Confluence and Jira.
Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
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#912Jira. How can so simple a concept be implemented with so many unnecessary lines of code and run so slowly? Despite (because of?) several major redesigns, that is.
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#913On every workday: Microsoft Teams. When trying to make a link, it overwrites the clipboard. When formatting text in the text box, it sometimes randomly moves the cursor into the previous block.
Unfortunately the company has decided to use it and my colleages have as well.
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#914Anything 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…
Fully agree on Jira. Disliked it enough to start a company to compete with it [0]. Also agree on AWS. Their UI is so terrible and confusing that it makes writing CloudFormation yaml files feel alright in comparison. Been using GCP lately and the UI is somewhat better though still confusing and weird at times. 0: https://kitemaker.co
Looks nice! An suggestion: you might want to consider renaming "theme" to "topic" (or "epic").
Also, what about sprints? As of now, kitemaker is solely usable for Kanban, right?
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#915Windows. Not windows applications, but windows itself. Completly incoherent user interface. Impossible to find anything. The wifi dialog in the systray, the new windows 10 wifi control and the old style network interfaces dialog often show conflicting information. Neither of them works. Have trouble with bluetooth (of course you have, it never works)? Windows is kind enough to hide anything bluetooth related so you h…
Came here for this. It's a visual mismatch of varying Windows versions, from modern 10 all the way to some pieces still having a Windows 95 icons and layout. Why such a wealthy company can't afford to get every part of its OS updated in 25 years is beyond me.
The file Explorer is sometimes super slow (especially when dealing with media files, which it insists on analyzing first before displaying their folder), hangs on some FLAC files and frequently crashes.
It somehow can't handle pretty standard media files (again some standard FLAC that work everywhere else, variants of H264 or H265, etc.)
The networking works when it wants to - I still struggle to swap files between two Windows 10 systems on my home networks (one always can't see the other machine, and when I move files it's slow as molasses despite having blazing fast Wifi).
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#916Anything 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...
Try finding stuff. In a large org, even with as much careful organisation and attempting to make things searchable, it just gets impossible. That doesn't mean Confluence is bad of course - it may just be a hard problem.
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#917Products “based on Eclipse”. All 15 of them.
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#918Microsoft Outlook - decade after decade the icons change but the suckage does not, its 1987 every day when you use Outlook. Microsoft Teams - drains my battery 1% every two minutes Slack - the original “let’s forget everything we’ve learned about communications and try to discover it again”. From the threads feature nobody wants to the inability to silence bots or plugins, Slack never fails to disappoint. They pitch…
It's amazing how bad Slack got. Android app looks slick and the UX is awesome, but functional bugs make up for it: last week I had all _my_ messages disappear from a conversation, I could only see what the other person wrote. I routinely have to force-close and reopen the app to have it show new messages. And for couple of months now, smileys typed in the app (e.g. `:)`) don't convert to actual emojis when sent. Support responded recently along the lines that "it should be fixed now because nobody complains anymore". Well it isn't, apparently sending a smiley to try and reproduce the issue is too much of an effort.
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#919Outlook's webapp email client. Mandatory(1) at work. No IMAP access.
I truly can't think of a single positive aspect of this absolute garbage piece of software. It's so mindnumbingly bad that most of us just avoid email whenever possible, even if it means going to physically seek out a person who may not even be available.
(1) The actual Outlook client is an option if you're willing to forego root on your computer. To me that's far worse.
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#920Not many marketers perhaps in this thread, so here's mine.
Dynamics 365: millions of unwanted features that bloats the system. Very complex where it shouldn't be, poor search features... Could go on and on. On par with Salesforce in my opinion.
Marketo: entreprise software that was probably good 10 years ago. Nothing has changed since then. UX/UI is shameful. Landing page builder is just a joke. Not being able to write custom objects from a form defeats the purpose of using an advanced tool like this.
Also... Concur?