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[Ozarke]

Dear Batoto,
I have been using Follow for months now. I really enjoy using it. Except that some times it is hard for me too look through it to find the comics i have read and the ones i have not. My suggestion would be to implement a different template that would make it easier for one to look through the list. An example would be instead of having the new chapter and the last chapter read on separate lines to instead have them on the same line. I believe this would greatly help the viewing of which chapters you have and have not read. Also making the links Larger than other text would help. I understand this may have been discussed some where else. I just hope that if enough people agree with me that this may be implemented.
Many thanks,
Ozarke

[soranokira]

I guess it means something like the red line tokyotosho has (or at least used to have, I'm not sure if they have it anymore)

[Grumpy]

I guess it means something like the red line tokyotosho has (or at least used to have, I'm not sure if they have it anymore)

I'm afraid I'm unaware of "tokyotosho" style...

[soranokira]

uh well when I went there about a year or more ago, http://tokyotosho.info/
I'll use an example to illustrate:

I visit the site at 12/1/09 2pm (no log in or whatever) and they'll save the list of torrents that is listed at that time.
Then I visit the site again at 13/1/09 2pm, there'll be a red line above the last torrent that you saw (i.e. at the latest torrent posted at 12/1/09 2pm)
So the torrents above the red line are the newly updated torrents.

When applied to batoto I think it'd be like, I read chapter 30 of Magi, then I come back in a week to see that there are updates for Magi. There'll then be a red line above chapter 30 of Magi, so I know that I last stopped at chapter 30.

^ the above is my interpretation of topic starter's suggestion. Remembering last visit dates and last read chapter might be somewhat tedious so I guess to help with that.

[Ozarke]

My suggestion was to reconstruct the follow page. So that it can be more accessible and pleasant to use. Not saying that its not convenient to use already. Just that the style it is set up at the moment has left room for improvement. Any suggestions or thoughts on how to make it better such as the way Soranokira suggested on the matter will help this topic figure out a way to create a better follow page. I know that the follow page may be hard to change so i understand if a new style for the follow page will not be implemented. But any thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

[Darkwings]

I'm supporting Ozarke's idea of highlighting unread chapters in some way

Edit: I was having problems unrelated to Batoto causing the reset of the language filtering. Fixed :|

Thanks for your hard work guys.

Edited by Darkwings, 16 January 2012 - 01:38 AM.

[God Ginrai]

The red line idea is very interesting. However, this sounds like something that would only be useful when you are viewing the main page for a specific manga in question.

I also have a few ideas of my own. If you had separate lists for all your follows and those follows which you are not caught up on, that would help tremendously. In fact, the small follow list you get on the front page could simply be the list of follows you are not caught up on. People don't really need to see what they have already read on the front page. Note, the "not caught up" list would be determined by the site based off of your follow list, in case it wasn't clear to anyone.

-God Ginrai

Edited by God Ginrai, 27 January 2012 - 10:29 PM.

[pshhk]

I think a list of everything you have last read would be nice . . .
The follows page is brilliant, but a separate tangent, a "recently read" lists would be helpful for mangas you've yet to decide to follow, or just to see what you were last reading . . .
Since the follows page is changed every time a new chapter is uploaded, if you're just going through one manga at the time, it'd be easier to see what you were reading yesterday, and so forth.
For example, you start a manga, and the next day, ten new chapters for other mangas are uploaded. With the new "history" page, you could just look at that one for the manga you were going through and pick off from there . . . 
And, as an admittedly non-Japanese speaker, titles that are romanticized are harder to remember than ones with direct English parallels. So that history page could easily remind one what manga you were reading . . . If I had four mangas with names like, "Osu! Karate Bu," and "Eikoku Kizoku Goyoutashi," sure I'll figure it out eventually since there are differences in title, but it'd be easier with just a history page since I'll never remember for sure what stories go with which titles with names like those . . .
I picture this imaginary page as to what YouTube has with it's "Viewing History" or even like what a simple computer has with "browser history."
Just a thought.

