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

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Post by mtm7 »

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…

Glad to hear someone feels the same way about Git. I understand why some people love it, but I think it’s overly complex for most workflows.

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

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Post by nikanj »

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.

Nobody would use it if porting out was easy

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

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Post by miguelmota »

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…

At first I found it hard to use AWS because some services are a combination of other services and it was confusing but after dedicating time to learning what each service does then everything just clicked. Obviously the UX is still terrible for beginners because there’s a lot of assumptions but I found it to be pretty manageable after learning the fundamentals of AWS.

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

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Post by kamaal »

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…

>>and slow

Enterprise Atlassian is so slow, I have to often click a link, and go do something else and come back. Sometimes I even forget why I even clicked on a Jira link, having lost the thought trail.

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

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Post by brailsafe »

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…

Wow, surprised to find this and I totally agree. I've had to deal with it for a remote math course I've been meandering through. It's so unpleasant, and the materials are not very mobile, with nested iframes and such. I figured it would be a more obscure reference.

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

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Post by tonymet »

I’ll say web browsers . They’ve taken 30 years to provide desktop GUI functionality and APIs from The 90s . And they require gbs of ram.

We really should have live reloadable Cocoa apps and the desktop experience would be 1000 x better , with 10x battery life and better responsiveness

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

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Post by m463 »

hinkley wrote: post #373
etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #63

Docker. I use it and love it every day in both dev and prod, but I also really kind of hate it. I'll keep my complaints short. There should not be a system-wide daemon. (Or any daemon). It should not require root at all (no setuid either). From outside the container, the container and its processes should be a single process (with threads). (Like glueing a bunch of processes together.) The containers should be nest-a…

I feel like the Dockerfile format was very tight and simple to use, and the tools somewhat usable, but over time they keep bolting things onto it by committee. It is better than git, but that's pretty faint praise. When I'm staring at the worst of it (unsticking myself or worse, trying to explain why it's like this to a coworker who is stuck), I keep thinking that there's a standard for making these containers, won't…

I think the idea of a docker file is brilliant.

But one pattern I see all the time is:

  RUN foo && bar && bletch && ...
They should have a way of achieving the same thing (just one layer) without multiple commands and added to the same line

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

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Post by cdaringe »

rainforest wrote: post #276

Gradle. I appreciate that it is a fast build system, and a lot of it does just work. When it doesn't just work it's a nightmare. The config language is completely opaque and undiscoverable (Kotlin might fix this, but I ran out of patience to understand how Gradle works a while ago) though. In many respects I think the fact there's a commercial version of it is a sign that it's lacking in the UX area.

Preach! Yes yes and yes.
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