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Re:B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations by zinodaur on Thursday July 13, 2023 @11:34AM (#36710852)
> What governments should be doing is set up their own social media servers sharing across all open protocols

As a Canadian - our government makes uniquely shitty websites. We can't even successfully pay a private company to build tech for us - we end up with billion dollar abominations like the PRESTO card.

I don't know what the solution is - but if the government makes a emergency alert site, it will be awful and no one will use it.

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Re:B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations by amatecha on Thursday July 13, 2023 @12:26PM (#36711832)
Mayyybe.. "Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada" (formerly Industry Canada) has a pretty decent website[0]. Their information architecture (site structure) isn't so great IMO, but the actual functionality is quite solid. Interestingly it appears to be using Drupal. I wonder if it was put together by a government web dev team or an outside contractor?

Whoa, actually I just found they have an entire design system[1] to refer to for any official digital services. Cool!

[0] https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/government/about/design-system.html

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Re:B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations by dghlsakjg on Thursday July 13, 2023 @12:36PM (#36711999)
As an American that moved to Canada, I actually like the government websites up here. I can generally find the information/services I need.

Of course the basis for comparison is the US.

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