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Terabyte

Would be nice to have some kind of icon/indication in the calendar if we've already fully read the LN part/manga chapter. Or show a % if it's not fully read so you can find right away what you still haven't read of your followed series.

arromdee

The link from "how it works" to "browse titles with physical releases" does not take you to a list of titles with physical releases.

myskaros

@arromdee Whoops! This has been fixed.

mattashii

I'm uncertain if this has been posted before, but couldn't find any, so here goes:

The titles with physical releases don't have any indication on how to find those. At least, I had problems finding out which of the Ascendance of a Bookworm volumes had a release, and what ISBNs were linked to which volumes. This can sometimes be found through the e-book shops that happen to also sell the physical release, and happen to have an easy relation between the two, but that's not always there, and it's a tedious extra step, because the 'check stores' panel is not a button that would get me to any stores that would have the book.

Additionally, the 'check stores' tag is not an indicator a physical release has actually been announced: all volumes of a printed series get that tag, not only those that have store pages in any store (example: Bookworm novel, P4V2, is not in print, but has the 'check stores' tag)

Do you have any plans on adding and displaying ISBNs, or other standardized identifiers, using which we can find (and/or preorder/buy) the physical releases in (online or physical) shops whenever that print releases?

I have a similar request for a visible unique identifier ebooks if such a thing is possible/feasable, although in that case the links to the e-stores are already quite useful in finding the e-book.

myskaros

@mattashii We definitely have plans to have better tracking for our print releases, but thank you for asking about it! We don't have an ETA at the moment, but it's on our priority list.

yzh4rjdzob6

I ran into the same issue as this. It's unclear to me if that poster meant the new site, or the old site.

On my ipad mini, the last page of a manga chapter has raw html instead instead of the "next part"/"back to reading" page like the desktop : https://i.imgur.com/J086GDL.png .

My ipad mini is 14.7.1, and I see this with both Safari and Firefox 35.0. I checked with multiple, random series in both browsers, and they all have this problem. This happens in portrait single page and landscape double page. This happens with page-to-page and scroll.

Aruseus493

Any chance of the Isekai Genius page being updated? It mistakenly has the "Completed" tag and shows up when searching for completed series on the series page. It should be under "On Hiatus." The author ended volume 3 with the intention of volume 4 being the ending but just never wrote it.

pcj

The "Series follows for <user>" RSS feed seems to have stuff show up out of order in it all the time. It looks like the publish date on the items put in it probably matches when they got uploaded to the site instead of when they actually got posted. That or someone's copy/pasting previous listings and forgetting the change the date.

For example: "Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire (Manga) Volume 1 Chapter 3" which released at 1pm Eastern today is showing up in the feed with a date of June 12, 2021 on it.

chocolatkey

@pcj You're correct, the third-party library being used had some confusing options, I didn't realize the created/updated dates are used in such a manner. That's fixed now, let me know if it isn't.

pcj

@chocolatkey indeed, stuff seems to be sorting correctly and reflects the release time now, thanks!

piisfun

Minor issue with the reader:
Pictures seem to be able to overhang low-hanging letters such as 'g'.

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My personal settings are Literata; 140% size; 1.3 spacing; justified.

Nosgoroth

Someone reported this on Discord:

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I was able to reproduce it on Bookworm P4V2 and P4V3, on Chrome and Safari at a horizontal resolution range of between 866x and 944x.

I also found this:

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The covers become tiny at exactly 865x, only on Chrome (not Safari), for all volumes of all series.

DarkRookie

Can you please redirect me to back to the part I was trying to read after I login because I forgot to do that first.
Have it remember the 1 page setting.

Nosgoroth

@darkrookie said in New Website Feedback:

Have it remember the 1 page setting.

And all the settings for color, font size, line spacing and all that, please. They never last three days.

redmasq

A behavior in which I have been noticing as of late on the website, if using from a tab that is already open (have not measured time, but no less than 12 hours). User account page is at least visible along with previous purchases and calendar shows "Following" list just fine (since the RSS feed works without login out of necessity, this is not surprising if a fixed url with a token is used for whatever API the calendar hits and then filters).

Attempting to read a part beyond chapter 1 directly results in "You are not allowed to read this part." As plaintext. Attempting from the reader page, if going to Chapter 1 first, gives 403 in big print (assumed to be HTTP 403 Forbidden). It is easy to assess that the session is likely expired and I had been logged out without the UI realizing; I am mildly concerned that the User page still shows my library, but if it is something just shoved into browser local storage, then probably not a big deal yet still a point of frustration.

Next time it happens, I will check to see if it allows me to download a novel. If not, it is likely just a UI bug. If it does, maybe session tracking is inconsistent across different code bases or machines if using a reverse proxy? Unfortunately, the mobile browser is lacking a debug console, but there is means to capture logs and certain types of network traffic.

Please note this behavior has only been observed on Chrome browser of my mobile devices (iOS, iPadOS, and Android). I have not observed it in FireFox or Chrome on Windows 10. Work has been busy, so I had not had chance to check Edge in Windows, any browsers on Linux, or mobile Safari. As a side note, I keep the sleep/snooze/freeze tab features disabled on my desktop.

KingKillerX

Since I mentioned elsewhere I figure I should probably mention I think here too? Setting your clock ahead messes with front page link availability and resulted in me seeing a Manga chapter several hours early without realizing it.

jdmmis

I just noticed looking at bookworm that its not showing all the books on the series page. I'm only seeing up to Part 2 Volume 3. I'm using Safari on a Mac as my main browser but I tried chrome too with the same outcome.

Now when I checked out smartphone and it checked out fine and I went back to bookworm it looks fine.

Something weird

Gamen

@jdmmis The manga is only up to P2V3 on JNC... The light novels are at https://j-novel.club/series/ascendance-of-a-bookworm

Tiko424

Would be nice to sort the items when looking in the series page by last updated

Geezer Weasalopes

@tiko424 said in New Website Feedback:

Would be nice to sort the items when looking in the series page by last updated

As in sorting by pre-pub chapter release timestamp across all titles?
I'm pretty sure that's theoretically possible.
Depending upon how they are storing the requisite data it might not be that tricky to pull up the info required for the sort.

But wouldn't it just replicate what you can already pull up by looking at the release schedule?
In some ways it would be more convenient, but I can see it being looked at as a somewhat lower priority than various other things needing work in re the new website, since there kinda is access that way already.

It's not a crazy idea.