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Yes, it is US-centric. You all act like that many commercial websites are just like automatically doing international business. I am not even allowed to do busi
by jsLavaGoat 7mo ago
Yes, it is US-centric. You all act like that many commercial websites are just like automatically doing international business. I am not even allowed to do business out of my state. I don't even need that filled in. You can see my website anywhere, but you can't be my client unless you're in my state. So I don't care.
Any company able to do business in multiple jurisdictions, well, that's just the kind of extra thing they can handle.
For an enormous amount of sites and for an enormous amount of users this is an improvement and the general reaction here is nitpicking and this self-evident charge that it's US-centric. So what. The principle would apply in most places.
In Costa Rica, there are no addresses but there are (now) post codes. You would have to take that into account to do business there. If this doesn't apply to you then it doesn't apply to you.
It's not like the internal US market is small. This solves a problem for a lot of people in a lot of cases.
- aunderscored 7mo agoThe problem is this reduces usability for others. Yes, there are many local to a country sites, but there are also large scale global ones. In both cases, you're not really gaining anything other than some clever autocomplete that could be far more precise if the site offered the correct fields so that whatever autocomplete tooling I use can put the data in for me. The page itself specifically says "and country", however that too doesn't work. Other non us countries may have the same postal codes, or in my case mine is 4 digits, and I had to figure out that "oh, this is us only and it doesn't work at all for me", which was just entirely a waste of time.
- its-summertime 7mo agoFrom the site: "scroll through 200+ countries to find United States" is talking about an international form