(New) App Feedback
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I'm a newcomer to j-novel.club, I wasn't able to make the old app work properly on my iPad (iPad 5th Gen, 13.4.1). I found out about the new app (0.4.0) in the forums while searching for help. I decided to give it a try. Here are some my observations after a few hours.
Bugs:
- Minimizing the app and returning later doesn't always restore the proper progression in a part (I went back to an earlier milestone)
- Time and battery icons are erratic when reading a light novel. They appear properly in the overlay when first entering the novel from the selection menus, but not subsequently. If it helps, I used vertical scrolling.
Ameliorations/comments
- Text is way too bright in the two dark themes.
- General lack of help and documentation.
- A system to add icons (Favourites, Important, Unimportant, PWP, etc..) or notes to story parts would be appreciated
- Scrolling mode icons are inverted (?)
- Putting the type filter and the story sort under search isn't intuitive
- Series sorting is not saved between sessions (app restart)
- Either make login more important or store read part when anonymous
- For a WIP still far from release, it is very pleasant to use
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I see that if we use the Next Part button to navigate to the next part when reading the chapter, the new part is not marked as read(Green coloured Entry on volume page). Can we fix this as well? issue is more prominent when you start reading a new series and close the app in-between, it kinda makes it hard to figure out where you left.
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Is the manga supposed to continue from where you left off too? Cause on Android, it shows you what page you last read before you click on the part, but then the part starts on page 1 (I know most folks probably are reading a whole part before stopping though, so very minor concern if anything).
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@Terrence which app version are you on?
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It was v0.3.0
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@Terrence then you'll have to wait for 0.4.0, which fixed that (
Manga correctly resumes where you left off) among other things. We still haven't been able to release it for Android due to a rejected submission -
I didn't see this issue posted, but when reading pre-pubs on the android app, if you finish a part and go back to the part list for the volume, it will show your progress in the part, but if you hit the next button it doesn't record where you left off and forgets your progress.
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I'd really love to see a toggleable option on the Releases page to show upcoming releases (I think a limit of 1 or at most 2 days would work) with a countdown, similar to the scroll on the current JNC main webpage, but making it also affected by the "following" filter.
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So I was just looking through the thread here, but I didn't seem to see anything.
Was there any information about support for devices with E-Ink displays? (Something akin to the Onyx Book line)
I know that being able to access the app through that type of screen would be a BIG selling point for me. It is an incredibly niche market, but it's definitely a solid idea.
I imagine that would just involve limiting the amount of animations, no? No fancy scrolling, or page turning. Just kind of -tap- page -tap- next page.
-Note: Is currently living on incredibly old Nook, and is looking to move to a more modern solution.
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Right now, on the site the Mapping manga part doesn't go live for another 2 hours, but on the beta app it's available now.
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Hey guys! I love the app so far, it's a lot easier to use and a lot easier to read with. It has been very used friendly with Android accessibility screen reader and in general. However one day I went to open up the app and check on the new updates, all I got was an error message. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app and all other solutions I could think of. Does anyone know why I keep getting this error?!
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@Xionlives Error 410 is the same session timeout people have been getting for a while. It will automatically log you out of the app every couple weeks/months or so. Go to the account tab, hit sign out, and then sign back in.
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@Xionlives : @LegitPancake is correct. There is an update to the Android app that makes that more clear, but unfortunately we still have not been able to successfully submit a new update for Android devices
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On my Android tablet the beta app is currently not loading any of the parts nor is it allowing me to sign in or out
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@Yoshken um nevermind it just allowed me to get in after a few minutes
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One suggestion, not sure if it's simple or not - I guess there are a lot non native english speakers who from time to time encounter unfamiliar words, it would be nice having an option like in playbooks to long-press word, select it and have "definition" option to pop-up, or like in book-walker app, to have translate or google search option pop up. Now I can't even select to copy that text.
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@0ose If you could at least select text you could use system-level dictionary features, but that doesn't seem possible right now, which is sad.
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Build 0.5.0 now out for iOS, for Android hopefully soon. Changes include:
- Page margin and control region settings
- Library search keyboard properly dismissed when switching tabs
- Releases show reading progress (manga progress is not nice yet)
- Long press novel parts in volume to toggle between 100% and 0% completion
- More native iOS widgets/dialogs
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Would be nice if y'all could add the Open Dyslexic typeface as a choice for the fonts, also make it so you can buy credits via the app would be nice as well ( I know that is probably a long way out due to both apple and android restrictions) one idea to help that would be adding the option to use things like Google pay to buy your credits with.
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@Tiko424 We do have Andika, which isn't explicitly a dyslexia font, but seems to be well-received as a dyslexic-friendly font.
