(New) App Feedback
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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
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I just upgraded to 3.1.0 on my Boox Page, and now when reading LN prepubs every page turn with the side button is turning 2 pages instead of 1. I tried changing some settings but couldn't find any solutions so will have to go back to the old version for now.
Edit: This is apparently only when page animations are turned off, but that feature is a must on an e reader.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy A32 5G, Android 13.
Since the 3.1.0 update, I can see the recent list, and I can read a part, and I can go into the series section and read parts.
But then after I close the app, and go back in, I just get a blue page with the JNovel club logo. I have to force close the app, after which it works again until the next time I close it.
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@chocolatkey so I have question why was the original publisher for removed from the app because I liked knowing which Japanese companies originally published the books I read
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Feature Request for the app: I'd like to be able to filter between novels, manga, or both on the Releases tab, with it being sticky between uses just like the follows filter is.
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@Elijah203223 The original publisher was removed because the decision was made to remove the original publisher data in our upcoming database change. Therefore, we'll no longer have anything to put there, so I removed it in advance.
@ulysses We may have found the issue causing this, it will be adjusted in an upcoming minor release
@Lake would it be possible for you to take a screen recording? Also, I do not have a Boox Page or access to one, do you know what keyboard key the button is emulating? That would be very helpful to pinpoint the issue
