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Terabyte

I felt the calendar page was fuller than before but wasn't sure why at first. Now I see that the page is using the full (extra long) names for all series, instead of the nicknames, which makes it look like a bulkier wall of text compared to before.

I would at least truncate the names so that they remain on a single line and the full name can be displayed when you're over it with the mouse. (I'm clearly talking about desktop-only here though.)

(I know there's supposed to be a feedback topic about the new site but I just can't find it right now so I posted here. 🤨)

Terabyte

The time in the calendar page used to auto-update and enable the links to the parts when it hit the release time but now I have to refresh the page for it to happen. I believe it broke after the latest update when the full names where implemented (see my post above).

Looking at my browser's console (Chrome 97; Windows) I'm seeing this error listed 3 times:

Refused to evaluate a string as JavaScript because 'unsafe-eval' is not an allowed source of script in the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'self' 'sha256-Qj6AdMOUjZkBBUTjGW/OORBoqx2Pohcq8Bg/ZvZzgYw='".

Gat

@terabyte said in Report Website Bugs Here!:

The time in the calendar page used to auto-update and enable the links to the parts when it hit the release time but now I have to refresh the page for it to happen. I believe it broke after the latest update when the full names where implemented (see my post above).

Looking at my browser's console (Chrome 97; Windows) I'm seeing this error listed 3 times:
Refused to evaluate a string as JavaScript because 'unsafe-eval' is not an allowed source of script in the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'self' 'sha256-Qj6AdMOUjZkBBUTjGW/OORBoqx2Pohcq8Bg/ZvZzgYw='".

I've also been experiencing this issue for the past days. I use a windows 10 desktop. I tested with chrome (which I normally use) and edge (which I have never used to visit J-Novel): between 9 and 10 PM, roughly 3 hours before the release of a part due at 1 AM, I set up the calendar on both browsers. I use dark mode in chrome.

Result: shortly after the 1 AM release the edge calendar was still showing 3 hours to release. The calendar in chrome must have updated at some point as it showed 1 hour to release.

Someone please save my F5 button and investigate :-)

Korppi

Encountered a strange bug.

In library, Realist Hero 3 and Rokujouma 8 had new versions to download(green entry)

Once I hit the download for Rokujouma 8, it instead downloaded a copy of Orphen 15.

When I tried again afterwards, it downloaded the right volume(Rokujouma 8), and nothing was amiss with Realist Hero 3 either.

I know this isn't some fluke, because I remember that the same thing happened a few weeks ago also, first download was totally unrelated, next ones worked as they should. I then thought I might have messed up somewhere, but now it happened again.

Could be the website leaves something in the browser cache, so clearing cache next time before downloading might alleviate the issue?
(Chrome Version 97.0.4692.71)

myskaros

@terabyte @Gat We're aware of the calendar not updating issue and investigating it.

@Korppi Huh, that's pretty odd. I'll forward this to chocolatkey to look at.

Korppi

@myskaros I have a theory what happened. The website has some noticeable lag, if you freshly load the main page for example the 'USER' still reads 'LOGIN' before switching, if you click before that happens you get the login page for a brief moment.
So if there's lag on the user page as well, that might be to blame if it clicked higher on the list than expected(the green entry didn't disappear, and Orphen was on the new books list above).

chocolatkey

@korppi Something you can do is give us the link to the download from your browser's downloads page. Here is an example for Chrome:
https://image.prntscr.com/image/JO1ryH6cS5mdcA3RRrS0pA.png
Be sure to remove everything after the question mark, so no access_token!

Korppi

@chocolatkey
Orphen 15 https://labs.j-novel.club/app/v1/me/library/61d844ae3cb46d8fb5397629/epub?
Rokujouma 8 https://labs.j-novel.club/app/v1/me/library/5a3306e0dca1960624dd8536/epub?

By the way, that image gives 403 error.

chocolatkey

@korppi Thanks. That confirms that the links are correct and correspond to the names you put next to them. So if the link you clicked on did not correspond to them, that means it's a bug with the website interface or a misclick

sniper_samurai

All the chapters in the app on manga volumes that started release since December are being stated with a fixed number of pages per chapter and not the actual page counts.
If the chapter being read has less pages than this placeholder number it is showing as not being completely read in the app.

sniper_samurai

The parts for Jessica Bannister Volume 5 are showing as expired on January 16th despite still being in prepub.

Korppi

It's been slow before, but today the site has been unresponsive to new heights. Loading the main page took forever, and each time after a few browses between main/user/calendar etc., it settled on stalling indefinitely, showing me even logged out. And trying to log back in straight stalled indefinitely as well. Even the forum is quite unresponsive today, which it hasn't been previous times.
The rest of my internet works and loads normally, so it's not my connection at least.

Clearing cache, cookies, and logging in again(still slow but worked), I was able to purchase credits and use them for today's volumes, but had to repeat the procedure between each.

