New Hungarian Government OMGs All Gov Sites

An anonymous reader writes "The new Hungarian government chose to replace the home pages with a 'disclaimer' page on several governmental websites such as ministries or the Foreign Office. The title and the main message is 'OMG,' which is followed by an explanation that the inherited websites 'lack any kind of uniform structure' and this is 'unworthy of Hungary.' Today is the takeover day in most ministries for the new administration."

Comments

Better OMG than OGC

[rwa2]

From the inadvertently bad logo competition some time ago.

OGC

(Turn your head sideways to the left if you don't see the little wanker)

Re:Oh My Hovercraft

[Hognoxious]

A pointer to a reference to a window handle?

Re:Oh My Hovercraft

[Chrisq]

The page makes it clear that the English usage applies by linking to the Wikipedia OMG disambiguation page

Re:Use mod_rewrite

[dingen]

I see the skills are quickly fading away, as even creating a basic link in HTML is now quite a challenge for some people.

Re:Isn't April Fools over already?

[Charles Dodgeson]

I mean like 2 months ago?!

Yeah, but today is the day that the new government (elected in April) run by Fidesz takes over control of government ministries from the old MSzP-SzDSz coalition. So it will be interesting to see whether they actually quickly get useful information on to those sites or whether this is just an attempt to limit access to embarrassing data (Fidesz is more than a bit nationalistic). I suspect that this is an honest attempt to transition to presenting information more clearly, but I wouldn't be too surprised if I were wrong.

Re:Talk about a stupid pissing contest

[SharpFang]

Are you a hungarian?
Can you authoritatively say the old sites did work?

Outdated information with no hint that it is outdated is worse than none at all.
Sinkhole email address, where letters from people are never read, placed next to a snailmail address is worse than no email at all, just snailmail.
Information, from which most -just- got out of date (because it's about the government, and the government just changed) needs to be changed ASAP. If there are no uniform procedures what and where needs to be changed, it's better to disable anything that is suspected of being out of date than allow the old (mis)information stay online.
If a website is in violation of laws - say, data retention laws, it should not be left to perpetrate the violation until corrective mechanisms are in place.

Sometimes no news is good news...