Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?

Outlook is incredibly powerful, but wow is it a pain to use and terribly laid out.

For Confluence: we've found a much better alternative is Quip - we all love it after the switch. Dropbox Paper is another new alternative that people seem to like.

Slack.

- It's slow on every platform I use (iOS, macOS).

- I often don't get notifications at all, on either platform.

- The Mac client crashes too often.

- The Mac client uses more resources than it should.

- Threads are useless.

- Settings are split into too many different views.

- I dislike the design. It's too spaced out (even with the "compact" setting). There's no dark mode. I don't like the icon. Everything is too cutesy.

- I hate the emoji. I don't want more emoji in my life.

Most of all, I hate the hivemind that says it's the only viable chat system, so much so that even open source projects use it over IRC. Hipchat wasn't too much better, but I've not gotten the chance to use it in the past few years because everyone defaults to Slack. I'd love to try Facebook's new work thing, but there's the same problem.

Without a doubt it's either BMC Remedy Incident Management or LotusNotes. Both from a period where clutter and buttons were the norm and both long overdue to be scrapped. Remedy wins I think only because I spend hours a day trying to gather detail from its many nested screens.