Event entry - Page 2

Dan Fletcher · 02-28-2021, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Roy Kinslow

If you were one of the millions of people who was trying to file for unemployment or perhaps someone who was trying to register for the vaccine or was having trouble ordering groceries for your family online and didn't understand computers I could have sympathy for you. Trying to register for a NHRA drag race in Florida............remember you don't have to do it if it's too much trouble.

He didn't say it was world ending, we all know there are bigger problems in the world. He simply asked if a decent, dare I say smarter, IT program couldn't be put in place that made things far more simple and user friendly. God John, you're such an uncaring soul, people are dying you know...

KRatcliff · 02-28-2021, 10:03 AM

The NHRA is one of the few organizations that will make you look back on this version and say that was much better than their new version. I can’t say I have ever seen an organization that can so consistently take a poorly functioning system and find a way to make it worse.

James Perrone · 02-28-2021, 10:16 AM

Take CASh at the gate. WTF is so hard.
I buy grocery. Gas. Clothes..... with US tender CASH
You ain’t getting COVID by taking my #&$%+ CASH
But it does save the penny pinching NHRA $$$
And they keep your entry if you don’t make the race
Sort of like contingency $$$$$. Cash cow.

MikeMoller · 02-28-2021, 12:00 PM

I was in the IT business for 25 years, mostly as a programmer analyst. There are good and bad software outfits out there, and you get what you pay for. I'm sure NHRA is on the cheap as usual.

Tom Goldman · 02-28-2021, 01:00 PM

There is no question ,NHRA must ALWAYS go with the cheapest vender when it comes to website programs and management .
Time and again they experience rollout problems and crash/overload issues.
The time limits on completion and the utter nonsense of the redundancy of some information is ridiculous.
There is absolutely no reason that the National event tech card information that nearly all of us have on file and other data stored on the NHRA server can't be easily transferred to the Divisional race entries ,add your payment info an be finished in minuets .

02-28-2021, 10:03 AM	#2
KRatcliff Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 765 Likes: 75 Liked 524 Times in 141 Posts	Re: Event entry The NHRA is one of the few organizations that will make you look back on this version and say that was much better than their new version. I can’t say I have ever seen an organization that can so consistently take a poorly functioning system and find a way to make it worse.

02-28-2021, 10:16 AM	#3
James Perrone VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: LONG ISLAND N.Y. Posts: 1,672 Likes: 3,359 Liked 1,804 Times in 422 Posts	Re: Event entry Take CASh at the gate. WTF is so hard. I buy grocery. Gas. Clothes..... with US tender CASH You ain’t getting COVID by taking my #&$%+ CASH But it does save the penny pinching NHRA $$$ And they keep your entry if you don’t make the race Sort of like contingency $$$$$. Cash cow. __________________ james perrone 1290 STK

02-28-2021, 12:00 PM	#4
MikeMoller Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Raleigh NC Posts: 637 Likes: 27 Liked 254 Times in 78 Posts	Re: Event entry I was in the IT business for 25 years, mostly as a programmer analyst. There are good and bad software outfits out there, and you get what you pay for. I'm sure NHRA is on the cheap as usual. __________________ Mike Moller NHRA 203 Q-R-T/SA

02-28-2021, 01:00 PM	#5
Tom Goldman VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Allentown,PA Posts: 2,474 Likes: 885 Liked 859 Times in 234 Posts	Re: Event entry There is no question ,NHRA must ALWAYS go with the cheapest vender when it comes to website programs and management . Time and again they experience rollout problems and crash/overload issues. The time limits on completion and the utter nonsense of the redundancy of some information is ridiculous. There is absolutely no reason that the National event tech card information that nearly all of us have on file and other data stored on the NHRA server can't be easily transferred to the Divisional race entries ,add your payment info an be finished in minuets . __________________ Tom Goldman 1500 SG , 1506 STK