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

#171
Atlassian's Jira and Confluence. Why?

Their search capability is just bad. To find something requires a lot of tries and tricks. I don't want to waste cognition because they re-invented the flat tire.

Their inbrowser text editors are also just bad. On the level of WordPress three years ago. Markdown? no. Cut and paste from other apps? OK, if you remember to "Paste as Plain Text.

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

#173

cmd.exe on Windows - trully horrible shell. bash on *nix - less horrible then cmd.exe but still trurlly horrible anyway. I want to kill myself any time I enter any of those. PowerShell cross platform made all my cells rejoice.

ConEmu makes any Windows terminal app far less frustrating

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

#175

Microsoft Teams. I am forced to use it (work) and it is missing really basic features that messenger software had in the 1990s like Push-To-Talk, real multi-window (even with the recent "pop-out" functionality), and its UI is all the worst modern trends. You cannot extend it or fix these issues (e.g. plugins, custom CSS styles, etc). Plus it is buggy, I keep not getting calls/messages/etc, and every time my computer…

+1 for Teams.

It's horrible.

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

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post #164

Git. The UX and design is broken af, nothing work, noone get it. AWS. I don't know where to begin. Nothing make sense. Nothing works. Docker. This thing is basically backward at every step. We should have never packaged different things on linux as a single "container". It does not work that way and that has created more pain than solve anything. K8s: same Go: same Venv. Goddamnit this never worked well and same as g…

Has anything ever worked for you?

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

#177

ServiceNow. Perfect storm of abysmal design/UX used to represent a bloated and confusing underlying information architecture. It's possible that I'm using an poorly configured version/instance of the product, but good lord, I'll do anything I can to avoid using it at work.

And this is the ITSM system that has the best reputation of them all AFAIK :)

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

#179
macOS

I have a very bad UX. It's small annoying issues, like minimizing a window. If you don't explicitly minimize the window and open another program, the other window is hidden. Where is it? How can I open it? Yes by minimizing every window until I have found mine. For applications, this is not that bad, since you have the dock and just click on the icon to reopen your window, but what happens if you have several windows open of that app? It's a nightmare.

I could write a whole list of toxic UX in macOS.

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