Digital Issues

[keithmartParticipant @keithmart]

Hi

If you look at my thread MEW 180, you will see that I sent 5 emails to different senior management and did not have the courtesy of a single reply!

(David did reply to me as I BCC’d him)

Says something doesn’t it

Regards

Keith

Leeds uk

[John McNamaraParticipant @johnmcnamara74883]

Thank you David and the ME MEW team for listening and responding……..

A positive step after being becalmed in a sea of negativity.

New we can get on with building the models and machinery we love; more succinctly “Makin stuff”. There is enough politics in the world outside. The workshop is a very special place, where your mind can soar and think about possibilities……… Power outages; and recently thought outages are a pain we can do without.

Cheers
John

[doubletopParticipant @doubletop]

Have the .pdfs gone AWOL again? One minute they are there then they’re not.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

John Mc Unfortunately its only the cover pic on the homepage that is now upto date, still not available as a digital issue.

 

I think David or Diane can alter the homepage so looks like one of them has been working on a sunday thanks for that but the backroom boys/girls who do the digital issues only work weekdays when you can find them

 

Jason

Edited By JasonB on 28/08/2011 09:15:03

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi John

Someone in Holland is supposed to be doing them.

regards David

 

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Jason

Diane is away at a steam rally. I have been in hospital so I doubt it has been touched.

 

I have emailed the boss about digital issues.

Up till now I have asked the girl in the office to do it and it gets done eventually but eventually is not good enough.

 

I have requested that all digital issues are up by Wednesday AM prior to publication and also that we let the entire magazine be printed out.

We will see what happens.

regards David

 

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

David

 

Thank you David .. I just hope it happens.(I somehow think not)

 

I am not best pleased with the situation at the moment .. Its Monday evening and ME4411 which should have been loaded last week is still not available.

 

All emails to the powers that be go unanswered (Except those to David and Diane)

 

 

Dave

 

A very unhappy Digital only subscriber.

[DitheringParticipant @dithering]

I was looking for all the digital issues with the Ayesha II articles and I noted that issue 4315 is not there.

Someone else reported it on 05/02/2011.

Could we have it please?

Regards,

Brian.

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Brian

If it is not there, we don't have that one.

regards David

[Brian in OZParticipant @brianinoz24148]

Hi Diane, David or anyone.

Why can't I access the digital editions of ME 4430 and the new 4431, the system comes up that it can't find the file.

"can't find the file at http://www.mydigitalmagazine.co.uk/de/7/1433/."

Is the msg from one of them.

Issues before this are fine and I was able to access 4430 but not now.

Have checked and my Subs are fine out to 2013

Have sent a msg to diane but no reply as yet.

Just had a thought, must check if MEW access is working.

Regards…Brian in OZ

[Brian in OZParticipant @brianinoz24148]

Hi,

Re my previous msg, MEW digital editions seem to work OK

Brian in OZ

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

Brian,

I can access all issues including 4430 and 4431 from my PC.

Dave (In the UK)

[Brian in OZParticipant @brianinoz24148]

Thanks Dave,

Actually just got an email from Diane with some sugestions, but 4430 and 4431 still dont work.

She sugested that the files do take her a long time to load up, so it occured to me that my system may be 'timing out' and displaying the usual stupid Microsoft message.

No idea what I can do about this, the previous issues load up OK (have just tested a few), so can only presume something is different with the two problem issues causing them to take longer to load up.

Any sugestions ??

Brian in OZ

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

Brian,

 

I get a different Web address to you …

Give this a try

 

**LINK**

and

http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/members/digitaleditions/popup.asp?t=13&i=1424

 

Dave

Edited By Steambuff on 30/05/2012 22:39:19

[Brian in OZParticipant @brianinoz24148]

Hi everyone (and Diane),

While we are on problem solving, something that has bugged me for a while.

