New Website Feedback

dhinawan

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.

erys

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.

non8

There are few things which I liked but are no longer there (1, 3), and if possible one more thing I would like you'd implement (2).

We can no longer see the individual volume subtitle for series which have them (i.e. Holmes of Kyoto).
Option which would solve 1, is that by clicking on the volume cover at the Series page would show the enlarged cover.
I actually liked the "More volumes to come" "This series is completed" notes at the bottom of the Series page. Heck, if you even wrote "This series is dropped by the publisher" and "This series is stalled due to unknown reasons" I would be even happier.

chocolatkey

@bartzbb At the moment, our data is not stored in a way that would allow us to do this in a feasible manner, but it's something we may do in the future.

@non8 I just checked, and for Holmes of Kyoto, we do not have the subtitle for the volumes in our database, so either you saw the subtitle for another series, or it was edited in the meantime. As for the reason we removed the notes at the bottom of the page, that's because they are either: inaccurate, private, unknown, or would have to be constantly up-to-date. The potentially vague, inaccurate or private nature of those notes can create unneeded speculation about the status of the series. When we manage to come up with a more accurate set of messages that isn't automatically determined by dates (as the previous ones were, and therefore inaccurate), we will consider re-adding them.

BartzBB

I don't know if this is a bug or just a mistake on the staff's part but there is something weird in the calendar page.

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As you can see there is an E-Book coming out tomorrow whose title is "???".

jpwong

@bartzbb said in New Website Feedback:

I don't know if this is a bug or just a mistake on the staff's part but there is something weird in the calendar page.

I couldn't tell if that was a bug myself either cause it also shows up on the old site on the sidebar and the calendar page. I reported it earlier on discord in case it was a db entry mistake, but I was thinking it's also possible it's some sort of placeholder for something being announced on Friday's stream where it's going to be available immediately and the system just can't handle the way it was entered into the backend.

myskaros

@bartzbb J-Just a reminder that J-Novel Club is based in the United States and the time and date may be different based on where you live.

Shiny

@bartzbb said in New Website Feedback:

I don't know if this is a bug or just a mistake on the staff's part but there is something weird in the calendar page.

As you can see there is an E-Book coming out tomorrow whose title is "???".

I guess this might foreshadow an announcement from their Twitch stream as per https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/4301/april-2021-jnc-announcements

Terabyte

@shiny Or it's just April Fool's Day. 😋

Shiny

@terabyte said in New Website Feedback:

@shiny Or it's just April Fool's Day. 😋

Ah yes, I can fondly recall JNC's 2017 release of My Little Ponii Can Read Kanji!.

BartzBB

@terabyte
I have a feeling that is the case as well. It's just unfortunate that from where I am April Fool's Day just ended but on the flip side I guess I was fooled a day earlier than the rest.

Rahul Balaggan

For those who have not seen:

https://j-novel.club/series/i-got-hit-by-a-truck-but-i-wasn-t-sent-to-another-world-what-the-heck

Nosgoroth

Tag length test feedback: it breaks alignment.

chocolatkey

We've re-added the traditional even feed to the homepage.

Terabyte

@chocolatkey said in New Website Feedback:

We've re-added the traditional even feed to the homepage.

Looks like the very last (current) event for I Shall Survive Using Potions! Chapter 3 breaks the column (Chrome, Windows 10, 1920x1080).

myskaros

@terabyte Breaks how?

Terabyte

@myskaros Ops, looks like I forgot to add the screenshot I took. Here you go:

HarryShanks

Thanks for re-adding the coming soon feed back to the homepage, makes that page much more useful in my opinon.

myskaros

@terabyte Hmm, I can't replicate. I'm also on Chrome/Win10/1920x1080, and I also tried on Edge and Safari/MacOS. Maybe chocolatkey will know what the problem is when he sees this.

BartzBB

@terabyte
This is happening to me as well. I'm using Firefox on Win10 with 1366x768.