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@LegitPancake Yeah when I tried it earlier that’s how it’s working for me, would be nice if it recognized the app immediately instead of having to search for it though.
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I hope this is the correct spot for this since it appears that bugs are also talked about here. This isn't the app directly but tangential to it. I can't seem to log in to the forums directly on mobile or desktop.
In the app's case (desktop is the same), when you click forums on the app, it takes you to your browser (Chrome in this case). You aren't logged in. Attempting to do so brings up the login screen but inputting the e-mail and password gets me the, "Invalid Login Credentials" error message.
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The “Retry” button after a failed connection does not appear to be working.
To reproduce:
- Turn Wi-Fi off
- Open the J-Novel Club app. The “failed loading” page with the “Retry” button will appear. (As expected)
- Turn Wi-Fi back on and connect to a network that can connect to J-Novel Club.
- Return to the J-Novel Club app and press the “Retry” button. The display is unchanged after pressing the “Retry” button. The J-Novel Club app won’t work until it is quit and reopened (see https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/quit-and-reopen-an-app-ipad79518d15/ipados)
I am using version 2.0.1 of the app on an iPad.
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The main feed is seriously confusing to use:
- Sometimes I want to read prepubs in a batch, which means deliberately ignoring the new entries for certain series for a few weeks and then Long-Press -> Show Volume to see the full list of parts to read them in a row. This is fine while the volume is publishing, but if I miss when the final part comes out, I won't notice it unless I scroll back several weeks and inspect each part with the "unread" progress meter.
- It would be nice to have an explicit Part X/Y badge on each part so it's easier to identify FINAL parts in the above list. (Helps with the above reading pattern.)
- The "read progress" meter is bugged sometimes (mobile network disconnection?) and it will cache the wrong progress value in the main feed and never fix itself. After returning to the main feed after reading a part, it will display as fully read, but when you refresh the feed it returns to displaying the bugged progress. I haven't seen it bug out like this when looking at the same parts in the volume listing view.
- I can't filter out Manga or other "labels" of J-Novel series without just going and following every single series that I don't want filtered out, which means it's hard to pick out the volumes I need to read batches of chapters for.
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I'm getting an error where I cannot log in to Forums on the Android mobile app - I am logged into the app in general, but when I put in the credentials I use on desktop it tells me my credentials are invalid.
App version v2.0.0
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I don't know if this has been reported before, but it's been bothering me for a while, and now it's even preventing me from reading part of a novel.
The j-novel app does not autohide navigation buttons like other reader apps do, but is able to display text behind it. This results in a hidden line in the most recent bookworm release at 63% on my Lenovo tab M10 (3rd gen).
I've noticed it quite often, but usually it would only cut off half a line which would still be somewhat legible.My suggested fixes are to either autohide the system navigation buttons like is already done with the apps own menu, or not display text that far down the screen.
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Is this a feature request thread?
Would it be possible for the app to remember the state of the reader at the time it was closed and re-open it in the same state? This has become an issue with me trying to work through the contestant entries. The problem is that every time I context switch away from the app (say, to my web-browser or to a different reader) coming back to it will cause it to reload, and it takes me back to the list of recently released parts. This forces me to navigate several steps to get back to the entry I was reading. I've had to do this maybe a dozen times now and it gets tedious (yes, I should probably work on my attention span, too).
It hasn't been much of a problem in the past, since I mostly use the reader to read new releases which are right there on the front-page when it loads. But I imagine that other users who are renting older volumes will run into this issue, so it's not limited to to contest readers only.
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I saw that the original post for this whole thread mentioned reading progress bugs, so maybe this is known.
Some manga have an incorrect page count. It always seems to be 38 pages, even if the real page count is lower. The progress bar for the part is then incorrect and doesn't show that it has been completed. All the parts in
have been read to the end. Chapter 1 only has 29 pages, chapter 2 only has 16 pages, etc. Chapter 3 actually has 50 pages, so it looks complete as soon as you read page 38 (I tested this).
I think this isn't so much an app bug as an error in the data for the manga having the wrong page count. Is there a (better) place to report these so they can be fixed?
