"PAPERS PAST" Update Part IV

[PapersPast]

You're welcome Alan 

Hi folks, the new content is live - we're finally able to help bring some better coverage of Early NZ in the north online, we're really proud of this and we'd like to thank the good folks at Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland Libraries, and Hocken for helping make this happen.

[Whenu]

Thanks for the PBH update, can now find out shenanigans the family got up to.

[PapersPast]

Hah, I've got a few of those in PBH too Whenu - "Madame Stewart" was her stage-name.

[PapersPast]

Hi everybody -

I've been remiss - we had a content release yesterday and I didn't post it here! It's a bit of a biggie, and we're now pushing 1950 with the Otago Daily Times and the Gisborne Herald. Also, the Evening Star (of Dunedin) gets brought up to 1947 - Otago is now really well-covered, in fact it's probably the best-covered region on Papers Past now.

    Ashburton Herald (Mar 1878-Oct 1880)
    Evening Star (1943-1947)
    Gisborne Herald (Jul 1939-1950)
    Northern Advocate (1940-1945)
    Otago Daily Times (1943-1950)
    Te Aroha News (misc.1890-1912, 1914-1925)
    Thames Guardian and Mining Record (Oct 1871-Aug 1872)

Enjoy!

[ellvera]

Awesome, Thankyou 

[spades]

Thanks very much for the latest updates, Papers Past team!

Spades

[Janette]

Have others had problems with the site today?
Too many results with only a few hi-lighted and previews in the way

Cheers Janette

[jsm1310]

Yep, something is going on; it has defaulted to showing previews (which you can turn off just above the Date column)
But the Content Types are somewhat broken;
selecting Article + Illustration included the Ads (there's no escaping them!!!)
Article only worked correctly (my search had no Illustrations and I don't have time to chase it down right now)
Ads only includes the Articles.
Cheers
Jim

[PapersPast]

Hi folks (and thanks Jim and Janette!) -

Apologies, we're knocking the rough edges off a big update yesterday. Here's the state of play:

We have two separate issues - the update has made some people's session cookies invalid, this messes with things like the content types. Thankfully, this is very simple to fix - first close any PP tabs you have open in your browser, then delete the Papers Past cookies from the browser. Done!

The second issue is that we have a couple of things to fix at our end - highlighting went walkabout, and currently the search box itself is just a boolean space, rather than three separate search options (one of which is just boolean). For example, to do an "exact phrase" search, you need to put quotation marks around your terms.

I'm off to help fix stuff, I'll update you all later, I'm really sorry for the hassle, please don't hesitate to throw me any questions.