New Website Feedback
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Once again, please refer to the opening post for a list of reported issues and/or planned changes and fixes.
If you would like to continue using the old website, it is still preserved here: https://old.j-novel.club/
And also note that as stated in this announcement, our software developer is currently without power due to the winter storms, so changes will take more time to be seen.
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@myskaros Thanks for the apology. Is there any hope of a roll back to the previous version until things are fixed? I'm not sure if you have past experience with managing software launches, but they always will take much longer than expected as is the nature of software. Also, getting the fixes in that are needed will take a lot longer than you think it will take. I highly encourage you to consider a site software roll back for a bit until things are further tested internally and externally. This is not uncommon thing to do and doesn't represent a failure. It's just the nature of software.
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Hello! Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but I am unable to log in using my Google account. I'll select "Sign in with Google", select my account, but then it takes me to a "404 Not Found" page. I'm using Firefox, and this happens on both the new and the old site. I've already reached out via email, so you don't have to respond to me here, just making sure it was added to the list in the appropriate place.
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I don't know if anyone has suggested this, but a temporary splash page would have been very helpful for me. I popped on to my Bookworm bookmark to read the latest release and it took a frustratingly long time to figure out wtf was going on and how to navigate the page. A simple splash page that only appears the first time you've visited since the change that basically says "sup, new website, here is a brief summary of the more major changes" would probably go a long way in helping people adjust.
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@mlindner Anyone who prefers the old website can still access it. It's in the title post of this thread. https://old.j-novel.club/top
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@LegitPancake said in New Website Feedback:
@mlindner Anyone who prefers the old website can still access it. It's in the title post of this thread. https://old.j-novel.club/top
I realize, but keeping the site up puts a lot of pressure on the staff on the programmers to rush things. Rushed code is a great way to dig yourself into places that are hard to get out of. I'm simply strongly empathizing with the software people (person?).
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I thought I subscribed to notifications for the titles I was interested in, but didn't see any notification for the new Bookworm chapter set. I'd ideally like to see notifications (optionally) sent to my email, but since I currently have a few j-novel club tabs open, notifications via bell icon at the top of the screen would work too.
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Si. Esto está en Español. Un tanto irónico pero habemos una no menor cantidad de gente de habla hispana que está suscrita a esta web para leer con Google Traductor al español... Método que quedó inutilizable con el nuevo lector. No diré que lo solucionen, solo diré que ya no hay mérito en seguir suscrito. Saludos y gracias por su trabajo.
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We were originally hoping to make live fixes to the new website to improve things right away, but because of the weather and power issues, we will be reverting the site URLs back and working on fixes separately, then re-launching the new website at a future point in time. This change back will be happening in about 45 minutes.
- What's currently at https://old.j-novel.club (the old website) will be reverted the default site at https://j-novel.club again
- What's currently on https://j-novel.club (the newly launched website) will once again only be accessible from https://beta.j-novel.club
- "https://old.j-novel.club" will still go to the "old website," so if you've already bookmarked it, it won't break.
Thanks for all the feedback on the new website! You will still be able to access it at the above URL.
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@mlindner said in New Website Feedback:
I realize, but keeping the site up puts a lot of pressure on the staff on the programmers to rush things. Rushed code is a great way to dig yourself into places that are hard to get out of. I'm simply strongly empathizing with the software people (person?).
I think as long as they don't have to add new titles or anything, keeping the old site up and running doesn't actually take a lot of programmer resources, it's probably more work for whoever has to enter the scheduling and upload the parts, but I am not under the impression IT staff does that.
@arghc said in New Website Feedback:
I thought I subscribed to notifications for the titles I was interested in, but didn't see any notification for the new Bookworm chapter set. I'd ideally like to see notifications (optionally) sent to my email, but since I currently have a few j-novel club tabs open, notifications via bell icon at the top of the screen would work too.
Since the only place with the bell icon is the forums, I don't think that can be used to tell you when new chapters come out, only when people make new posts in the topics you've subscribed to.
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Best wishes to everyone in regards to the weather and power issues. Hope all goes well for them both in regards to those issues and work on the new site format. Overall I think it was great as I said in my last post but it looks like some bugs need squashed and it seems I'm not the only one with suggestions regarding the calendar lol. Good luck with everything though.
