Recreation.Gov
Who are the morons that just flat out ruined a good reservation site?
The maps look like something a child drew...
The maps look like something a child drew...
Forum Discussion
pnichols wrote:
Matt_Colie wrote:
jplante4 wrote:
Also, the new site does not support the Opera browser.
Well,
I guess that leaves me out.
Firefox now has features I will not allow.
Chrome is unreliable on this system.
I haven't had anything Microsoft since my Office 98 disaster that they caused.
So, I guess we are stuck with private and Walmart. (Actually, we prefer Cabela's and BassPro.)
Matt
....Or you can use the old way of calling the ranger office closest-to/at the park/area you want to go to. I often do this and they'll check openings and make reservations for you right over the phone. Sometimes the Internet is not all it's cracked up to be.gkainz wrote:
tdiller wrote:
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Its amazing what people did in the early days with only 64MB of memory.
64MB? The computer I had in the Navy E-2 Hawkeye that covered over 300 miles of airspace and tracked hundreds of contacts did all this with 64K of memory.
When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory. — William Gates, chairman of MicrosoftMatt_Colie wrote:
jplante4 wrote:
Also, the new site does not support the Opera browser.
Well,
I guess that leaves me out.
Firefox now has features I will not allow.
Chrome is unreliable on this system.
I haven't had anything Microsoft since my Office 98 disaster that they caused.
So, I guess we are stuck with private and Walmart. (Actually, we prefer Cabela's and BassPro.)
Matt
....Or you can use the old way of calling the ranger office closest-to/at the park/area you want to go to. I often do this and they'll check openings and make reservations for you right over the phone. Sometimes the Internet is not all it's cracked up to be.tdiller wrote:
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Its amazing what people did in the early days with only 64MB of memory.
64MB? The computer I had in the Navy E-2 Hawkeye that covered over 300 miles of airspace and tracked hundreds of contacts did all this with 64K of memory.- Standards please. Many browsers implement things differently. If everyone who built a website and every company that built a browser would all follow one standard it would all work. But the internet being what it is by the time a method becomes a standard it is long past. HTML was one of the first then came others like xml and java and and ... Each browser group implements these things differently in an effort to have a better/faster browser. Sometimes they get it right sometimes they don't. Then you have website developers who create crappy code. Not saying all developers are bad but with cheap memory and disk developers have gotten sloppy. Java's biggest issue is developers who don't correctly use the garbage collection feature because they expect all kinds of memory space. I can't tell you how many times I have had to troubleshoot java heap errors with memory that all boil down to this. Its amazing what people did in the early days with only 64MB of memory.
gkainz wrote:
I agree the new website is horrible. I've been in IT since before IT was called IT. I would bet with a high degree of confidence that the website development was off-shored.
My old account information could not be verified after the new deployment - even though it recognized my old username. It insisted that my driver's license number could not validate the account, but was happy enough to use my passport information. Suspicion level ramped up another level on personal information harvesting from yet another intrusive source.
i apologize for misinformation in my above post. The issue I described was with ReserveAmerica.com, not recreation.gov. I was wrong.
I just checked my recreation.gov account, and, while yes, they did make me generate a new password, my account and information was intact. There was no additional confirmation of identity with drivers license number or passport number as there was with ReserveAmerica.com.
My apology for the inaccurate memory and information, and undeserved criticism.jplante4 wrote:
Also, the new site does not support the Opera browser.
Well,
I guess that leaves me out.
Firefox now has features I will not allow.
Chrome is unreliable on this system.
I haven't had anything Microsoft since my Office 98 disaster that they caused.
So, I guess we are stuck with private and Walmart. (Actually, we prefer Cabela's and BassPro.)
Matt- Also, the new site does not support the Opera browser.
- With all of the dissatisfied users, of which I am one, out there, has anyone found a page, link or contact where we can voice our displeasure? And maybe put some pressure on the powers responsible to get this mess rectified.
I know I'd appreciate the info of someone to complain to, and/or at least make them/him/her aware of this terrible "improvement" and/or cost saving measure that doesn't work. - I experienced another no drama use of the site yesterday. Apparently it is still confounding folks with skills far beyond mine. I will say that I am no fan of "contracting out" by government agencies, just another way the taxpayers are being fleeced. Unfortunately the agencies themselves rarely have a choice.
