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Its so much sillier. The new card is split into two kinds, a version that just makes you pay with your card the total sum at the end of the day or an “anonymous” version that works EXACTLY LIKE THE OLD ONE.
Now the differences are that you need to check out at every stop, it won’t show you the price of anything and there will only be one scanner instead of a check in and a check out scanner.
This solution was implemented to head off criticism of the removal of the old system. So they made the old system but more convoluted.
Edit: I used a term I should not have. I apologise.
What a joke. They could have just made the app and continued with the old system at the same time. Like… what was wrong with it?
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Supposedly the new system was developed in cooperation with some disability rights orgs and the DaneAge association because checking out more and not having to “fill up” the card is better for people with bad memories or something. I don’t know if that’s true. I feel like given that there was already a system where you could automatically fill it up each month, you could easily build whatever payment system they felt was more suited on top of the old one.
But they wanted to get rid of the old system, didn’t want to make anyone mad, so now we have the old system 2.0
there’s tech debt reasons not to do that, like maybe APIs aren’t available or complete enough, but they could also just be getting swindled or bribed by somebody. ought to be journalists looking into it