(New) App Feedback
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Hey all. Just found that there's an app for J-Novel Club. One piece of feedback that immediately comes to mind is some sort of "last read" tracker. Trying to go through one of the catch -up series, and I have to keep guess and checking which of the 25 volumes' parts I was last at...
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@iacondios said in (New) App Feedback:
Hey all. Just found that there's an app for J-Novel Club. One piece of feedback that immediately comes to mind is some sort of "last read" tracker. Trying to go through one of the catch -up series, and I have to keep guess and checking which of the 25 volumes' parts I was last at...
Isn't there a blue bar that goes across and turns green when you finish the part? Or do you mean you need something at the volume level to tell you which volumes you finished without having to open each one to look at the parts? Okay, yeah, I could see having a box in the corner that says "read" if you've already read every part in the volume when looking at the volume list being useful.
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@pcj I think we might consider a "continue where you left off" kind of shortcut somewhere which is probably what they are requesting.
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@daytona yes! Please! Just adding page control with volume keys would make it more comfortable. I would prefer to read/download the advanced release parts locally, but this would be a decent compromise.
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@pcj yes, more at the volume level. If you were not reading a recently released volume/chapter (eg with a catch up series) you have to go searching the backlog and there's no indicator until you get into the right volume.
Therefore @admin a "recently read" type shortcut would be ideal; perhaps showing the last volume + chapter information with a shortcut to the current chapter (if unfinished) or next chapter in the volume (if available) or next volume (if available) as a "continue reading" type shortcut.
Additionally having a "completed" badge of some type on volumes would be useful.
Another thing I can think of would be the ability to manually mark a chapter or volume as read, e.g. to get the tracker up-to-date if you had already read a part but it was not tracked in your reading history for whatever reason.
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@iacondios said in (New) App Feedback:
Additionally having a "completed" badge of some type on volumes would be useful.
I just looked at this topic to make my own suggestion, and saw this reply. I have to second the request for a completed tag/badge on the volume.
What I was wondering is if it was possible to add the ability to bookmark volumes and select them in the menu that has "only follows" and "only catch-ups" currently. An "only bookmarks" option. I have a little trouble with losing track of what series I'm catching up on when I read unexpired pre-release volumes.
There are a few series where it's hard to keep track of the characters unless you read the completed volumes... So I wait until it's finished streaming.
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(New subscriber very excited to have found a company that so obviously cares for its customers!)
It would be nice if the coin purchasing interface in the app was at parity with the web interface. The premium membership discount goes the "wrong way" in the app, letting me buy more coins for the same price rather than a normal coin count for a lower price. (I don't need to buy 804 coins..!) Likewise, it would be convenient to have the arbitrary-coin-amount widget available.
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@journcy Unfortunately, that simply isn't possible. The history is that we've done the "regular price is X, premium price is discounted" through our website for years before we were added in-app purchasing. However, Apple and Google app store policy is for all purchases to be in "packages" that end in 99 cents, for whatever reason. This means there's no way to cleanly have a set of coins cost one price for nonmembers, and the corresponding discounted price for members and premium members (except for maybe very specific exceptions that aren't valuable to the public at large). The "type in a number of coins/dollars" feature is completely out of the question. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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I have encountered a bug, where titles that are longer than 3 lines are cut off by the "days ago" text.
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Is there a way to view the release calendar from the app?
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The CSS in the app seems buggy. Sometimes, the app decides to center everything, which I assume is because
body{text-align: left;}isn't defined in the CSS. Normally this shouldn't be an issue, but I've seen EPUB readers do the same iftext-alignisn't set.Also there's random gaps between the first line of a paragraph and the second, which looks distracting. This doesn't seem to be an issue in the web viewer, so either there's an issue with the CSS in the app or the HTML renderer.
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@kah0922 Both of these issues stem from the fact that unlike the web reader, the app one isn't just rendering html, it's converting html into native app text elements in Flutter.
A long time ago, yes, I just ran an embedded web-browswer frame that rendered html, but it was extremely slow. This iteration of the app we have to essentially parse the html and create our own mini renderer (that's obviously very limited).
The alignment issues happen when the original HTML isn't perfectly parsed (often because it's somewhat ill formed), which browsers are happy to ignore, and the little extra space for example has to do with how we add the paragraph indenting, etc.
Upgrading all this in the reader of the app is on our roadmap, it's a non-trivial thing to do which also trying to keep it performant.
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This was reported already, but the large vertical gap between the indented first line of each paragraph and the second line is rather distracting. If it's hard to fix the indenting, would it be easier to add an option to disable the indent, or to remove the extra gap between paragraphs? I would rather sacrifice one of those features for the sake of good line spacing. Plus, printed books don't generally have extra space between paragraphs.
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@eggnog The plan to fix all of this stuff is to actually parse the html into a sort of meta format server-side which we can more easily convert on-device than generic XML/HTML. It's kind of next on the big things to do after a refresh of the manga image serving tech...
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It'd be great to be able to filter the new releases by followed, or have a visual marker that a series is one that's followed.
Also been having some issues with the margin setting doing nothing on some titles - specifically been happening on "did I seriously just get reincarnated as my gag character?!" but has worked fine on other series though it doesn't seem to match the preview.
Another thing that would be nice to fix is anchoring the amount that's been read to the top paragraph on the page rather than the number of pages through the work. I often switch between using the app full view and in pop-up mode (I also do this with the website, I've only recently started trying the app and it's an issue with that, too) which causes the number of pages for the work to vary wildly as the space changes meaning I have to a) remember to check the percentage before I switch, b) stumble around to find where I was up to around that percentage
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@Iciely said in (New) App Feedback:
It'd be great to be able to filter the new releases by followed, or have a visual marker that a series is one that's followed.
You can get a list of releases from followed series by clicking the star at the top.
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@Terabyte
yep, but I want it on the releases tab which has a chapter view in order of most recent release. The series tab just gives you the series and doesn't have anything to show which have or have not updated.oh durr, sorry misread your comment - thanks! Good to be able to do this. Not the most intuitive label to me, but it might just be me. -
I'm guessing this has been noted but if the paragraph is long enough, screen is small enough and/or text big enough when reading a novel the paragraph will just overflow the bottom of the screen and not show the cut off text on the next page.
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@Iciely Yeah, our ability to split some paragraphs is limited at the moment and sometimes it just gives up and overflows... If you need the font to be that large we recommend vertical scroll mode.
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@admin unfortunately not an option because I get extremely nauseous when reading scrolling text for any length of time due to a concussion (which is also why I need the font large) unless I make a really conscious effort to blink while scrolling. I’ll just stick to the web version for now.
