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Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
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#82Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#83Upon visiting the website: failed to start application on imherefor.me This is most likely because your project has a code error. Check your project logs, fix the error and try again Maybe it got hugged to death?
Update title: at most one at a time
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#85Not at all the same thing I admit, but the company I work for has a product that limits the number of transactions (per user) to 1. Where "transaction" is roughly equivalent to an HTTP request. So if you run a query that takes 30 seconds, get bored, open up a new tab to do something else in the product, your new tab will hang until the transaction in the previous tab has completed. I hate it. There is a special URL t…
A national train company where I live in limits the number of transactions (per user) to 1. Where "transaction" is roughly equivalent to a browser tab - the website will aggressively scold you if you try to open another tab and refuse to load! I think it's realated to the session mess they have in the backend but it's very annoying (especially when buying train tickets and comparing offers, of all things).
A lot of ERPs try to limit the number of tabs; I don't fully understand the reason - it may be because of the stuff they do in the browser before syncing to the database at submission/commit time, so they want to avoid apparent inconsistency?
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#86The queue here seems to work poorly. Looked at the site and I was 162. Looked away and back for literally 2 seconds, I was 164. alt tab and back again, I was 176. Again and I was 188/188. Now I'm 140. What?
It says on the page: Don't leave or you'll lose your spot. The queue worked fine for me as long as I stayed on the page. I assume it uses focus/visibility events and puts you at the back of the queue unless you keep it open and focused. The queue length is jumping about a lot as people are visiting and leaving, because hn.
For various definitions of "leave". I had a similar experience: left it open a while, came back, never got to the #1 spot.
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#87There's a whole business for bad performing websites that need to limit visitors! https://queue-it.com/
It's my favorite crutch for badly made vendor software I have no control over.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> they would start to experience problems, like seeing eachothers data and stuff. Wait, what? I'm going to need some explanation or story time about how this happened.
The idea was that you would visit participating merchants, spend money there and they would give you codes on stickers that they generated from our site and then the customers would use those codes on the site with purchase amount to get sayacash. One problem we had was that the codes we generated turned out to be invalid because... we didnt know why. We generated the codes, but they werent in the database. Where did…
My employer let me pick my own gift from a website with countless products. I visited regularly to progress looking over the gifts. The small print said you had something like 7 days to chose. After 2 or 3 weeks I finally made a choice, it congratulated me, deducted the points from my balance and provided tracking information. Then nothing happened. I could even log in again and spend the remaining points but nothing shipped.
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#89I know this is meant to be a joke, but there are official sites in Ireland that really does use queues like this.
Whcih ones and why? Wierd load balancing? Or dumb bureaucracy?
If you don't change it, every site that runs on Linux, Windows, or Free BSD queues its visitors by default.
What is different on this site is the duration of each session.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ha. When I moved into my town, the public library's online book search was only turned on from 9-5, monday through saturday. Apparently it was so unstable they didn't want anyone trying to use it unless they had an IT guy on hand? I'm guessing? Anyway, they eventually outsourced to bibliocommons, but oy, what a ridiculous limitation to have as late as 2007.
A local pizza place has a website that closes outside of business hours. Which is infuriating if you're trying to figure out business hours in the first place.
There is a Dutch chain of baby necessities which is owned by a fundamentalist Christian. You wouldn't know except for the infuriating message their websites (there where some mergers and I think this affects two large online shops) on Sunday, all day long, are closed because of the Sabbath. A multi million Euro business which just shuts down all of its websites on Sunday.
The owner can apparently afford it, because I ran into this when we made a baby and was comparison shopping for a stroller. Obviously you move on and go somewhere else. The owner literally misses sales for his beliefs.
Now I don't want people working Sundays shipping stuff people bought, but those websites can do their thing perfectly without anyone lifting a finger until they come into work on Monday to a stack of orders to handle.