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Doesn't surprise me. I posted some questions on their self-congratulatory blog post on why they were using tax payers money to write their own front end proxy i
by cssmoo 12y ago
Doesn't surprise me. I posted some questions on their self-congratulatory blog post on why they were using tax payers money to write their own front end proxy in golang rather than use nginx/apache.
My post was simply deleted. Obviously don't like public criticism.
The whole thing is an NIH stack of crap from a tech POV. Not only that they've broken the self assessment stuff terribly. It's now a mishmash of two sites that barely work together. I had to dig out a load of tax code notifications recently and it was painful.
Posted as a throwaway account as I've brought this up here before and I was buried.
Edit: This was their third attempt at a front end proxy solution. Even riverbed/f5 appliances are better value by the time you hit your third attempt.
- izolate 12y agoNIH syndrome runs deep in GDS. They commissioned their own typeface [1] with tax payer's funds and then refused to make it available to the public. [1] https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2012/07/05/a-few-notes-on-typography/ https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2012/07/05/a-few-notes-on-typography...
- cssmoo 12y agoExactly. Watch the downvotes you get for being critical of GDS as well...
- davidgerard 12y agoMine was for posting something factually false in an inflammatory manner, but YMMV.
- adrianhoward 12y ago"NIH syndrome runs deep in GDS. They commissioned their own typeface [1] with tax payer's funds and then refused to make it available to the public." Erm. Not true. GDS did not commission Transport or New Transport. Transport is a font from the 50s. New Transport is a refined digital version of that from Calvert and Kubel. GDS didn't commission it or cause it to be created in any way. They were just the first web site to use it.
- izolate 12y agoI think they edited the article. I'm pretty sure it was previously worded to imply they funded the created of New Transport (digital variant). It would be nice to get a clear answer on this.
- MistahKoala 12y ago> then refused to make it available to the public. Why would they make somebody else's licensed work freely-available?
- RobertKerans 12y agoThe thing you've referenced there completely contradicts what you've written.
- hackerboos 12y agoI remember the none stop adoption of new tech-stacks that occurred every other month on the Gov.uk project. It certainly sounded like an interesting place to work, despite the chaos.