[PLEASE READ] - Issues after extended Maintenance
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Would be nice if in the calendar the 'Final chapter' info could be added again like in the pre-maintanance.
E.g. The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects (Manga) Volume 6 Chapter 5 is the last one of these volume but there is no info in the calendar any more. -
@Rahul-Balaggan It works again. I was able to buy coins now.
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Are things supposed to be back to pre-upgrade condition? Haven't seen any formal notices saying what the state of different features are and if they should be restored. I'm still seeing these issues when reading from the app (note: cleared the app data, uninstalled it, and re-installed, re-logged in multiple times) ...
- Some reading history has been restored (few random items), but not all of it, even recently read (less than 30 days)
- If I read new manga (not light novels), the progress is not tracked (remains black not green) but light novels are updating.
- I have errors when purchasing coins, usually on the 2nd chapter of a book when prompted. I go through the purchase process, and it will error, but the coins will still be added to my account. I will then get a different error when purchasing the volume with the coins, but the volume will still be unlocked to be read. When I check the account tab, the total credits have not decreased, but if I refresh it will drop to the correct value. So, the transactions are happening, the UI is just not updating. Sorry I didn't have the errors on hand, haven't need to purchase a chapter to re-produce and capture.
Appreciate the work your team is putting into this, just wondering what the status of things were. Might be good to post a new update outlining what you've fixed and what is still in progress. Thx
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Hi, we went right into a weekend and then into a federal holiday. Our IT team has been working through the weekend.
When business hours resume tomorrow I will get a sit rep from them and post.
Most of it is still a work in progress. Since we went straight into the weekend and this federal holiday.
Thank you for your continued patience.
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@everygamer said in [PLEASE READ] - Issues after extended Maintenance:
Are things supposed to be back to pre-upgrade condition? Haven't seen any formal notices saying what the state of different features are and if they should be restored. I'm still seeing these issues when reading from the app (note: cleared the app data, uninstalled it, and re-installed, re-logged in multiple times) ...
- Some reading history has been restored (few random items), but not all of it, even recently read (less than 30 days)
- If I read new manga (not light novels), the progress is not tracked (remains black not green) but light novels are updating.
- I have errors when purchasing coins, usually on the 2nd chapter of a book when prompted. I go through the purchase process, and it will error, but the coins will still be added to my account. I will then get a different error when purchasing the volume with the coins, but the volume will still be unlocked to be read. When I check the account tab, the total credits have not decreased, but if I refresh it will drop to the correct value. So, the transactions are happening, the UI is just not updating. Sorry I didn't have the errors on hand, haven't need to purchase a chapter to re-produce and capture.
Appreciate the work your team is putting into this, just wondering what the status of things were. Might be good to post a new update outlining what you've fixed and what is still in progress. Thx
In addition, the part numbers are still not indicated.
@Rahul-Balaggan I hadn't realised it was a long weekend in the US. I appreciate the team working through the weekend. I do have my doubts about their employer making these major changes the day before a long weekend though...
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@PinkShinyRose technically it started on Thursday and then such and such.
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@PinkShinyRose said in [PLEASE READ] - Issues after extended Maintenance:
I do have my doubts about their employer making these major changes the day before a long weekend though...
Just to clarify, the changes were on Thursday, not Friday.
So if things had gone wellish it had some time available.
Reading was functioning before Saturday.Not being on the inside of JNC it's hard to know what all went into the scheduling decision, but it wasn't as "They did what?!" as your comment makes it sound.
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@PinkShinyRose Yeah, its Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples' Day in the US.
I feel bad for their team mostly because I think this could all have been caught during the testing phase before the upgrade, and then they wouldn't have had to work the overtime. I handle complex upgrades on systems for a living, and the number and varied types of issues they are seeing makes me feel things were not fully tested before they did the upgrade.
In any event I wish them the best and appreciate their hard work.
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@Geezer-Weasalopes I'd agree with that, plus it's very possible they have past year reading metrics and knew this weekend would be light for users, and a good time for them to do their upgrade if things went sideways and they needed more time.
