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LegitPancake

@xdrfiredogx On desktop, the timestamp for comments have been moved all the way to the right, which is annoying. It might be cutting off on mobile devices.

Gamen

@xdrfiredogx I noticed the same in Waterfox Classic - spoilers also weren't expanding; but in the latest Firefox for Windows all that works. Guessing it only supports evergreen browsers...

amit34521

How about updating the novel cover on the series page to the latest volume's cover? This will give an idea about which volume is currently translated. For both the website and the app.

myskaros

@amit34521 said in New Website Feedback:

How about updating the novel cover on the series page to the latest volume's cover? This will give an idea about which volume is currently translated. For both the website and the app.

This can spoil events that happen later in the story. The series page needs to be friendly to people looking at the series for the first time, so we will not use later covers as the main series cover.

jcochran

The new software for the forums is rather annoying. I access this place using my phone and having approximately one fourth of the screen space occupied permanently at the top makes the screen rather cramped.

pcj

@jcochran said in New Website Feedback:

The new software for the forums is rather annoying. I access this place using my phone and having approximately one fourth of the screen space occupied permanently at the top makes the screen rather cramped.

Add the following to the "Custom CSS" section in your forum settings:

.topic .topic-header {
  position: unset!important;
}

That'll make the header scroll with the page instead of sticking to the top of the window. The down side is that you'll have to scroll back to the top to hit the reply button, since it's in that header now.

Note: you'll need to dump your cache for it to take effect (on desktop this is usually done by holding the shift or control keys and hitting the reload button - on mobile Firefox you do it by push-and-hold on the reload button, not sure how in other mobile browsers - force quit your browser and run it again might work).

pcj

Make that the following to make the Reply button by itself float and follow you down the page in addition to making the rest of the header scroll with the page:

.topic .topic-header {
  position: unset!important;
}
.btn-group[component="topic/reply/container"] {
  position: fixed;
  transform: translate(-110%,-110%);
  z-index: 900;
}

Taedirk

Might want to take a look at Elf and Werwolf manga releases for today. Neither one shows the Following highlight and Elf has a wrong version number on it. Toe on the line for website feedback vs general error, but..

yumenokage

Sometimes after I refresh the page when on the release calendar with it set to only show series I'm following, if I click on parts it will take me to a part from a completely different series.

nofairytale

Re: the forum. Why do I keep getting notifs when someone edited their post in random threads?

Rahul Balaggan

@nofairytale

That appears to be new notification option, you can toggle it on and off.

Go to settings here in the forums, and it will be listed under notifications.

It should only be happening with topics you are watching.

xdrfiredogx

@gamen

Yeah, the issues do seem to be specific to Firefox. I also discovered that on FF it no longer recognizes where I left off so it loads what the last part of a thread I've read was prior to the upgrade. So on this thread for example it loads page 24 every time even though my most recent comment is on page 27.

Chrome does more or less function correctly, though I've also had it decide a couple times that it's no longer going to scroll and that I've got to reload the browser to get the ability to do so back.

I've also been hit with some random 502 Bad Gateway errors at times.

On the plus side, now that it works (it didn't exist on FF) the ability to minimize my in-progress comment to go back to the thread is kind of nifty, even if it blocks some of what I'm typing.

nofairytale

@rahul-balaggan thanks. It seems that I've left on the option to watch threads I've replied to, which explains why I got those notifs despite not remembering watching the threads.

zwabbit

Could we get the forum reply button moved back to the bottom of the screen? That's a far more natural placement considering one's mouse is almost certainly going to be drifting down while scrolling through thread posts.

MasterLillyclaw

Several thoughts on the new forum UI; overall, my ability to reply on desktop feels like it's taken a huge downgrade, and I have some issues with mobile as well.

