[noneeeed]

The three things that annoy me the most about the console:

1) state management/sync is frequently terrible. E.g you are looking at a page with some health indicator and a log view. The last entry in the log is some variation of "transitioned from busted to not busted", but the state indicator doesn't update until you refresh.

2) if you have multiple tabs open at a time (pretty common use case) there is a good chance it will suddenly decide that you have to reload the page for some reason, often when you are in the middle of something

3) live updating. Why the hell do I have to sit there hitting refresh on so many of the views to get up to date data? I've often sat there waiting for something to finish, only to realise it's been done for a while but the page has not updated. This seems closely related to (1).

I find the overall design of the console fine, generally the UI is manageable, but the actual implementation is a steaming pile.

[mdaniel]

> 2) if you have multiple tabs open at a time (pretty common use case) there is a good chance it will suddenly decide that you have to reload the page for some reason, often when you are in the middle of something

I so strongly agree with that observation, and have repeatedly and often submitted feedback through their in-page feedback mechanism about please, I'm begging you, never involuntarily reload my page. That's why @adreamingsoul (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20903229) saying "send us complaints, we read your feedback" is like spitting into the wind for me

I thought your "multiple tabs" was also going to mention that they have _exactly the same browser title_, no matter what subsection you have open. So, if one EC2 tab is looking at volumes, and another at instances, and another at autoscaling groups, well, too bad for you because you're just going to have to click on them all or have a good memory/tab-management scheme

I kind of figure the console doesn't get any engineering love because of what other people in here have said: they want you to use the APIs

[noneeeed]

It can be incredibly annoying when doing something like updating a cloudformation stack. I might open RDS in another tab to grab a snapshot ID or EC2 to check a sec group, and when I switch back to my half updated CF parameters the damn page forces a reload and loses the setting I've entered.

I can't work out what it is they are doing that nesessitates these reloads