How Does Novel Updates Work?

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  1. May Our Dreams Come True

    May Our Dreams Come True Well-Known Member

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    Thank you so much! I see, I was confused.

    Hi, so sorry for bothering you again. I realised that the Chinese character didn't appear in my group name so it's now just May Our Come True. I understand it might not be possible for the Chinese character to appear and it might just be a trivial thing... But is there a way to change it to May Our Dreams Come True instead? It's the name I use when the Chinese characters don't appear.

    Thanks for your swift response, much appreciated! If it's too complicated I guess I'll just have to leave it as it is...
     
  2. Tony

    Tony Well-Known Member Staff Member

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    I forgot to reply to this but your group name was changed awhile back.
     
  3. raidoukureha

    raidoukureha Active Member

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    Guys I have some problem with my release lately.
    here the series I'm working on Otherworldly Warriors with Erotic Skills
    I just released 3 chapter in a row ( in between 5 minutes release )
    V9C6 , C9C7, and V9C8

    but when NU approved my release only the latest chapter is only on the first page (front page) the rest is pushed back.
    Here is the latest chapter V9C8

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    Here is the V9C7

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    I released these chapter is between 5 minute release, but in NU my release is pushed back 1 day. Is this bug?

    I hope I can get the solution for this, Thank you @Tony
     
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  4. raidoukureha

    raidoukureha Active Member

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    Uhm @Tony can you help me with these problem?
     
  5. Princesspark

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    Hi, sorry I want to ask. :unsure:
    How do you get a novel to translate? I'm new here, in the novel update. So I didn't know about the rules and ways to translate a novel, like getting a raw story novel or something else. Please answer me, and thank you.. :aww::bloblove:

    by the way I use gtranslate, I'm sorry, hopefully understandable.
    :cry::cry:
     
  6. AliceShiki

    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    First post has instructions on how to add a novel to NU.

    You cannot add novels that are translated solely by Google Translate, but it's fine to add them if you Edited the chapters before posting.
     
  7. Parth37955

    Parth37955 NU #3, [Dead Inside], Mid-Boss, Dark Dealer Staff Member

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    actually edit and not just swapping words for synonyms...the amount of surprised pikachu faces that come around when their slop isn't accepted is mind-boggling.
     
  8. Princesspark

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    hi thanks for the information, i'll try it later.
    look forward to my novel ^^

    love
     
  9. AlinaxNovel

    AlinaxNovel Member

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    I annotate and save the novel I translated and added, but it goes back to how it was and shows up as N/A.
    novel name; No Regrest Return
     
  10. runsing

    runsing status : bleeding, health -10/s Novel Updates Staff

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    you were auto-banned by the system for excessive length of description/synopsis.

    in the future, please don't be lazy and just copy-pasted the entire chapter and put it up as "description/synopsis", when it is clearly not. At the very least, cook up a line or two. it should not be too hard, is it?

    p.s : and please don't leave the author name blank.
     
  11. AlinaxNovel

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    I'm new so I can make mistakes like this, sorry please allow me to add new novels, please remove my ban :(
     
  12. Ingra

    Ingra Well-Known Member

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    Hello. @Tony
    We have changed sites for this novel The Youngest Daughter of Snake Family.
    The last 4 updated chapters are categorized as deadlinks.

    I want to request that c.17-c.20 be categorized as active links, and the tittle of the novel to be changed to:

    The Youngest Daugther of the Snake Family

    It's missing 'the'.

    I dunno why it was categorized as deadlink.

    Thank you!
     
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  13. astralmech

    astralmech [ ✨ ~ snooze ] [ kr translator ] [ jpn native ]

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    Go to Novel Updates and click on your user profile. There, you'll see a button "Report a Problem".
    That's the most direct way to change novel names as well as......well, report problems with links and such.
     
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    mizupan Active Member

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    Regarding how novelupdates interacts with wordpress tags vs. categories.

    The OP only makes mention of wordpress categories. I was wondering if the automatic system interacts at all with the tags system on wordpress (and other blog hosts)?
     
  15. runsing

    runsing status : bleeding, health -10/s Novel Updates Staff

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    what are you trying to ask, actually? do elaborate.

    without knowing, i can only give a vague 'yes'.
     
  16. mizupan

    mizupan Active Member

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    According to the first post in this thread, the automatic release update bot searches for new chapters based on:

    1. The titles of posts. Example: The title of every chapter has "Peerless Martial God" in it.
    2. The "category" feature of wordpress. Example: Every chapter is assigned to a category labeled "Peerless Martial God".

    I was wondering if the bot also utilized the "tag" feature. For example, if instead of assigning all my chapters to a category called "Peerless Martial God", I gave them a tag of "peerless martial god". Would the update bot still be able to pick up on new chapters in the same way?
     
  17. runsing

    runsing status : bleeding, health -10/s Novel Updates Staff

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    yes it can. as long as you didn't tag it with other novels name as well (high chance of failure). otherwise, category is preferred. example.

    in fact, your recent chapters were set with "former yang guifei" as its identifiers
     
  18. pimni

    pimni Active Member

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    Thank you so much. I just started translating a novel, and this helped so much. Just one question, after how many releases does it gets automatically updated?
     
  19. runsing

    runsing status : bleeding, health -10/s Novel Updates Staff

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    several. no fixed number.
     
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    thank you