I wonder if it’s just me… the NS Portal is one of the worst and most badly designed website I have to access frequently. Do you have the same problems I have with this website? Is there any way we can make our opinions heard to effect changes? I have a feeling SAF don’t give a damn because NS is compulsory for Singapore male citizens and we have to keep using the lousy website regardless if it sucks to the core.
The loading time takes very very long for EVERY SINGLE PAGE (regardless if login is required); navigation is horrible with tabs that badly describe what the clicks lead to; the website is not compatible with quite a few internet browsers and is especially problematic if you happen to use a Mac (yes, the SAF still thinks Microsoft and PC rules the world); the list goes on.
Worse still, I remember there was a period when the NS Portal was migrated from their old URL at www.miw.com.sg to www.ns.sg, somehow, the database of reservists personnels like me were seemingly compromised (not sure about NSFs) to an unrelated company, called Green Dot Media who continued to operate the old URL as a “men’s lifestyle portal”. This new MIW is totally unrelated to NS, and continually sent me unwanted junk emails with no options to unsubscribe. It was only when I send an extremely harsh email to them that the spams stop. Can like that anyhow give out our national servicemen’s database one meh????? I didn’t CHOOSE to signed up for the NS Portal lei, I signed up because I HAD TO – out of an obligation to my nation – to book IPPT; check my ICT status, etc.
Do any of you have such similar experience? Or maybe I got my facts wrong? Care to comment? 🙂
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I agree. I only log on to it when I am at work, where I have access to a PC.
My biggest bugbear is that it takes lots of clicks to get where you are supposed to. You click on MyUnit, it takes you to a page that tells you more about the MyUnit section. (Then the link to get to the content is just the word 'here'. As in Click here.)
What else could "MyUnit" be about?
After that, you are presented with some terms & conditions. Totally useless because:
(a) No one reads those terms and conditions of use.
(b) Errr... I need to do my admin stuff. Which is why I logged in. Obviously I have to agree, right?
And for some strange reason, you are presented with these every time you log in.
its normal. in my school TP. they ALSO believe microsoft is the bullcrap leader of the internet.
only IE6,7 works on http://www.tp.edu.sg try it on firefox/oprah you'll be knocked out dead. i wonder what the fuck those tech guys are doing, don't they surf they net themselves?
oh, by the way, IE is the slowest Browser in 2007.
I think I must be considered extremely "Internet un-savvy" in Singapore's govt officials' world of PC and Internet Explorer cos I am a Mac user who surf the web on Mozilla Firefox and Safari....
Designed by some army guy more used to sipping coffee and kenging; what did you expect?
I dislike the site ALOT. And I bet they paid crazy amounts for it.
Anyone know which is the lousy vendor who designed this pathetic-excuse-of-a-portal? The previous MIW portal was done by Green Dot Media which I am going to blacklist already as an untrustworthy vendor.
Heh... it does say PortalCity at the bottom of the page.
That is JSP for you.
What's JSP?
PortalCity is run by NCS. I think NCS was handling the content development for the site? Anyone can confirm? If it really is, then the site is a monumental piece of display, that goes to show you the effects of cost cutting measures AND the absence of an independent and reliable vendor.