@jpwong True, SMS 2FA is not the safest option as it can be spoofed. That would also require J-Novel, or their partner, to store your number and have the infrastructure to send out text messages.
The more secure implementation would be to support the protocol used for authenticator apps.

Hi. We are working on an update with small changes and fixes. It was an unintended change that broke this feature and it is one of the things the update will fix.

@Kurzaa nah, you're right, playing with it some more, it's not sticking after all. It would be nice if it did. The one on the releases page sticks, that's probably what I was thinking of.

@Smoochie I'm not suggesting it shouldn't be considered, only that such a suggestion may need to wait for their overhaul of the search system which I think that while someone may be working on it, it's not the top priority right this second.

JNC's been working through each backend section of their site for overhauling from the original stuff they have had since back when they only had a few dozen series and only a few volumes of each.

in general I think that more information is better. Tags, genre, age appropriateness (meaningful), how many volumes, complete(?) and average reader ratings all would be good to see - I'd also like all of these parameters (and whatever else in meaningful) to be sortable. and/or filterable - like if I want to read a fan favorite rom com, isekai, fantasy, harem, not for folks under 14, that is complete in 12+ volumes - maybe I should have a way to find Lazy Dungeon Master. Some of these features /filters exist now. Some don't

@noobping oh this would be nice! I read so many books and with creative time of writing/translating quite a few times promising series get buried because I’d forgotten about them. It’s even hard to parse my purchased j-novel library there’s enough in there.

Maybe a separate bookmark page with each series level having a heart or something so it would show up on the user bookmark page as shortcuts. J-novel could even use that as a metric if the we’re deciding to continue publishing further translations of a series by interest alone. I know there’s a few series that were stopped translating due to perceived lack of interest that I came by after the fact that since they would be an unfinished series I didn’t pick up that I would have otherwise. ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌( ￣◇￣)┘

sorry J-novel community, I made a classic blunder
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@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.