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xkcd #3175: Website Task Flowchart

Title text:

Tired of waiting on hold? Use our website to chat with one of our live agents, who are available to produce words at you 24/7!

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3175/

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[–] bobo1900@startrek.website 10 points 2 days ago

Let's not forget:

  • useless "help" pages that try and explain the most basic of concepts without giving you any information you are looking for, despite it being in the title
  • pagaes takes 35 seconds and 17.876 lines of JS code to load
  • accept that we share your data with out 237 partners
  • page requires a login →login→login form redirects you to homepage instead of page you were before→navigate to page before→page requires a login
  • page loading itself after a while
  • 8 months old link is broken because they refactored their knowledge base archive without bothering to redirect old links, despite every arricle having a simple code

I in looking at your Microsoft, Intel, Autodesk, HPE, Xilinx...