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Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

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I don't use it anymore luckily, but from a couple years ago: Xcode!! Unstable, baffling interface decisions, very poor on features and the features that are there are unreliable. By far the worst IDE I've ever used.

Agree. On 2020 that thing doesn't even have tabs for the open files.

Xcode is one of the most obvious evidences of Apple's despise and contempt for programmers (others being crappy documentation, frequently deprecated APIs, appstore with authoritarian rules, etc).

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

#122
Google Chat (enterprise G Suite offering):

- No way to set status (essential in current remote work situation)

- No way to reorder the rooms

- No nested comments.

- Cannot mark conversation unread or have some way to remember to come back to the conversation later.

- If you lose your notification you are lost. Cannot figure out which room you were tagged in.

- Cannot message to self. This is not a big problem but a good to have.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

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If websites count: YouTube. It's appalling how such a powerful company can keep so many things so bad for so long.

The UI is bad, but the most frustrating aspect of YouTube is the continuous struggle between creators and the automatic copyright strike system. Nearly every single large YouTuber I've subscribed to has had some experience with a false copyright claim interfering with their platform at one point.

It feels like YouTube actively doesn't want creators to grow a community on their platform.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

#126

JIRA. The most complex simple system I used. Simple in theory (Project Management) but complex in implementation.

And there is the on prem and cloud versions. And they are not feature matched.

One of these days I want to look into setting up Phabricator.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

#128

Skype (Windows)

From the point of UI / UX, I cannot think of a worse software than Skype (all platforms including Android).

It's always a hard struggle, effort and suffering to make a call to a phone number, even if this phone number is in the contacts of the phone, or has been called before.

Adding to that, when Microsoft acquired Skype, they were offering to merge the Skype and Live accounts, which I agreed to, which rendered my Skype account unusable (with credit on it and lot of contacts registered).

The. Worst.

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