The Hockey News to offer full archives online soon?
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reckoning
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Try e-mailing their customer service. I did and they e-mailed back letting me know what my account number was.
I just looked that Seals article you mentioned. Ivan Boldirev seemed to be a big believer in mind dynamics, but it didn't change the teams bad luck.
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Same here. I got mine earlier this week.
I'm not a big fan of how they display the pages (their page viewer sucks) & really wish I could download the issues, but it's nice that they are finally available at all.
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MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
I loaded up the archive just now and it seems to be working fine. I had some unrelated issues after I had initially started a subscription. After a week of silence after getting the confirmation email, I had to ping their customer service to give me the account number / activate my account.
Been mostly going through old draft / future watch issues. Maybe during the summer I'll have more time to look up old trades and read what the reactions were at the time.
Michael Farkas
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PepeBostones
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I just say thank you to Mr Graeme Roustan for getting this done and out for such a penny. Unsual in this time of world.
I bought my first Hockey News in 1970 and subscription instantly. At a time long before internet Hockey News was the best.
I bought my first Hockey News in 1970 and subscription instantly. At a time long before internet Hockey News was the best.
Golden_Jet
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No, not sure why they would make them downloadable,
Password because you need to be a HN subscriber.
I don’t think I can download them, and are a long time subscriber.
Just purged about a 800 issues last month, and just kept the ones I wanted.
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sawchuk1971
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I am hesitant in buying THN archives.
I would like to pay the $29.95 US digital only for about a year but I don't want to pay monthly.
I would like to pay the $29.95 US digital only for about a year but I don't want to pay monthly.
reckoning
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For me, it's well worth the money. $2.50 a month for unlimited access to the archive, plus getting print copies of current issues delivered to me is a great deal.
My latest thing is picking a random team and season, then going through their columns issue by issue to get a good overview and summary of that teams year.
Like today, many of the articles are fluff, but there's definitely some worthwhile stuff there if you're willing to search for it.
My latest thing is picking a random team and season, then going through their columns issue by issue to get a good overview and summary of that teams year.
Like today, many of the articles are fluff, but there's definitely some worthwhile stuff there if you're willing to search for it.
Michael Farkas
Celebrate 68
Wife got it for me as a Christmas gift the previous Christmas, I think I've logged into it at least once a week since. I take about three minutes to page through the new ones they send to see if anyone I know is mentioned or to openly mock something about prospects or the draft (to absolutely no one that cares in my house haha) and then it's discarded. But the archive rules.
tabness
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It's actually pretty nicely done for people who are on the fence. I just got to actually springing for it last month. I'm very pleased that they included all the other special issues like the yearbooks, draft previews, collector's issues and so on.
The scans are decent quality and definitely legible, though like they didn't go all out by trying to make them look super pristine, looks like they just grabbed whatever issues they had and did a basic scan without much cleanup of the image. I guess it gives you the authentic vibe of reading the paper issues from the past with all the patina and wear so you can spin it that way.
The transcription is solid, though it does struggle in some weird ways (numbers sometimes are hit and miss, "Ilitch" is seemingly always transcribed as "Hitch" lol).
The fact that you get both a transcribed article with the actual scans being linked to at the side is really nice. However, clicking on the issue from a transcribed article doesn't take you directly to the article, and you sorta have to go through the issue to get to it.
The user experience of navigating through a scanned issue is not the best on a computer, it's a little better on an iPad or anything with a touchscreen though.
Search is kinda basic though. It's fine enough if it's a one keyword search, but gets really naive if you have longer and more complex search strings. There is no filtering on searching (that I've figured out at least) like dates or issue numbers or whatever which is sad. Hopefully they prioritize adding that, but I guess this has been out a while already so I won't hold my breath. I don't even think there's a way to sort the search results by date, it's just giving you a relevance result list (this wouldn't be as much an issue if the relevance was better determined with more complex search strings).
Just a note, while you would think a tablet is a perfect device for this sort of newspaper/magazine reading, The Hockey News app on the iPad sucks for the archive. I subscribed directly through the website (do this if you want the archives easily) rather than on the in app purchase to avoid the linking issues that arise going the in app purchase route, but even though everything is all linked up in the app, when you search for something, it will show you the archive results just fine, but at least I don't have access for them and it gives me only a preview and asks me to buy the issue... So I end up just using the browser on the iPad for this which properly gives access to the archive.
All in all though, content is king, and this is $30 bucks a year for the content. With enough digging, everything you want is there. Compared to the offering of only other magazine I subscribe to (WIRED), the issue reading experience for WIRED is a lot better (then again I haven't bothered to read the actual current issues I've subscribed for on The Hockey News so maybe it's as good for the current issues), but they don't give you full access to their back issues for your subscription. You can of course get all the archived articles on the website, but they even removed their handy index of archive so it's all search and date based and painful to get to.
Hockey News did a good job all up, real good.
The scans are decent quality and definitely legible, though like they didn't go all out by trying to make them look super pristine, looks like they just grabbed whatever issues they had and did a basic scan without much cleanup of the image. I guess it gives you the authentic vibe of reading the paper issues from the past with all the patina and wear so you can spin it that way.
The transcription is solid, though it does struggle in some weird ways (numbers sometimes are hit and miss, "Ilitch" is seemingly always transcribed as "Hitch" lol).
The fact that you get both a transcribed article with the actual scans being linked to at the side is really nice. However, clicking on the issue from a transcribed article doesn't take you directly to the article, and you sorta have to go through the issue to get to it.
The user experience of navigating through a scanned issue is not the best on a computer, it's a little better on an iPad or anything with a touchscreen though.
Search is kinda basic though. It's fine enough if it's a one keyword search, but gets really naive if you have longer and more complex search strings. There is no filtering on searching (that I've figured out at least) like dates or issue numbers or whatever which is sad. Hopefully they prioritize adding that, but I guess this has been out a while already so I won't hold my breath. I don't even think there's a way to sort the search results by date, it's just giving you a relevance result list (this wouldn't be as much an issue if the relevance was better determined with more complex search strings).
Just a note, while you would think a tablet is a perfect device for this sort of newspaper/magazine reading, The Hockey News app on the iPad sucks for the archive. I subscribed directly through the website (do this if you want the archives easily) rather than on the in app purchase to avoid the linking issues that arise going the in app purchase route, but even though everything is all linked up in the app, when you search for something, it will show you the archive results just fine, but at least I don't have access for them and it gives me only a preview and asks me to buy the issue... So I end up just using the browser on the iPad for this which properly gives access to the archive.
All in all though, content is king, and this is $30 bucks a year for the content. With enough digging, everything you want is there. Compared to the offering of only other magazine I subscribe to (WIRED), the issue reading experience for WIRED is a lot better (then again I haven't bothered to read the actual current issues I've subscribed for on The Hockey News so maybe it's as good for the current issues), but they don't give you full access to their back issues for your subscription. You can of course get all the archived articles on the website, but they even removed their handy index of archive so it's all search and date based and painful to get to.
Hockey News did a good job all up, real good.
