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Oh, friend, you have not known UI pain until you've used portal.azure.com. That piece of junk requires actual page reloads to make any changes show up. That Refresh button is just like the close-door elevator button: it's there for you to blow off steam, but it for damn sure does not DO anything. I have boundless screenshots showing when their own UI actually pops up a dialog saying "ok, I did what you asked but it's not going to show up in the console for 10 minutes so check back later". If you forget to always reload the page, and accidentally click on something that it says exists but doesn't, you get the world's ugliest error message and only by squinting at it do you realize it's just the 404 page rendered as if the world has fallen over

I suspect the team that manages it was OKR-ed into using AJAX but come from a classic ASP background, so don't understand what all this "single page app" fad is all about and hope it blows over one day




Aws refactored their console to use modern wen spa and it is TERRIBLE.

It amazes me a company that makes that much money has such a crappy client.


Yeah this amazes me as well - the AWS web interface does work, but it's pretty low quality.

You'd think a company with 1.5m employees could find half a dozen decent front end developers, but apparently not


I do use azure a bit so I know what you mean. Googles ui is significantly more buggy in Firefox which I use. On chrome/edge it’s a bit better.




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