New Website Feedback
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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 :(
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@anynamefor1 - Is there something the old calendar did that the new one doesn't? I find the new calendar super convenient; it updates live and automatically starts at today's day, whereas on the old one I had to manually refresh the page and scroll down a long way as I got near the end of the month.
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@rsog412
He's talking about the release calendar on the right side of the homepage of the old website. -
@rsog412 Really it just looked nicer and was simpler to access.
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@anynamefor1 If you look at the opening post, we do plan to add it back in:
- Add a parts/volume release feed on the front page.
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Some more feedback on the forums... Android 10, Chrome...
Several times at different times I'll click to go to the next page in a thread and it kick me back to the "unread" forum view. If I try to go back, I get an error:
Internal Error
Oops! Looks like something went wrong!
/api/compose
Invalid Data.
I have to go load the thread again, then refresh it since it loads my last, last view and not the view prior to the error.
I also tried clicking to go to the last page instead of the next page and got a Page Not Found error.
I'm pretty sure each time it's happened I've had a reply of some kind in holding on the new "clipboard" but I can't be entirely sure of that.
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@xdrfiredogx That sounds like it could be a problem with the forum software, but I'm not seeing any open issues reported on NodeBB's github about it. It could be something that's been fixed already if JNC isn't on the most recent software release though.
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I just noticed this but in the series page if you hover the mouse over a released part it shows the date when that part was released.
Is it possible to add this feature for unreleased parts as well?
I mean that if you hover the mouse over an unreleased part it will also show to date and/or time the part will be released. The date and/or time can be just based on the data in the Calendar page.
JNC LN Ranking:
1st - Rokujouma
2nd - Realist Hero
3rd - Bookworm -
A good feature of the new interface in the forums is that you can set default order to “Newest to Oldest” to see the most recent entries first (this makes sense to me). However the default entry on the list is still the first one (timewise). In other words it defeats the purpose of reversing the order by taking you to the end of the list.
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I really appreciate the “New Books” section in the user library, but it would be useful to have a way to mark those books as read/maybe just keep the “new!” marking on the series after you download the books, especially because it automatically expands the associated series.
