New MEW Digital archive – access?

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Keithmart,  you are not alone they’ve vanished for me too. I can get the original set (from MEW #122 onwards) but all the earlier ones are gone. (as of about 25-30 hours ago).

 

 

 

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Houstonceng
It is not a fault of the system.

The system was never set up to do that.

As there are about 120 issues, we would need about 120 different lots of software so each subscriber got the right amount of back issues.

 

All 120 or so are in the one access directory, that is the way the system is set up, that is the way it works.

One price and access to all.

 

Subscribers allready get access to magazines etc that non subscribers don’t.

 

regards David

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Sid Herbage

I can still access them but that is expected as I am an administrator.

I don’t know why you can’t access them.

I won’t be able to find out until January 4th.

regards David

 

[Steve GarnettParticipant @stevegarnett62550]

FWIW, they still work here…

[houstoncengParticipant @houstonceng]

Hi David

 

When I said “fault” I should have said “shortcoming” in the service.

 

I have to disagree with you about 120 Issues = 120 different lots of S’ware.  If that’s the case, the Publishers really were sold a bad design.

 

All it needs is a Subnscriber database and one piece of Software to access the Issue Access Rights vs Subscriber Code using the data.  After all, that’s probably how the system already ensures that  “Subscribers already get access to magazines etc that non subscribers don’t.” (including those who subscribe to e-issues)

 

I realise that the Publishers want to make the most money from their assets, but giving someone who has never bought a single hard copy, full access from Issue 01 for £29.00, doesn’t strike me as fair to those loyal subscribers who got MEW to where it is now by buying every hard-copies (or even most of them) since Issue 01.

 

BTW.  A real “Fault” on this site, is that the Software doesn’t appear to take into account the user’s preference for “First or Last Posting” page display supposedly set in “My Account”.

 

 

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Houstonceng
I was not aware that you could choose first or last paosting.

Yes, does not appear to work.

Will request a fix but all are on holiday.

 

When MEW started, there was no way to offer digital issues.

The price is a reasonable compromise.

I said I would have all of the old MEWs put on line and I have.

Yes, they are not perfect, but we can sort that.

We could charge a lot more but I want it to be available to  as wide a range of people as possible.
The only people who lose out, are the people who sell MEW on Ebay.

 

The System checks with the subscriber database to ensure only subscribers get access to subscriber content.

The website was custom built and I am aware it has faults.

Eventually they will probably be fixed.

 

You can’t please all of the people all of the time.

regards David

 

 

 

[Dave HoughtonParticipant @davehoughton10392]

Hello and warm greetings from South Africa.

 

Is there a list of Contents Page for the Digital MEW, other than the one contained in its respective issue. I know there is Colin Ushers’ index.

Dave

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Hi Steve Garnett,

 

Just to confirm the Digital Archive access problem (or otherwise) could you post the link that you are using to that page so that I can verify if it works for me.

 

It may be me (probably is) but I always have some difficulty navigating to that page from the home page so perhaps I’m just not getting to the right place.

 

tia

[Steve GarnettParticipant @stevegarnett62550]

I just tried this again, to be sure – and it’s definitely working where I am. The site’s home page doesn’t appear to load correctly at present, with all the stuff around the edge missing, but if you are logged into the site and it’s remembering you, you should be able to jump straight to here and everything should be working.

[Steve GarnettParticipant @stevegarnett62550]

Sorry about the following multiple posts – I got an error message from the site saying that posts weren’t working, and to try again. So I did, and you can now see the resulting mess!

 

So moderators, please remove the irrelevant bits.

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[Greg Brodie-TyrrellParticipant @gregbrodie-tyrrell42319]

Dav id,

 

I subscribed to the archive, which I think is just wonderful.  There is a small problem in that some of the back issues don’t appear as they would have in original print form.  For  instance, Issue 4 shows page 2 as being part way through an article, and the table of contents appears on about page 37 or so.

 

I use Mozilla Firefox as a web browser because it is far less prone to virus attacks than the Microsoft stuff (unfortunately for Mr Gates).  Is thjis a browser problem or a problem relaed to the original file?

 

Greg Brodie-Tyrrell

Oakbank SA

Australia

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Greg

It is a file problem.

It will be sorted out after 4th January.

regards david

 

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Hi Steve Garnett,

 

I notice a couple of blank messages up there. It’s possible you are replying to mine and are having trouble inserting a link. If this is what’s happening, and in case you haven’t noticed, there is an icon at the top of the “Post a reply:” box which purports to let you include a link (hover the mouse over the icons for a description).

 

Or perhaps that’s what you did and it doesn’t work?

[Steve GarnettParticipant @stevegarnett62550]

Posted by Sid Herbage on 23/12/2009 22:57:39:

 

I notice a couple of blank messages up there. It’s possible you are replying to mine and are having trouble inserting a link. If this is what’s happening, and in case you haven’t noticed, there is an icon at the top of the “Post a reply:” box which purports to let you include a link (hover the mouse over the icons for a description).

 

Or perhaps that’s what you did and it doesn’t work?

 Hehe! Perhaps you should look at the end of page 3, and you’ll find out what happened – and you’ll find the link you are looking for there too in the previous post. All the following blank posts are up for removal if the moderator chooses to – the system swore blind that it wouldn’t accept them, but it was plainly not telling the truth…

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Thanks, Steve.

 

I tried the link. It still only gives me the first two pages of the archive (Issues 122-159). It worked fine for me for the first two days of my subscription but then pages 3 and up “went away”.

 

I hadn’t reckoned on you posting an explanation for the blank messages in an *earlier* message. (I must get me one of those time-machine contraptions).

[Steve GarnettParticipant @stevegarnett62550]

Posted by Sid Herbage on 24/12/2009 22:49:01:

I tried the link. It still only gives me the first two pages of the archive (Issues 122-159). It worked fine for me for the first two days of my subscription but then pages 3 and up “went away”.

 

 The only thing that I can think of that’s obvious to check is that there’s still a subscriber number for MEW (Digital) in ‘Your Details’. If there’s a subscriber number for the paper edition only, then the first two pages would be all you’d see anyway.

Edited By Steve Garnett on 25/12/2009 01:18:31

[Steve GarnettParticipant @stevegarnett62550]

This one got screwed up too…

Edited By Steve Garnett on 25/12/2009 01:17:27

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Posted by Steve Garnett on 25/12/2009 01:12:49:

 The only thing that I can think of that’s obvious to check is that there’s still a subscriber number for MEW (Digital) in ‘Your Details’. If there’s a subscriber number for the paper edition only, then the first two pages would be all you’d see anyway.

 Yeah, I came to the same conclusion and I’d checked that. I also tried logging off and on again. Guess I’ll just have to wait for the new year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

See if you can access thm now?

regard David 

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Hi David,

 

Merry Christmas!

 

No, it’s still the same … just the first two pages. I tried logging off then on again.

 

Now, back to the festivities ….

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Sid

No luck.

Nothing obviously wrong.

Checked your account which is why you were logged out.

regards David

 

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Hi David,

 

Thanks for checking anyway. I suspect there’s other stuff I’m not seeing too. For example, the “World of Model Engineering” files, I can only see  parts 3 & 4 of each issue which I’m guessing is all that non-subscribers would see.

 

It looks like the system has lost my subscriber status (even though everything is there in my profile).

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