That Seedy Table In The Dark Corner Where The Reprobates Gather

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Well, HC is stuck in an infinite redirect loop, so it may just disappear up its own asshole. Or this could be them, as they said, taking the site down for 10 minutes to update fonts and backgrounds.

10 minutes. To update a CSS stylesheet.

Sweet holy fuck.
 
You know what it really is? DEMONS! CORPORATE DEMONS OF HELL!

Ahem.

Really someone thought they were buying into a slick "corporate america approved" solution for a non-problem.

I've seen it where decisions were made by someone without any IT knowledge whatsoever who was sold a bill of goods by salespeople who also had no IT experience.
 
Like changing the colors will do anything at all. Sure, it won't be blindingly white, but the horrible interface will still be there.
 
aliensporebomb said:
You know what it really is? DEMONS! CORPORATE DEMONS OF HELL!

Ahem.

Really someone thought they were buying into a slick "corporate america approved" solution for a non-problem.

I've seen it where decisions were made by someone without any IT knowledge whatsoever who was sold a bill of goods by salespeople who also had no IT experience.
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Just got done reading this. Oddly appropriate.
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I'll use an example. At my workplace they had been using a software package for many years.

Then, the major competitor to who produced it bought them, folded it into their product and gradually made some of the software go away and other parts work less well.

In other words, they eliminated a competitor and gradually position it so that eventually the parts they wanted for their own software got subsumed into their own and gradually eliminate the original product.

It's the american way of doing things.

In this case it's just a mediocre forum.
 
What the weird thing about HC is that when they tried to convert the first time, they had already taken suggestions for improvement; when the initial switchover crashed and burned, and they went back to the original, I thought they were using the long down period to make all of the adjustments.

So NOW they are scrambling to try and get it right ??? lol-049
 
PRScott said:
What the weird thing about HC is that when they tried to convert the first time, they had already taken suggestions for improvement; when the initial switchover crashed and burned, and they went back to the original, I thought they were using the long down period to make all of the adjustments.

So NOW they are scrambling to try and get it right ??? lol-049
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I have a theory about this. When they tried to go live in December, the user load brought the system to its knees; something about some long-running spurious queries, yadda yadda. Sounded dubious to me. I think they spent three months doing automated load testing to make sure that their great big shit sandwich could be served hot, fresh and quickly, while addressing few or none of the UX issues.
 
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