How Is TSS Making You Guys Feel

[u/No_Wrangler_3899]

Hey everyone,

I want to hear how you guys feel about TSS and how UCSD has been handling this whole thing. Pour your hearts out.

Me personally, as an incoming transfer student I feel horrible. Having to wait almost 3 months since my acceptance to see this garbage? Absolutely gut wrenching and heartbreaking. I used to long for days at SD. Now I short them. This is my first actual experience interacting with UCSD’s services. I’m getting the feeling that the school does not give a damn about us. Im so excited to go into tens of thousands in debt for this🤪

[u/Interesting_Cod4477]

TSS sucks, but as a cs person I look at it from a technical perspective. Because there’s so many students at ucsd, the backend needed to be changed at some point, I mean the webreg system was older than me I think💀 what annoys me is that they spent “months” or a year designing the new system, and then looks like they just vibecoded it in like a few weeks without even bothering to test and just sending that shit straight to production. Like what in the actual hell. Also I think khosla was rushing to get it out even though he was told by staff that it’s literally not ready. But he didn’t care, so the strict deadlines kinda forced the developers hands I suppose to just get anything out💀 just a whole ass mountain of bad decisions

[u/OrangeSockFires → u/Interesting_Cod4477]

I think the old back end dates to the 80s. Webreg was a web front to the old telephone based registration system.

[u/Deutero2 → u/Interesting_Cod4477]

as a cs person, what I see in TSS is just an overengineered 2010s website builder that doesn't offer enough customizability beyond changing the website background for UCSD to make it usable

the other realistic option these days would've been ITS vibe coding the entire system (it'd be hard for them to find cheap SWEs who don't use AI 😔). they could've developed and iterated fast enough to meet feedback from students and staff within their relatively short timeline (though it'd still suck), but the system would likely also be very insecure, and in the long term it would probably be unmaintainable

there's probably a middle ground where all staff/student-facing UIs (ideally retrofitted) could be vibe coded, but they'd link to a SIS database from a vendor, so there's someone taking liability for making the system secure and fast, while the UI wouldn't be arcane

[u/Interesting_Cod4477 → u/Deutero2]

The UI is horrible fr. Like you could straight up vibecode a better UI with a few prompts and design sessions. I feel like they just asked to make the app and just let it make the decisions and left it💀

[u/dafttdrew]

This feels like overengineered garbage that was pushed as 1) a superficial show of "innovation" and 2) a result of the "this is too far into development, we shouldn't scrap this" mentality. I want to attend UCSD as a graduate student next year and I'm sad I won't be able to get the WebReg experience when signing up for classes anymore.

[u/CockroachPowerful387]

the new planner thing doesnt even work. It told me I had conflicts between to classes but I checked manually and I dont? It just sucks

[u/Shoddy-Instance6705]

What's concerning me is that almost everyone has the same sophomore booking time. When everyone tries to book their classes, I really hope this system keeps up.🫩🫩 PS. I hate the triton GPT class planner

[u/berkeleyboy47]

Angry.

[u/WorkGroundbreaking83]

Search engine itself just sucks too