1. To find out what new series have been added. Currently impossible at a glance because I want the top of the list and circles have no tops.
2. Because I've run out of stuff to read and I want to check the "recent releases" to see if I should reconsider something. This functionality was entirely removed.

As I said, though, other folks have told me I can better answer both of those questions without using the Home page at all. So now I have no reason to ever use the Home page.

It makes me worried about the rest of the site, though. I literally have no clue what device the new home page is targeting. It definitely isn't designed for my full-screen desktop view. But it isn't particularly compelling even when I resize the window. It would be better served by doing what some sites do and just pushing using the phone app heavily instead. It's designed for a phone (clearly) but phones are better served if they're not using a web browser at all.

Then there's that feature you've been pushing recently, "Continue Reading." (1) Phone users are better served by using the phone app. (2) This doesn't work with long-term users, as it shows every series they've ever read, even when they quit series. (3) It is irrelevant for users who prefer to just download ePUB files. (4) It doesn't get a lot of use because it doesn't offer a lot of usefulness, so it does not need to be shoved in to our faces.

Back before the back-end redesign a few years ago, we could see the progress in to book parts from the Calendar page. (The phone still has this functionality, but we used to have a touch of this even if it wasn't the best.) Adding this functionality back would have been a positive change everyone would have been super happy about.

I like being able to quickly see upcoming releases which the mobile app does not show, and then looking at recent releases because I read several things I haven't favorite. Gaint banners with useless information or suggesting I reread last weeks prepub do nothing but annoy me into considering if I should spend my money somewhere else.

This is kind of blunt, but this new look doesn't really look good on a desktop. I'd get it on a mobile (even though I preferred the previous look), but on a desktop it's just... like new reddit vs old reddit to give a comparison.

This a hundred times. I can't stand when a site updates and it's clearly intended purely for mobile with every element taking up a massive amount of screen real estate and ten miles of padding on everything. I like to actually see more than two things on my screen at once. Also not a fan of change just for the sake of change. But that's one thing that's never going to actually change.

I agree with other commenters about the calendar: for me a big (the main) benefit of membership is the pre-pubs. I want to see what is 'on deck' in the coming days. I get that JNC can't post when stuff gets published/ebooks get released for reasons, but 'which pre-pubs usually come out on Tuesdays' should be easy to find

Who had the bigger downgrade though, J-novel club or Bookwalker?

I really don't think there was anything wrong with the old page on desktop, it worked well and I don't think it was ugly or anything either.

Please for the love of god put the upcoming and released section back in >_<

To add to that, I now have to go to the calendar page to find today's prepubs

It was more convenient when I click on today's prepubs directly from the homepage

Yeah, this was the biggest loss for me, it was nice to access recent and peek at upcoming prepub releases with the covers and such, but now I have to scroll past a previous day's worth of releases to find the prepub I want, unaided by covers.

It was more convenient when I click on today's prepubs directly from the homepage