New Website Feedback
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I check once in a while, it's still impossible to show only 1 page with the new reader like in the old one (or it's ridiculously wide). So I still use the old reader.
That option was on the TODO list at some point, is there an ETA ?
Thanks.
Also might it not be better to split the topic for the new website between "new website" and "new reader" ?
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@manusdei Maybe it's not precisely what you're looking for, but if you toggle into vertical scrolling mode using the last button along the bottom you can then toggle between wide and narrow scrolling using the penultimate button along the bottom that replaces the one/two page button.
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Yeap. Width is fine but I don't really like the vertical scrolling. Thanks for the info anyway :)
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Case:
I open an information page of a book.
I want to read the summary of the new book that's still being written.
This summary is not pleasant to read, because of the bright-green buttons and chapter-information that are distracting.
Possible solutions:
Tone down the colours of these green buttons a notch
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I'd like to be able to disable the tap to advance function on the reader. I often find myself accidentally tapping down the part on mobile when I'm just trying to get rid of the navigation bar border.
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An update has been deployed, including the following changes:
- A follow and unfollow button has been added to the series overview. This makes it possible for you to follow a given series without opening that series’ page.
- The expiry label now has an estimated date instead of just displaying TBD.
- An issue with how volumes are being parsed has been fixed. This specifically means that when you press a bookworm manga on the front page, it should now take you to the right volume instead of the volume with same number from part 1.
- Version 0.7.0 of the app currently in beta has a an alternative sign-in feature. When a code from the app is entered on the "App Code Sign-In" page , the app will log into your user account.
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Would be nice to have some kind of icon/indication in the calendar if we've already fully read the LN part/manga chapter. Or show a % if it's not fully read so you can find right away what you still haven't read of your followed series.
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The link from "how it works" to "browse titles with physical releases" does not take you to a list of titles with physical releases.
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@arromdee Whoops! This has been fixed.
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I'm uncertain if this has been posted before, but couldn't find any, so here goes:
The titles with physical releases don't have any indication on how to find those. At least, I had problems finding out which of the Ascendance of a Bookworm volumes had a release, and what ISBNs were linked to which volumes. This can sometimes be found through the e-book shops that happen to also sell the physical release, and happen to have an easy relation between the two, but that's not always there, and it's a tedious extra step, because the 'check stores' panel is not a button that would get me to any stores that would have the book.
Additionally, the 'check stores' tag is not an indicator a physical release has actually been announced: all volumes of a printed series get that tag, not only those that have store pages in any store (example: Bookworm novel, P4V2, is not in print, but has the 'check stores' tag)
Do you have any plans on adding and displaying ISBNs, or other standardized identifiers, using which we can find (and/or preorder/buy) the physical releases in (online or physical) shops whenever that print releases?
I have a similar request for a visible unique identifier ebooks if such a thing is possible/feasable, although in that case the links to the e-stores are already quite useful in finding the e-book.
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@mattashii We definitely have plans to have better tracking for our print releases, but thank you for asking about it! We don't have an ETA at the moment, but it's on our priority list.
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I ran into the same issue as this. It's unclear to me if that poster meant the new site, or the old site.
On my ipad mini, the last page of a manga chapter has raw html instead instead of the "next part"/"back to reading" page like the desktop : https://i.imgur.com/J086GDL.png .
My ipad mini is 14.7.1, and I see this with both Safari and Firefox 35.0. I checked with multiple, random series in both browsers, and they all have this problem. This happens in portrait single page and landscape double page. This happens with page-to-page and scroll.
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Any chance of the Isekai Genius page being updated? It mistakenly has the "Completed" tag and shows up when searching for completed series on the series page. It should be under "On Hiatus." The author ended volume 3 with the intention of volume 4 being the ending but just never wrote it.
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The "Series follows for <user>" RSS feed seems to have stuff show up out of order in it all the time. It looks like the publish date on the items put in it probably matches when they got uploaded to the site instead of when they actually got posted. That or someone's copy/pasting previous listings and forgetting the change the date.
For example: "Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire (Manga) Volume 1 Chapter 3" which released at 1pm Eastern today is showing up in the feed with a date of June 12, 2021 on it.
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@pcj You're correct, the third-party library being used had some confusing options, I didn't realize the created/updated dates are used in such a manner. That's fixed now, let me know if it isn't.
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@chocolatkey indeed, stuff seems to be sorting correctly and reflects the release time now, thanks!
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Minor issue with the reader:
Pictures seem to be able to overhang low-hanging letters such as 'g'.
My personal settings are Literata; 140% size; 1.3 spacing; justified.
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Someone reported this on Discord:
I was able to reproduce it on Bookworm P4V2 and P4V3, on Chrome and Safari at a horizontal resolution range of between 866x and 944x.
I also found this:
The covers become tiny at exactly 865x, only on Chrome (not Safari), for all volumes of all series.
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@darkrookie said in New Website Feedback:
Have it remember the 1 page setting.
And all the settings for color, font size, line spacing and all that, please. They never last three days.
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A behavior in which I have been noticing as of late on the website, if using from a tab that is already open (have not measured time, but no less than 12 hours). User account page is at least visible along with previous purchases and calendar shows "Following" list just fine (since the RSS feed works without login out of necessity, this is not surprising if a fixed url with a token is used for whatever API the calendar hits and then filters).
Attempting to read a part beyond chapter 1 directly results in "You are not allowed to read this part." As plaintext. Attempting from the reader page, if going to Chapter 1 first, gives 403 in big print (assumed to be HTTP 403 Forbidden). It is easy to assess that the session is likely expired and I had been logged out without the UI realizing; I am mildly concerned that the User page still shows my library, but if it is something just shoved into browser local storage, then probably not a big deal yet still a point of frustration.
Next time it happens, I will check to see if it allows me to download a novel. If not, it is likely just a UI bug. If it does, maybe session tracking is inconsistent across different code bases or machines if using a reverse proxy? Unfortunately, the mobile browser is lacking a debug console, but there is means to capture logs and certain types of network traffic.
Please note this behavior has only been observed on Chrome browser of my mobile devices (iOS, iPadOS, and Android). I have not observed it in FireFox or Chrome on Windows 10. Work has been busy, so I had not had chance to check Edge in Windows, any browsers on Linux, or mobile Safari. As a side note, I keep the sleep/snooze/freeze tab features disabled on my desktop.