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We all know they were holding this off until after Bookworm completed.
While it is a federal holiday in the U.S., that is all it is. Unless a business is government adjacent, the odds of it being a holiday at that company are exceedingly low.
On a more serious note, my reading history seems to be completely restored. Last time I checked it was all back except for a week-ish right before the update. Now it all seems to be there. Good work JNC IT team.
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@sorvani said in [PLEASE READ] - Issues after extended Maintenance:
We all know they were holding this off until after Bookworm completed.
Heh.
Just now a little humor does not come amiss.While it is a federal holiday in the U.S., that is all it is. Unless a business is government adjacent, the odds of it being a holiday at that company are exceedingly low.
From what we've observed in the past (comments by staff in the support topics) JNC staff do get the standard holidays off.
On a more serious note, my reading history seems to be completely restored. Last time I checked it was all back except for a week-ish right before the update. Now it all seems to be there. Good work JNC IT team.
They did say all along that the reading history was a gradual process given the number of records being transferred over; tens of thousands of entries.
Automation is wonderful; once started they could just let it run once they confirmed it was working.
So that didn't negatively impact staff ability to handle the unexpected weirdnesses that went down.
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@Geezer-Weasalopes Can you let me know what volume exactly you were trying to purchase when it failed?
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@chocolatkey
Cooking with Wild Game (Manga) first five volumes; they all gave that message, but upon a page refresh showed the purchase as having gone through. Then I shifted to the User Library for the rest of that series.
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga) second part was the initial test to confirm it was where the purchase was being made and not just that it was manga; since I already owned later volumes I could test it via the User Library option.I did still need to do a page refresh in the User Library upon making the purchases for them to display as owned, but there was noting weird messagewise concerning the transaction.
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@Geezer-Weasalopes OK, that's useful to know. I think I know what the issue was, and it's fixed now. As you correctly assumed, it didn't actually affect the purchase itself.
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@sorvani said in [PLEASE READ] - Issues after extended Maintenance:
While it is a federal holiday in the U.S., that is all it is. Unless a business is government adjacent, the odds of it being a holiday at that company are exceedingly low.
I'm in the US. Almost every employer I've had over the last 30 years gave us most of the federal holidays off. So the above statement is questionable, or at least not universal in the least.
FWIW, I work in the IT industry and most (but not all) of my employers have been software development houses or service providers.
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@pcj said in [PLEASE READ] - Issues after extended Maintenance:
I'm in the US. Almost every employer I've had over the last 30 years gave us most of the federal holidays off. So the above statement is questionable, or at least not universal in the least.
The only company I worked at in my adult working life (also more or less 30 years) that had Columbus day as a holiday was the 6ish years I was at AT&T.
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To give context, another staff member already informed the Discord that today, Oct 14, is an observed US holiday for JNC staff.
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@Rahul-Balaggan said in [PLEASE READ] - Issues after extended Maintenance:
Hi, sorry but please try again (on the website) and let us know if it works. Thank you!
No. The website does not work on my end. Tested in three separate browsers (Opera desktop, Vivaldi desktop, Safari mobile). I've logged out and back in, reloaded the browser, and I get the same thing: I try to click on any of the novel parts (beyond part 1) and I get the message "You don't currently have access to this part. Buy the full volume or get a subscription to read it now!" Checking my user account I am a regular subscribed user through the 26th. It only gives me the option to upgrade my existing sub.
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Hello JNC Staff,
Once full-service has been restored, will there be any adjustments to timetables in terms of book release dates, or extending the time that regular and premium members have access to pre-published book parts, especially those that expire tomorrow? If not, would it be possible for regular and premium members to receive some number of free week long book rentals so we can catch up on what we missed that way? Thank you for your consideration.
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Hi,
My apologies but my comment that you are replying to was to ask if they could now purchase coins on the site.
As for your issue, please email us at support@j-novel.club you can directly be assisted there.
