New Website Feedback

Timmaaah

Trying the view Outbreak Company's page and get the following error.

Failed to load data: TypeError: Failed to validate.

piisfun

I love the new calendar design.

Groupings are so much easier to trace.

It should be noted though that it is currently impossible to check the previous days releases, should you have missed them.
Maybe higlight the current day, instead of removing the previous days, or have an option to show them?

Bug: Buttons for unavailable parts are currently clickable, redirecting to an error message.

I will comment on the titles page after search functionality is added.

Suggestion: Add a publication label For the "standard" label (Non-heart)

Bug: The description box is sizing off its contents, rather than having a set width based of the browser window.
Most noticeable with Discomunication.

Series pages:
Having a separate list entry for each volume is a massive improvement over the previous rotary menu.
Legend is simple enough.

I take it you plan on putting either subpages or some sort of expanding menu for prepubs?

Bug: The buy button still redirects to the premium page while logged out.
Bug: The "Discuss on forums" button still shows up while logged out, leading to the members section.

Drone205

A wishful suggestion. The option to read an expired LN if it was bought on the site. I don't download books on my phone, sometimes I'm in a place with WiFi with nothing to do. In cases like that it would be nice to be able to read a JNC title I own, but don'thave my tablet with the books.

I've got a second suggestion for the app. The ability to buy a LN using a credit.

Khaos

I don't like how new epubs expands the series in the Library AND are shown at the very top. Would like to see one or the other. Personally, I'd rather the new listed at the top and keep series collapsed.

chocolatkey

@Drone205 In-app purchases will most likely never be a thing due to the Apple/Google tax

piisfun

One other note:

It would be nice if there was a mark for the publishing label on the series page.

Scrolling too quickly results in the page flickering in and out.

Cowmonger

For the longer pages (basically any page containing a list...), a way to quick-scroll back to the top of the page (such as a "scroll to top" FAB on a bottom corner of the screen) would be nice.

Or perhaps an alternative could be to have the header appear/disappear with the scrolling up/down motions and have the scrolling of the lists be independent of the sidebar such that the sidebar remains on-screen as users scroll down.

Edit: A more obvious differentiator between the novel and manga pages for a series would also be nice.

Drone205

To add to the scrolling through titles. You could have a side bar showing where your at in the list. WSJ app shows you what letter your at.

Rollind

When enabling the "Followed Titles Only" filter on the Calendar page, the results are completely empty even while the user page says I am following a few series.

Also getting (command failure) Can't canonicalize query: BadValue $in needs an array when requesting my user RSS feed.

chocolatkey

@Rollind Thank you for reporting, I have fixed the RSS issue

waterflame

I guess this would go here since it is related to the beta site? Visiting https://beta.j-novel.club/titles/novel/wataru-the-hot-blooded-fighting-teen-his-epic-adventures-in-a-fantasy-world-after-stopping-a-truck-with-his-bare-hands#volume-1 has it display "show less" while visiting https://beta.j-novel.club/titles/novel/wataru-the-hot-blooded-fighting-teen-his-epic-adventures-in-a-fantasy-world-after-stopping-a-truck-with-his-bare-hands has it display correctly "show more".
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Also while I'm at it.. Both the versions of Mapping are tagged as Novels on the calendar page(though the second one is the manga)

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Also Cheers on the feeds, I can now stop page scrapping ^^

BartzBB

On the new site, will not be possible anymore to see the latest or available parts for the day?

On the current site we have the schedule on the right side that you can view the latest parts for the day while on the new site you'll have to first go to the calendar every time you want to read something.

Aruseus493

Front Page

News Section - Would be helpful for people looking for something like the list of new licenses, changes, catch-ups, and so on. The old site has a kind of blurb but that's never been particularly fleshed out either. There's a "News" link at the bottom of the website which goes to a blog but that should perhaps be a bit more prominent at the top of the site.
Our Latest Titles - Would be nice if it was a slide bar which shows like all the titles from the "latest license batch" instead of just the latest 5.
User Page - Just straight up doesn't work for me currently.

