ARRL digital publications stuck firmly in the 90s

[Jacek Radzikowski]

Judging by the discussion in the thread on ARRL forum, it was in December
2016.

Jacek
kw4ep


On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 at 15:37, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:

>
> When did they get rid of the Flash based version?  It wasn't as recently
> as the web site retool a few months ago was it?
>
> -r
>
> On Oct 1, 2022, at 6:08 PM, Jacek Radzikowski <jacek.radzikowski at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Before ARRL switched from an already then grossly outdated flash-based
> reader, I posted on their forum a long list of problems I had with it. I've
> got a response that my comment has been passed to the publishers.
> After a year a new reader was live. With almost exactly the same problems
> as I listed (the only improvement was that it wasn't flash-based), and with
> an additional pain-in-the-butt that this time it is impossible to turn off
> the "awesome" page turning effects and swooshing sounds.
> I'm really sorry for the person who chose this monstrosity, because
> clearly they must have never used a computer before, and they got blinded
> by all the bling the sales rep showed them.
> I would also really like to know how we can hold the selection team
> responsible for wasting member's money on purchasing the system.
>
> jacek
> kw4ep
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Sept 2022 at 14:33, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recently became active on HF under my own callsign after years of
>> mostly running club signs and special events with other people's callsigns
>> (and hence logbook entries for LotW and the like).
>>
>> Seven and a half months later I have the credits necessary to get
>> certificates for WAS and DXCC (both digital), and figured I might as well
>> sign up for ARRL membership for the first time in 30 years, especially
>> since the magazines are now digital and I don't have to worry about pulling
>> the typical ham trick of saddling my next of kin with a giant hoard of
>> boxes of old issues of QST.
>>
>> Boy, what a disappointment.  It seems to me that there is no way to
>> download a PDF to slap in my ipad and read on mass transit.  Just a reader
>> app from some joint called Pagesuite, which needs connectivity in order to
>> work.
>>
>> Further investigation under the hood (web inspector) shows that it's not
>> a PDF on the back end that I could coax out of it, but rather a series of
>> jpegs!
>>
>> On my Mac, I can select all pages and print them to a PDF.  Of course,
>> the suggested name is "QEX.pdf" (for instance).  No YYYYMM or anything like
>> that.
>>
>> The folks at QCWA get it right.  Antique Truck Collectors of America gets
>> it right.  Telephone Collectors International gets it right.  World Radio
>> History ( https://worldradiohistory.com/QST.htm ) looking at 55 year old
>> issues of QST is a better user experience than looking at current issues of
>> QST straight from the League.  Ironically, it seems that the less money the
>> organization has, the better they do because they follow the KISS
>> principle.
>>
>> Am I missing something or did "upgrade your digital publications to meet
>> some sane expectations" somehow get left of the requirements for the recent
>> retool of the League's web site?  No I don't want to "install the app on my
>> ipad".
>>
>> Has someone written a scraper to just pull down the jpegs and wrap them
>> in PDF?
>>
>> -r
>>
>>
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