I had a look at my old team’s work to see what progress they have made and to reassure myself I had made the correct decision to leave that project.
Not much has changed in months. All the issues we had haven’t been fixed. There’s errors logged to the console window, there’s loads of buttons that don’t work. There’s a few small features but nothing works properly.
What made me laugh was a button that said “Press F5 to launch”. It’s a website. Pressing F5 isn’t going to launch a dialog; it’s going to refresh the page in the browser.
Maybe there is a way of overriding the browser’s refresh behaviour but that would be very annoying to the user.
What I don’t get is: how someone came up with that requirement in the first place, someone else implemented it and somehow didn’t realise it wasn’t going to work. Although surely they did realise when they wrote some code to do it, then pressed F5 and the page refreshes…but then checked it in anyway.
Honestly, you just can’t get the staff.
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