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Guess they weren't ready for the massive amounts of requests coming from a world record market correction / recession. That, or they released a bunch of new fea

Guess they weren't ready for the massive amounts of requests coming from a world record market correction / recession. That, or they released a bunch of new features over the weekend. Why we are building highly sensitive monetary performance based applications under the guise of agile and electron is beyond me. The app market needs a market correction in design. IEEE, military, aerospace, or aviation design standardizing comes to mind.

SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
If Robinhood wants to target their app towards people who want a fluid interface and neat graphs, compromising on the always-up needs of day traders, I don't see why that's wrong.
- EpicEng 7y ago
  It's a trading app that is... down for an entire day of trading. That seems like the wrong sort of compromise to make. The number one priority of anyone who is actively trading is... to be able to trade. Not even mentioning the other hilarious bugs this company has let out into the wild. They don't seem to have a good grasp on what they're doing, and now many other, more mature brokerages offer zero fee trades. Their time is coming.
pjc50 7y ago
> Why we are building highly sensitive monetary performance based applications under the guise of agile and electron is beyond me. It's cheaper. This is not complicated. The entire society is orientated to getting the most for least. Excessive effort in quality is a waste. Besides, the "serious" people hardly fared better. The notorious TSB failure, for example: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tsb-it-failure-cost-compensation-customers-switch-current-account-a8757821.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tsb-it-fail...
- EpicEng 7y ago
  These guys just took $323 million in a series E. They're valued at 7.6B (well, they were...) Can't afford better engineers?
  - yebyen 7y ago
    If they are down for one full day out of every 365, that's still a potential ceiling of 99.726% uptime for the year. My home internet was down 14% of the afternoon on Sunday this week, and on through the evening. On a month-to-month basis, I can't even seem to crack 99% reliability. (Geez, I should really call them on it, or perhaps get a new modem...) Point is, how high is Comcast's valuation again exactly?
    - rurp 7y ago
      ISP are pretty much the poster children for the corruption and incompetence that comes from well entrenched oligopolies. Industries with healthy competition, such as retail investing, generally have much higher standards. Comparing RH to Comcast is not a good look for RH.
    - EpicEng 7y ago
      Ah yes, ISP's; the most beloved of corporate entities, and not in any way aided by regional duopolies. RH isn't an ISP, and being down for an entire day of trading is a big deal. If I don't like my ISP... welp, I'm pretty much screwed. If I don't like RH I have plenty of options.
    - wasdfff 7y ago
      Your internet goes down, you can’t watch netflix. Boo hoo. Your brokerage goes down, you can’t exit your positions, and, well, just look at the hundreds of thousands of dollars lost on reddit today. People were using their student loan money in their brokerage accounts. It really is a disaster.
      - sombremesa 7y ago
        Not to mention TSB didn't just go down, it let people access other people's accounts!

SpicyLemonZest 7y ago

If Robinhood wants to target their app towards people who want a fluid interface and neat graphs, compromising on the always-up needs of day traders, I don't see why that's wrong.

EpicEng 7y ago
It's a trading app that is... down for an entire day of trading. That seems like the wrong sort of compromise to make. The number one priority of anyone who is actively trading is... to be able to trade. Not even mentioning the other hilarious bugs this company has let out into the wild. They don't seem to have a good grasp on what they're doing, and now many other, more mature brokerages offer zero fee trades. Their time is coming.

pjc50 7y ago

> Why we are building highly sensitive monetary performance based applications under the guise of agile and electron is beyond me. It's cheaper. This is not complicated. The entire society is orientated to getting the most for least. Excessive effort in quality is a waste. Besides, the "serious" people hardly fared better. The notorious TSB failure, for example: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tsb-it-failure-cost-compensation-customers-switch-current-account-a8757821.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tsb-it-fail...

EpicEng 7y ago
These guys just took $323 million in a series E. They're valued at 7.6B (well, they were...) Can't afford better engineers?
- yebyen 7y ago
  If they are down for one full day out of every 365, that's still a potential ceiling of 99.726% uptime for the year. My home internet was down 14% of the afternoon on Sunday this week, and on through the evening. On a month-to-month basis, I can't even seem to crack 99% reliability. (Geez, I should really call them on it, or perhaps get a new modem...) Point is, how high is Comcast's valuation again exactly?
  - rurp 7y ago
    ISP are pretty much the poster children for the corruption and incompetence that comes from well entrenched oligopolies. Industries with healthy competition, such as retail investing, generally have much higher standards. Comparing RH to Comcast is not a good look for RH.
  - EpicEng 7y ago
    Ah yes, ISP's; the most beloved of corporate entities, and not in any way aided by regional duopolies. RH isn't an ISP, and being down for an entire day of trading is a big deal. If I don't like my ISP... welp, I'm pretty much screwed. If I don't like RH I have plenty of options.
  - wasdfff 7y ago
    Your internet goes down, you can’t watch netflix. Boo hoo. Your brokerage goes down, you can’t exit your positions, and, well, just look at the hundreds of thousands of dollars lost on reddit today. People were using their student loan money in their brokerage accounts. It really is a disaster.
    - sombremesa 7y ago
      Not to mention TSB didn't just go down, it let people access other people's accounts!