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Doesn't their own Île-de-France Mobilités app have reliable information on outages? Surely it's more reliable than their Twitter account?
by smcin 19d ago
Doesn't their own Île-de-France Mobilités app have reliable information on outages? Surely it's more reliable than their Twitter account?
- trhaynes 19d agoFor me a website is much more accessible than a phone app in many situations.
- smcin 19d agoOk but can you answer my question about reliability?
- Implicated 19d agoI don't have a horse in this race but I would question the idea that a municipal service has a better reliability record than x/twitter.
- smcin 19d agoBut who is publishing the outage information to X/Twitter if not the utility itself? I'd be surprised if they do that more timely and reliably on a third-party platform than their own app. That's not the case for any European or US transit authorities I know. Can any other user of public transport in Paris comment?
- philipallstar 19d agoThe information may be as reliable, but: 1. the service may not be - every small provider has downtime, perhaps proportionally to their size. 2. the tools to update Twitter are well understood, and you can get software that does scheduling of posts across multiple platforms, previews of what posts will look like, etc etc, and said preview works well on the many platforms that people are already using. People doing the updating may prefer to use those tools over what the internal tool gives them.
- progval 19d agoIt's the one I use the most, but in my experience it's lagging behind the Twitter accounts. It's also noisy because it puts last-minute outages at the same level as minor month-long schedule change (which can't be dismissed), so some lines (eg. line R) are almost always displayed as having issues.
- smcin 19d agoOk thanks for the explanation.
- Oxodao 19d agoThis app is just garbage. Can't even use it if you are rooted.