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Comment by michaelteter | Hacker News Reader

With many online services, if there is something that needs verification (like confirming your email address), every time you use the app you will see a banner at the top reminding you of this need.

Anything that is a countdown to doom should be a persistent banner on the app, reminding you of the importance and maybe even showing how many days left you have to deal with it.

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To be fair, Google cloud does this.

But most people don't log in the Google cloud dashboard every day for fun.

Google is actually uniquely bad at this. The system that displays notify banners for Cloud is a too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen mechanism that requires multiple layers of authorizations, signoff, scrutiny, and binary changes to their UI.

For that reason, it isn't (at least, didn't used to be) blocking to roll a feature out for that pipeline to work, so a lot of things that should be top-banner messages weren't.

Or maybe, make a phone call?

I got a phone call from a domain registrar a few months ago. They let me know one of my domains was expiring and they didn’t have a card on file.

I thanked them, hung up, and have since been slowly moving all my domains over to them.

I really appreciated that phone call.

With cloud orchestration tools it's pretty common to log in to the provider's web console infrequently. A banner is easy to miss, even if it's persistent.

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