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phantasmalpoisonI should contact support with my feedback or whatever, but, like, I'm just so incredibly overwhelmed by how dreadful the new website is.
Intensely stressful that something I spend a good chunk of my money on has been 'upgraded' so there's no wishlist, you can't exclude tags searching the store, you can't exclude books you own searching the store, you can't view by series (the first sale of the new site has nearly 4000 volumes all listed separately over 65 pages), the new reader doesn't have bookmarks and doesn't work properly on my mobile browser and has a page turning animation I hate and can't turn off on desktop, none of my reading history has transferred, I have no idea what the favourites tab of my library is supposed to be, they got rid of coinback for preorders, I think they're getting rid of the coinback discount loyalty scheme.
Also, while easily personally fixed by toggling mature content back on, BL and yuri are basically labelled mature and hidden by default??? I was like, where has most of my library gone?! Super super super gross!
Like, I'm just going to the Jp version of the site and reading the things I've already bought there, which is already worse than using the previous En Bookwalker. Or, you know, doing things that aren't reading manga.
Massive monopoly website is shooting itself in the foot and probably missing out on a load of my money etc. etc., which I should tell them, and there are other ways I can get manga, etc. But I've been having a bit of a freak-out every time I think about it over the past few days. Website I've been using basically every day for years is suddenly a total mess, a thing I knew could happen but wasn't mentally prepared for it to happen.
Gahhhhhhhhhhh
Intensely stressful that something I spend a good chunk of my money on has been 'upgraded' so there's no wishlist, you can't exclude tags searching the store, you can't exclude books you own searching the store, you can't view by series (the first sale of the new site has nearly 4000 volumes all listed separately over 65 pages), the new reader doesn't have bookmarks and doesn't work properly on my mobile browser and has a page turning animation I hate and can't turn off on desktop, none of my reading history has transferred, I have no idea what the favourites tab of my library is supposed to be, they got rid of coinback for preorders, I think they're getting rid of the coinback discount loyalty scheme.
Also, while easily personally fixed by toggling mature content back on, BL and yuri are basically labelled mature and hidden by default??? I was like, where has most of my library gone?! Super super super gross!
Like, I'm just going to the Jp version of the site and reading the things I've already bought there, which is already worse than using the previous En Bookwalker. Or, you know, doing things that aren't reading manga.
Massive monopoly website is shooting itself in the foot and probably missing out on a load of my money etc. etc., which I should tell them, and there are other ways I can get manga, etc. But I've been having a bit of a freak-out every time I think about it over the past few days. Website I've been using basically every day for years is suddenly a total mess, a thing I knew could happen but wasn't mentally prepared for it to happen.
Gahhhhhhhhhhh
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Date: 2026-03-29 11:00 pm (UTC)You absolutely do not have to read the rest of my complaints, but yeah, there's more
Date: 2026-03-30 12:14 am (UTC)Oh, yeah, and when searching the store, the previews of each book no longer show the price, there's nothing indicating if you've bought it or not, the 'completed' label for complete series is gone (and this remains true even after you click through), there's no add to cart button.
You can't sort your library by 'read', 'reading' or 'unread', there's only 'purchased' and 'history' (and 'upcoming' for preorders, and the mysterious 'favorites' which is exclusively sorted by series (the only thing that is) and after looking through the 300+ series my guess is that it's every series that has ever been on my wishlist. Agh. Terrible wishlist alternative maybe better than nothing, but, yeah.).
Can't delete things from history, can't archive things.
There's no inbox notifying you of new releases from series you've bought from!
Allowing you to download epubs of the books (not DRM free but still way better than not being able to), and being able to search your library by tags or genre are both great new features (I'm not so sure about the new tags but I think that's just a matter of opinion, so, whatever) that I would've welcomed, do welcome, but making this bad new website to do that is not it!!!
It's shitty, but hopefully I can at least stop having a meltdown over it in the near future.