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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by cbg0 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:09AM (#25645088)
Isn't this a little unimpressive, given that these are static pages served by a CDN?
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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by timsworkaccount on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:11AM (#25645110)
Eh, it's the UK government. Any lack of fuckup is a surprise.
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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by superhuzza on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:22AM (#25645208)
On the whole, the UK Gov is actually quite good at digital services. Much better than any of my experiences with services offered by the US, Canada or France.
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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by realusername on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:57AM (#25645521)
> Much better than any of my experiences with services offered by the US, Canada or France.

That's not hard to be better in the case of France, half of the procedures require to send some physical letter and the rest are accessible on some atrocious websites.

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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by superhuzza on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:47AM (#25658187)
You're absolutely right, there's still a very old-school mentality when it comes to French bureaucracy.
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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by skrebbel on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:37AM (#25645327)
The UK government is often quoted as a leading example on how to run digital services well. A fuckup would be a surprise.
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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by iso1210 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:20PM (#25647892)
The UK civil service is great - although it strikes me as someone really good was given the power and budget to make it happen.

The UK government however...

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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by gm3dmo on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:50PM (#25652330)
You are spot on there. Here is Tom Loosemore (one of the originators of the Government Digital Service) explaining how it came to be:

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/abfe49d3-f24c-4b93-b8e...

Unfortunately the spend control that GDS had, has been removed.

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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by ydnaclementine on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:15PM (#25649683)
Cache Rules Everything Around Me (C.R.E.A.M.)
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