Edited by pshhk, 27 February 2015 - 09:28 PM.

[kdom]

When applied to batoto I think it'd be like, I read chapter 30 of Magi, then I come back in a week to see that there are updates for Magi. There'll then be a red line above chapter 30 of Magi, so I know that I last stopped at chapter 30.

This could be solved if there was 2 book logos instead of one (the logo i'm talking about is the open book at the left of the chapter names). One for the chapter you have read and one for the chapter you haven't.

I also have a few ideas of my own. If you had separate lists for all your follows and those follows which you are not caught up on, that would help tremendously. In fact, the small follow list you get on the front page could simply be the list of follows you are not caught up on. People don't really need to see what they have already read on the front page. Note, the "not caught up" list would be determined by the site based off of your follow list, in case it wasn't clear to anyone.

I support this idea.

Plus it would be great if there was another tag for a wish list, for the manga you are not reading yet but wish to later. It's so easy to forget the title of a manga, and this would be of great help

Edit : And it may be interesting to be able to access to the manga followed by other members.

Edited by kdom, 12 February 2012 - 01:22 PM.

[God Ginrai]

And, as an admittedly non-Japanese speaker, titles that are romanticized are harder to remember than ones with direct English parallels.

Really? I find if you make a name romantic, it becomes easier to remember. I mean, you're going to remember a name like "She Loves Me Not..." a lot easier than a name like "Will She Love Him?"

Now, a romanized title may be a different case.

When applied to batoto I think it'd be like, I read chapter 30 of Magi, then I come back in a week to see that there are updates for Magi. There'll then be a red line above chapter 30 of Magi, so I know that I last stopped at chapter 30.

This could be solved if there was 2 book logos instead of one (the logo i'm talking about is the open book at the left of the chapter names). One for the chapter you have read and one for the chapter you haven't.

I also have a few ideas of my own. If you had separate lists for all your follows and those follows which you are not caught up on, that would help tremendously. In fact, the small follow list you get on the front page could simply be the list of follows you are not caught up on. People don't really need to see what they have already read on the front page. Note, the "not caught up" list would be determined by the site based off of your follow list, in case it wasn't clear to anyone.

I support this idea.

Plus it would be great if there was another tag for a wish list, for the manga you are not reading yet but wish to later. It's so easy to forget the title of a manga, and this would be of great help

Edit : And it may be interesting to be able to access to the manga followed by other members.

Isn't your wishlist idea the same thing as just following and not reading? It sounds like you want to change this feature into ChainReading. (It seems that ChainReading is down, so here's a review talking about it: http://www.convertiv.com/a-review-of-chainreading/)

-God Ginrai

[FionaSuus]

I would like to see the titles from the follow list more divided now I have some trouble seeing which chapter is released and which one I've read. Just making a bold line between every followed manga or using the idea from the thread starter to have the chapters on the same line would help tremendously with reading it easier for me. Also some sorting options other than last updated would be nice: like last read, manga title and perhaps date added to your follow group.

[kdom]

Isn't your wishlist idea the same thing as just following and not reading? It sounds like you want to change this feature into ChainReading. (It seems that ChainReading is down, so here's a review talking about it: http://www.convertiv...f-chainreading/)

-God Ginrai

I don't know about ChainReading, I was more thinking at Mangaupdate system, which is the one i use rather than Batoto at the moment.

[Zodarr]

I agree with the suggestion of soranokira, and God Ginrai, also the main cause i've come to this topic,this:

I would like to see the titles from the follow list more divided now I have some trouble seeing which chapter is released and which one I've read. Just making a bold line between every followed manga or using the idea from the thread starter to have the chapters on the same line would help tremendously with reading it easier for me. Also some sorting options other than last updated would be nice: like last read, manga title and perhaps date added to your follow group.

Alphabetical sort is the main issue for me here.
Also, dividing could be made with alternating background colors (like cell color in OpenOffice Calc).