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Improvement idea for the hotel-booking

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VulpesRex:

--- Quote from: Suicune on 25.01.2018, 08:06:37 ---...But I'm not ok with Berlin not getting their ass up to finish that frigging highway and like that keep preventing the hotel from building the Estrel tower to add another ~814 rooms...

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   Oh, I'm quite satisfied that the City of Berlin has the completion of the highway project as one of their top priorities, and will attend to it immediately...

  ...right after they rebuild the new airport.

 ;)

Pur3Bolt:
I'm not too sure if you're familiar with last year's Ladenfurence, but people seemed to agree that it shouldn't happen again and that EF should revert back to the old system - which is what you got again this year in a more user friendly way with the webpage to generate the email for you.
The only way you can win in this war is by having fast fingers. Or wait until a few weeks before EF and hope enough people have last-minute cancellations for you to get a room 😅

LeonTheOriginal:

--- Quote from: Pur3Bolt on 02.02.2018, 17:21:39 ---I'm not too sure if you're familiar with last year's Ladenfurence, but people seemed to agree that it shouldn't happen again and that EF should revert back to the old system

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You also have to differentiate between a bad concept and technical issues. I think, the booking system 2017 wasn't a bad idea, but it seemed that it was just not designed for such a high amount of requests, with the result that it was completely overloaded.

James The Dog:
Yes, I feel last year's system would have been a lot better than this year's had it worked smoothly.

Blue Raptor:

--- Quote from: Suicune on 25.01.2018, 08:06:37 ---This would mostly move the whole "Who is the fastest and has the best luck" from regging for a ticket to regging a hotel room, resulting in a dying page because too many people refreshing/relogining for the appearing link.

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Yes, exactly.
There is no easy, fair, and unstressful solution to more people wanting a room than there are rooms.

I suppose they COULD e.g. let people register and set a their top four or five room / stay time wishes,
then at a predefined deadline roll random list numbers for everyone who registered until then,
(maybe give everyone a few more days to rethink their room desires, possibly even calculating which of your wishes would be left still if everyone in front of you gets served their wishes as best as possible),
and then ask the hotel to serve the requests in order of list number.

(you could e.g. add the number in the standardized email header, then the hotel can just sort by topic at day X and process top-down if the hotel wants mail)

That would take the stress out of it, make it "fair", and give you an idea of your chances by looking at your list number, - but is far from easy, very hard to set up, everyone must fill out a long list of best, second best, third best room wishes, makes the progress take an extra week or so, probably a lot of attendees find it too annoying or get it wrong, or all of their wishes are not possible anymore when it's their time in line and obviously the hotel cannot hold the queue until they heard back from them if they'd like another option still available so they feel it was unfair that they didn't get a room but others with higher number did, and yet others might misunderstand it due to language barriers... - IF it's even possible.

There surely is no easy good way, sadly.

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