New Website Feedback
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The digital release dates on multiple manga do not match dates on distributor sites for future releases. JNovel has the further out than the distributors in most cases, though some like Part 1 Volume 7 of Ascendance of a Bookworm are much earlier than the distributors dates. So it's kind of random. I have not found ANY where the dates actually match so far.
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@chocolatkey said in New Website Feedback:
@mlindner Could you please add the following for your styling comparison:
- Part title
- Font choice on old and new site
It's Altina, most recent chapter from today. I didn't know you could change fonts, they're the default fonts. Apparently that means "Crimson Text" for the old one (I had to inspect the raw computed styling with inspect element in Firefox), and the new one was selected on "Literata". Also I changed the formatting on the new reader to 110% and 1.5 line spacing, which makes it somewhat readable. The defaults of 100% and 1.3 are much worse.
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The Calendar is partially broken, when viewed on Smartphone.
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@Marius8 Could you please elaborate what is broken, a screenshot would be ideal
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I just went through all the font choices and there doesn't appear to be any decent serif font choice. Literata looks most decent, but it doesn't render italic text still. It just makes the text all wavy instead of italic. Looks like a different font to be frank actually.
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Thanks for the fast responses @chocolatkey, however I'm going to be using the old reader for a while now. I'll check it again in a few weeks to see if some of the issues I mentioned previously have been fixed. If you have any questions, just ping me on the forums. (Again it would be great if we could just adapt the old reader to the new site.)
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@mlindner I'll let you know, in the meantime the old site will be available for a while for anyone else who prefers the old reader's options/design. And if anyone would like something like a new (or old) font added, please (in a civilized manner) rally users to your cause because we can't make changes according to individual users' opinions as easily as we can for the opinion of many users, because some things, such as fonts available, will never satisfy everyone
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One piece of feedback for the site. The main page (if you're logged in) should have the recent releases on a sidebar somewhere or something. Instead it just appears as a big advertisement right now as if you've just come to the site, which isn't super useful. Even better is it just showed in a sidebar all the series you're currently following and just shows the new chapters of those, basically like the old site does.
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@mlindner The layout of the homepage will be addressed in a future update. We do plan on having a sidebar
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The part listing for Volume 4 and Volume 1 is clipped. https://j-novel.club/series/tearmoon-empire
The "Parts available" has the icon on the left clipped and it only shows "Parts Availabl" in the text.
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Ok everyone, go post in https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3074/novel-reader-font-choices that you want the old font from the old reader, namely "Crimson Text". That should go a long way to making the new reader more usable.
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@mlindner Fixed the tearmoon parts by abbreviating the descriptor, I'll think of a long-term workaround later. As for the font choice, upvoting your post is a lot better than making lots of posts
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@piisfun For reference, here is what it looks like for me in FF 86.0. While I do see some issues that will be fixed, it doesn't seem to be nearly as broken as it is for you https://prnt.sc/10k14hf
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Still getting this message on my user profile library after following 3 series.
¨Your library is empty. Follow some series or purchase volumes to fill this space up!¨
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Just curious, but on the series page what exactly is the newest/oldest sorting by exactly? It looks like it's by licensing date, but it should be made more clear.
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I would like to see a release calendar similar to the old one on the home page, i know there's a whole section for it but at the moment the home page seems to have no use whatsoever.
On the calendar page thumbnails would be appreciated as it make is MUCH faster to find what i may want to read, i believe most people will identify a series by an image much quicker that by a wall of text.
Continuing on the calendar page, parts releasing on the day give you an approximate time of release in the format "in 6h/m" which is fine, anything further out gives an approximate time in 24hour format, which is also fine but whose time? Is it my local time? The sites time? Nothing on the page tells you what the release times are based on.
On the reader my issues are pretty much the same as others have stated. The fonts available are all more difficult to read compared to the font in the old reader and there is far too much text sprawled across my screen to allow easy reading. The new reader does have the 1 or 2 page option that only seems to work if i randomly toggle the single page button and the reading direction button but when i finally get it to show 2 pages on the one screen the individual pages of the 2 shown are of a text volume that would be good for the single page view in my opinion. -
Actual bugs:
- Changing the reader background to white/sepia sets the website theme to Light mode and messes with the toggle a bit. Once you do toggle it back onto dark, it'll stay dark site + sepia reader though.
- Switching from two-page view to one-page view has issues when trying to switch back to two-page view. Usually requires refreshing the page to make the change apply.
- On the calendar page, there's no way to directly get at the current month's calendar. You can go forward or back one month and then switch to this month's full calendar but not in one click. The month text (March 2021) at the top would be a good spot for that and an easy way to copy a hyperlink to the viewed month's calendar.
Feedback:
- On the fonts, trying to upvote a specific comment about liking the older font is a bit of a hard sell in a 22-page thread. I liked the thinness of Crimson Text and added some feedback in the other font thread to that effect.
- Glad to see that one-page-width is planned, as that's a more comfortable reading size.
- This may be outside of the "new website feedback" scope, but are there any plans on notification when a pre-ordered book is available for download?
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Another Bug:
The (Yesterday) and (Today) labels are being applied to every month's calendar, not just the current month.
Green's Theorem
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Looks like the buy credits page allows to enter any value to purchase the credits. I tried entering
1000in the field and it allowed me to. It will probably error out trying to purchase them, but the old site won't let you insert any number greater than 10 as the page's description says.
