Vega Discover, a product related to a company called Clarivate, has got to be the world's worst and most unstable library catalog software.
The layout and design is graphics intensive, consumes enormous amounts of bandwidth, and must require an awful lot of processing on the backend. This makes the thing pig slow in operation.
However, it is the instability of the system that is the real annoyance. Vega Discover forgets your identity and login information with startling regularity. In the middle of a search, everything disappears since Vega Discover has forgotten who you are. Signing on to Vega Discover is also problematic. Maybe it will sign on for you, but probably it won't. Most of the time I have to sign on at least six times before I get a stable connection. I have just given up at my local library, having tried to sign on for two dozen successive attempts in a row, none of which was remotely successful.
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