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benjojo posted 07 Sep 2026 13:35 +0000

I get that every software company just becomes a feature factory and the product gets slower/bloated because of it, but holy hell the stripe dashboard feels like wading through a 2000's Oracle application these days.

Single customer look ups sit there for ~5 seconds contemplating what I can only assume is the horrors of the internal dashboard application

And I'm not a large account by all means, no idea how about it is for the rest of the world

eta@gotosocial.i.eta.. replied 07 Sep 2026 13:45 +0000
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@benjojo ah yes, the Cloudflare Dashboard-ification of everything

arch@floofy.tech replied 07 Sep 2026 13:46 +0000
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@eta @benjojo on the bright side, the slower it gets the more I move into provider-agnostic infrastructure as code/config files!

benjojo replied 07 Sep 2026 14:11 +0000
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@eta Yeah I logged into it recently and had no idea wtf to do, I just wanted to purge some HTTP cache, not start a insane journey into a AWS 2.0 wannabe

jamesog@mastodon.soc.. replied 07 Sep 2026 14:25 +0000
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@benjojo @eta I have complained directly at the PM for the dashboard about just how bad they’ve made it recently. I occasionally provide him evidence of “look how you are ruining my life”

benjojo replied 07 Sep 2026 14:38 +0000
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@jamesog @eta yeah but you and I must remember enough of "the old days" to know that nothing will stop the PMs :)

I'm sure modern day CF is even more KPI hellscape driven

What CF want to be seen as is more important than what the users want, given at this point surely the new customer acquisition is no longer driven by making people happy (IE the free plan being nice)

jamesog@mastodon.soc.. replied 07 Sep 2026 14:44 +0000
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@benjojo Definitely, but as one of their large SaaS customers they do tend to listen to our feedback :-)

I finally got them to add UTC as a dashboard option by getting our TAM to create a feature request

bms@mastodon.bsd.caf.. replied 07 Sep 2026 13:51 +0000
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@benjojo I am pleasantly surprised by the services I have been using recently using other payment processors instead