Yet Another PWA JNC Client
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@alfonso_rd_36 Thanks! Ironically, I'd move to the new official app if the usability on the read parts improve. The paginated reader seems to be mostly fine now on the v1 app.
And yeah, I'll give it a try. I was surprised that the contents for light novel parts is available on the new API. Was expecting to be DRM'd somehow, same as manga, but it isn't.
I'll probably need to rearchitect how I handle the home tab however, since I can't download everything as I was doing before ;)
(And to add, I am myself a heavy user of my reader!)
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I use your reader for everything. Much better readability then the official app on an iPad. I also like how you do page numbing since I can use the number to compare how big difference parts are whereas the official app has a percentage which is not helpful.
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@freyr That is a good point actually. How does the official app handles the iPad's landscape orientation? A single column filling the whole screen?
My reader came from an EPUB reader app I was implementing for desktop around that time, so I had to handle a lot more window shapes. I pretty much use my phone these days however so I completely forgot about it.
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@crimson-wise I actually broke my iPad last week… so I am using my iphone until I get a new one.
I nearly always read on a iPad in portrait which works very well in your app as compared to the official app.
I don’t remember what landscape looked like in your app, but on the official app I do remember it handling landscape badly though that was while ago.
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@freyr Got it, thanks! Well, the official doesn't have margins yet so that's a bit of an annoyance.
My app tries to keep an A4-shape for columns. In landscape you'd end up with a couple of columns I believe. (Or you may also end up with a lot of margin if wide enough but two columns don't fit... which helps with readibility IMO, at least with bigger screens.)
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So I've migrated to the new API, and published the PWA under a new domain,
The old PWA app will likely stop working as the old APIs go away, so I'll delete it eventually (the old URL will stop working at that point.) That said, the new version is still rought around the edges so I'll be fixing things as I find them.
Feature-wise, not all the data that was available on the old API is also on the new one, so a few minor things went away, but it's more or less the same otherwise.
The new version may be faster as well to load. On the old version I was loading pretty much everything at front and caching them, on the new one things get loaded on demand with little caching, so there will be a lot more requests going around. If your network is stable enough it should be fine.
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@crimson-wise said in Yet Another PWA JNC Client:
So I've migrated to the new API, and published the PWA under a new domain,
The old PWA app will likely stop working as the old APIs go away, so I'll delete it eventually (the old URL will stop working at that point.) That said, the new version is still rought around the edges so I'll be fixing things as I find them.
Feature-wise, not all the data that was available on the old API is also on the new one, so a few minor things went away, but it's more or less the same otherwise.
The new version may be faster as well to load. On the old version I was loading pretty much everything at front and caching them, on the new one things get loaded on demand with little caching, so there will be a lot more requests going around. If your network is stable enough it should be fine.
Ok, put the new link on a new tab. Once the old app failurize I'll migrate
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The new version is great and much faster. Works well on my iPad
Pictures from an iPad
You asked before what the official app looked like on an iPad
https://imgur.com/a/dtd9zpLYour (new) web app is still much better then the official app. The only downside of the old web app for me of being a bit slow is gone.
Only improvement I could want is that for manga links open the link in the default grower instead of showing a blank page, I don't read manga much so that is a only a small problem.
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@freyr Good to know, thanks! And yeah, the manga thing is a bit annoying (iOS doesn't seem to give too many choices here) but I'm good with what it's at the moment.
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PSA: after using the new version for a month I don't think there are any major issues* compared to the old one. Let me know otherwise.
Otherwise, I'll be deleting the old website at the end of the month.
* Aside from a couple of graphical glitches, the only practical bug I'm aware of is some minor mishandling with authentication, so it appears like you haven't logged in. I'll figure it out eventually, but seldom happens (to me at least), and can be worked around by pulling down to refresh so data gets reloaded. Either that or authentication actually expired, and you need to login again.
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The old website is no longer available, please go to https://jnc-reader.wscr.dev/ from now on.
Quof got a break.
WHAT'S THE STORY WITH THAT FREAKING BLACK DRAGON?! -
@crimson-wise Seems the catch up for this month is broken on the new site. Instead of all the parts being available they are all locked except part 1 of each volume, even the ones that have not expired yet.
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@sniper_samurai Thanks, you're right. It should be fixed now if you refresh the page.
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is this compatible with the new reader, since i am disabled i use it for text to speach
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@lookman373 to confirm, are you asking whether the reader on my PWA's new website is the same as the old website? Then yes, didn't make any changes there. Haven't used TTS with it, but if it worked before it should be the same.
Let me know if I didn't get you fully.
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@crimson-wise i was asking if this site will still work when the old JN website is retired
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@lookman373 Yes, it will. Whether TTS works for you however, can't really tell. Looking back to some old comments, it was mentioned it didn't, so that may still be the case.
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@crimson-wise TTS works do to a Plugin on my local computer as long as the text load in TTS will work
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@sniper_samurai said in Yet Another PWA JNC Client:
@crimson-wise Seems the catch up for this month is broken on the new site. Instead of all the parts being available they are all locked except part 1 of each volume, even the ones that have not expired yet.
This has popped back up again, it probably occurred when midnight hit for GMT. It was fixed earlier though.
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@crimson-wise Thanks for the updated url. Love using your work.
