The site is due some upgrades and I’m taking the opportunity to update some of the features and streamline the design. All these while maintaining WuxiaSociety’s goal to keep the site readable on all devices and ad-free.
I’m putting down some of the work I have in mind. Any feedback on the experiences you’ve had would be great in shaping how I make these changes moving forward
Better pagination
The current design splits the chapters into pages automatically but the comments section is for the whole chapter. I plan to manually split the each chapter into individual pages so that the comments are for that particular page.
Inline comments
Speaking of comments, they were disabled in the past due to excessive spam. I’ve added it back after putting up better anti-spam measures. And there is actually a new feature that I’m keen to try and generate more discussion among readers. We’ll be able to make inline comments.
This means you can highlight some text that you want to comment on, and comment about it. Others will be able to see that you are commenting on those sentences. It might help with capturing translation errors or clarify things that are unclear to readers.
My concern is I’m not sure how it might affect the readability having the comment icons showing up within the text. I’ll have to test this and see, and more importantly get feedback from readers.
Translation update
I’m looking to update the translations on the website while I’m going through this. We get a lot of feedback for the translations, especially those done by other translators in the past. Since it will be a rather major undertaking, I can only start with the in-house translations for this overhaul.