I can't get "Default to last message" to work in "My Account/Website Preferances", no matter how many times I change it and save again it keeps displaying 'first' message in any threads I go to, even in this thread I have to page to the end of the messages to find the current chat.

OH!! maybe "Default to last message" means something else entirely !!

Regards

Brian K

[russellParticipant @russell]

you have to be signed in for 'default to last' to work. and it doesnt seem to work when picking a thread from the last few displayed on the home page – i usually pick a message from there, read it, then select 'latest posts' – then it does jump to the last page…

-russ (also in Oz)

[Brian in OZParticipant @brianinoz24148]

To "Steambuff"

Hi Dave, re you msg "I get a different Web address to you …"

OS is XP SP3 and browser is FireFox 12.0…..

whilst my browser comes up with the ERROR
"Firefox can't find the file at http://www.mydigitalmagazine.co.uk/de/7/1433/"
the address actually showing is
http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/members/digitaleditions/popup.asp?t=13&i=1433
so is it re-routing me from the ME site to the MyDigitalMagazine site to actually look at the magazine ??
is something wrong with the link ??

Brian in OZ

[Brian in OZParticipant @brianinoz24148]

Hi Russ (also in Oz),

Unless i forget to I am always logged in to the site.

Yes that works for me too, but it is only a work around a function that does not work.

To my mind when you toggle "default last msg" ON then it should apply to all readings of forum msgs, especially the "most recent" listing on the front page, otherwise what is the use of it ??

Diane, any comment ??

Brian in OZ

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

Brian,

I don't know what is going on … http://www.mydigitalmagazine.co.uk/de/7/1433/  works for me OK.

I am using IE, so perhaps it is a firefox issue …. over to DC1 and DC2 I think

 

Dave

 

 

Edited By Steambuff on 31/05/2012 17:55:21

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

Whoops douple posting

 

 

Edited By Steambuff on 31/05/2012 17:55:38

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Posted by Brian in OZ on 31/05/2012 17:45:10:

To my mind when you toggle "default last msg" ON then it should apply to all readings of forum msgs, especially the "most recent" listing on the front page, otherwise what is the use of it ??

 

 

Yes, it should – but it's worked the way Russ described from day one. It was pointed out in the forums soon after the site started up so I wouldn't hold your breath …

I hardly notice any more. I just click on the "most recent" link and then click on "last" without thinking.

Edited By Sid Herbage on 31/05/2012 22:31:33

[Diane CarneyModerator @dianecarney30678]

This matter has been refered to the technical department. I am not even going to make a suggestion as to what the problems are. I have replied to Brian directly.

Diane

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Out of curiousity, I have just tried this on the iPad

Simply changing the preference "button" did not have any immediate effect.

I needed to Log Out of the site, then sign back in, before the change took effect.

Hope that helps

MichaelG.

[Brian in OZParticipant @brianinoz24148]

Hi People,

Thanks to Diane and her "techie" friend, all fixed. Who said the tech people at ME are not helpfull.

Very interesting as the "techie" knew what the obtuse MS message meant as follows…

"Probably at some point the “mydigitalmagazines” domain name was temporarily down/unavailable, and so his browser has cached (remembered) that fact and now won’t try and get there. I think you should ask him to empty his browser cache and try again, as 9 times out of 10 that will solve the problem."

Even followed that advice with a link to a help site explaining how to do it for FireFox, on the same site has advice on doing the same for IE.

Did as he sugested and walllaaa! all now works, perhaps I should say that very quietly in case Windows hears about it !!.

By the way the "default last message" thingy still does not work, many thanks to all who replied with advice on the problem, will just have to keep using the workaround sugested by Russ and Sid. Sorry Michael, your fix does not work for me.

I look forward very much to the new isues of ME and MEW, gets a bit stressfull when i can't see them. Top marks to the editing staff and the contributers as there is always something of interest in both mags.

Thanks All (will go to sleep now)

Brian in OZ

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

Early issues are not as good a quality as the later issues.

I will change the preview issue to a recent one.

regards david

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