v3.26 asks you to sign in again before you change how you sign in, and tells you by notification when a sign-in method changes. A chapter that is slow to load now says so and offers Try again. Failed translations, listens and upgrades give back what they cost. The API has a new daily allowance with higher limits on request, the site is easier to use on a phone and with a keyboard, and there is one contact address for everything.
Sign-in and account safety#
- Sign in again before changing how you sign in. Adding, replacing or removing a sign-in method needs a sign-in from the last 10 minutes. If yours is older, the Account page says "Sign in again to change how you sign in." with one button; you stay signed in, and it brings you back to your Account.
- A notification when a sign-in method is added, replaced or removed, with a link to review your sign-in methods.
- A removed sign-in says so. If you removed a sign-in method and try to sign in with it, you are told to sign in another way and add it again in your account settings.
- The sign-in window has a plain title with no icon beside it.
Reading#
- A slow chapter says so. After 8 seconds of waiting the page reads "Still loading. The site is slow to answer.", and after 15 seconds a Try again button appears beside it while the chapter keeps loading. If the chapter arrives first, it simply opens.
- "The site is not answering" replaces "No connection" when a chapter fails to load and your device is online.
- The chapter's top and bottom strips have slightly larger icons on a phone, and the bottom strip uses an open book for Novel so it no longer looks like Bookmark.
- The novel-title link above a chapter and the description's Original | AI switch are easier to tap on a phone.
Home, Browse and lists#
- Fanfic, Previews, My library, Protagonist and Crossovers are back on the Browse page itself, above the results, instead of inside More filters.
- Browse says "No matches with your library hidden." when a search finds only novels you already have and My library is set to hide them.
- Reviews: Readers | DaoSearch and Latest | Liked are the standard switches again, and on a phone Write a Review sits beside them at the same width.
- Keep what you read in your library on the home page is a small card with Turn on and Not now, like the chapter's save-progress prompt.
- The empty Continue reading shelf says what fills it: "Bookmark a novel you are reading and it shows up here."
- Home no longer jumps when you go back to it by a link after reading a chapter.
- Popular, the novel page and Home say a failed or empty load once, with what to do next, and "Try again" reads the same on every page.
- Recent community activity on Home shows at most two entries per author.
- A second report of the same problem joins the first instead of opening a new case.
Adding novels, sources and translation#
- A limit on novels being added at the same time: 3 on a free account, 5 for Reader, 15 for Translator: Base and Pro. Over it you are told "You have N novels being added right now. Wait for one to finish."; an add that gets stuck stops counting after 15 minutes.
- A daily cap on novel add attempts: 30 for Free and Reader, 100 for the Translator tiers, starting again at 00:00 UTC. See Pricing and limits.
- JJWXC links are looked up once per book and remembered, and an account can make 100 fresh lookups a day.
- A source change keeps more chapters in place. When a novel moves to a better source, chapters whose titles differ between the two sites are matched by their text, and chapters the new site numbers differently are refreshed correctly.
- The glossary picks up far fewer ordinary words as names, so chapters read more naturally.
- Novel pages load faster on a first visit.
Fair refunds#
- A live translation that fails before any text arrives gives the day's chapter back.
- A read-aloud that returns nothing gives its characters back.
- A preview upgrade that fails is refunded.
- Opening a wiki that is still being written waits for it instead of being charged and refunded.
Account, limits and help#
- Your Limits names the membership that has a limit your tier does not, such as "Needs the Reader membership or higher.", instead of "0 / 0 Unavailable" over an empty bar.
- One contact address: contact@randomtranslator.com, on the Contact, DMCA, Privacy and Terms pages and in the docs.
- The "Page not found" page keeps the site's header, search, menu and footer.
- Your profile no longer flickers when part of it is slow to load.
API#
- The API's daily allowance is now 5,000 units per account, shared by your key and every app you connected. An account less than 14 days old starts at 1,000. If a project needs more, ask: see Asking for a higher limit for what to send.
- Lists cost by what they return. A glossary page costs 1 unit per 10 entries, a chapter list 1 per 10 chapters, an arc's recap 1 per chapter summary, and the connector's story recap 1 per recap block. Deep in a search or Popular, past the first 100 novels, a page costs 1 unit per novel returned. See Limits.
- An account also has 240 units a minute and 8 requests at once, across its key and all its apps, and a list can be paged 10,000 rows deep.
- An account less than a day old cannot connect an app yet, the same rule as making an API key; the page says when it can.
- Updated API terms: the free API is for personal, research and community tools. Paywalled or ad-heavy copies of the catalogue are not allowed, and storing more than 1,000 novels' records needs permission. See Terms and fair use.
Accessibility and polish#
- Links inside text are underlined in the docs, wiki pages, Membership and Your Limits, so they no longer depend on colour, most of all in dark themes.
- Bigger touch areas on a phone for the header's icons, the tab strips on Popular, Categories and Activity, the home shelves' links, the Account privacy switches and the footer's links.
- The account menu shows a clear ring on the item you reach with the keyboard.
- The footer's last line is no longer covered by the round jump-to button on docs, changelog and wiki pages on a phone.
- History no longer shows "(0)" beside a novel's report and moderator history.