A straw poll for people who look after websites...

[lostcarpark]

Lots of poeple look after different types of websites, whether it's a personal site hosted on something like MySpace, right up to a a corporate e-commerce site clustered across hundreds of servers.

If you find, or have ever found yourself in such a position, I'd like to know what's the one thing about the experience that ticks/ticked you off the most. Could you post a tiny bit about the site in question (no need to identify it unless you want to), your role, how the site is/was maintained, and either the thing that you found really annoying, or something you thought that would have made your life a lot easier.

This sort of ties into something I'm working on. I'm not promising I'll be able to make your life easier, but I'm not saying I won't...

Comments

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I always prefer to be the person who looks after the infrastructure, rather than the content, and I've not often had irritations in that role.

However, when I've been looking after content (which I do sometimes), the most annonying thing has always been people who have wanted some content changed, but have not been able to pin down what they want it changed to.


The things I've found annoying as a user are another matter.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

I don't think I specifically said content, though I may have implied it. Feel free to include what bugs you about infrastructure too.