Post by johnnycanuck on May 25, 2020 23:02:22 GMT
So, after several weeks since the rollout of the new Lulu website, and after 3-4 of the 'please be patient' emails, I thought I'd post a list of things that I find that are *still* broken. Everyone's experiences will be different, but here is my list:
1\ old retired projects have reappeared, and there is no way for the usuer to manually delete them
2\ no sales data. At all.
3\ you can't simply update the text, and keep existing/past covers etc. You literally must recreate everything from scratch, for each revision.
4\ half the time when trying to do something, various options etc pop up in a foreign language.
And, the most egregious for me
5\ in the old website, if you updated something (i.e., revised an existing project), the project number stayed the same, and a little counter telling you the version number was shown (say, Project ABC, version 32). Not anymore. Now, each new revision of a project generates a new project ID, which means that any hard links to the project ID are completely broken!
I had a long look at Bookbaby, and would be happy to work with them, but...they don't do spiral binding (except for cookbook-sized things). That is a non-starter for me, since some of the technical books I've written (manuals, in fact) work best laid flat on the desk beside the computer, which requires spiral binding.
I'm absolutely gobsmacked at how crappy Lulu's new website is. It may be the single biggest blown rollout since Apple maps (or Windows ME - yeah, I'm that old).
1\ old retired projects have reappeared, and there is no way for the usuer to manually delete them
2\ no sales data. At all.
3\ you can't simply update the text, and keep existing/past covers etc. You literally must recreate everything from scratch, for each revision.
4\ half the time when trying to do something, various options etc pop up in a foreign language.
And, the most egregious for me
5\ in the old website, if you updated something (i.e., revised an existing project), the project number stayed the same, and a little counter telling you the version number was shown (say, Project ABC, version 32). Not anymore. Now, each new revision of a project generates a new project ID, which means that any hard links to the project ID are completely broken!
I had a long look at Bookbaby, and would be happy to work with them, but...they don't do spiral binding (except for cookbook-sized things). That is a non-starter for me, since some of the technical books I've written (manuals, in fact) work best laid flat on the desk beside the computer, which requires spiral binding.
I'm absolutely gobsmacked at how crappy Lulu's new website is. It may be the single biggest blown rollout since Apple maps (or Windows ME - yeah, I'm that old).
