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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by hifromwork on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @06:24AM (#40925464)
A national train company where I live in limits the number of transactions (per user) to 1. Where "transaction" is roughly equivalent to a browser tab - the website will aggressively scold you if you try to open another tab and refuse to load!

I think it's realated to the session mess they have in the backend but it's very annoying (especially when buying train tickets and comparing offers, of all things).

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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by NikolaNovak on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @12:25PM (#40928597)
A lot of ERPs try to limit the number of tabs; I don't fully understand the reason - it may be because of the stuff they do in the browser before syncing to the database at submission/commit time, so they want to avoid apparent inconsistency?
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Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time by DANmode on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:41AM (#40934483)
It's because the person sipping champagne with the software vendor isn't checking the performance of features before signing.
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