Re:How to build a low-tech website? (2018)
by littlestymaar on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:54PM
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It's a social thing. When you know the service might be down when you need it at the last moment, you just plan and do things quite some time before the deadline so you don't get caught.
In the twenties century, trains in Spain where completely unreliable: they could leave one hour early, or 3 hours late, yet people would get fired if they couldn't get to work in time. But it still worked: people just didn't run into the train station 5 minutes before departure.
If it's a planned downtime with stuff, people can plan around (eg pay your bill before the weekend), that's bearable.
But if the government wants you to do something (eg. declare VAT), but then the page isn't available, and they still expect you to do it, and you could get fined if you don't... that's a really shitty thing to happen.