I’ve been a ham since April, 2013. And in that entire time, the FCC web site has been in “transition”. Actually it’s probably been “transitioning” longer than that. So we’re looking at a minimum of nearly two and a half years, probably longer.
While I fully understand the magnitude of the task involved in bringing all the legacy systems together into a new unified website, what I don’t understand is why it took eight days of total downtime for all systems to be switched over to the new site.
At the very least, the FCC could have left the old site up but “frozen”, so you could at least look things up.
OK, so now they’re saying there’s a cabling issue…that is to say, cables weren’t run that they expected to have been run. So ULS and some other things are still down and won’t come up till Thursday, 8AM at the earliest.
Your federal government at work! The company I work for would be out of business if we had a 10-day outage. But the Feds aren’t constrained by the same urgencies that face the private sector.