New Website Feedback

Taelian

I just saw this thread and wanted to say I overall LOVE the new site design! Can't wait for it to become the main page.

That said, I'm confused about follows in particular. The only place this seems to show anything is on the calendar. If I follow a bunch of series that may not have chapters being released, just as a sort of bookmark, I can't pull up a list of what I was following. I was expecting something maybe on the User page or in the header bar so I could shortcut to certain series as I'd like to treat it as a sort of bookmark for buying volumes later.

Also on the Calendar the back link isn't working. So if I missed a few days and wanted to go back say a week to see what I needed to catch up on, I can't find how to do that.

And is there a way to bookmark things? Some novels are still fully available to read, either from catchup or because I didn't follow them too closely since I wanted to binge at the end, and it's difficult to remember where I left off in the parts.

renofury

First of all guys congrats I love the new version of the site it is intuitive, I especially like the series pages and the calendar page. I can mostly comment only on the design aspect since is also my profession. I checked the website on a surface pro in a maximised chrome window.

However thou more useful it looks more dated than the current version. Static page width is the main culprit. I would suggest to make the header and footer dynamic width.

The grey background outside the website container element makes the website claustrophobic I would suggest to make it white and increase the white space between elements. A lot of work has to be made in the typography, I would first focus on selecting a font combination for headings and paragraph text. ATM there is not enough contrast between the two

More padding in the banner, the type is cluttered at the bottom and top edge.

Terabyte

https://beta.j-novel.club/user/membership

The page says my membership is Regular but it should list it as Premium? This happens on both places: the sidebar on the left and the membership page itself.

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EDIT
One more thing: it looks like all the pages on the beta website are missing the HTML element <title>, so they all simply show the current url as the page title.

Freyr

Have the button at the button is much harder to use then at the top on a tablet.

rcombs

A few issues I've run into:

There's no way to navigate from your user page to the pages for series you follow
Pages have no <title> tags, so they just show the URL in the browser
I'm following White Cat's Revenge, but it's not showing up in my user RSS feed
It's remarkably difficult to find your user ID in order to get your user RSS feed
User RSS feeds use the user ID, rather than any kind of resettable authentication token, so if you accidentally post your link somewhere you can't reset it (not exactly a huge issue but it turns an accidental temporary loss of privacy, which is inherent to the feature, into an ongoing loss of privacy)

Taedirk

In the User Library, if you're following a series and don't have any books purchased, it'll still create a collapsible but give you no links or way to interact. These could use either a separate section for Followed series, a link to the series' page, or just not creating an entry without one owned title.

Aruseus493

Looks like there's two tags for Ichiro Sakaki.

Looks like both spellings are used even on the covers of the different series. Might be something that should be unified going forward...

Freyr

The beta site breaks scrolling to the top on iOS by clicking on the top of safari. This works in nearly all websites

Tiko424

the users section of the site says my user type is regular

catstorm

@Tiko424 yeah it's the same for mine

Kalessin

@catstorm It was mentioned fairly early on in this thread, so it's not a new problem. I expect that it shows everyone as a regular member and that it has done so since the beginning. Regardless, it obviously needs to be fixed at some point.

Shiny

Similar to my recent suggestion for the beta app, I think that the website could show progress in reading individual parts in a manner similar to the unofficial JNC reader by @Crimson-Wise.

Crimson Wise

@Shiny I actually don't think my interface works that well on a desktop browser; it has quite a lot of elements which is fine for mobile devices, but can get quite heavy on the browser depending on your screen size and machine. Still, I don't mind if it's used as inspiration or something.

I'm just happy that the website and specially the app are getting reworked (and so far, the betas are quite more usable than the old ones.)

ShakyrNvar

I think the User page needs an "Account History" page. I'm not sure if you're already tracking the data in the background and just don't show it, but basically a history going back at least 12 months, showing:

When you bought credits, how many and for how much
When a free premium credit was applied to your account
When you were charged for your subscription
When you bought a book with a credit

In addition, the ability to export your history as a CSV, so that we can keep archives of our own data.

mlindner

Is there an option to mark a series as read or keeping track of progress? I looked and it seems to only mark if you've bought the book or not. That doesn't seem very helpful as we could have bought the book elsewhere or we could have just read the pre-pub but didn't feel interested in buying the full volume later. We need a way to mark specific pre-pub parts as read. This is by far the biggest missing feature from the old site that I presumed would be added by the new site, otherwise there's not much point in the rewrite.

ManusDei

Hello, I have been trying to use the

https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/<USER ID>.<rss|atom|json>

with
https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/manusdei.rss
https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/ManusDei.rss
https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/@ManusDei.rss
https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/@manusdei.rss

to use my "own" rss feed. It doesn't work, what did I do wrong and how to I get my id ?

Adding on the todo list a way to access prepub on kindle or another e-ink reader would be great :)

Still, the beta website is much more user friendly than the original one, great work there

chocolatkey

@ManusDei Your user ID is a random hex character string, which you can find using your browser's developer tools:

You can also find it in the new app beta, in your profile, under "Debug Info". If you still cannot find it, send us an email and we can give it to you.

ManusDei

Found it in the page source, thanks :)

Malloc

I just looked at this beta for the first time and I looked around. I think it is much better than the current website so far (but I didn't try to read any parts on it so I don't know if I like that more or not.)

One suggestion for possible filters on your titles page. I would like a filter that allows me to see what series has books I haven't bought the premium version of yet. This filter will be nice for those who own a lot of your series.

jdmmis

On the new beta site the calander show the one your following is blank for me.

I'm using Safari on Catalina.