The comment box takes up over half of the visible screen height, and even more is blocked overall when you consider the new title bar that stays up when you scroll down. I have about a thumb's width of space to actually read any comments while typing a reply, which becomes an issue if I want to work on my comment while reading through responses.
- This is by far my biggest issue, it's rapidly becoming extremely annoying; I can't even easily see what other feedback people may have given about the new format while writing this comment!
- That's not to say I don't like the ability to hide my comment, since I do like that, but I don't want to be required to hide it to feasibly read through comments. Just being able to reduce the height further than the current minimum would be nice.
I miss the 'jump up / jump down one comment' options that were alongside the 'jump to first / jump to last comment' buttons previously. It was good for moving through sections of long comments (like how Bookworm can get sometimes) when I know the comment I'm looking for is somewhere nearby, particularly on mobile where I don't want to keep scrolling with my thumb.
- The clickable popup from the 'jump to first / jump to last' bar is pretty good for seeking, but you have to hold down the mouse to scroll and it's difficult to comb through a chunk of comments where you don't know which index it is exactly you're looking for.
- The popup is even worse on mobile; the title bar blocks off the top segment of it, so I can't see who is commenting or a chunk of what they're saying, making it basically useless beyond direct index jumping.
The 'jump to first / jump to last' bar's buttons are blocked by the comment box. I either have to navigate the previously mentioned small gap of visible comments to find the page bar and click there, or click on the general button and use the popup (that is still mostly hidden by the comment box) and work that out. Unless I just hide my comment - but even then, the hide/unhide comment button continues to block the 'jump to last' spot completely.
If while writing a comment, I ctrl+f something on the page and then press 'esc' to exit the search, my comment auto-hides and I have to click to open it back up. Keeping it open in those cases would be preferable.

chocolatkey

So that everyone is aware, J-Novel Club does not write the software or maintain the styles for the forums. We use an open-source project called NodeBB, available here: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB . If you think that issues with the latest update to the forums are worth mentioning to the developers, you can use this page to report them: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues . If there are any major issues occurring (such as the email spam, or something is broken) we will do our best to patch/fix the software ASAP, but for other issues, it's best that you reach out to the original developers. I will do my best to tweak the style based on feedback here, but it is lower priority and something that will be done sparingly, so that we don't break compatibility with future versions. @MasterLillyclaw for example, while your feedback is valid, and I agree with some of your points, we just don't have the time to dedicate to patching upstream changes to the forums at this moment in time.

pcj

Also worth noting is that the Settings screen does have a Custom CSS option, and as most of the forum theme is CSS-based, it is easy to tweak some of those things on your own if you want. If you don't know CSS on your own, maybe we can start a topic for forum CSS tweaks, and I'm sure there's a few web developers around that'll write some CSS for you to stick in that box that'll do what you want if you ask (within reason - there's only so much you can tweak). For example, I posted one a page or so back that makes the header not be sticky at the top, but lets the Reply button follow you down the page so you don't have to scroll back to the top to get to it, in response to someone that said the sticky header took up too much space on their phone.

chocolatkey

@pcj In a somewhat unofficial capacity, I will say that if a topic were started suggesting site-wide CSS (and maybe even JS) tweaks that would be beneficial to all users, I would be much more inclined to add them, assuming that a lot of people agreed they are beneficial. Keep in mind they have to work for all themes though

Farmerdad

Over all, I love the new look and functionality. It makes it easier for me to find what books I might want after I find a series.

However, It would be great if there was a way to get from my library to the series page. When I'm looking at, say, Altina and I want to go to the series page -- maybe to see if there's a new book to buy, maybe to read the pre-pub -- I want something to click on. I can use my library to track which series I'm currently reading from J-Novel without having to memorize it or record it somewhere else. As it is now, I have to look at the title in my library and then click on "series", search, click on the series name to get to the series page.

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SamW77

First off I like the new site.
The only suggestion I can decide on at this time is a request to add part of the calendar function to the series individual pages.
For example, I am looking at the series page for The Great Cleric I would like to see the upcoming release schedule just like you find with the calendar page, but only showing the entries for The Great Cleric.
That's my request.
Thank you for all the good entertainment to read.