Titles

No Search - Seems like there's no longer a straight search option. This would be helpful for finding titles that get merged like Banner of the Stars which is located within Crest of the Stars or Arifureta SS inside of Arifureta.
Sorting - There should be more sort options like Alphabetical (A-Z & Z-A). There's also no Newest vs Oldest as the default is just stuck on Newest.
By Publisher - Would be nice to have the ability to filter/sort by Japanese Publisher. If you need help finding all the info, I have it here. ;)
Publication Status - A bit confusing to have Complete Only, and then Complete & On Hiatus. This should be extrapolated a bit more. I'd recommend Ongoing, Complete, Caught Up, Stalled (for when caught up and no future volumes announced. Can also work for all those potentially cancelled series so they stop being misrepresentated as complete)
Remember Location - When backing out from a Series Page, the website doesn't remember the location in the list you were last at. It just drops you near the top.

Series Pages

Retailers - There's a Physicals Legend and marking that says Check Stores. Would be nice for this to be expanded to perhaps show all the retailers you can buy physical from. Like clicking the thing will create a pull-down with the list of Physical Retailers. This could also be used for the Digital Tab with the release date on it.
Tags - Should be clickable to find other series with similar tags. This also includes stuff like Author, Illustrator, Translator, Editors.
Publishers - Would like to see the Japanese Publisher as a tag. And maybe the label too as another tag.
Mass-Buy - Would be nice to be able to quickly buy all the volumes of something from the Series Page. Perhaps tie in the Buy button itself into the Redeem Credit page or create a checking system for clicking through all the volumes quickly and bulk purchasing. This would help encourage me to spend all the credits I bought just for Rokujouma.
Public Version Numbers - Each volume should have a listing somewhere as to what version the Epub is. This should also be tied into the "Follow" system. If a new version of something like Arifureta 10 is uploaded, everyone with volume 10 or that follows the series should get a message/notification that there's a new version available. Would be nice to be able to see immediately what version it is as well.
Publication Status - The Publication Status of the series should be listed on the series page whether it be Ongoing, Completed, Cancelled, or Stalled. Perhaps actionable like a tag too.
Alternative Titles - The new series pages include the official English title and Japanese title. It would be nice if the Romaji and Shorthand titles were included. For example I can search Bakarina on the old site and the appropriate series appears. I assume it's cause of the hashtag listing. But it would be nice if Romaji and Shorthands were just default for series somewhere.
BEATLESS - So there are Premium Credit Redemption Links on the BEATLESS page. I shamelessly clicked volume 1 and spent the credit. The book appears in "My Library" on the old site but clicking download brought me to an error page indicating it isn't uploaded yet. This is easily fixed if the Premium DRM-Free Ebook were to be uploaded. :3

Volume Pages

Not sure if Volume Pages will continue to be a thing. If so, then some of my previous requests on series pages should be applied to Volume Pages too.

Physical Listings - Should be indicated somewhere that there's a Physical Listing, list of retailers to buy physical from, and the release date of the physical version.
Version Numbers - Same as before. A version number to indicate what version the Epub is so people can update their Ebooks for stuff like typos or issues like missing Premium Content.
Premium Content Listing - Rather than digging into the forum for the list, what each volume's Premium Content is should be listed on each volume's specific page.
Shortlinks - Would appreciate there be Shortlinks for volume specific pages to save on character count when sharing volume links to other sites. (I constantly have to use a link shortening service when preparing links on reddit cause of how bloated they tend to be and character counts.)

Calendar

Physicals - Would like to see Physical releases listed.
Ebooks - There's a "Digital Books Only" tab but it's a bit buggy (Probably already reported) in that it currently lists all the new licenses today despite none of them having a true Ebook release release. In addition, I'd say to change the Release Type selections from Digital Books Only to Ebook Release and Part Release. Would be a bit more clear.
Follows - There's a weird inconsistency with Follows. Are your Followed series recorded as something like a specific tag to each title, or just the series title. For example, I'm "Following" Arifureta. When I selected Show Followed Titles Only, Arifureta Zero showed up desite not being in my "Follows." These are considered two separate licenses and even J-NC keeps them as separate series pages. So the only way I think Zero showed up is that Follows are recorded as something like a shorthand which Followd Titles Only uses something like a filter or search for anything that's "followed" which can result in similar titles being grouped in. (Although I doubt you'll come across this much overall.)

