Yes, I mean what I said about the LPS website
Note: This was all done at night, so no users should have been impacted by the website going down. Though, normal users could easily kill the site anyways.
That website is so terrible that I completely killed it. Accidentally. I was downloading PDFs at a slow speed, maybe one document per minute. After about 10 minutes, the downloads froze. I thought maybe I was blocked. I went to my VPNs, annnnnnnd nothing. Everything timed out. I asked some friends if it was down for them. Nobody could access it. I checked back every few minutes to see if it fixed itself, and eventually the website loaded. To a bunch of errors. Great.
Later in the night the site went back up. I kept downloading at the same pace, and I got maybe two hours of the site holding itself together? Anyways, it broke again. Two times in a single night. Just normal slow downloading...
I should make it clear that one document downloaded every minute is insanely slow. Like super crazy mega slow. There is no abuse or DoSing here. Real people might click on a page a minute when searching for something. Every website ever created should be able to handle this. In fact, let's make a comparison. The search system for this archive is running off of a $30 laptop in my closet. I've had bots send one million requests in a few hours, and my laptop was doing just fine. Again, $30 laptop. In a closet. Managed by an unemployed 19 year old. Do you see the problem here? I had to give up on being "nice" to the website past this point. If it will break no matter what I do, I may as well try to get as much as I can, and do it as fast as possible.
If I'm being completely honest, I'm not even sure if this is the right website to be using. They have a specific website dedicated to the LPSB. It's even called "londonpoliceserviceboard.com". But the meetings there only go to 2024, so that's not very helpful. The main police website links to the LPSB website, and also links to the "calendar" website I keep breaking.
The calendar website itself has two separate calendar tools. The first and main page calendar is clunky and doesn't like showing any meetings. The second calendar is all right and shows the meetings, but it isn't linked to from the main page, and it improperly detects whether or not there is an agenda/minutes, leading to document links being hidden. I was going to write more about bugs in the searches, but I broke the site again for a third time. Enough said.
Your choices are really just A) limited history of meetings, or B) horrible broken confusing mess, but a complete history. I think maybe the police need to stop trying to buy military vehicles, and instead use the disgusting amount of cash they get from the city to improve their websites. But who'd want to do that. SEND ANOTHER $672 MILLION TO THE LPC 🤑🤑🤑🤑
