i basically never trust ticket apps. i got the deutschlandticket as a smartcard because it actually works and i don’t have to fumble around with some garbage android app, and i almost always have a printed copy for everything else

i hate the antichrist

@mia Fucks sake I hate that new deutsche bahn app... Why the fuck does it need that long to long The Ticket I already downloaded.

@mia two days ago I tried to use the mobile app for shinkansen tickets and it literally did not work at all. I had a valid account that worked on the website and I could not log in at all on the app

@sun if you think that’s bad you should’ve seen denmark

until the end of 2023 they had a system called NemID which was managed by a private company, but a lot of services (banking, government stuff, public transit) were hard or impossible to access without one. you couldn’t easily get one as a tourist or foreign citizen.

which meant that as a tourist without a car you were kinda fucked!

they’ve replaced it with MitID which also works with foreign passports—but only the fancy european ones because the phone app reads the NFC chip in them, and only if you have a newer phone with 3D face scanning

@mia@movsw.0x0.st i use a local authority's app and it often needs to re-login on the first day that i need to open the ticket in a given month 🙃

then again, can you really navigate public transit in Germany without permanently looking at multiple apps to have a chance to know what calamities may befall you?

@aliceif basically all public transit info + route planning is available via HAFAS so at least you shouldn’t need multiple apps…

but yeah. nowadays everything is super unreliable, except for e.g. tram lines in cities

@mia I learned recently that basically all concerts and sporting events in burgerstan are controlled by a single cartel that forces everyone to use the most obnoxiously unpleasant, invasive, and buggy ticket app I've ever seen

Another win for underground shows and obscure bands I guess