Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But then why did my spot jump _down_ by 60 spots when I alt-tabbed?
Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
21–30 of 104 posts
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#22Ok guys can you move? Someone is there for too long.
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#23Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#24Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#25I 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?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/18xjjny/myroadsafe...
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#26I know this is meant to be a joke, but there are official sites in Ireland that really does use queues like this.
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#27I started after the website was built by a cheap offshore team. It was built with JSF and we soon found that no one thought about multithreading because they only ever tested it with a single user.
Needless to say, when more than 10 users were active on the site, they would start to experience problems, like seeing eachothers data and stuff. "We" fixed the problem by adding more servers while I tried to rewrite the whole thing using spring and jsp.
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#28I 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?
a queuing system is easier for people to understand - you get in line, you have three minutes to complete your purchase when it's your turn, and everything that was available when you started your session is available until your session ends. people are still frustrated to have to queue, but at least they can form a mental model for what's happening.
IMHO a lottery system would be a better way to solve this, but event promoters tend to hate that and want a first-come first-served experience. i don't really understand why.
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#29Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#30I once worked for a Cambridge startup called Sayagle where you would Yagle for SayaCash (don't ask). I started after the website was built by a cheap offshore team. It was built with JSF and we soon found that no one thought about multithreading because they only ever tested it with a single user. Needless to say, when more than 10 users were active on the site, they would start to experience problems, like seeing ea…
Wait, what?
I'm going to need some explanation or story time about how this happened.