Win10 Pro 64bit, Chrome Version 99.0.4844.74 64bit

Edit; And now it works. Still takes time to load any page, but works...

myskaros

@korppi Do you think it's possible it's your specific internet connection? I assume if the site was unresponsive to everyone that there would be a lot more complaints, but yours is the only one I've seen in recent memory.

Korppi

@myskaros Could be, but I don't know why it would. Everything seems to work normally now, so have to wait until next time it's slow, and then check;
If it's isp connection, I'll just test if it works normally though vpn.
If it's a script getting blocked that's causing the issue(ublock shows googletagmanager .co m and cloudflareinsights. co m scripts blocked) then incognito mode should work normally.
If it's a browser issue, switching to firefox might help.

Treviisolion

I'm looking at getting a subscription but the Subscription button does not appear to be working. Opening up the web console I am getting a 404 error trying to load the https://labs.j-novel.club/app/v1/me/subscription resource.

Treviisolion

@treviisolion Apparently if you do not subscribe through the button on the https://j-novel.club/user/membership page it is possible to subscribe. The button on https://j-novel.club/howitworks properly leads you to https://j-novel.club/subscribe which is also thankfully working. https://j-novel.club/user/membership is however not working quite properly.

yanrishatum

It seems after switching to new API that fetches novel metadata, prepub expiration markers broke. It now shows all chapters as available for prepub reading regardless if they are expired or not (clicking on expired one will open a subscribe page):
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iirc old API had an expired bool, while new one contains expiration object that is clearly not honored. If they supposed to work as buttons (while before they didn't), they should have a different color - alongside to purchased books and catchups as to not confuse people.
Ah, yes:
Windows10, Chrome. I did a full refresh as to be sure I didn't have cached scripts that caused the bug while server had a new one without it.

garantiertnicht

@yanrishatum said in Report Website Bugs Here!:

It seems after switching to new API that fetches novel metadata, prepub expiration markers broke. It now shows all chapters as available for prepub reading regardless if they are expired or not

There is a positive here, tho: we're able to see the %-progress of the parts we read on the browser on expired parts which we weren't able to view before. If you started reading prepubs/catchups, didn't finish it and wondered which volume to purchase later, this would help. To me personally, I think that's slightly more valuable than seeing if I can read everything for free on first glance, especially since there is an “Expired” badge.

Nonetheless, it does seem like it isn't supposed to be like that; as you say a different color would help and clicking on them leading to the subscribe page seems confusing at best and misleading at worst.

PS: Can confirm; Firefox (current Nightly) on Linux

Geezer Weasalopes

I'm not sure it's a website bug, but it very definitely is a bug in how the JNC bibliographic control database is set up.
Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta by Toshizou.
The Sidekick Never Gets the Girl, Let Alone the Protag’s Sister! by Toshizo.

Toshizo & Toshizou are the same author; all related titles can be found within the same Narou account. [https://mypage.syosetu.com/1333777/]
If you search the JNC database by author and enter Toshizo both pull up, but if you search by Toshizou you only get the current work.
Which shows that it is indeed a free text search of the author field as opposed to utilizing an Authority Control Entry for the author.

Erm.
Bunch of librarian gobbledygook there.

It looks like when you click on the name of an author in a series entry to see what else JNC has of theirs, it does a strict character search of the Author field, and and anything that matches the string (including items where the search string is a truncation of the entire string) counts as a positive hit, and anything shorter than the string is a negative.

Searching upon Toshizo pulls up Toshizo and anything which has Toshizo and more as well, to wit, Toshizou.
Searching upon Toshizou doesn't pull up Toshizo, since it's a shorter character string.

So it's not a case of there being an entry which is Author Number 99, and "Toshizo author of series A" and "Toshizou author of series B" both point to that author entry, but rather that there is an Author field in the database which is a free text entry, and the search is a free text entry, and only things which are matches of the free text search term are shown as being the same author.
Which means that depending upon which series page you are coming from, you may or may not find out that JNC really is publishing two works by this individual.
And that if JNC were publishing works by two individuals who publish under the same name, their works would get grouped together if doing an author search and they spelled their names the same; given that this does occur within the LN/Manga publishing industry as a result of the widespread use of aliases, as well as just having the same name in the first place, this could become an additional problem down the line.

The Library community has had to come up with solutions to this a long time ago.
Publishers and retailers have been much less careful.

myskaros

@Geezer-Weasalopes We're aware of the issue. It boils down to contracts with different companies; one contract requires us to spell it "Toshizo" and the other "Toshizou." We'll try to solve it at some point, but no specific timeline in mind at the moment.

Another example of contract spellings:

https://j-novel.club/series?search=author:"Ichiro Sakaki"
https://j-novel.club/series?search=author:"Ichirou Sakaki"