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@Terabyte That issue is also happening on Firefox at a 1080p resolution. Something in the calendar code is obviously borking when it tries to enumerate and list entries.
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I noticed with the new launch of the site compared to when it was in beta you no longer see future volumes. I really enjoyed that aspect since it helped me to know what I have to look forward to.
Will this be coming back or will we have an option to enable it?
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@jdmmis If you go back 2 or 3 pages, there's a whole discussion about that, but I think the short answer is, they're aware people would like it back and they'll make a decision on it at a later date having received the requested feedback.
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In ~3 hours I Refuse to Be Your Enemy! Parts 1 & 2 are coming out and, while this is clearly obvious in the old site, the new calendar only show Part 1 coming out.
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@jpwong Thank you for the answer and pointing me to the discussion.
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Some radio buttons in the series tab don't render quite aligned on my end, at a glance "Has Pysical Releases" and "Complete & On Hiatus". "Followed Titles Only" also ends very close to the icon. I'm using Edge 89.0.774.54.
I also think that, for publication status, it might make more sense to have checkboxes for Ongoing/Complete/On Hiatus to select/deselect, rather than the current setup. As far as the ongoing filter request goes, I've seen it was requested as early as page 1 by Khaos, but I haven't seen an official reply to that in the first 2-3 pages (might have happened later on in the thread or I could have just missed it, it's kinda difficult to search for, sorry in advance if it was already addressed).
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Please add back the future volumes as it was. It was one of the main reasons I would use the beta version of the site. Maybe have a toggle option at least?
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Would it be possible to update the new RSS feeds to say when a part is a volume end, and not just that a new part is available? As someone who prefers to read the volumes once all the chapters are out, and relies on RSS feeds for information on when stuff is posted, having to flip between the RSS reader and the site just to get this information is an annoyance, and is something that can easily be forgotten to do.
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I just found the RSS feed under User. I approve of this. (Works well with my RSS reader).
Is it going to also list the releases for the ebook?
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@redmasq said in New Website Feedback:
I just found the RSS feed under User. I approve of this. (Works well with my RSS reader).
I agree, and have migrated to it, and appreciate getting a list of only those items I have followed.
I have noted, however, a significant delay. The normal RSS feed had items in my reader within 1-2 minutes of their actual release time. The user-specific RSS seems to be between 30 and 45 minutes behind.
A programmer is just a complex method of turning caffeine into source code.
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@mystyk More than likely the website is using a direct table query while the feed is likely being generated by a cron job (or other scheduler) to control load. It probably has to build a row per login user. If done serially, it probably will take a while. I am uncertain of their architecture, but processor and I/O are the biggest setbacks for making it parallelizing it, assuming their DB (if not just caching in a file system) support row or page locks instead of table locks for the write. I'd throw together some better jargon of my assumptions, but I only had 2 cups of coffee today.
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@redmasq As a full-stack engineer, I feel your base assumption is likely spot-on, and that was essentially my conclusion as well. It likely does perform a straight read for the "everything" query, but not for user ones, due to the number of users. In the end, the benefit of reducing unwanted items in my feed outweighs extreme punctuality with the releases, especially when the ones I really want will have me waiting on the app for the moment they release anyway.
A programmer is just a complex method of turning caffeine into source code.
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Some other unexpected behavior on mobile (safari iOS 14):
If you go to the series list page, click on a series, then click the back button (part of the webpage, not the browser), it brings you back to the list of the series as you would expect. However if you first click the buy button on a volume, then click x to close that, clicking back takes you to the buy screen again instead. -
@mystyk said in New Website Feedback:
As a full-stack engineer,
Your signature gave it away; that's why I was lazy with my reply instead of making it "suitable for end-users and management" (given running on empty for caffeine).
In the end, the benefit of reducing unwanted items in my feed outweighs extreme punctuality with the releases, especially when the ones I really want will have me waiting on the app for the moment they release anyway.
I feel the same. Besides, it is usually in the evening after work and any side projects when I follow up on reading material, as such, punctuality is a moot point, but less scrolling and tapping/clicking (read:convenience) is beneficial.
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@redmasq @mystyk All RSS feeds are cached for 5 minutes (just simple memcached of the bytes since you seem to be curious), I may consider reducing the caching time of the user-specific ones. If you are sure they are 30-45m behind you can send us an email and I can troubleshoot that.
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Not sure if it's been previously suggested, but in the user library it'd be nice to be able to quickly jump to the series webpage to be able to see/buy new volumes. Maybe even list all volumes and simply denote which are owned and which are not as they are in the series pages, and allow quick purchasing of unowned volumes.
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I can‘t log in on the Website with my IPad. After entering Userdata and clicking on the log in, i See the Animation with the circle of dots, but nothing Happens. I think it is an Redirect Problem, behause, when i jump to Forum and back to title Page i am logged in.
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A couple little updates went up today:
- The text for the Series filters has been updated to be more concise. Some series are not filtering correctly, so we're investigating that.
- The Series search bar no longer searches description text.
- The text in the How It Works and FAQ pages has been updated to clarify some things:
- Premium credits can now be redeemed through the website normally even without an active membership.
- When you redeem a credit for a premium ebook, that gives you access to the prepub parts for that book even when they are expired and regardless of your membership status. That means non-active subscribers can use saved credits to preorder a book and keep up with prepub parts! Can't discuss it on the forums without being a member though~
- Crimson Text added as default font choice for reader, default font size is now 110%.
Other major issues that were fixed this week:
- Google SSO issues fixed
- Subscriber part access denied issues fixed
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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@chocolatkey I am not for certain in my case. The RSS reader on my mobile devices might be experiencing delays due to its own sync settings + notifications delays for the mobile OS (iOS and iPadOS in this case). I don't use one on my PC since I just keep the tab for the Calendar open. I can probably setup to monitor it (don't mind for short term if needed), but it won't make the translations release any faster ;-)
Also, I was actually curious on the setup.
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Welp use a text to speech program to read prepubs because of bad eye sight. It works fine on older site reader but not at all on new one. One I use can even read from kindle online reader and just about anything else but not j novels. Not sure what I'll do once old site is shut down. I'm guessing there wont be much hope of this kind of issue being addressed.
