I'm Indonesian and really feel suck about our government apps. Seriously, I think they hire a bunch of undergraduate student to make most of their apps. Anyone who feel the same about your government?

Yeah they use shit tech to make the job joyless

Governments do nothing well except taxes and whatever expands their powers.

Try finding one more.

@Root collecting tax expands the power of a government, so you only need to mention that a government is only good at expanding their power. But that's not intrinsically a bad property.

In a functioning democracy, a government stays in power only if it represents the general public. Thus, to expand its peer, a government must represent the people. The caveat is that this is not true if the democracy doesn't function.

All US gov websites were built using a browser's address bar as a text editor. Prove me wrong.

@electrineer Does the US government represent its people? Chinese? Taiwan? Venezuela? North Korean? Afghani? Swedish?

Many of these were democratic. Some still claim to be.

@Root it varies

I once worked for an Indonesian software house back when I was still undergraduate student and yeah we used slow servers, old version of a programming language, tight deadline, and low income.

the problem with government application that they created not because they want to solve a problem, but to have a reason to get money out of it.

A fellow Indonesian here. Yes they probably paid some students for very low price. That why their web apps suck.

@BimaAdi And their users have no choice but to use the apps. There’s no competition, so there’s no quality.