New Website Feedback
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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. -
@piisfun Thank you for spotting that, it's been fixed
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I like the new front page more than the old one. I always found the little releases segment on the old site's front page a bit clunky/not very pretty, so I'd much rather use the full-on calendar. I guess it might be nice to have a section of the main page show all the day's releases in the "scrolling options" pattern that's now used, but that sounds like a hassle to keep updated daily, so I don't mind.
I've been clicking around a bit on both desktop and mobile, so here are my resulting opinions on how the varying platforms could be improved.
General Issues
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User page: I'd like the "new" books label in the library to lose the marking after seeing them once, or somehow be able to manually remove it. Once I've seen it and know it's there, I don't need to keep being notified of it.
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Series/Calendar pages: I think I might've said this before, but it would be much nicer and cleaner to have the filters be checkboxes that you can select multiple options from, rather than the "pick one of these sets of options" that it currently is.
- The "Show All" option takes up space being repeated across each filter option, and I also forget its there constantly because it doesn't have a symbol beside it like the other filter options do.
- The "Sort By" segment in Series can't be a checkbox, obviously, so that's fine as is, or it could be a dropdown selector - think AO3, its filter system is wonderful.
- If you really want to keep the "pick one" setup, please have options in Publication Status for "ongoing," "complete and ongoing," and "on hiatus." Though if you were to do checkboxes, you could just have "ongoing, complete, on hiatus" and not have to worry about labeling the various combination options ;)
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Series: Now that tags are actually searchable rather than just little snippets, I think they should be cleaned up to be useful as tags. Things like "medieval" and "character growth" are good tags; things like "notice me senpai," "slow life," "business acumen" (when "business" is already a tag), etc., not so much.
- It would be good to not only trim down the more 'niche' tags that really only apply to a single series, but also look over the list and consider what are the best tags for things. Like, why is "The Magician Who Rose From Failure" the only series labeled "lore rich"? [cries in Bookworm] It's also the only series labeled "past life," which makes me think tags are being added for newer series that aren't getting added to older ones when applicable.
Desktop-Specific Issues
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Main page: I think the scrollbars for the book lists could be bigger so they're more readily noticeable. Actually, I'd prefer if I could just click and drag through the books like how I can on mobile, rather than having to use specifically the scrollbar or the arrow options.
- I don't really like the arrows in general, but I think they'd be better placed outside the cover images rather than overlaying them, since currently a mis-click takes you to a new page. It would also increase their clarity. The covers would need to be reduced further to make space on the sides, though.
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Reader: The black progress/menu bars disappear a bit too fast; if I'm scrolling through the chapter options and accidentally move my mouse outside of the zone, it'll sometimes disappear before I can get it back in.
Mobile-Specific Issues
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Series/Calendar page: Most of this site's menu bars are on the left hand side (filters on desktop, forum menu on mobile) but these pages' filters for mobile are on the right side of the page, which is unintuitive. The filters button and the pop-out menu should be on the left to line up with everything else.
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Reader: The reader is somewhat annoying to work through, especially on portrait mode. There is very little room for text due to the browser's natural top and bottom bars, and the site's black progress/menu bars take up even more space on top of that.
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Reader: Those aforementioned black bars are very hard to make disappear; it seems like I have to tap, and then quickly scroll, to get rid of them. I'd prefer to turn them on/off just by tapping.
EDIT: I thought there was a separate page for new website bugs but it seems they go here.
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Series page: Marginal Operation isn't showing the bars that indicate parts released, including V7 which is supposedly "currently publishing." Clicking "read preview" will take you to the reader and allow you to go through chapters properly.
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Main page: The "link" for the Library button is "j-novel.club/user/howitworks," both on the little "hover over" that will pop up when you hover over a link and tell you the address, and on the searchbar once you click the link. It does still take you to the library correctly, and the actual "howitworks" link will take you to its proper link as well... so I guess it's just a visual glitch or something? All the other links look fine.
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Reader (desktop only):
When I switch to scrolling instead of paginated, a thin black bar appears on the right side of the reader. It disappears and reappears as I switch back and forth.Upon further inspection (aka when it's light out and my laptop's brightness is up) I realize it's a scrollbar; I assume that's what "no light-themed reader interface yet" is referring too since that's part of the interface. But the current dark-mode scroll box is so dark it's practically invisible against the black bar, so it could do with higher contrast for readability.- And if a light-mode reader interface is being added, I do hope that a proper dark-mode reader (black background, white text) is being worked on as well.
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