New Website Feedback
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Please add tags to all the series which represent their original JP Publishers. Would be nice to know. Feel free to rip/copy from this page. https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/wiki/publishers/jnc
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@myskaros said in New Website Feedback:
Just posting a quick update that the Google SSO issue should be fixed, so please let us know if you're still experiencing issues logging in using "Log In With Google"!
Old website's Google SSO doesn't seem to work. Clicking it logins me to new website & if I go back to old website, I'm still logged out.
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The more I try to use the new website, the more the fact that tapping the top browser bar on mobile doesn’t scroll to the top of a page is an issue. It makes it a lot harder to use the paginated series page in particular. Scrolling not hiding the browser bars is presumably related, but not as much of an issue.
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Well as for feedback, new site seems really cool and nice to use. There are some minor stuff which i dont like but those are just personal taste :D Also idk is this the place but i just downloaded and checked the beta-app in IOS and i have to say that, the app also seems really easy to use compare to old one.
If you wonder the minor problems which i dont like, one i like to see the new release thing in home page like in old version. Also in reading part, i use arrows rather than mouse to change pages. So i would like to get rid of the mouse when i read but i cant. Another thing i would like to change the color of the text. So not very important stuff.
Thank you for your work, its a really nice website.
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I just realized while using the new reader but the giant mouse cursor is finally gone and the part doesn't go back at the beginning anymore when turning to full screen and vice versa.
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I had to move from the TestFlight app (which is now unusable for me) to the site reader, and I have to say the new site reader actually works really well on an iPad. It’s much better than the old one.
The only issue I’ve encountered is that flicking to get to the next page sometimes gets stuck around images, but tapping still works fine.
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Here's a new issue I just noticed with Chrome on Windows 10: viewing the calendar on a monitor with a resolution of 1920x1080 everything is fine, but on another one with a resolution of 2560x1440 everything looks really messed up.
(Image of the issue inside the spoiler so people don't have to scroll past it. 😋)
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@Terabyte That issue is also happening on Firefox at a 1080p resolution. Something in the calendar code is obviously borking when it tries to enumerate and list entries.
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I noticed with the new launch of the site compared to when it was in beta you no longer see future volumes. I really enjoyed that aspect since it helped me to know what I have to look forward to.
Will this be coming back or will we have an option to enable it?
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@jdmmis If you go back 2 or 3 pages, there's a whole discussion about that, but I think the short answer is, they're aware people would like it back and they'll make a decision on it at a later date having received the requested feedback.
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In ~3 hours I Refuse to Be Your Enemy! Parts 1 & 2 are coming out and, while this is clearly obvious in the old site, the new calendar only show Part 1 coming out.
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@jpwong Thank you for the answer and pointing me to the discussion.
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Some radio buttons in the series tab don't render quite aligned on my end, at a glance "Has Pysical Releases" and "Complete & On Hiatus". "Followed Titles Only" also ends very close to the icon. I'm using Edge 89.0.774.54.
I also think that, for publication status, it might make more sense to have checkboxes for Ongoing/Complete/On Hiatus to select/deselect, rather than the current setup. As far as the ongoing filter request goes, I've seen it was requested as early as page 1 by Khaos, but I haven't seen an official reply to that in the first 2-3 pages (might have happened later on in the thread or I could have just missed it, it's kinda difficult to search for, sorry in advance if it was already addressed).
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Please add back the future volumes as it was. It was one of the main reasons I would use the beta version of the site. Maybe have a toggle option at least?
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Would it be possible to update the new RSS feeds to say when a part is a volume end, and not just that a new part is available? As someone who prefers to read the volumes once all the chapters are out, and relies on RSS feeds for information on when stuff is posted, having to flip between the RSS reader and the site just to get this information is an annoyance, and is something that can easily be forgotten to do.
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I just found the RSS feed under User. I approve of this. (Works well with my RSS reader).
Is it going to also list the releases for the ebook?
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@redmasq said in New Website Feedback:
I just found the RSS feed under User. I approve of this. (Works well with my RSS reader).
I agree, and have migrated to it, and appreciate getting a list of only those items I have followed.
I have noted, however, a significant delay. The normal RSS feed had items in my reader within 1-2 minutes of their actual release time. The user-specific RSS seems to be between 30 and 45 minutes behind.
A programmer is just a complex method of turning caffeine into source code.
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@mystyk More than likely the website is using a direct table query while the feed is likely being generated by a cron job (or other scheduler) to control load. It probably has to build a row per login user. If done serially, it probably will take a while. I am uncertain of their architecture, but processor and I/O are the biggest setbacks for making it parallelizing it, assuming their DB (if not just caching in a file system) support row or page locks instead of table locks for the write. I'd throw together some better jargon of my assumptions, but I only had 2 cups of coffee today.
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@redmasq As a full-stack engineer, I feel your base assumption is likely spot-on, and that was essentially my conclusion as well. It likely does perform a straight read for the "everything" query, but not for user ones, due to the number of users. In the end, the benefit of reducing unwanted items in my feed outweighs extreme punctuality with the releases, especially when the ones I really want will have me waiting on the app for the moment they release anyway.
A programmer is just a complex method of turning caffeine into source code.
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Some other unexpected behavior on mobile (safari iOS 14):
If you go to the series list page, click on a series, then click the back button (part of the webpage, not the browser), it brings you back to the list of the series as you would expect. However if you first click the buy button on a volume, then click x to close that, clicking back takes you to the buy screen again instead.