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Feature request: Filters for LN vs Manga for Releases and Series Tabs
Something I’ve noticed recently is that there are a lot of LN/Manga simultaneously being streamed. I think it is time to have some sort of filter so that we can choose to filter on either LN or Manga titles. Reason being that on phones (I’m on iPhone) the title gets truncated and it is not possible to know which is which.
Most of the time I only care about the LN version of a series. With filters that would make browsing with Following (starred) disabled more manageable on phone screens.
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@anony-mouse99 Not helpful for the releases tab, but that already does exist in the series tab. It's hidden under the search (magnifying glass) function though
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@GeorgeMTO said in (New) App Feedback:
@anony-mouse99 Not helpful for the releases tab, but that already does exist in the series tab. It's hidden under the search (magnifying glass) function though
Ah I see. That’s nice to have but I’m talking about browsing. I don’t follow every series but from time to time I’d read those that are in my “read when I’m free” list. Searching is a much more cumbersome way to deal with multiple series since it will show only one title (words common to multiple titles excepted).
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@anony-mouse99 yes, you don't need to type in a word, you can just hit LN/Manga, and then continue browsing the list with that filter in place.
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Not sure if it has been mentioned before, but I'd really like a way to sort series by latest volume release date. It is easy enough to find new releases in the prepub tab because they are sorted by time, but when a series has been released and appears in the series tab, it's a bit cumbersome to get to, since you have to search for it by name because the series are ordered by license acquisition date...? An option to sort by alphabetical order would be nice too.
Additionally. it would help if the series page had the option of being displayed as a list like the prepub page, which would allow us to scan through the series list more quickly. Some highlighting of series available by subscription and information on the expiration date of the latest prepub/catchup volumes would be very helpful too.
(All that to say, I've tagged too many series for following, so the "Only Follows" filter doesn't help me find the series I want to read much more quickly.)
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I'm a new JNC member and app user so apologies if this has been addressed. I wasn't able to find info in the forums about double-page layout for light novels.
On an iPad (9th gen, iPadOS 17.3.1), the page layout button the bottom right does not change the layout. I can see the button alternate between "[1][2]" and "[1]" but no change occurs when I toggle it. I'm able to use the double-page layout for manga normally if that's of any note.
I've attempted restarting the app, resetting Novel Preferences, and tried both horizontal orientations of the iPad. Any tips?
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Feature request
Reporting corrections for currently open prepubA way to quickly report a correction on the prepub that is currently being viewed in the app
Reasoning
Would make it much easier to report a typo or other correction while reading latest releases instead of having to navigate to forums on mobile -
@star1954 Seconded. I would give feedback on errors if it were made easy.
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@RobD this is actually the issue with this feature. The easier it is, the higher the number of "corrections" we get which are just completely wrong and we have to ignore.
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@admin I see. Well you could probably use a white-list to authorize only people you trust with this feature but I guess it's not worth the trouble.
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@T-Fontana said in (New) App Feedback:
The “Retry” button after a failed connection does not appear to be working.
To reproduce:
- Turn Wi-Fi off
- Open the J-Novel Club app. The “failed loading” page with the “Retry” button will appear. (As expected)
- Turn Wi-Fi back on and connect to a network that can connect to J-Novel Club.
- Return to the J-Novel Club app and press the “Retry” button. The display is unchanged after pressing the “Retry” button. The J-Novel Club app won’t work until it is quit and reopened (see https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/quit-and-reopen-an-app-ipad79518d15/ipados)
I am using version 2.0.1 of the app on an iPad.
I noticed that the recent app update fixes this. Thank you.
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We've released a version 3.1.0 of the app with the following changelog:
- Fix reliability of in-app purchases
- Improve reader UI integration with system navigation & status bars
- Adjust design of "Profile" account tab
- Performance improvements and bugfixes
@sakakawea regarding the spread/single page toggle button issue, that's something we'll fix in the next release.
Overall, we're getting close to the completion of our backend overhaul, which will allow us to develop new features more quickly that have been held up for a long time. A lot of the work behind the app not included in the changelog revolves around preparation for that
