.. its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?
We know why but pointing out how Republicans only policy position is "explicitly kneecap everything so we can privatize it and funnel money to our friends at non negotiated rates 5x the normal end user retail cost" is apparently not allowed because some guys like guys and some people want to alter a pronoun by one letter or some such shit.
at this point i don't even think its that deep anymore sometimes. Sure they do things like that. But at this point...sometimes they really are just fucking cartoon villains. Being evil just because.
That's how I feel gesturing broadly at the 3 or 4 states they're still actively fighting against minimum marriage age laws.
Their voters out here voting for them to "protect children" from pronouns, from books, from learning - then turn a blind eye when they vote to make marrying at 12 legal again or to force 12 year olds to give birth or to send 12 year olds back to the mines. Not only are the politicians cartoon villains, in 2023 so are their voters. Full Stop.
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Wow this I don’t understand at all.
translation: "It's impossible to have a conversation about the GOP "Starve the beast" policy because the conversation will be derailed by "LGBT people exist, something something woke ideology""
I’m going to have a guess and suggest that the website is probably integrated with some much older mainframe system and a batch process or several batch processes run daily overnight to shuttle data between the two systems to keep them updated and in sync.
Syncing the two sets of data while the database is live and changing is a pain the the bum, so they freeze it while the data transfers are taking place.
This is the real answer. Main frame batch processing.
And till you haven’t experienced it, it seems like an excuse. Why can’t you simply do it all the time. Why can’t you get rid of the mainframe, etc.
But if only it were that easy. There is a reason IBM can still acquire multi billion dollar companies and then run them into the ground.
My company has maybe a couple million customers and can’t get rid of its mainframe and in areas that it’s gotten the process away from the mainframe, batch patronizing is still a thing. Because that is the only way to guarantee integrity.
So yea. I wish your comment gets more up votes. Because it is not a conspiracy, it is a technical limitation.
I like working with legacy systems. Post something, go fart around on your phone for fifteen minutes while you wait for it to post.
I had to do some legacy app modernization for one of the largest telecoms companies in the US, and their mainframe system and the UI, while ugly, performed so much faster than the modern approach.
Given, we weren't the most talented team out there, but rendering the UI on the server side was unmatched in performance versus what we could get out of a web browser. I was the UI guy so I didn't really touch mainframe side, but it was wild to me that they made this system like 30 years ago and it worked so much better than our modern implementation
This also explains, very basically, why financial systems are the way they are. The backend is ancient but they know how it works so it stays the same and we see it’s weird quirks all the time.
More like, they know of they try to change, and their is an issue and people's statements payments are at risk, it's their ass.
I particularly enjoy the "if you need immediate assistance" note for a telephone line that's open even fewer hours than the website. it's positioned as an alternative to the site, but absolutely isn't. Also, if that message is only displayed when the site is closed, there are no hours when the phone line is open but the site is closed, so who's it helping? You couldwrite it down and call it when it's open, but the site is also going to be open then, several hours earlier in fact, so is less "immediate" than the site that's closed.
I think it's less "this line is for emergencies" and more "our online process could takes days to get a response, here's a line to a real human".
Well damn, that web server has a good union.
Most government sites from NY also keep business hours
I asked my family's lawyer about it and he said that the time open and closed is a law. So they have to "close down" certain sites at certain times to comply with those laws
That's stupid.
You should only pay taxes for purchases/income during their business hours then.
I've seen websites of local stores in the bible belt that weren't reachable on sundays, but a government site not working at certain times is just weird and backwards.
.. its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?
In case you were unaware, the US government sucks at everything but killing people, and sometimes they take 20yr to do that. They just flat out suck, there's your "why."
One might say that this website has some of the best union behind it, perharps on the entire planet.
Well, you see now, if you reverse the letters in the website address it spells exactly why it has issues.
Maybe they need to send you your http request manually
The NC unemployment was website goes offline for maintenance every night. It's so needlessly complicated on purpose.
...so it would be stupid if this works, but it's a stupid problem in the first place, so try changing the time on your computer to be within their operational hours.
I recall cheesing videogames with that back in the day, and the UI of a halfway decent videogame would put most govt web design to shame. Worth a shot?
On one hand, this seems unlikely to work because it's easier to check the server's clock for the time. On the other, it'd be a mistake to expect the government to take the straightforward option when there's a perfectly good ass-backwards way to screw it up.
...aand, we're back to Web 0.0.
By the way, is this how most sites are going to work in Metaverse?
In Finland you can access your info and do online forms any time of the day. The information gets updated when it gets and the site has the newest version available at the time. When they do maintenance, they inform it couple of days before on the website.
In my experience, it frequently doesn't work within posted hours either
cries in SSI
Could be too limit the number of requests that ultimately ended up needing to be processed by a "real human". Knowing government that was human might be literally some person in the back transcribing the digital requests to paper so that some technophobe boss can review or file it....
Wdym taxes aren't going where they benefit people?
$40b in taxpayer money is being dropped on Ukrainian territory right now which will eventually put Ukraine in such a weak position that it won't be able to prevent the flood of American/European countries coming in to take over all their industry. This will trickle down, no? /s
Assuming this isn’t a chat functionality that requires humans to function, maybe it goes down for maintenance over that outage period. If so, it’s terribly designed.
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I for one am ready for a public servant AI that gives you form Y34-b and sends you to another AI that then tells you it should've been form Y34-a and only the third AI can fix it but they're currently on vacation so you'll have to comeback another time on a Monday or Wednesday between 10:00 and 10:30am.
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