I went to sign up my kid for the local school's stupid SaaS product that, according to the school, has the main feature of adding a 2.9% transaction fee to all trips and other assorted school fees.
First, they tell me my password is too weak because it's over 20 characters
Second, school-day.com/en/terms-of-use
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Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊
in reply to silverwizard • • •poorly programmed with terrible security and management.
I wouldn't want my data in that.
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in reply to Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊 • •@Chadee the Dream Witch 🌕 🌊 It's only supposed to handle data for my child's schooling and payments.
Ya know - nothing important?
Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊
in reply to silverwizard • • •Yeah I've seen so many of these micro service companies.
They see the big money schools get and want a share, and they find a way to save administration time, they just do it very poorly.
I think it's more of a problem that school administrators and staff don't want to do the same work they've always done for their pay which is fair, but this isn't the way.
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in reply to Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊 • •Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊
in reply to silverwizard • • •Just ask the school if you can do things the old way because that website doesn't look safe.
Maybe if they get enough people doing that they'll cancel their contract.
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in reply to silverwizard • •Kicou
in reply to silverwizard • • •you'll love it when your kids receive a Chromebook and do everything in Google Classroom
(oh, and the phone app wants admin rights on your device)
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Unknown parent • •silverwizard
in reply to silverwizard • •TIL school-day.com/en/terms-of-use works fine
Defaulting to https was our mistake
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Unknown parent • •@Kicou my main problem is that my browsers all replace http with https for me and then don't let me go back without real effort
Also the https version exists, just is a 404