It seems that every day I come across at least a few sites that don’t work. Either they’re completely down, or some parts don’t work, or some forms do not function, or inter-site links are broken.
I started thinking about this, and I’m fairly sure some three years ago there weren’t anywhere near that many sites that were broken. Today it seems like at least 10% of sites have some flaw in them, maybe even more.
I’m going to keep track of it. Starting right now:
Dell: Couldn’t open a product page. It said “Updating content”, and I got tired of waiting after 10 minutes.
Lenovo: Still the same problem I whined about a couple of days ago, the individual product pages do not work at all. The front page animation works, so I don’t think it’s a missing plugin from my part or anything like that, plus I’ve tried it with a couple of separate computers.
Local police: Can’t make an appointment reservation, the form throws an exception after clicking the submit button.
Hmmm… I wonder how this will play out eventually, when everything is moved online like the current trend is. I’m betting a lot of fun. For example, let’s say I tried to submit an online application for a visa for some foreign country, and got an exception – did the application get registered with them or not? Is it a valid application? Why am *I* the one who now has to go through all the trouble of finding out what happened and what should I do next?
My advice to you all is: be careful. Be very, very careful when conducting business online. You’ll neven know what happens, and no one will take responsibility if something goes wrong.