Originally Posted by njd1

Speaking as someone with many years of experience in the tech industry as a software engineer, there is no "best way" to view this site. The connection abort problem is well known and is but one of many problems with this site. In the creation of .info, C5 did something no airline should ever do -- build their own software. It was no doubt tolerable when the company had a few dozen pilots and a dozen airplanes, but it clearly hasn't evolved and scaled appropriately to meet demand. Recent demand destruction has temporarily alleviated the most egregious performance issues like 20+ second page loads, but as you've noticed the connection abort problem remains.

I've pointed out this site's failings to IT since I came here and they have done absolutely nothing to fix it. From the crappy 1995-era desktop-focused UI that takes a dozen clicks to get any useful information, to the lack of security (no TLS / https) and more recently the performance and connection abort problems, I've just given up trying to convince the company how absolutely critical this site is and how we need to cough up some real money to hire competent people to come in and rebuild and manage the site...or better yet, simply outsource these functions to Flica / CrewLife. As usual, however, this is all about cost and it is presently cheaper for them to leave the site as is and that will be the case until it crashes and burns, and takes our operations with it.