… its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?

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    1 year ago

    The NC unemployment was website goes offline for maintenance every night. It’s so needlessly complicated on purpose.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t see the comments you linked, but do see the other comments regarding data shuffle. My point still stands. Needlessly complicated. This could be updated if the state managed itself properly.

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          Your point is incorrect. It is not needlessly complicated. It has to do with mainframe batch processing times.

          It’s not a conspiracy, it is a technical challenge that is not easy to some. It is complicated, but not needlessly. If it was easy, it would have been fixed.

          I am sure there are a number of private companies that do the same but simply don’t tell you.

          E.g., every bank has a cut off time for transfers, same reason.