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

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Post by bradtx »

busyant wrote: post #404

Sorry, but everything listed here is rank amateur stuff when compared to Blackboard Learn ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Learn ). First, the user interface is designed as if the programmers were incentivized to maximize the number of clicks required to get anywhere. Second, it has the responsiveness of continental drift. Third, editing and formatting text is an exercise in torture. When I want to delete t…

Gradefinity (https://gradefinity.com) is a kind of Blackboard + Scantron LMS alternative that is really targeted in terms of what problems it intends to solve (in-person and online tests, gradebooks, and communication).

Full disclosure: I built it-- I'm very receptive to feedback and feature suggestions though and am looking for pilot schools if anyone is interested in shaping the platform/knows someone who might be.

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

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Post by ju-st »

Kodi on Raspberry Pi: slow loading menu, random hangs & crashes, getting bluetooth LE working was a adventure, BLE remote key presses are only recognized after pressing them several times when waking up, SMB file access not reliable (mounting a smb drive and then accessing it works much better), plugins are flaky at best (youtube needs api keys, youtube cast with extra plugin works mostly (when it does not crash), amazon video stutters on SD video, satellite TV is much less reliable than VLC on Windows)

I'm still using it because the alternatives come with their own drawbacks (usually high price but still having enough quirks).

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

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Post by jsrcout »

Anything with the word "Enterprise" in its name or description. Any "Enterprise" search system will be useless or unusable [0]. Any "Enterprise" file/document management system will be a nightmare in any possible way.

[0] I once had a page-long note file on literally how to search for a document by title in $HUGECO's search application. Because it took me 3 hours to figure it out the first time. Not exaggerating. It would probably be easier to operate a DNA editing machine than this thing.

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

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Post by PascLeRasc »

GlenTheMachine wrote: post #174

Unless your answer is “ERP”, you haven’t actually seen how bad software UX can be.

ERP software is painful to use, I 100% agree with you there. But my bigger problem with it is that it encourages a culture of saying things like "streamline knowledge control documentation end-to-end conversion". Fuck that.

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

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Post by jimnotgym »

jl6 wrote: post #499
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…

Can someone explain why Teams is so totally unable to interoperate with anything else, to the point where you can’t save messages, you can’t export chats, and you can’t even print them! The lock-in is intense.

That is a bit of a strange statement. There is an API, there is an app store full of the Trello's and Jira's of this world. Chats copy and paste or share to Outlook just fine for me. You can even use Flow to save all of your chats... literally anywhere that has a connector. The lock-in is imaginary.

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

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Post by vardump »

lvass wrote: post #195

WhatsApp. The desktop version has very few features, requires constant connection to a mobile phone and gets out of sync very often. It's practically irremediable if you're in a crowded wi-fi area and ethernet is the only way to get a good connection. It's also designed so no conversation is ever private despite advertising it's E2E encryption. Everyone you talk to has automatic backups enabled and they're stored une…

On macOS desktop, WhatsApp crashes at least once per day. Pretty annoying.

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

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Post by Bnshsysjab »

ju-st wrote: post #592

Kodi on Raspberry Pi: slow loading menu, random hangs & crashes, getting bluetooth LE working was a adventure, BLE remote key presses are only recognized after pressing them several times when waking up, SMB file access not reliable (mounting a smb drive and then accessing it works much better), plugins are flaky at best (youtube needs api keys, youtube cast with extra plugin works mostly (when it does not crash), am…

I moved from Kodi to Plex and haven’t looked back. Granted I don’t use Pi devices (my tv supports plex natively) it works much better than I ever found Kodi to
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