New Website Feedback

Vorthod

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)

brazosnetnet

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.

Tenerezza

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.

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.
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.

Mikiko Ran

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.

Phalanx

Overall I like it but I do have some issues with it.

Where do I check to see what has been updated recently? The old site had that on the front page, which was really convenient.
I was reading Her Majesty's Swarm and on several chapters I couldn't turn it to the last page without using the dial at the bottom.
Some things that are available on the normal site and the app don't appear to be available on the beta site. Example: a bunch of the Invaders of the Rokujouma chapters.
One thing I really like from the app is the indicator of where you are in a chapter. It's helpful for picking up where I left off if my reading is interrupted.
Is there a way for dark mode to affect the entire page I'm looking at? As it is there's a dark square in the middle that I'm reading off of surrounded by white.
I've noticed that it says if a volume has premium extras. It might be nice to be able to see what those extras are without going to the forum and searching for the title.

Other than those, I vastly prefer the new site. It's much easier to navigate and find the chapters I want to read than on the old site.

Father_V

Having the old site back has reminded me how much I prefer it.

Easy first page access to releases that week/day & countdown in hours & minutes to the next release (refreshable).
In reading mode, easy no mess changing of font size & columns with % counter through the release. In Ascendance in particular I get nervous about how much action they can pack in, but I use it on every release to gauge what they can still accomplish with the space left.

Dry Eyes

@Phalanx said in New Website Feedback:

Is there a way for dark mode to affect the entire page I'm looking at? As it is there's a dark square in the middle that I'm reading off of surrounded by white.

Scroll down to the page footer, there's a Theme: Dark Mode button that changes the rest of the main site (not the forums, though). Helps my eyes so much!

cimmadif

I've been using the beta website for awhile and really like it.
I've seen info posted already about it being in the works, but the only issue I really have is the ability to adjust font size to read. It is currently just too small for me.

lighthawk96

@cimmadif
I think that update is one of the items on the top of the "fix" list. It has been mentioned by many people in the forum for this to be added so as soon as the I.T. department is back up and running I think they will have that added.

@myskaros said in New Website Feedback:

@Elleya If you check the first post in this topic, font options are already planned.

pcj

@TheGrimLich said in New Website Feedback:

@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.

My understanding from stuff I saw elsewhere is that their main web developer lives in one of the areas with a power blackout and is looking at close to a week for getting his power back, so he can't actually get online to fix anything. So they switched the old site back in order to pre-empt any show-stopper bugs that he couldn't get online to fix right away.

bttc

I'd like to note that I like everything about the new website except for the reader portion. If we could get the font/size options to make the new reader look the same as the old reader, I'd be good with the new site.

chocolatkey

@atorbites I am surprised that people reading machine translations of JNC titles on our site, but since it is a valid use case, we have removed the line that explicitly disables Google Translate on our new reader. It had been placed there to counter the auto-translation feature of chrome that can be irritating.

stardf29

Is there a way to see specifically which translator and editor worked on a specific volume of a series where the translator or editor changed midway?

pynkbites

Glad you guys switched back to the old design, the new website was ugly as hell. Forget the redesign: just add a dark mode to the old site (especially the reader) and go from there.

Raitoiro

@pynkbites Yeah, no the new site definitely needs more work, especially on the front page, but it still way better than the current one especially the library and book pages.

Terrence

I like being able to find the catch up easily from the home screen (though it would be nice if it were a search option too to be uniform with the app).

I also prefer the new reader on the website (with the vertical scroll). I'll be sticking with the Beta site.

Phalanx

@Dry-Eyes Thanks. That's a huge help.

hopebestman

Hi, i dont know this is a issue for everyone or just me but monday, i could use new version of the site with normally. Later, i was checking forums and i clicked the link old.j-novel.club after that when ever i want to access the new version i need to use this link beta.j-novel.club normal link j-novel.club sents me the old version.

Rahul Balaggan

@hopebestman

Hello,

J-Novel Club has decide to roll back the launch of the new site, as such the old site is still the current site, and the new site has gone back to the beta domain, please refer to the following post for more information, https://forums.j-novel.club/post/117961

Thank you

hopebestman

@Rahul-Balaggan sorry for the trouble. Thanks for the info.