Originally Posted by
flymetokix
Evolve - give me a break. The lack of evolution is precisely the reason every serious FTer on the UA forum has a spreadsheet. United.bomb was created by unintelligent design and has has turned into a summer camp project from there. You clearly have never tried to keep track of your miles on United.
I may only be semi-serious, or not serious at all, but I've never felt a need to use a spreadsheet for this. I just look at ual.com and see that my flights posted and I'm relatively certain that they have in just about every case. I've had a few reroute/rebooking situations where I had to call to get original mileage credit (e.g., rebooked via FRA to SIN on UA and SQ rather than the original all-UA routing via NRT), but in terms of actually calculating if I'm gettting the 50% eqm bonus every time, etc, I just don't have the time or inclination to worry about it.
My flying is tapering off somewhat this year so 1K may require a MR or two, but I don't intend to cut it down to the exact mile in any case.
I would suggest that assuming a table intended for humans to read on a web site will keep the same data consistency as, say, an API, is just asking for trouble if you are trying to maintain a system to import that 'data'. Call it 'unintelligent design' if you wish but I assume the designers did NOT consider a use case wherein people were scraping the site for data. Why should they?
All that said, I like the new design and I think it is a step up from the prior one.
-C