[Kol Novel] All novels fail to load chapter content

[chunma-san]

Plugin

‎العربية: Kol Novel

Severity

Can't Load Novels

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open the Kol Novel plugin.
2. Open any novel.
3. Select any chapter.
4. The chapter content fails to load.
5. Try other novels and chapters.
6. The same error occurs with all of them.

Expected Behavior

Chapter content should load normally for novels from the Kol Novel plugin.

Actual Behavior

Every tested chapter fails to load and LNReader displays:

"Chapter couldn't be loaded"
"No readable content was found."

LNReader Version

2.1.3

Plugin Version

1.1.20

Android Version

Android 17

Other Details

The chapters load correctly in WebView, but LNReader cannot extract the chapter content.

Acknowledgements

• I have searched existing issues and confirmed this is not a duplicate.
• I have written a clear and descriptive title.
• I have updated the app to the latest version 2.0.0.
• I have updated all installed plugins to the latest version.
• I understand that app-specific issues should be reported in the app repository.

[RibatTRW]

Two open PRs touch this, and the split matters:

• fix(ar): empty chapter bodies and Riwyat novel metadata (Galaxy Novels, Riwyat, Kol Novel, Free Kol Novel) #2529 fixes the shared lightnovelwp chapter-body parsing that emptied Kol Novel chapters: the body regex required a bottomnav terminator the theme no longer emits, and hard-coded a <div> wrapper where the theme now serves <article>. That is the reported "no readable content" cause, and it is the same defect class as [kolnovel] Empty chapter: موشوكو تينساي — المقدمة #2568.
• chore(lightnovelwp): mark both Kol Novel sources down #2587 records both kolnovel and freekolnovel as down, because kolnovel.com stopped resolving.

From a host checked here, kolnovel.com currently resolves to 148.251.110.232 but both it and free.kolnovel.com time out on HTTPS (15s), so if that is site-side rather than local, #2587 is the accurate disposition for now and #2529's parsing fix cannot be exercised end to end yet.

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[RibatTRW]

Updating my earlier note on the reachability, because I re-checked it instead of leaving the assumption standing: kolnovel.com resolves to 148.251.110.232 from three independent resolvers and serves full content (homepage, series listings, and a ~22.7k-character chapter body) from an independent vantage. Only this machine's TCP route to that IP times out, so the domain is not dead and marking the sources down is not the right disposition. The empty-chapter reports match the shared lightnovelwp template parsing defect that #2529 fixes.

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