Thread: zombie knight

https://www.wlnupdates.com/series-id/34282/

Releases all screwed up.

Don't know what you want to do with them but you could release the chapter pages like the link I have below.

http://thezombieknight.blogspot.com/search/label/ch134?m=1#order=ASC

Also there is a duplicate of the novel just hosted on another site: https://www.wlnupdates.com/series-id/32312/

The duplicates are because someone is cross-posting your novel on RoyalRoadL (With permission?): http://royalroadl.com/fiction/3442 I merged the two series, in any event.

The messed up releases are because the way the chapters are released interfaces very poorly with the way the site handles chapter fragments, compounded with the feed parsing system is being dumb. To make a long story short, currently the site doesn't allow more then 99 chapter fragments. The page numbers are then being clamped to the 0-99 range, and you get the result you're seeing.

I've been meaning to split the chapter and fragment numbers into separate columns which would remove the limit, and this might be a good basis to goad me into doing just that.

lol It is not my novel. I was just going though a few things when I have some extra time and adding/fixing things.

lol It is not my novel.

Whoops, sorry

I was just going though a few things when I have some extra time and adding/fixing things.

That's awesome, thanks for helping out. Let me know if you're interested in mod privileges (e.g. delete bad releases, merge series, etc...).

I'm working up a database migration that will split up the chapter numbering right now, to make it more maintainable in the future. Unfortunately, the way the changes are managed means I have to change a bunch of stuff, so it'll probably be a day or two before it goes live. The existing way it works is really poor design, in retrospect, and it's hard-coded into both the server-side python and client-side javascript in multiple places. Doh!

Let me know if you're interested in mod privileges (e.g. delete bad releases, merge series, etc...).

As long as it is not super technical I would use it. Would have to clarify some things though.

Do you want all releases of the story on the site? By this, using zombie knight as the example, do you want the releases on RRL and the writer's blog to both be posted or just the site with the newest releases.

What do you want done with official English releases? Example, Hidan no Aria has the first 2 volumes that Digital Manga released in English, do you want me to link to the sale page for the books on their site or just not add anything about them?

For "Status in Country of Origin" not sure what you want here. Is something like "Volumes: 21 - Ongoing" what you were looking for or just the Ongoing part?

Sure I will have more to ask but that was what I remember from the little bit I went though since I starting doing things.

:) looking forward to seeing this site grow, always wished there was a site that tracked English web novels!

Idea, you could add a section to the author pages for alt names. (I am talking about the pages you have when you click the authors name. Don't know if that is a "page" or just a search though.) Brush up the page's look kind of like a novel's page but instead of releases you have the author's novels.

I'm planning something that looks like what the current "group" page works. For example: https://www.wlnupdates.com/group-id/577/

Way it is now works for me though so whatever you want. (Even if you like the idea not even very important anyway though)

My long-term "when I have a week off work" plan is to have wiki-style editable documentation for tags/authors/genres/etc... I have to do a bunch more backend stuff to get it working, and I've got too many projects and plans already.

As long as it is not super technical I would use it. Would have to clarify some things though.

It should be turned on for you. Principally, you get a few new options in the series page, and if you right-click on the two right-hand columns in the release table, you can delete a release, or force it out of the "latest" release tracking system.

There's also some useful information in the right-click menu (the time the release was added, who added it).

Merging series is not too obvious, basically you use the series id. For a series page like https://www.wlnupdates.com/series-id/1066/, the series ID is "1066". If you have two series pages:

• https://www.wlnupdates.com/series-id/1066/
• https://www.wlnupdates.com/series-id/34184/

You put the "1066" number in the "Dbid" field on the 34184 page, or 34184 on the 1066 page and click "do merge". The item will then be consolidated to the series page with the smaller ID number.

The rest of the options are pretty self explanitory: "Delete Series:" deletes the entire series item (not trivially reversible, but there is a confirmation dialog), and deleting only the releases generated by the automated system.

Do you want all releases of the story on the site? By this, using zombie knight as the example, do you want the releases on RRL and the writer's blog to both be posted or just the site with the newest releases.

Ideally I'd love to have all releases for a series on-site, but that'd require more manual work then I'd be willing to ask of anyone. For the moment, I'm OK with just having releases for as long as the system has been tracking the RSS feed in question.

What do you want done with official English releases? Example, Hidan no Aria has the first 2 volumes that Digital Manga released in English, do you want me to link to the sale page for the books on their site or just not add anything about them?

Uh...., no idea. I hadn't even thought about it. Having links to where you can buy the volumes would be pretty cool.

For "Status in Country of Origin" not sure what you want here. Is something like "Volumes: 21 - Ongoing" what you were looking for or just the Ongoing part?

I think I copied that text basically literally from MangaUpdates, and what they do is fine, e.g. "Volumes: 21 - Ongoing" is awesome.

Sure I will have more to ask but that was what I remember from the little bit I went though since I starting doing things.

Let me know if you have more questions, or run across more issues. I'm certainly pretty good at writing bugs at this point, apparently ;).

:) looking forward to seeing this site grow, always wished there was a site that tracked English web novels!

Thanks for contributing. As a reminder, if there are any serial fictions you like that aren't already tracked by the automated system, I'd be happy to see about adding them!

if you right-click on the two right-hand columns in the release table, you can delete a release, or force it out of the "latest" release tracking system.

Was trying to figure out how that worked. :) I am at work right now and they use IE and just thought it was because of that. :P

Yeah, I wanted right-click for the view link and the series link so I could open either of them in a new tab. A lot of the less user-exposed functionality of the site has basically been implemented for my own use specifically, and isn't really to general as a result.

Oh, incidentally, the zombie knight page has proper fragment values now (got the DB rework deployed).

~~~Of course, I then notice the little "reading progress" input box is clamped to 999. Doh!~~~
Fixt.

Just noticed a bug in the release exclusion system that prevents excluded releases from being properly not included when evaluating the latest chapter.

It'll have to wait for tomorrow to fix because I won't get the time until then. Deep.