Reading experience redesign
Tomato Nightreads
Fanqie Novel's library is huge — categories, rankings, audiobooks, and check-in rewards all crammed onto one homepage. This redesign does one thing: once you've already decided which book to read, make opening it feel like reading, not like scrolling a feed.
The sample content uses a real title from Fanqie Novel, Ten Days to the End — a mystery/infinite-loop story and one of the platform's flagship titles.
9.8/10its rating from nearly 490,000 readers
Read Ten Days to the End on Fanqie Novel: fanqienovel.com/page/7143038691944959011
What readers are saying
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Opened this meaning to read one chapter before bed. It is now well past bed and I am three cycles deep.
The bell instead of an alarm clock in chapter one is such a quiet way to tell you the rules have changed.
Finally a reading page that doesn't put a rewards banner between me and the first paragraph.
Calling it now: "remembering nothing" between cycles is load-bearing and it's going to hurt.
Ten days, reset to day one, no memory. That's not a survival game, that's a punishment.
Chen Mo offering water before asking for anything is either the kindest thing in the book or the smartest opening move in it.
The sepia theme at night is the single best setting on this site. My eyes have stopped filing complaints.
Paragraph comments in the margin instead of dumped at the bottom is such a small change and it completely fixes rereading.
"You decide among yourselves who gets to live" is so much worse than any monster they could have put in that corridor.
Reading this on a phone on the train and the line length is actually right for once. Low bar. Nobody else clears it.
The notice being yellowed but the ink being fresh — someone has written that notice many, many times.
Su Wan not answering when she clearly has a guess is going to cost somebody something. Screenshotting this for later.
Arrow keys turn the page now?? I found this by accident and I'm never going back to hunting for the button.
Ten doors, ten days. The book is not being subtle and honestly I respect it.
The pacing trick of putting footsteps directly after the worst line on the notice is mean and perfect.
I like that the progress bar is a thin line and not a percentage shouting at me. Less pressure to finish.
Names "felt like a formality" is such an efficient way to say nobody expects to survive the week.
Anyone else keep the text one size up? The default is fine but one notch bigger and it stops feeling like a webpage.
Theory: the person who wrote the notice is a previous participant who got out and had to take the job.
Came for the loop premise, stayed because the prose actually slows down when it should.
Original site: eleven things competing for my thumb. This one: the book. That's the whole review.
Su Wan waking up to a ceiling she can't place is the oldest opening in the genre and it still works every time.
Reading the comments in the margin has become half the fun. It's like finding pencil notes in a library copy.
"They didn't decide to trust each other so much as decide they couldn't afford not to." Line of the chapter.
Genuine question: does the ten-day count reset for everyone at once, or per person? The text is careful not to say.
Night theme plus larger text is basically an e-reader now. I have closed my actual e-reader app.
The demo chapters are original text and they're still better written than most of what I finished last month.
I appreciate that the contents page tells me how long each chapter is. Small thing. Changes when I start one.
Chen Mo has "dies heroically around chapter thirty" written all over him and I'm not emotionally ready.
The paper texture behind the text is doing something subtle that I only noticed when I opened another reading app afterwards.
Reading order tip: don't skim chapter two. It looks like setup and it is entirely not setup.
Whoever decided the header stays out of the way while you read deserves a raise.
Every cycle wiping memory means the reader is the only one accumulating information. That's a brutal thing to do to an audience.
I keep coming back to how ordinary the corridor is. No blood, no bodies, just a notice and a clock.
Liked this page and immediately sent it to two people who "don't read on their phone". One of them has started.
The rating being 9.8 from nearly half a million readers and the platform still burying it under a rewards carousel. Unbelievable.
Room of Ten Doors gave me the exact feeling of a maths problem where you already know the answer is going to be someone.
Started keeping a chapter-by-chapter note file. Never done that for a web novel before.
Second read and the notice's wording is different in my memory than on the page. Suspect that's just me. Mostly suspect that.
The comment bubbles collapsing to a number until you want them is exactly right. Opinions on demand, not by default.
Su Wan is refreshingly bad at pretending she's fine. Most protagonists in this genre are far too composed.
Reading three chapters on a 390px phone screen without pinching once. That should be normal and it isn't.
"Better carried than said aloud" is going to be the epigraph of somebody's very bad decision.
Small praise: the back link actually goes back to where I was, not to the homepage. Rare.
The reviews page is more honest than the star rating. Both one-star reviews are about the ending and both are fair.
Am I the only one who finds day one the scariest? Nothing has happened yet and everyone is already doing arithmetic.
Would read a whole side story that's just the person who has to reprint that notice every cycle.
Three chapters is not enough demo text and that is the only complaint I have about this entire redesign.
Came back a week later and my text size and theme were still set. Didn't have to log into anything to get that.
Read the whole thing top to bottom on a laptop, then again on a phone. Same book both times. That's the review.
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