My Library

Not sure if this is supposed to be accessible since clicking User just brings me to a previously mentioned error page. But my old request for the My Library Page was for there to be more advanced sorting like "Sort by Newest Release" to be able to quickly go to the downloads for new volume releases. Or "Sort by Newest Purchases" to get to your latest purchases.

I'll do another big feedback drop when there's more accessible pages to the beta~

Kalessin

I love the fact that you can filter the calendar on epubs to get all of the pre-pub stuff out of the way. Filtering out the manga is good too.

That being said, for some reason, the calendar is showing the new license announcements on the top as if the epubs for them were coming out on July 4th. So, that should probably be fixed.

Nosgoroth

Some quick notes that might or might not be useful:

Beta page has no document title.
Dark Mode should load automatically based on OS-level preferences using media query prefers-color-scheme: dark or, if you want to keep the button for users without an OS that supports that, autodetect the user preference with js when the value isn't set using matchMedia. See here.
In the home page, maybe put a "See more" button to the Titles page after each section, filtered by the appropriate query.
Titles page lacks a text filter.
Titles page lacks sort options.
Titles search results being clickable all over makes me nervous. I'd rather a button with a clear-cut action like "See more" or something.
User page gives me a "regular" badge, which I suppose should be "premium". Also, for regular members, just say "member".

_08

@Aruseus493 said in Beta Website Feedback:

Are your Followed series recorded as something like a specific tag to each title, or just the series title.

Follows are basically list of (unique) serie ids. Series, volumes, parts, purchases, part text and some other things are properly linked with ids as usually done in relational databases but events are not really linked to anything and you can only guess their relations based on URLs or titles (events are all those records you see in "coming soon" and "schedule" sections you see on the main site). I wouldn't expect it to be fixed soon. It's somewhat easy can improve guessing but the proper solution is explicitly linking events to other entities which involves more of backend work.

Not sure if this is supposed to be accessible since clicking User just brings me to a previously mentioned error page.

Serie We Don't Talk About strikes again.

crowdcontrol

@chocolatkey
Also like to see features like, most popular downloads, most popular rated series etc
Sometimes I like to know what other ppl are buying and reading so I could also go buy/read it
This feature is not in the old webpage

hopebestman

Most of the translators are working on more than one series. For example, Quof works on AoaB and LDM. So when i was checking AoaB's page, i can see Quof as a translator, it would be nice if when i click Quof's name, it would send me his series. So i can check this translator works on these series.

Its not important thing but time to time im checking when i start reading a new series. For example, literally yesterday i checked Realist Hero's translator but i couldnt find a way in JNC so i had to google it.

Also, in old version of the site, in right side we can see which part will release. And even we can see the countdown. That was nice. I couldnt find that option, if there is please someone let me know. So i can edit this request.

Also, i dont like the current version and i didnt like to new beta version of the X Series' main page.
Example; when i go to AoaB's page, for finding lastest release part, i have to spent sometime. For old version, there was an option. I could check on "coming soon" side but in beta i have to search myself and when i go to AoaB's page i have to go down, i have to find lastest book, i have to click the read and more.

PS: The thing with the translator would be nice for all of them. "author, translator, editor etc"

tgquan67

@_08 I guess right now simple string matching is being used, that's why it matches "Arifureta Zero" when you follow "Arifureta".

And by the way at the moment I write this, filtering events on the calendar to only titles that I follow is not working (on latest Firefox 78.0.1 and Firefox for Android beta).

db0ssman

@tgquan67 said in Beta Website Feedback:

@_08 I guess right now simple string matching is being used, that's why it matches "Arifureta Zero" when you follow "Arifureta".

And by the way at the moment I write this, filtering events on the calendar to only titles that I follow is not working (on latest Firefox 78.0.1 and Firefox for Android beta).

I found that the follow button is working for some of the titles, and not for others. For example, the Slayer series and Mapping series will show up but none of the other series will.