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

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Post by spapas82 »

Yoofie wrote: post #294
creativeembassy wrote: post #220

Dropbox. I've used it for a decade, but now it's slow, bloated, and takes over CPU and memory like there isn't a single other program I need to run... and I was paying $20 for the privilege. But a few weeks ago I switched to Syncthing[0], and it's the best software transition I've ever made. Opposite of everything Dropbox is now: fast, simple, and I don't even notice it running in the background. Seamless setup, and…

The problem with Syncthing for me is that there is no bi-directional syncing on Android if your files are stored on an SD card. You need to resort to rooting your phone or messing with a bunch of hacks to overcome this issue. Otherwise, its great.

That ain't true: just create your sync folder in your sdcard under Syncthing's application-specific folder, e.g. /storage/014A-7323/Android/data/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/files. It is mentioned in the faq and works great for me (two way sync).

I'm using a Moto g5 plus phone with android 8.

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

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Post by zmmmmm »

BusterStatus wrote: post #547
lloydatkinson wrote: post #370

Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…

Atlassian does not seem to have an interest in listening to their users. My workflow would be so much better if they implemented browser or desktop notifications, but they only support email or extensions/add-ons if you self-host. Our company uses cloud though, so despite all the countless threads asking for native functionality, they insist it is not important for users.

Like every business focused company that got large enough, they stopped making it for the users ages ago and now make it for the influencers in the middle management chain and above that decide on IT purchase decisions. And most of that is about putting CYA far above usability.

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

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Post by edoceo »

blocked_again wrote: post #438
lloydatkinson wrote: post #370

Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…

> feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. Unnecessary dig at Bootstrap and jQuery. There are plenty of websites with great UI built using bootstrap. I don't understand how using jQuery has anything to do with the UI though. It's just a wrapper around JavaScript.

It's just using name brands for describing legacy-jank-by-noobs - not really a dig at those specific tools

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

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Post by texasbigdata »

js2 wrote: post #558

Slack. I've got two or three people DM'ing me, threads going in more than one channel, and four other channel's @here'ing me. So I mute all the channels except for when I'm directly @'d, but why isn't that the damn default. I can't view more than one conversation at a time because the stupid client is a single window that doesn't even have tabs. When I paste a link, I don't want it to attach what's at the link becaus…

Why can't I parallel multiple workspaces on one of many cheap monitors.

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

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

vin047 wrote: post #522
doomrobo wrote: post #388

I hate to say it, but Signal. Signal has consistently been a pain to use for my moderately sized ( Messages sometimes don't arrive or arrive out of ordered and appear in the wrong order, scrolling up has random jumping behavior, opening the chat in iOS causes my audio to stop playing, there is explicitly no way to back up any of the chat, copying multiple messages is broken on desktop, search is super slow and search…

Can’t comment on the rest of your criticisms but you can (finally) backup chats to iCloud – features’ been present for the last few months.

Edit: Please ignore this.

Gated behind enabling two factor authentication for some reason. Which I'm never enabling because (A) it's impossible to turn back off and (B) you need a second Apple device for the second factor.

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

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Post by andrei_says_ »

Windows file explorer

OSX file explorer

Both are unavoidable and horrible.

Where did I save that file? What was it named? Where did that piece of software save its file without asking me? Do I have to click 10 levels deep to find a file?

Yes, it is a human problem, too, but maybe make things a bit easier for humans? I know johnny.decimal exists but good luck getting people to use it.

Pretty much any email client And email as a primary mode of business communication. Who said what in which message, then changed their mind as an aside in an unrelated email thread and where’s my source of truth about anything? People use their email like a chat sorted by most recent.

My mom uses zoom on android tablet and every time I call her I spend 25 min on the phone trying to guide you through to initiating or receiving a meeting

I paid $300 for capture one but can’t use it because I can’t figure out where it puts my images and why.

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

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Post by adwww »

nateroling wrote: post #549
lloydatkinson wrote: post #370

Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…

What’s wrong with Confluence? We have a recently-acquired team at work that uses it for everything, and loves it. I’ve used it a bit, and I think it looks awesome, and the pricing is super reasonable. Confluence looks better than everything else I’ve tried/used as a doc platform: Notion, Nuclino, Coda, Sharepoint, OneNote, Azure DevOps wiki, Microsoft Teams wiki...

It doesn't help that the Markdown flavour is not standard, and is different again from most other Atlassian products.

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

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Post by jeanvalmarc »

doomrobo wrote: post #388

I hate to say it, but Signal. Signal has consistently been a pain to use for my moderately sized ( Messages sometimes don't arrive or arrive out of ordered and appear in the wrong order, scrolling up has random jumping behavior, opening the chat in iOS causes my audio to stop playing, there is explicitly no way to back up any of the chat, copying multiple messages is broken on desktop, search is super slow and search…

Weird, as anecdotes go I've always thought the signal iOS app was very polished. I just checked three of those issues (camera access, shared links, search) on an iPhone 11 Pro Max and I wasn't able to reproduce. I suspect Signal may not have a QA group large enough to test on every phone/environment.

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Post by andrei_says_ »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #370

Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…

I’m not by any means an advanced git user but find it to be well-designed and elegant. And, being constantly refined.
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