Dumb website only lets one user in at a time

Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by knodi123 on Monday July 08, 2024 @11:14PM (#40912216)

Ha. When I moved into my town, the public library's online book search was only turned on from 9-5, monday through saturday. Apparently it was so unstable they didn't want anyone trying to use it unless they had an IT guy on hand? I'm guessing? Anyway, they eventually outsourced to bibliocommons, but oy, what a ridiculous limitation to have as late as 2007.

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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by Doxin on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:25AM (#40913719)

A local pizza place has a website that closes outside of business hours. Which is infuriating if you're trying to figure out business hours in the first place.

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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by giancarlostoro on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:52AM (#40928257)

So its running on a computer in their restaurant, and someone shuts it off when they leave. : - )

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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by Doxin on Thursday July 11, 2024 @02:27AM (#40934114)

Oh no not at all. The site just shows a notice that the site is closed. None of the other pages work anymore but the server is clearly still running.

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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by Freak_NL on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @12:35PM (#40928699)

There is a Dutch chain of baby necessities which is owned by a fundamentalist Christian. You wouldn't know except for the infuriating message their websites (there where some mergers and I think this affects two large online shops) on Sunday, all day long, are closed because of the Sabbath. A multi million Euro business which just shuts down all of its websites on Sunday.

The owner can apparently afford it, because I ran into this when we made a baby and was comparison shopping for a stroller. Obviously you move on and go somewhere else. The owner literally misses sales for his beliefs.

Now I don't want people working Sundays shipping stuff people bought, but those websites can do their thing perfectly without anyone lifting a finger until they come into work on Monday to a stack of orders to handle.

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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by burntwater on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @01:51PM (#40929508)

B&H (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/) is somewhat like this. Super popular business, but you can't order online on Saturdays. You can browse the website, just not place an order. Their physical store is also closed on Saturdays, and closes early on Fridays. They also close for days/weeks at a time for Jewish holidays.

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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by knodi123 on Thursday July 11, 2024 @12:43PM (#40938401)

I saw a single-panel comic once of an old man, manacled, alone, in a dank dungeon cell. The caption is "I know not how long I have been in here. The days and years flow together, and my mind is haunted by memories. But I want Chick-Fil-A, so it must be Sunday."

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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by jesprenj on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:55AM (#40928282)

The official government website for accessing information about property ownership information in Slovenia only works during working hours -- mon-fri 8h-20h.

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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by appplication on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @03:25PM (#40930493)

It seems like it would be more work to implement a website that shuts down depending on time of day than just leave it up.

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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by bobbiechen on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @05:24PM (#40931635)

https://bobbiechen.com/blog/2022/7/21/what-if-your-website-h... - but think about the (tiny) infrastructure savings!

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