Suggestion: Please add the option to sort by streaming end date
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I would like to be able to sort titles by streaming end date.
That way, if there are 2 titles currently streaming, but one ends tomorrow and the other ends next month, I can instantly see which one I should prioritise.This would work best with an added filter that can list the titles that are currently streaming.
As far as I can see this filter doesn't exist yet.
I checked "Publication status ongoing" but that one also lists titles that currently aren't streaming as long as as there are more volumes expected to come out in the future, so it doesn't quite fit the purpose.
Therefore please add the currently streaming filter as well. -
I can see how that might be problematic. Dates of when things end might not be fixed or might not be a commitment that JNC wants to make public. (translators, editors, and staff have their own timetables and I imagine life happens )
maybe a 'currently streaming part 3/12' (3 of 12) would give you the same information (and would still allow for your sort/prioritization)?
I read banned books
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@Jon-Mitchell I think they're looking to have a sort by when the pre-pubs are no longer available. Like how Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer! This White Mage Is One Heck of a Healer Volume 1's pre-pubs expire on Feb 16. These are fairly fixed since the expiration date is almost always around the 15th of the month after the ebook is released and the dates are listed on the series page as soon as the new volume is added.
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@jpwong said in Suggestion: Please add the option to sort by streaming end date:
@Jon-Mitchell I think they're looking to have a sort by when the pre-pubs are no longer available. Like how Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer! This White Mage Is One Heck of a Healer Volume 1's pre-pubs expire on Feb 16. These are fairly fixed since the expiration date is almost always around the 15th of the month after the ebook is released and the dates are listed on the series page as soon as the new volume is added.
aaah- I see how that is different, and raises a whole other layer of difficulties. Often (it seems) that when pre-pubs expire is tied to when the next volume in a series starts streaming- and JNC has a policy of NOT discussing future publishing schedules. Also, JNC (if I recall correctly) doesn't license always (or even often) entire series at a time, instead they license volume by volume - and when a ebook gets published, and pre-pubs stop streaming might not be a something that JNC wants to (or always can for business reasons) make those schedules public
I read banned books
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@Smoochie you might find this thread useful https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/534/expiring-volumes-light-novels/401
It lists which volumes are going to expire each month and lets you schedule what to prioritize reading. Keep in mind it's manually updated so there might be errors but usually they are corrected as soon as someone notices.@Jon-Mitchell the data is already publicly available both in the release calendar and in each series page on the website so there is no problem on that front.
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@Jon-Mitchell I'm not quite sure how that would play into it in any way. Expiration of any specific volume's pre-pubs are tied to when the ebook is published, it's not dependant in any way if a series may or may not get more volumes. The problem is more that all the search criteria right now are on series data, not volume data, so it's not clear if they could make is search on min volume expiration date greater than or equal to today without having to rewrite the entire backend.
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@Lex Thank you for sharing that thread, it's an improvement to see a list with the volumes that are going to expire each month.
I just hope that after the J-novel staff stopped updating the thread and they saw that a member took over, they added this functionality to the roadmap -
@jpwong said in Suggestion: Please add the option to sort by streaming end date:
The problem is more that all the search criteria right now are on series data, not volume data, so it's not clear if they could make is search on min volume expiration date greater than or equal to today without having to rewrite the entire backend.
Yeah, that would have a pretty big impact.
But while I understand that such a change is a lot of work, I don't think that that should be a reason to not do it.
It will probably take a bit more time to schedule the work, but a good rewrite can make lots of other requested features possible as well.
Things like showing the reading progress per title, or filtering on titles with unread parts, or tagging per volume -
cross posting from another thread:
- in general I think that more information is better. Tags, genre, age appropriateness (meaningful), how many volumes, complete(?) and average reader ratings all would be good to see - I'd also like all of these parameters (and whatever else in meaningful) to be sortable. and/or filterable - like if I want to read a fan favorite rom com, isekai, fantasy, harem, not for folks under 14, that is complete in 12+ volumes - maybe I should have a way to find Lazy Dungeon Master. Some of these features /filters exist now. Some don't
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@Smoochie I'm not suggesting it shouldn't be considered, only that such a suggestion may need to wait for their overhaul of the search system which I think that while someone may be working on it, it's not the top priority right this second.
JNC's been working through each backend section of their site for overhauling from the original stuff they have had since back when they only had a few dozen series and only a few volumes of each.