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Not sure whose side the issue is on or if it's just a transient glitch, but the new calendar page doesn't seem to be hooking the right links to the right titles right now. For example, when trying to open the new chapter of The Magic In This Other World Is Too Far Behind! (Manga), the link being activated is for Sorcerous Stabber Orphan instead which is the title listed below it. You have to click on the title listed above the one you think you want to get the one you want. No idea how to get to the top line's correct link without navigating through the Titles section.
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@myskaros said in New Website Feedback:
We were originally hoping to make live fixes to the new website to improve things right away, but because of the weather and power issues, we will be reverting the site URLs back and working on fixes separately, then re-launching the new website at a future point in time. This change back will be happening in about 45 minutes.
- What's currently at https://old.j-novel.club (the old website) will be reverted the default site at https://j-novel.club again
- What's currently on https://j-novel.club (the newly launched website) will once again only be accessible from https://beta.j-novel.club
- "https://old.j-novel.club" will still go to the "old website," so if you've already bookmarked it, it won't break.
Thanks for all the feedback on the new website! You will still be able to access it at the above URL.
Good to hear! Hope you can take your time and get fixes in place before we go again. Looking forward to it.
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I am consistently getting an error when I visit this page: https://beta.j-novel.club/calendar?year=2019&month=7
The JS console has this error message:
Firefox 85.0.2
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I seem to be back in the old website for some reason.
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@quirriff Due to, to quote @myskaros, "weather and power issues" (I'm assuming there was a blizzard-induced blackout or something), they're going to be fixing the new website behind the scenes and they've got the old site up front for now.
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How exactly do I get to my user id for an RSS feed? This doesn't seem to be a valid URL: https://labs.j-novel.club/feed/user/Vorthod.rss
(For that matter, I don't know how to get individual series IDs either, but that won't be a problem if I can get the user feed working) -
Some more positive feedback: I found new website really sharp and snappy. It's important for potential future users looking at the site, since I think the homepage look was much more inviting. In contrast, as an experienced user, I especially liked the new calendar because it makes it much easier to see what's coming at a glance.
Only three suggestions - probably already covered in other posts:
- Would be nice if there was a "today-only" copy of the calendar on the homepage. Otherwise, I'm going to make the calendar page itself my landing page for your site.
- The novel reader doesn't have any way to resize the text-size anymore, at least not that I could find. Trying to read tiny text on my middle-range monitor is difficult.
- Is there anywhere that announces hard-copy releases? Don't think this was on the old site either. I don't buy e-books, but I do buy hard-copy books and it's sad to have to go to a third party site and search to see what you have published.
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I love the new site a lot more then the old one but it could need some more work in regard of navigation. I would love the following.
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From your user page, please add a link to the novels landing page so you can easier go and buy new volumes when they show up, right now you need to click Titles and search it up, go there to see, would not hurt to see your next volume info direct on the user page to.
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From the calendar page, Please make it possible to click on the entries to get to the novels landing page to, right now you also need to click Titles and search the novel up.
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Some feedback that hopefully helps.
- Moving to the next part does not change the URL so if you refresh, you lose progress and it confuses you as well since it will jump back to whichever part you first clicked.
- There is no end of part marker and it always ends at 98%. Basically it does not tell you the part has ended and leaves a small percentage missing. Clicking the progress bar further does show it's the end but going back won't allow you to go forward again.
- There should be a way to make/help us remember which part we are. I don't read every part as they come, sometimes I pool chapters. Currently I keep track by keeping my page on the part where I last read then just refresh and see if there are new ones. Now this cannot be done since there is no sub part heading. I think there should be a way for us to keep track of where we are within the website instead of needing to keep a list outside.
- No "what's new" at a glance. I like the sidebar showing what's released and what's next. I think you should keep that somewhere or allow us to keep track of what's next . Novels you are following is a good place to start. Just keep everything in a list ... Novel name | which chapter last read | when will next part be released.
- On the novel parts. I think green and light green does not work. Light green is telling me it's interactable kinda like hovering your mouse on a button and it changing color. Might be a good idea to use gray for not yet released chapters? There is "release" under legend but that is confusing as well since it is not used. Might be a good idea to unify the colors and have 1 legend and drop the "release" part.
- No way to change font size. I think this is a major feature you need to put up there before releasing the new site. Specially since your team somehow is preventing chrome to resize the text. I tried changing chrome settings to make the font larger and it did not work.
