in Are Axed Novels/Manga Worth Licensing?:

Also a story unable to do the world building good when not an isekai is more an issue of the writing style than that being or not being an isekai.

Yes. This is really the point that I'm trying to make. The writing is king. And this goes both ways. A boring isekai is just as much an issue of the writing style. There's nothing inherently wrong with isekai (or harems, or cheat-powered protags, etc.).

I, too, am tired of boring stories filled with poorly executed tropes - and many of the same ones you listed (e.g. there's nothing wrong with mayonnaise, but let's not pretend that the locals are going to start celebrating an annual Mayonnaise Day festival, or something - it's just eggs and vinegar).

The last thing I'll say on this is that 90% of whatever gets published is garbage. I would be cautious of overgeneralizations focused on the average case. One example I can think of would be music. As a teenager in the 90s we always complained about the music played on the radio, comparing it unfavorably to the classics of yesteryear (The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, etc). But the mistake we made was comparing the very best music from the preceding three decades with the average music from the ~6 years we spent in middle and high school. Objectively, the 90s was a pretty great time to be a teenager, musically (Nirvana, Green Day, Alice In Chains, Rage Against the Machine, etc).

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I second the suggestion and request.

Without exceptions every time when I hit earlier entries I have to scroll back down to check on the entries relevant to me.

It is nice that I can filter it to series I follow only, but still. Most of the times I just want to check what I have missed within the past 24-72 hours.

I second this.

The tags are a nightmare. There are far too many bespoke tags that apply to only one or 2 series despite there already being very similar tags.

There is a mech suits tag for the new series Atlas, and it's the only one with the tag. Even though Knights and Magic and a few others have the Mechs tag.

Also they sometimes just don't have the tags they should. ATLAS is also missing Female Protagonist and Multiple PoV tags.

@LBonne24 said in Make authors searchable in series, make search easier:

Currently I cannot search a series by the author name, nor does clicking the author section on the book page lead to all of their works.

Ignoring the contracted name issue, this is a function we had and then lost with the revamp.

Original topic: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/8599/search-author-tag-downgrade/

This got so old, someone made a new topic last month....

Why is this still not resolved? It is a super basic functionality that existed before the revamp.

I have a better chance having a solution at JNovel than Facebook or BlueSky.

Even here I have a better chance to know where the file with the logo is on Android and how (or if) I can change it.

And anyway it's up to JNovel's, not you or me.

The issue has been fixed, from the discord:

Thank you for your patience and apologies for the long wait. There was a miscommunication about the where the parts should be split that led to some missing text. But now the missing text for Water Magician Volume 5 Part 6 has been added in

@Perplexed said in Could J-Novel run Kickstarters for series over 5 years old?:

The advantage with something like a Kickstarter is they can make sure they don't lose money, as long as they budget for the cost of translating with the license cost as part of the goal. Then if it reaches it's goal they will have already covered the cost of doing it (with presumably some profit margin that would also included in the goal) and any books it sells after the Kickstarter will just be profit as because J-Novel club does digital first there will be no additional cost of printing more books (that said they could do a stretch goal for a physical edition but then they could just make that for the kickstarter backers only if they didn't want to print more after).

yea - as Geezer pointed out it won't work (you need permission/ the license to launch a campaign on kisckatarter or whatever--but it might work in reverse. If an author wanted to have one of their older works translated - they could use kickstarter to raise the funds and HIRE JNC (or some other group) to translate and then subsequently market the end product ...(the author still risks losing face if the funds aren't raised to hire a pro like Warnis )
Guerilla marketing (assuming the author OWNS the license) he/she could just 'look the other way' if a prominent fan translation site just so happens to post a chapter by chapter translation of a work ...see what interest there is, then go from there (that would be the cover story anyway. In reality, the author and translator would be collaborating. when (IF) enough hype gets generated - the author makes a statement that although they are flattered that so many fans are interested, licensing must go through proper outlets, "please support the kickstarter instead"

or

an author could enter a writing contest incognito, pen a work in English (or translated to English) in a setting that is famous from a series that is old (or a side story or something - close enough that the lampshade hanging is obvious) to gauge interest and if it's a 'hit' approach JNC to translate/market something from the back catalog

@Christian-Bartlett-7mpfcnb I feel like the monthly catch-ups are always announced on the first of the month unless it is a holiday or weekend. Then it will fall on the next regular business day. It also is normally announced late in the day (depending on your timezone), which can provide some people with an extra couple hours to finish catching up.

As for what books are on catch-up, they usually play that close to the vest, likely in part to licensing agreements. But the selected series, when not entirely "random", seem to be associated with the start of a new volume being translated, especially if it has been on hiatus, or to take advantage of a new anime season.

This would be an absolutely great feature to add.