Ok, to report : It seems this really was a freaky coincidence (ch237 never got locked and I haven't seen any more obvious random locking of chapters though the pattern of locked old chapters is sometimes pretty strange and difficult to explain with "free chapter that aren't anymore"). It is something of a preoccupation that screenshots of old acquisitions are asked for reimbursement or bug reports but that we can only access a pretty limited history...
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- May 17, 2022
- Joined Mar 29, 2018
- Edited
After a bit more thought, I checked and... The chapter 236 (from 229 to 236 in fact) of "Advent of the Archmage" is now locked to me on PC :
So now that the first unlocking appearing in my Consume History is chapter 237, suddenly 236 is locked... What does seems more likely :
- I'm Machiavel and set up this whole thing in July 2018, voluntarily buying only from 237 on and not 229-236...
- I read the whole d*** thing including 229-236 that I of course unlocked but because my consume history was not allocated enough space, my unlocking are being progressively forgotten and that's why I can't read chapters that I unlocked in the past but now have no proof of that because I foolishly thought that Webnovel would keep tracks of things...
By the way 237 is still unlocked (but then it does appear in my consume history... for now) :
Ok... Apparently my SS consume history is limited to 58 pages. Last time I checked the first recorded unlocking dated back to 2018-07-13 16:24 (on my 58th page) and now the first recorded unlocking to which I have access is still on the 58th page (I saw a 59th page appear briefly a few days ago but it has now disappeared) but date back to only 2018-07-18, here is a screenshot of my current last page : ( complete version )
I'll keep track and post in a few day if this loss of history happen again.
This is a big problem, especially since it appears to concern mainly the big clients of webnovel. As of now I won't be buying any more Spirit Stone before this is resolved.
"It's not Easy to be a Man after Traveling to the Future" is one of the novels for which I didn't care if it went premium, it was worth it to me. I didn't wait for the chapters to become free. Plus :
1) That also wouldn't explain why the "relocked" chapters were so patchwork (there were some locked then some unlocked then again some locked and so on, and there still is on PC).
2) That definitively wouldn't explain why there are some chapters that I can read on the Android App but not on PC.As for my SS consumption history, I can send you a screenshot of the new re-unlocking but not of the original ones since the history doesn't seem to go before 2018-07-13 16:24 (on my 58th page) and there were definitely unlocking before that (for a simple example, I unlocked chapter 300 to 306 from INEBMATF since they're unlocked to me and were never free but their unlocking doesn't appear in my history, the first INEBMATF chapter which appears in the history is 308).
Hello CKtalon,
First thanks for your translations !So I looked in my log but I can't see anything before 2018-07-13 16:24 (on my 58th page) whereas I'm quite sure I bought chapters before that (for instance the premium in INEBMATF started way before the 308th chapter but that's the first one who appears in my log "Unlocked chapter 308 Accepting a Mission! of It's Not Easy to Be a Man After Travelling to the Future -12 Android 2018-08-19 17:30" on my 49th page).
I re-unlocked 21 chapters in the last few days from 243 to 283 but there were chapters I didn't have to unlock again, at least in the App because those remain locked on PC :
As you see 284 appears locked but I've just reread the integrality of INEBMATF until chapter 402 (and unlocked chapters from 322 until 402, those are fine and weren't unlocked in the past) in the Android App so 284 shouldn't be locked (both because I unlocked it in the past and because this is known at least somewhere since the App let me read it).
This is a bit worrying since I don't want to pay twice or more if I reread in the future.
Note that I'm aware of the visual bug (you never could really tell if a chapter was locked or unlocked from the ToC...) but this is not the problem here.
Same problem on my account on "It’s Not Easy To Be A Man After Traveling To The Future". I even have a synchronization problem where chapters unlocked (for the second time...) on my Android App don't appear unlocked on PC (I tried refreshing, logging out then logging back in already). I hope this will be improved fast and I at least get reimbursed because this is damaging the trust in Webnovel's model (if one can "lose" what he has already paid for, why would he continues to pay for it ?). Thanks in advance for your action.