"PAPERS PAST" Update Part IV

[kiwihalfpint]

Thank you! 


Cheers
KHP

[Lucy2]

Wonderful, Team PapersPast.    Thanks. 

     ~  Lu

[PapersPast]

Hi folks - we're still working through the impact of the network updates over the weekend, I thought it would be sensible to share a bit of an update with yourselves:

1 - newspaper material is all available (if it's not for you, please let me know!)
2 - most magazines & journals material is ok, except for a couple of titles
3 - letters & diaries is impacted
4 - parliamentary papers material is ok

So, under some circumstances, you might see a "something went wrong" message, unless you stick to newspapers or parliamentary papers. Cleverer people than I are working into the night hours to solve the issue. I'll keep you all posted!

Cheers

Emerson

[spades]

Hi Emerson,

Since the weekend I've been getting 'Sorry, something went wrong' when I try to change the results of a search from 'best match' or the items from '10'.

I've just tried again and it's still happening.

Spades

[PapersPast]

Hi Spades, I think I know what that might be. It's at our end, and I'll need to wrangle smarter people than me, but we'll try to get the fix in place later in the day.

[spades]

Thanks Emerson, much appreciated.

Spades

[spades]

I'm still having problems with the site.

Only if I first select to search by something other than 'Best Match' can I change the results from the default '10' to a different number.

Spades

[PapersPast]

Hi Spades, no problem - a few people have reported this and it relates to the papers past session cookie stored in your browser. The fix is to go to close all open Papers Past tabs in your browser, then go into the cookies in your browser, search for the PP cookies and delete the one labelled _paperspast_session.

This is where search preferences are stored, so after you delete it, the issue will (hopefully) go away and the cookie will re-create itself when you go back into the site. It might also be an idea to not go back in at first via an old bookmark or saved link, just go in via the homepage - https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. That should do the trick.
 

[PapersPast]

I'd just add for everyone's benefit that I'm continuing testing this, just to make sure I'm not missing anything, so feel free to keep me posted if you find a way to consistently reproduce the issue - this goes for anyone else on rootschat too of course! Make sure to try the steps with the session cookie listed above first, just in case.

Email me directly via the details on the PP contact page (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/contact) or just reply in this thread, or PM me, and I'll respond as soon as I can.