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

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Post by kortilla »

javajosh wrote: post #20

`git`. I mean, its so popular that you get used to it eventually but the commands never make sense or map well to the mental model of what you're doing. And "getting used to it" is a seriously low bar for software IMHO.

I had this problem until I spent time to learn the underlying data structure of git. Everything pretty quickly fell into place after that (git checkout still has too many jobs IMO).

The git commands do not abstract over the internals, they pretty much just provide a direct interface to them.

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

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Post by zwayhowder »

Someone1234 wrote: post #35

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…

Rearrangement of messages in channel based on threads, forcing replies that weren't in thread out of order.

A UX that encourages replying out of thread because it's too darn confusing.

Unable to quote messages on desktop, but you can on mobile.

Unable to be signed into more than one Team. Have they never heard of consultants? At one point last year I had 4 separate Teams I needed to be signed into. Microsoft's solution have different Chrome profiles (Yep, Chrome, not Edge) for each one. My laptop only has 16GB of ram, so that didn't last long...

Super unclear UX around document viewing. I open a file in Teams and if I have write access I am instantly saving all changes. So many times I've shared a document for feedback and then had to recover the original version from Sharepoint because people changed a lot of things without Track changes on.

Based on Sharepoint. 'nuff said.

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

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Post by sinsterizme »

superasn wrote: post #52

Anything which requires me to use a Google captcha or hcaptcha. I generally don't get annoyed very easily but spotting fire hydrants and traffic lights just to login into a site to which you are a paying customer is plain nonsense. I've actually decided to move my entire infrastructure from Digital ocean to AWS because of this captcha before login nonsense (thankfully DO reverted it just in time)

Completely agree, but I must hand it to whoever came up with this idea. Absolutely brilliant.

"Folks, we need an absolutely massive data set to train our text recognition algorithms. We need people on the internet volunteering this data."

"Impossible! What could we possibly offer them?"

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

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Post by bberenberg »

manquer wrote: post #117
westoque wrote: post #42

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

Not to mention it is slow as molasses(on the cloud at-least) and the UI is unwieldy with way too many clicks required for the simplest of actions. I am sorely tempted to build a frontend so that I can avoid wasting so much time on it. Just a better frontend not yet another project management tool that will not be bought by management. I don't understand the slowness at all, even if their backend and architecture is F…

Ran across https://getbodo.com a while back. Dev is a really nice guy and cares about improvements. I think it has a long way to go, but what software doesn't.

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

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Post by DerekRobot »

I accidentally bought a gaming laptop that can't run Linux, so I'm stuck with Windows 10 exclusively. Although it really isn't that bad now.

My workplace uses SmartCAM, an ancient CAM package for manufacturing. It's probably not that bad, but I couldn't wrap my head around it compared to other CAM software. It turns solid geometry into low-poly mesh, and nothing is intuitive like Autodesk HSM.

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

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Post by dmd »

axegon_ wrote: post #146

* Jira - over-engineered, unnecessarily complex and utterly slow. * Zoom - worst video conference product __EVER__. Can't say a single good word about it. * AWS admin console - same as jira, at least it's not slow. * VPNs in general annoy me beyond reason too. At this point I use a raspberry pi to connect to the vpn and I use it as an SSH access server (and tunnel respectively).

I use Zoom because it's _better_ than literally any other video conference product I've ever used, and I've tried a LOT of them.

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

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Post by creativeembassy »

jjav wrote: post #141

gmail, by so many orders of magnitude.. Email interface designed by people who seemingly have never tried to read email. Threading is completely broken, filtering is broken, compose screen is unusable. At previous companies I've had to use gmail but was able to use a sane email client via IMAP so it was almost ok (although still somewhat broken as gmail doesn't handle IMAP correctly). At current work they disable all…

Gmail was so groundbreaking when it first came out in 2004. AJAX was barely a thing, and Gmail used it in spades everywhere. I remember it being mindblowing when you didn't have to wait for full page refreshes for simple actions.

My problem is that it's remained frozen in time for years. Yeah, they tweak the visual design every few years. But so many other email clients have far surpassed it, and they've done nothing. Other than create Google Inbox. Which was amazing. And then Google shut it down. ️

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