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  1. I'm trying to rent a car for an upcoming holiday across the Atlantic Ocean. I select a Monday as the start of the trip and I get... nothing. I look at the networking console: the website is sending the date I picked as Monday midnight in my timezone... which translates to 22:00 on Sunday, meaning the rental agency is considered as closed 🤦‍♂️
    #WebDev #fail #WebFail #TimezoneFail

  2. Baby food companies in the US are apparently legally obligated to test their foods for heavy metals content and to publish the lab results on their websites. I have a colleague who is looking to collect this data, so I started looking at the Gerber website.

    Not only is the data not available in bulk, the website is *actively* hostile towards scraping. Standard cookie checks, etc... are bad enough. However, here, you have to retrieve data for each UPC/Batch pair one page at a time... and the actual lab results (for **one** UPC/Batch pair, and so about 20 integer values stored in a json blob)... come along with nearly **half-a megabyte** of interface goop.

    Ugh.

    #WebFail #API

  3. Man darf doch seine Finanztricks nicht verraten, sonst macht das noch jeder #webfail #ffdt
    de.webfail.com/5a235ddad92?tag

  4. Wie auch immer man es schafft, über die Jacke von jemand anderen zu streiten #webfail #ffdt
    de.webfail.com/24e0aa76090?tag

  5. ⚠️ OG Enshittification aka Discord ⚠️

    30 minutes of my life and nothing gained.

    Despite having a Discord account from about six or ten years ago, which for whatever reason no longer exists in their system, I find myself needing to make a new account just to find an update on a group-buy thing of minimal consequence. Why this group cannot post the shipping updates onto their own website I have no idea.

    So, no less than twelve instances of "Are you human" clicky, followed by the super fun game called "Unlock the trapezoid and put them in the ocean waves with a stupid background image", followed by two instances of wanting to verify by SMS, and of course an email address verification process.

    Did it get created? Maybe, but I cannot access the account because the second time the SMS was requested the system decided that my valid phone number was not a valid phone number, no less than five minutes after having verified their first SMS request with the very number that they texted.

    Discord is trash.

    #ensh11n #discord #trashapp #webfail #webdev #programmingFailures #stopUsingDiscord

  6. Managing a self-directed RRSP is like...

    "We're the best electronic broker around! Look at our fancy web interface! Electronic trading has never been easier!"

    Uh, okay... hmm, I can't find a way to do <common trading transaction X>. Where's that hidden?

    "We can do that over the phone! Call and ask to speak to a trader!"

    #Argh...

    #fail #WebFail #phone #call #RRSP #investment #broker #WelcomeTo1995

  7. Managing a self-directed RRSP is like...

    "We're the best electronic broker around! Look at our fancy web interface! Electronic trading has never been easier!"

    Uh, okay... hmm, I can't find a way to do <common trading transaction X>. Where's that hidden?

    "We can do that over the phone! Call and ask to speak to a trader!"

    #Argh...

    #fail #WebFail #phone #call #RRSP #investment #broker #WelcomeTo1995

  8. Managing a self-directed RRSP is like...

    "We're the best electronic broker around! Look at our fancy web interface! Electronic trading has never been easier!"

    Uh, okay... hmm, I can't find a way to do <common trading transaction X>. Where's that hidden?

    "We can do that over the phone! Call and ask to speak to a trader!"

    #Argh...

    #fail #WebFail #phone #call #RRSP #investment #broker #WelcomeTo1995

  9. Managing a self-directed RRSP is like...

    "We're the best electronic broker around! Look at our fancy web interface! Electronic trading has never been easier!"

    Uh, okay... hmm, I can't find a way to do <common trading transaction X>. Where's that hidden?

    "We can do that over the phone! Call and ask to speak to a trader!"

    #Argh...

    #fail #WebFail #phone #call #RRSP #investment #broker #WelcomeTo1995

  10. Managing a self-directed RRSP is like...

    "We're the best electronic broker around! Look at our fancy web interface! Electronic trading has never been easier!"

    Uh, okay... hmm, I can't find a way to do <common trading transaction X>. Where's that hidden?

    "We can do that over the phone! Call and ask to speak to a trader!"

    #Argh...

    #fail #WebFail #phone #call #RRSP #investment #broker #WelcomeTo1995

  11. ...und mit diesem feschen Spruch melde ich mich kurz aus der Versenkung. Wollte ich euch nicht vorenthalten.

    #webfail #glueck