this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
577 points (89.9% liked)

Technology

59347 readers
5349 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
577
Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
256 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (30 children)

The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides a comprehensive set of standards which guide those who build the U.S. government’s many websites.

Now I know what to blame for every single US government website being so poorly put together they they barely function, if they function at all.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

every single US government website being so poorly put together

So, just like the rest of the internet? A technology, that popularly speaking, has only been around for 30-years?

And you expect an entity, as huge and diverse as the US government, on federal/state/local levels, to be on the same page?

I can safely make 2 predictions about you:

  • You're young, and that's A-OK. My kids are GenZ, maybe Alpha? They're my last, best hope for this world. But you haven't had the benefit of watching all this evolve. I was writing BASIC on a VIC-20 as a child. 3K RAM!
  • You're not in tech. So again, you haven't had the benefit of trying to make all this shit work. GenXers physically and programmatically built the world you live in, on top of the work of the Boomers. I've hung cable drops and coded, all messy.

This clusterfuck is both expected and natural. Or did your science teacher tell you evolution was orderly? Or perhaps intelligently designed?

And anyone else wanting to complain, I'll remind you, this is how the government vs. the free market works.

Government works by rules that are not broken or bent. And this pisses some people off. Private enterprise works by what works and what doesn't. It's fast and fluid, and not designed to take "the people" in mind. And this pisses some people off.

Some tasks are appropriate for the government, some for the public sector. We're still working this shit out. (website_under_construction.gif)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This thread is filled with people who don't make a connection between shitty government websites and the roads that are filled with pot holes, several train derailments every day, a tax collection agency that doesn't have enough staff to do audits on wealthy people, and schools that ban books that have rainbows in them but teach books by Prager U.

We could have better government websites - but not if we elect "starve the beast" politicians.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (28 replies)