Living with shitty apps and web pages #44593

This is a lament from the beginning of 2024 but it still applied in 2025 and will probably still apply in 2026.

It’s the start of a new year, so it’s time to download the yearly salary certificate.

I checked out the web site.

EnshittificationThe generated-documents folder is empty. Reload. Nothing. Switch to a different folder. Switch back. Now there are two folders, one for 2023 and one for 2024.

The documents are all called the same thing. If you download the document out of the app, it gets a nonsensical name.

The search doesn’t find more than two copies of the document with that name, instead of matching all 14 of them. How do you get to the other same-named documents?

When I close the web page, it asks me to save changes. What changes? I browsed documents. What changes?

I checked out the app.

The app purports to support FaceID, but it doesn’t work ….

I had forgotten my password, so I reset it with the web site. Now the app doesn’t work anymore. The login asks for a username and password, but also a database URL, so I can’t use that.

I log back in to the web site and look around. There are a bunch of icons all the way at the top left. None of them has anything promising. Along the top are more controls … nothing. All by itself, at the bottom-left is a sphere on top of an inverted hemisphere, which is probably a user. Click. Menu of options. “App-Registrierung”. That’s it. QR Code.

QR Code? What is that? Does it tell me where to look for a QR Code? Of course not.

There’s no search in the app. I can’t find the QR code.

So I download the documents one by one from the web site.

Once I had the documents downloaded, I renamed a bunch of them based on their contents and moved them.

Now iCloud won’t sync them back so that I can get to them from my other machine.

I’m out. No more for today.