Product Updates & Casual Natively Discussion

[Megumin]

There’s one for exchanging for support for LN, but not a buy/sell.

Book giveaway to support Natively

Book swap and giveaway Did you spend a fortune importing foreign language books and you want to pass them on to someone else, all while benefiting Natively? Or are you looking for books and hoping someone that someone in your region has one looking for a new home? Read on… Post books you’d like to swap / give away in this thread! I started this last year to give away some Japanese books in return for donations to Natively, and others said they would like to as well. O…

For purely buy and sell, I’d wait for @brandon what thinks of it.

[eefara]

I feel like we had another thread for getting rid of books, but I can’t find it now. Maybe I’m misremembering.

[nikoru]

Yes I think so too, somehow. But maybe it was in the WK forums?
(The one I‘m remembering was split up by region, there was at least North America, probably others as well…)

[gillianfaith]

This thread is for book swaps in North America:

Book/Media Swap (North America版)

A few people mentioned interest in having a place we could re-gift or sell books/media we don’t want anymore. The thread is open to people outside of North America too, but I’m not sure how many people will want to ship internationally. No strict template for now… just include stuff like title(s), condition, price/free, where you’ll ship, if you want ppl to pay shipping, or w/e else you might think is relevant. If there’s anything I missed, feel free to mention, and I’ll update this thread.

[eefara]

Oh, this is the one I was thinking of! Thanks!

[pm215]

Is there a background process which does the automated machine translation of book blurbs, or should I raise an issue via the “have feedback” button if there’s a JP blurb but the EN is missing?

Examples:

またたび回覧板 (ハルキ文庫 む 2-9) | L30?? was added to Natively at the beginning of August; it has the JP blurb automatically sourced from Amazon, but no EN blurb.

さわらびの譜 | L35?? didn’t pick up the JP blurb automatically for some reason, so I copied it over manually the other day. Will it get an automatic EN translation eventually, or will that need manual intervention?

[mic]

The blurb you copied is not (yet?) visible for me, though.

[jhkjsdsf]

Hi, not sure if this is the right place. Would it be possible to make private profiles work a bit more like Twitter, where your private profile stays visible to people who already follow you? And where people can send a request to follow you and only then can they see your profile? That’d be awesome.

[Megumin]

It’s been requested already:

New Privacy Setting: Semi Private (only viewable by mutual followers)

[image] Description of your request or bug report: Add a new privacy setting where it’s “Semi Private”, where the activity will be displayed if the users follow each other. Trello link:

[Micki]

@pm215

Is there a background process which does the automated machine translation of book blurbs, or should I raise an issue via the “have feedback” button if there’s a JP blurb but the EN is missing?

I had this question too. I had a notification the other day that Las Crónicas de Narnia | L26 in Spanish has been changed on Natively, so that each book in the series can now have its own blurb.

I’ve copied in the publisher’s blurb for each volume this evening. The notification from Brandon said that they “only need the Spanish version, the English version should auto translate I believe.”

So I will be watching this over the next few days to see if the auto translate happens.

[brandon]

@pm215

Is there a background process which does the automated machine translation of book blurbs, or should I raise an issue via the “have feedback” button if there’s a JP blurb but the EN is missing?

@Micki

I had this question too. I had a notification the other day that Las Crónicas de Narnia | L26 in Spanish has been changed on Natively, so that each book in the series can now have its own blurb.

So there is a background process but apparently we ran out of credit on anthropic so it was failing (and sending alerts once a day ). I’ve added more credits and now all these have been populated. Thanks for the callouts everyone!