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Heeeeeeere's Obamacare!

ravdin said:
Oddly enough, sites like Facebook, Amazon, and Google regularly handle crushing loads. I have yet to hear one of those sites going down and then blaming user traffic.
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Those sites grew their user base slowly, and their capacity at about the same time. It's a totally different situation. Plenty of sites have had user traffic issues, including JREF.
 
thaiboxerken said:
You're claiming no one is succeeding at signing in and using the site?
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I don't see how it's even possible. If anyone is they represent a tiny fraction of those who try.

Have you tried to create an account ken?
 
WildCat said:
I don't see how it's even possible. If anyone is they represent a tiny fraction of those who try.

Have you tried to create an account ken?
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Are you extrapolating on everyone else's experiences based solely on your own? That seems questionable.
 
WildCat said:
I don't see how it's even possible. If anyone is they represent a tiny fraction of those who try.

Have you tried to create an account ken?
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Cover Oregon is the ACA site for me. My gf signed up.

When i started playing WOW, when I could not log on due to traffic, I didn't assume no one else was playing.
 
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Giving it a few days before I try to get my father signed up. It'd be nice to see him be able to get his morphine pump filled without the agonizing gaps in between.
 
elbe said:
Are you extrapolating on everyone else's experiences based solely on your own? That seems questionable.
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It's not just me.
Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for the first time Sunday it needed to fix design and software problems that have kept customers from applying online for coverage.

...The website is troubled by coding problems and flaws in the architecture of the system, according to insurance-industry advisers, technical experts and people close to the development of the marketplace.
Among the technical problems thwarting consumers, according to some of those people, is the system to confirm the identities of enrollees. Troubles in the system are causing crashes as users try to create accounts, the first step before they can apply for coverage.
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It's not just a capacity issue, it's also a software issue.

thaiboxerken said:
Cover Oregon is the ACA site for me. My gf signed up.

When i started playing WOW, when I could not log on due to traffic, I didn't assume no one else was playing.
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Did she use the insurance exchanges, or the state Medicaid expansion? The problem is with the former.
 
WildCat said:
It's crowded outside, but no one can get in.
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If the room is indeed empty, I'm sure there will be evidence of that shortly. But the crowd at the door is not that evidence. It is merely evidence that demand has outstripped supply.
 
WildCat said:
I don't see how it's even possible. If anyone is they represent a tiny fraction of those who try.

Have you tried to create an account ken?
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You don't see how it's possible that anyone signed up? Really?

Argument from incredulity and, perhaps, confirmation bias. My coworker signed up and we poked at it at work the other day. We had criticisms, of course, but we find stuff wrong with every site.

You are being a bit of a drama queen.
 
WildCat said:
It's not just me.

It's not just a capacity issue, it's also a software issue.
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Eh...It might be a load issue that renders like something else; that's not uncommon, but it's hard to tell without knowing the underlying code base. Regardless, it reflects a poorly designed architecture.

Like the other code monkeys in the thread, I'm...severely underwhelmed by the application. However, I can't say that I've ever run across a government web app, be it local, state, or federal, that made me say "boy, that's a well-designed piece of software."
 
Cleon said:
Like the other code monkeys in the thread, I'm...severely underwhelmed by the application. However, I can't say that I've ever run across a government web app, be it local, state, or federal, that made me say "boy, that's a well-designed piece of software."
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Fixed that for 90% of code monkeys, which includes their own stuff if it's more than three months old.

Is it crap? Probably.
Could my friends and I build better? You bet your rear-end!
Will other people call what I wrote crap? Without a doubt.

That's the nature of the ecosystem.
 
WildCat said:
That the web site is currently a disaster and it's nearly impossible to create an account.

Have you tried it?

eta: and after I get the "Your account cannot be created at this time" message it says "Please note that two or more answers to the security questions cannot be the same. You must provide distinct answers to the chosen security questions."

I think this message is because some software error causes the system to think my answers are the same, and they certainly are not. It's 3 different answers to 3 different questions. I really doubt this has anything to do with volume of users.
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In other words. After months of whining and lying about what ACA is and will do, months of needless paranoia about socialist, muslimist communist athiest take over.
All you got left is "the website doesn't work = ACA is evil and doomed to fail" . I guess it's no surprise, since after some 90+ years of success we still have retards falling for the lies about how social security doesn't work. But that's waht a lack of education and religion gets you.
 
elbe said:
You probably should have started with that and left your whole "I can't get in so no else can either" routine at home.
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I had no idea this very basic fact wasn't discussed this deep into the thread. I admit I haven't read it, just the last page.

Apparently I'm the only one here who actually reads the news. That this was a software issue and not just a capacity issue was apparent from the beginning and widely reported.
 
Magyar said:
In other words. After months of whining and lying about what ACA is and will do, months of needless paranoia about socialist, muslimist communist athiest take over.
All you got left is "the website doesn't work = ACA is evil and doomed to fail" . I guess it's no surprise, since after some 90+ years of success we still have retards falling for the lies about how social security doesn't work. But that's waht a lack of education and religion gets you.
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You appear to have me mistaken for someone else.
 
WildCat said:
I had no idea this very basic fact wasn't discussed this deep into the thread. I admit I haven't read it, just the last page.

Apparently I'm the only one here who actually reads the news. That this was a software issue and not just a capacity issue was apparent from the beginning and widely reported.
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Most people in this thread were aware of the issue before the news got hold of the story.

Oh, and there are numerous people in this thread who have already signed up or know people who have signed up (including me).
 
Cleon said:
Eh...It might be a load issue that renders like something else; that's not uncommon, but it's hard to tell without knowing the underlying code base. Regardless, it reflects a poorly designed architecture.

Like the other code monkeys in the thread, I'm...severely underwhelmed by the application. However, I can't say that I've ever run across a government web app, be it local, state, or federal, that made me say "boy, that's a well-designed piece of software."
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Yup, and as feedback from various code-monkeys rolls in, I have no doubt that the system will be improved. In fact, this weekend I peeked in on healthcare.gov, and I saw that they were doing maintenance. Translation: they are fixing/upgrading the system already.
 
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