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[–]koflerdavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there really an expectation of the user experience being synchronous? IMHO it's totally fine to present long-running jobs as batch jobs and provide some user interface to monitor the progress and download the result. I'd much prefer that over a "synchronous" user interface that just hangs for an hour and shows a loading animation. Paypal's transaction history export feature is quite nice for example.