[bellyfullofbac]

I remember trying to order from a pizza place that talked to a third party delivery site, I hit "Order" and the browser didn't do anything. DevTools told me it tried to talk to the 3rd party using HTTP although the page was in HTTPS, and the browser blocked it (this was years ago when browsers started blocking HTTP content on HTTPS sites). Modifying the submit URL to https solved the problem.

I found it pretty funny that I had to understand web development and troubleshoot the problem just to order pizza...

[savant_penguin]

> Hi, is this pizza abc?

> Yes, can I take your other?

> No, you don't get it, I'd like to file a bug report, but your website clearly has no feature to create issues so, when the field city has the value...

> Sir, I cannot fix the website. If you do not wish to make an order please hang up.

> Uhoh ok, sure, I'd like an anchovies pizza but instead of anchovies I'd like you to make sure that when the field city is set to Boston...

> Sir, I really cannot fix the website

> Couldn't you just make a note and leave it in the front door? So that if other customers have the same problem they can upvote the most common issues and then you can prioritize fixes and get a reasonable budget for each one?

> I obviously can't do that, do you want your anch...

> Of course you can't! That would be reinventing the wheel! Let me point you to the github...

[vmception]

I tried to move non-software related committee meetings to github because I liked the collaborative process

thats pretty funny to me now

[lainga]

Same thing happened to me with Domino's Canada. The call to place the order was returning a well-structured JSON error message (it didn't recognize the city I had entered, which was my suburb rather than my "post town") but the front-end wasn't telling me anything!

[throwawayboise]

This is why I always call to order for takeout or delivery. I'd say that 75% of the time I experience some kind of technical issues with online ordering. Just talk to the human at the store.

[jonpurdy]

I've found that half the time whatever site I'm trying to order with doesn't work, either due to Safari, adblock, or whatever. Sometimes doing it in Chrome helps, but not always. Even if it works, I need to create an account and set up another email aliases for the site (since every site gets it's own alias).

I've learned to just call orders in these days.

[dont__panic]

The killer for me is Indian places that only offer their mildest spiciness when you order online, but ask you for a spiciness level when you order on the phone. Absolutely brutal.

[brnt]

I find calling is not just for take out unreasonably effective.

Somehow (well, we know the reasons) many websites and platforms require you to have a full inner model of its workings if you want to get things done. If you call, more often then not the person calling you does that work for you.

[admax88q]

The value add of Skip/UberEats/GrubHub is more obvious now. At some point it's just nice to have an app that worksz even if you pay a premium for it.

[sunshineforever]

I can't help but think of the article on posted on here about a week ago with the old woman who refused to order milk online after her service canceled phone ordering.

[thih9]

More and more businesses are adding prerecorded responses and menus to their regular line. It’s a matter of time until we completely automate delivery calls too, I guess.

[mjevans]

Then I'll either go there less and just order in person, or not at all.

The whole reason I call is E.G. Round Table Pizza had a perfectly good "Web 1.0" website. Instead of updating some CSS rules to make it render better on mobile they seem to have outsourced to a third party and now everything performs worse and has it's own clunky hell. So instead of using a shit re-design on a website I just call on the phone.

[GordonS]

Similar story with Dominoes UK, where signin doesn't (or didn't a couple of weeks back) work with uBlock.

[anonymousiam]

Reminds me of pizzatool. Today, probably nobody under 40 would have ever used it. https://instructabest.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-story-of-sun-...

[npsimons]

I've gotten a little more paranoid in recent years and started blocking outgoing requests, just as a defense in depth. So I would prevent clients from connecting to anything but 22, 80 and 443 (to start; I added more for things like WebRTC and Amazon Streaming which uses AWS). I found a checkout that was connecting over some random port and wouldn't work until that was unblocked. Fucking annoying and I'm just left wondering how long until they have a security breach through their non-standard proprietary bullshit.

[hoppla]

I tried to order something from an online store, the “place order” button did nothing. The json response was nice enough to tell me to contact their bank responsible for the payment integration. A part of me wonder how things would turn out if I followed their instructions.