New Website Feedback

[myskaros]

@mattashii We definitely have plans to have better tracking for our print releases, but thank you for asking about it! We don't have an ETA at the moment, but it's on our priority list.

[yzh4rjdzob6]

I ran into the same issue as this. It's unclear to me if that poster meant the new site, or the old site.

On my ipad mini, the last page of a manga chapter has raw html instead instead of the "next part"/"back to reading" page like the desktop : https://i.imgur.com/J086GDL.png .

My ipad mini is 14.7.1, and I see this with both Safari and Firefox 35.0. I checked with multiple, random series in both browsers, and they all have this problem. This happens in portrait single page and landscape double page. This happens with page-to-page and scroll.

[Aruseus493]

Any chance of the Isekai Genius page being updated? It mistakenly has the "Completed" tag and shows up when searching for completed series on the series page. It should be under "On Hiatus." The author ended volume 3 with the intention of volume 4 being the ending but just never wrote it.

[pcj]

The "Series follows for <user>" RSS feed seems to have stuff show up out of order in it all the time. It looks like the publish date on the items put in it probably matches when they got uploaded to the site instead of when they actually got posted. That or someone's copy/pasting previous listings and forgetting the change the date.

For example: "Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire (Manga) Volume 1 Chapter 3" which released at 1pm Eastern today is showing up in the feed with a date of June 12, 2021 on it.

[chocolatkey]

@pcj You're correct, the third-party library being used had some confusing options, I didn't realize the created/updated dates are used in such a manner. That's fixed now, let me know if it isn't.

[pcj]

@chocolatkey indeed, stuff seems to be sorting correctly and reflects the release time now, thanks!

[piisfun]

Minor issue with the reader:
Pictures seem to be able to overhang low-hanging letters such as 'g'.

My personal settings are Literata; 140% size; 1.3 spacing; justified.

[Nosgoroth]

Someone reported this on Discord:

I was able to reproduce it on Bookworm P4V2 and P4V3, on Chrome and Safari at a horizontal resolution range of between 866x and 944x.

I also found this:

The covers become tiny at exactly 865x, only on Chrome (not Safari), for all volumes of all series.

[Nosgoroth]

@darkrookie said in New Website Feedback:

Have it remember the 1 page setting.

And all the settings for color, font size, line spacing and all that, please. They never last three days.

[redmasq]

A behavior in which I have been noticing as of late on the website, if using from a tab that is already open (have not measured time, but no less than 12 hours). User account page is at least visible along with previous purchases and calendar shows "Following" list just fine (since the RSS feed works without login out of necessity, this is not surprising if a fixed url with a token is used for whatever API the calendar hits and then filters).

Attempting to read a part beyond chapter 1 directly results in "You are not allowed to read this part." As plaintext. Attempting from the reader page, if going to Chapter 1 first, gives 403 in big print (assumed to be HTTP 403 Forbidden). It is easy to assess that the session is likely expired and I had been logged out without the UI realizing; I am mildly concerned that the User page still shows my library, but if it is something just shoved into browser local storage, then probably not a big deal yet still a point of frustration.

Next time it happens, I will check to see if it allows me to download a novel. If not, it is likely just a UI bug. If it does, maybe session tracking is inconsistent across different code bases or machines if using a reverse proxy? Unfortunately, the mobile browser is lacking a debug console, but there is means to capture logs and certain types of network traffic.

Please note this behavior has only been observed on Chrome browser of my mobile devices (iOS, iPadOS, and Android). I have not observed it in FireFox or Chrome on Windows 10. Work has been busy, so I had not had chance to check Edge in Windows, any browsers on Linux, or mobile Safari. As a side note, I keep the sleep/snooze/freeze tab features disabled on my desktop.

[KingKillerX]

Since I mentioned elsewhere I figure I should probably mention I think here too? Setting your clock ahead messes with front page link availability and resulted in me seeing a Manga chapter several hours early without realizing it.

[jdmmis]

I just noticed looking at bookworm that its not showing all the books on the series page. I'm only seeing up to Part 2 Volume 3. I'm using Safari on a Mac as my main browser but I tried chrome too with the same outcome.

Now when I checked out smartphone and it checked out fine and I went back to bookworm it looks fine.

Something weird

[Gamen]

@jdmmis The manga is only up to P2V3 on JNC... The light novels are at https://j-novel.club/series/ascendance-of-a-bookworm

[Tiko424]

Would be nice to sort the items when looking in the series page by last updated

[Geezer Weasalopes]

@tiko424 said in New Website Feedback:

Would be nice to sort the items when looking in the series page by last updated

As in sorting by pre-pub chapter release timestamp across all titles?
I'm pretty sure that's theoretically possible.
Depending upon how they are storing the requisite data it might not be that tricky to pull up the info required for the sort.

But wouldn't it just replicate what you can already pull up by looking at the release schedule?
In some ways it would be more convenient, but I can see it being looked at as a somewhat lower priority than various other things needing work in re the new website, since there kinda is access that way already.

It's not a crazy idea.

[Tiko424]

@weasalopes I can definitely agree it’s lower priority and yes you can get it from the calendar however sometimes I want to shift though the series section to look though over the calendar. As it is it’s just a suggestion if it gets implemented great if not well I’m not the one doing the work.

[Geezer Weasalopes]

@tiko424
There are times it really would be more convenient, yes.
There are probably those for whom it would be more comfortable than using the schedule interface

Working as a librarian I had to bear in mind that people think differently, and what works well for some in regard to how you access information doesn't work at all for others, because they just don't think that way.
So the more ways you can get at the information the better, to the extent that your system can support it.

[piisfun]

I'm not sure if this is for development reasons, but the reader is currently stuck in single page mode.

[myskaros]

@piisfun Works fine for me. Can you tell us your device, operating system, browser + version? Have you tried using another browser or trying incognito mode?

[piisfun]

@myskaros Firefox 92.0 (64-bit)
Windows 10

It apparently works fine in chrome and edge.