New Website Feedback
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only thing i miss is the "Upcoming Soon" section of the old site saying how long till X or Y part/volume is coming up, and re-sizing text in the reader
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@SoullessMinion Yeah the countdown was interesting but it was inaccurate as it rounded to the nearest 30 minutes for the calculation if the release part was more than 1 hour away. If you click on the new calendar you will see a clock with a time on it next to the title that now shows the time it will release local to your timezone. It's more accurate in my mind. For example, it is 6:51 PM central time and Instant Death Cheat Vol. 4, part 6 shows to be releasing for me in 19 hours. That is "correct" if you round the time to 7 PM CST and add 19 hours. (I've noticed that Death Cheat usually comes out for me at 2 PM local time, but it was never explicitly stated). Now on the calendar page it says 15th Monday 14:00 so I know it is planning on coming out at 2 PM on Monday local time.
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Just a reminder to check the first post in this topic for known issues/high priority changes that we have already identified!
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Oh interesting...
Not going to lie, there is no telling how long the new site could have been live before I'd have noticed without this post having been updated and catching my eye. I use the beta app to read everything and come directly to the forums for discussions. Pretty sure the only time I ever go to the main site is to pick up credits/books and I tend to do that in chunks every so often 😅
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safari on ipad mini - the "page fit" option in the manga reader doesn't seem to do anything. I set it to "fit width" or "fit height" and I see the "settings saved" message, but nothing seems to change. It seems stuck on 'fit height' which is difficult to read on a smaller device screen.
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@Terabyte As mentioned, easy links to user RSS feeds (or series RSS feeds) is something that will be added. You can follow the scheme mentioned in this topic or DM me on the JNC Discord if you would like that URL.
Blog emptied now, thank you for reminding us.@TheGrimLich the redirect bug is fixed.
@xdrfiredogx Work will continue on the new app once the beta site has stabilized
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@chocolatkey said in New Website Feedback:
@Terabyte As mentioned, easy links to user RSS feeds (or series RSS feeds) is something that will be added. You can follow the scheme mentioned in this topic or DM me on the JNC Discord if you would like that URL.
Blog emptied now, thank you for reminding us.I certainly remember that, but I thought it was only for "while the new site's still in beta". I'll just go ahead and follow the scheme in that previous post then. 👍
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On MacOS, Safari 14.01 works, but with Safari 13.1.2, it never finish loading and I see the following error. Maybe same issue with iOS 13 other people are seeing?
https://i.imgur.com/hXVAAeh.png
Working around by using chrome.
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The new (buy - apply credit - download) popup is great! It's much easier than going to 3 separate pages and doing another search on the library to get the download link.
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Ah well. I guess I have an attention span on par with Zaphod Beeblebrox the 0th.
I visited the forums because of the change: I suspect that I would have seen it if I did visit more regularly. I really only look at the title of the front page and then read the content if the title catches my attention since I am usually more interested in the calendar and title pages.
At any rate, while I like the changes, I enjoy complaining and needed something about which to complain since they did not leave much else (if excluding the laundry list of "wants").
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This likely to be data issue with a specific series, but posting here anyway since it is related to the new functionality. I tried to "follow" Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga) series. In the calendar, I see that the older volumes from Part 1 are followed, but the latest volume from Part 2 Volume 1 is not.
Looks like they are not connected as a same series. So when I change calendar to "Followed Title only", upcoming chapters are not displayed.
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I like the new design, very clean and professional looking.
My one concern is that it might be too clean on the calendar page ... I feel the lack of the Cover Art being shown here makes it harder to discover new titles when they pop-up, quickly visually find titles that I am currently interested in, along with the feeling that the page might be a bit too sterile.
As someone that sort of lived off your old "Coming soon" sidebar, I think adding the cover art to the calendar section would kelp a lot. But over all I like everything else. Good Job A+.
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@hiroto @MasterLillyclaw the incompatibility with novel loading in Safari should be fixed now, please let me know if it worked
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@hiroto Thanks for letting us know about this problem!
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@chocolatkey said in New Website Feedback:
@hiroto @MasterLillyclaw the incompatibility with novel loading in Safari should be fixed now, please let me know if it worked
Works! Thank you for quick response.
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Most of the time I hate it when Websites change. It's usually too flashy and uses too much javascript and less of the fundamentals that make a good web site.
I like this change. It's simple and easy to navigate and read.
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Only problem I really have with the new site that hasn’t been touched on so far is the lack of links to the forums. You used to be able to access links to the forums from the volume description pages, and you can’t do that anymore.
Also, is it intentional that all of the prepub parts for Rokujouma are no longer accessible? It used to be a special case where all prepub parts were accessible despite being past the expiration date for that particular series.
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No pictures corresponding to the LN or manga. Could we have those back please?
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Ok, now I've had a chance to test things out, I like the new site. It's certainty easier to use credits now, which use to be a bit of a kludgey process. The reader seems to work ok, though I think both the main app and the beta app work a bit better, to say nothing of some of the 3rd party apps people have tossed together. I do like that it shows what future volumes are out in Japan already... it's something I'm off curious about but going and looking can also open you up to risking spoilers. This is much better.
The only problem I came across in testing is that when I search for a title, I have to close my keyboard and reopen it and hit enter a time or three to get it to search. Hard to tell if that's because of a issue with it recognizing that I'm searching or with a long response time to generate the results. This on a Note 9 using Firefox, if you care.
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@chocolatkey Yup, novels are now loading! Calendar, library, and catchup all good. On my phone, and my laptop for good measure.
However, in checking that things in general were loading, I actually stumbled across a lone manga that didn't. Just to make sure it was specific updates and not entire swatches, I opened up every single novel and manga Part that's released in February thus far; and for those that were off, I checked up on its related chapters + the title pages. The following chapters (all manga) don't properly load on both my phone and my laptop:
- Marginal Operations manga, V8Ch1 - it gives 404 error
- Campfire Cooking manga, V4Ch1 - it says "PANIC: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference"
- YuriOta manga, V3Ch1 - 404 error
- YuriOta manga, V3Ch2 - 404 error
The Marginal Operation page seems like something is up, since neither V7 prepubs nor the V8Ch1 prepub are available for me to click. If I click on "Read Preview" for V7 it will take me to the manga and let me read all of V7 if I use the dropdown volume&chapter selector from the reader or click "back/next" - though V8 still doesn't show up anywhere.
The Campfire Cooking page is fine in regards to V3, as I can click/read all of V3 just fine. The V4 cover shows an error sign instead of the cover though, and its link gives the same "PANIC" response.
I couldn't find "YuriOta" when searching the site's titles (which is probably only an issue when I can't click on the release to find the full title lol), but Google tells me it's the "I Love Yuri and I Got Bodyswapped" novel/manga; the YuriOta page lets me go through V2 as normal, but V3 again isn't listed as being published right now, and there are no links to it for me to click.
For reference, my laptop specs are - OS: 64-bit Windows 10 (Version 2004, OS Build 19041.746); Web Browser: Google Chrome (Version 88.0.4324.150). I've tried to be thorough and explain all I've noticed, but if I missed something or you need me to clarify/recheck something, just let me know! ^^
