Zullen we de servers upgraden? Nee, maak gewoon een wachtrij, dan voelen de mensen zich weer zoals vroeger aan de loketten…

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1. Hope this time it’s not just some javascript queue thing you can disable in your browser.

2. I think something might have gone wrong with the site sending mails making a lot of people log in to check it. I got a mail that there is a new message and when I could finally open my e-box, it just says that I got an ‘aangetekend schrijven’ but there is not a single document in my e-box anymore.

   EDIT: I can now see my old documents again but no new document to be seen. Maybe they fucked something up during the update that they announced for today.

3. Upgrading servers is expensive though. Especially if you only need peak capacity for an hour a week.

   It would probably be better without that bullshit SMALS intermediary leeching.

4. If you’re in the wachtrij on e-box you’re probably not in a hurry, if it was important, you would have heard otherwise !
   But I jest..

5. I’m getting flashbacks of “standing” in line to purchase concert tickets…..

6. Is there a deadline for something causing such congestion?

7. Got a cliënt today who asked me about this. Turns out it’s from clicking a link on a scam email. Pay close attention to the domain name. If it’s:

   * extension: bosa.fgov.be
   * mycitizenebox.be instead of myebox.be

   you should probably remove it and run an antivirus check.

   You can say alot about the Belgian government but their online applications are often decent quality. An online queue is a red flag. (yeah, i know about the vaccination website queue. just double check)

   edit: check [this](https://www.belgium.be/nl/nieuws/2021/my_e_box_nieuwe_phishing_e_mails_omloop)

   edit2: as mentioned below, there’s quite abit of confusion. Please take this post and any email with the appropriate skepticism and prudence.

8. geeezzzzzz

9. I blame horribly inefficient code. Too many unnecessary abstractions, poor concurrency design, general laziness.

10. Well guess who got his government bill, had to ask for 10 months and insanely fast made online with FUD Financen

11. No queue om http://www.burgerprofiel.be to view my ebox messages. But that apparantly does run in the cloud with autoscaling

12. “als u de rij verlaat, verliest u uw plaats” en “x wachtende voor u”

    **w o w overheid, w o w. flashbacks.**

13. It’s only temporary according to https://myebox.be/nl/news/25-01-2022-perturbation

14. Laat mij raden, built by Smals?

15. the advanced queueing software probably cost a fortune. It’s part of the government metaverse now.

16. And don’t forget! When you log into this thing everything about taxes and general government-“bills” don’t come through the mail anymore but trough your inbox!

17. What the actual fuck…

18. As someone who hasn’t been in Belgium for a while, what’s the ebox for?

19. r/laststagecapitalism

20. Peak Belgium: Inloggen op eBox, populairder dan tickets voor tomorrowland kopen.