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Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time

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Post by DANmode » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 7:41 AM UTC

NikolaNovak wrote: post #85

hifromwork wrote: post #64

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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?

It's because the person sipping champagne with the software vendor isn't checking the performance of features before signing.

Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 8:07 AM UTC

alwa wrote: post #78

notatoad wrote: post #28

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we implement one for event registration. without queuing, you end up with some hidden complexity around whether a ticket in a cart counts towards the limit or not, and when it goes back into the available pool if that cart doesn't check out in time. none of it is too difficult to implement, but it is difficult to explain to users and creates experiences that frustrate people are or are perceived as unfair. for exampl…

To your last point, I’ve always understood their sentiment to be along the lines of: - differentially rewarding those customers willing to put in higher levels of effort - inflating attendees’ sense of the purchase’s value, since they’ve sunk work into acquiring the right to attend/buy - adding a sense of agency: you “could have” gotten the tickets if you’d just showed up earlier, you have only yourself to blame - di…

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Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time

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Post by knodi123 » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 4:43 PM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #90

Doxin wrote: post #60

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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…

I saw a single-panel comic once of an old man, manacled, alone, in a dank dungeon cell. The caption is "I know not how long I have been in here. The days and years flow together, and my mind is haunted by memories. But I want Chick-Fil-A, so it must be Sunday."

Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time

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Post by sentientslug » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 7:25 PM UTC

retzkek wrote: post #96

sentientslug wrote: post #56

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This sounds like ServiceNow… if it is I’d love to know that special URL.

Seems to be documented, surprisingly: .service-now.com/cancel_my_transaction.do" rel="nofollow">https:// .service-now.com/cancel_my_transaction.do https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm... Or you can type “cancel_my_transaction.do” in the navigator filter bar. Related tip: you can quickly bring up any table by typing “table_name.list” (s/.do/.list/ from the single-item url) there instead of poki…

This is so awesome. Thank you for sharing!