MySQL workbench. It's slow, buggy and hangs again and again. I have to force close it multiple times everyday because it freezes so often. Same experience on MacOS and Ubuntu.
Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
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#882Anything 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 could not disagree more with Atlassian. They are among the best software i have ever used. Especially bitbucket is superb. Confluence is by far the best wiki I have ever used. Jira is 10x better than any alternative I'm aware of.
I think Confluence and Bitbucket work well enough. I hate Jira with a passion though.
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#883I really dislike git. After years of using it almost daily, it still trips me up when I'm doing something that I don't do every day. Want to do X? Here, remember this random command with some flags!
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#884IBM Notes
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#885I 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…
Unfortunately, I’ve encountered many of the same issues, so I would recommend trying either Session (fork of Signal) [1] or Telegram (less secure but supports bots) [2] [1] https://getsession.org/ [2] https://telegram.org/
Telegram is not just “less secure”. It’s not secure, period. Messages are stored on the server in plaintext. That’s what makes it orders of magnitude easier for them to implement all those features (large groups, channels, bots, etc).
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#886Gsuite admin interface. (thankfully I don't use it every day)
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#887Skype. Ever since Microsoft made it that it no longer saves your chats locally, search has become so unusable it's really quite amazing how awful it is. Whenever I need to search text in a thread it does so in the cloud??? And it never finds anything. There are times when I literally have had to manually scroll back several months back in a thread to find what I was looking for. I absolutely hate it.
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#888Hey I'm working on an alternative to Jira. If anyone would be willing to try my website I would appreciate it. I'm looking for product market fit and I would love to hear feature requests. Check it out at kanception.io. Or just down vote me if you want :)
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#889Gitlab
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#890Anything 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…
> AWS... It is literally years behind Azure. I’m going to have to disagree with you here, AWS has some quirks, but the UI is being actively worked on and improved but Azure is an outright dumpster fire. Who thought scrolling sideways was a great idea? Why does the x close _everything_ and take you back to the dashboard and not just close the current pane? Why is everything about permissions and auth so hard to find?
> Why does the x close _everything_ and take you back to the dashboard and not just close the current pane?
Well, at least if it did that /consistently/ it would be an improved. It sometimes just closes the current pane as expected.
More generally speaking, to me Azure feels very jarring. There are panes that are logically pretty much the same but have wildly different behaviours (I'm thinking of AzureAD 'subpanes', some of which take over and there's no way of going back to the main AzureAD pane even by scrolling).
There's also the issue of the interface not being updated after changes and of having to switch panes for the change to be effective or even to reload (reboot?) the whole page (I'm thinking of setting up auto-provisioning in AzureAD apps).