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Nice to see there are humans here!

- Going from the beta to the prod app erases all of my favorites

- many stations (like Atlantic Ave-Barclays) have to be added two or three times under favorites

- under nearby, each bus location is listed twice (one per direction, cluttering up the list)

- would love to see a view that showed me all trains from the nearest N (three? let me pick) stations, so I could decide which one to walk to — currently have to swipe/tap back and forth between multiple screens (which typically lose state/position)

- in settings, two menu items refer to AAR. I am sure 90% of the users don't know that's "Access-a-Ride"; there's also no way to turn that off for the people who don't use it

- contact us isn't integrated into SalesForce, so you have to re-enter your contact info each time, and there's no way to follow up on tickets from the app

- would be nice to have live chat to customer service (like you can via WhatsApp)

- if you enter text into the search field, then shrink the window height by dragging it to the bottom, you lose your search field contents

Product-wise, you are still structuring this around the physical infrastructure (what's at station XYZ) vs the user need (how do I get to place ABC).

Hopefully you'll bundle TrainTime in soon, as well as add OMNY card management.

It is amazing (but not surprising) that MyMTA (which is ≈6 years old) was "unmaintainble" and had to be thrown out. Can't decide if it was because the city only paid $40K/year and couldn't hire anyone good or because they paid some consultant who is friends with DOITT staff $5MM/year.

I’m hiring a mid-level or senior engineer for Terraso at Tech Matters. Principals only (no agencies/recruiters/job shops).

Tech Matters is a tech nonprofit that builds open source software to help solve social problems.

Title: Software Engineer (or Senior Software Engineer)

Company: Tech Matters

Type: Full Time

Location: Remote (Americas)

Salary: $70-120K (based on location/experience)

Apply via https://jobs.lever.co/TechMatters/e7acca51-8ba8-40ea-8b5e-83...

A while ago, someone wrote a post comparing a private sector job ad to a government job ad, highlighting the bureaucratic language used.

I can't find it.

Does anyone else have that bookmarked?