New Website Feedback
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@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
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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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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.
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@quixzlizx said in New Website Feedback:
OK, I made a request earlier in the thread to have Calendar release entries sorted by release time instead of only by series title. So it ends up that this seems to be buggy behavior in Firefox, rather than working as intended.
For the record, I'm on Windows 10
There are three problems in this Firefox screenshot (85.0):
- Like I mentioned, the releases aren't sorted by release time
- Some Novel entries are color-coded brown instead of blue
- The Digital release is color-coded green instead of purple
I hope this info helps.
I wanted to make an update regarding these bugs I've been experiencing in Firefox.
Problems 2 and 3 are still happening, but I've figured out that they only occur when I refresh the Calendar page. If I then click on Series and back again, the label color problems resolve themselves. So hopefully that information is useful.
However, there doesn't seem to be any workaround for issue #1 (releases out of chronological order). Is that on the bugfix list? Because it's not listed in the OP, and I know from this thread that I'm not the only one experiencing it. Thanks.
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@farmerdad the read button does this. It doesn't open the reader (like you’d expect), but opens the series page and scrolls to the volume.
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Question, How accurate is the Premium Bonus Content tag/mark in the Series page?
is it going to be reliable for future release?
in that image vol 9 seems like does not have the premium bonus because it has no tag/marking even tho judging from this thread all vol 1-9 has bonus content.
I assume this is just because not updated old record and in the future we can both using that marking for quick look and this thread for some detail of the bonus.
also thank you for the hardwork of compiling all those bonus data, honestly bonus content is my main reason for buying the complete version because I mostly only read a series once and I count the pre-publish version as one read. so the tag in the series page really help choosing on what to buy.
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@shyevsa Hello,
I moved your post into the website feedback topic, since the question you posed relates to the new website.
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@shyevsa It is not very accurate because it's using a field that we have to retroactively fill out for all our old volumes. For the time being, it would be better to use this topic to see what bonuses exist for each series/volume:
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/305/premium-e-book-bonus-contents-list
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We have fixed the code causing the calendar to break in some browsers but not others
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It would be awesome of you to go through the two dark themes on the forum for small corrections here and there. Currently they are lacking contrast in some places to the point of the text being unreadable, like the "reply badges" when a message is in reply to another one on both "Darkly" and "Cyborg". The same problem is with the button that shows/hides quotes inside quotes and I assume a lack of contrast can be found be elsewhere too. Other places could benefit from added contrast too even if the text is not completely unreadable as is, like tags under post titles. <edit>Also thread titles on profile page.</edit>
Even better would be to tie dark theme vs. not to the setting on main site, but I assume that would be a bigger ordeal.
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On the whole the new website is an improvement> However I had some gripes:
- When I first used you website I couldn’t find info on how to use your site (couldn’t subscribe for example). I expected to find a help menu. Eventually I found it hidden at the bottom of the page which is not normally visible. I normally expect the botton of the page to be for quick access, not for new information not available elsewhere.
- Listing Series does not show page numbers at the bottom to click on (but the Forum does). You can’t quickly navigate the list (same as previous version).
- I had problems navigating the viewer with swipe on a MacBook. Sometimes too sensitive.
However overall I think there are many improvements.
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@dhinawan
Regarding your first concern. If your talking about the "How it Works" page the link is right there when you visit the website.Here's a screenshot. I don't know why but I couldn't insert the image.
As for your second concern, I totally agree with you. Right now all they have is a search bar but sometimes people forget the full title and only know the acronym or the short name of a series (people like me). I wish they add more ways to either search for a title or filter them out.
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I think my point still stands. I am just asking that the website follows the standards of many, many other websites (ie. important information is where I expect to find it).
On the second point, I think that as the number of entries increases this search system become less and less useable... more and more clumsy.
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@dhinawan Just want to point out that many web sites do place all their links for thinks like Help, FAQ, contact inf, newsletter subscriptions, blogs, ToS, privacy policy, sitemap, etc at the bottom of their site pages in what's basically a footer section.
Having a button to the FAQ along the top navbar would probably be a good addition to have given most people are coming to the site for subscription related reasons, but having the links at the bottom there does appear to be standard practice for most major businesses.
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It seems that some clarification is needed.
Firstly, I have not suggested its wrong or unusual to use footers. I have not suggested to not put useful links in footers. When I publish websites I do this all the time. I have suggested that key information should be highly visible and easy to access and should be where, in my experience, users expect it to be (in a menu first and foremost).
Secondly, this forum topic asked for “feedback” based on my experience which is what I have done. My feedback stands as is.
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I guess the challenge is you're saying you couldn't find a link to the help page, but what did you find on the help page (or the page you ended up on) that's helped you out that wasn't on the "how it works" page that BartzBB pointed out is front and center to the user when they load up the site?
The biggest challenge we've seen on the forums from the old site layout is people subscribe and get confused with what a subscription gets them (or they just join on the assumption that subscription means exactly the same thing it does when you join netflix), so it appears they've moved that from the footer to being more prominently displayed as you enter the site.
I'm guessing based on your previous comments that the issue is that how it works doesn't exactly outline that to subscribe you need to sign up for an account and then actually buy a membership plan under your user account options, which does appear to be something that can be improved.
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@chocolatkey Still broken as of today. Same issue, header and list classes are swapped. It looks like React is augmenting the next few days with pretty countdown times, but the replacement divs are using the wrong classes. That's my best guess since the code is minified. On first load, the classes are correct, but when the react app runs the weird div's appear.
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@ackondro Could you let me know what your browser/OS is?
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Why does the main navigation points ("home", "series", "calendar", etc) appear at the top of the screen on desktop Firefox/Chrome on Windows, but the bottom of the screen on Firefox/Safari on ipad? It's not a big deal, but it's feels weird and irks me a bit.
In the calendar, each entry is basically one giant div with an associated URL. When I see the release of a part of an unfamiliar series, how do I read the synopsis of the series? When I'm trying to see what was released, my eyes make an awkward jump from the bright green "chapter 3" or whatever on the side, and then try to find the "volume 5" in light grey that's next to the title in dark grey. The light grey next to dark grey can be difficult to read as well.
Using the "Apothecary Diaries Volume 2 part 6" on Friday 26 March as an example, make "Apothecary Diaries" a link to the series page https://j-novel.club/series/the-apothecary-diaries . "Volume 2 Part 6" is combined to link to the page https://j-novel.club/read/the-apothecary-diaries-volume-2-part-6 . This pushes the "out now" (or "out in 2h") message to the left to accommodate. This way, new users can go to the series page for more information, and the volume/chapter/part information is next to each other for easier reading, and is still a large button to click to the published part.
I tried to mock this up in ugly ms paint. Original entry on top, split version on bottom
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I miss the release calender :(
