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

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Post by potta_coffee » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 10:44 PM UTC

grumple wrote: post #747

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…

Totally agree with Atlassian/AWS. Two senior devs should not have to pour over dozens of pages of documentation to figure out how to add a role to a user using SAML. Git and Linux are great though. Git is well understood and, if you don't do bad things in the first place, easy to use. It's explicit. Linux itself works great and is straightforward. Docker is hit or miss for me.

I feel your pain on the AWS SAML config. Actually anything with Cognito is this way too, circular documentation links that never actually lead you to your destination. It's like being in a labyrinth.

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

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Post by potta_coffee » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 10:45 PM UTC

Aperocky wrote: post #950

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…

> AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling Haha I used to have the same thought before I joined. But I've since understood that AWS is a set of APIs which is the default interface and everything is able to be called programmatically - the UI only tracks the API. It's not the default mode of use nor is it meant to be.

Accurate. 95% of my AWS usage is over APIs / SDK now so I don't mind the UI so much.

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

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Post by cdnsteve » Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:39 PM UTC

Kijiji. Ebay owned Canadian classifieds site that is absolutely horrid experience with hundreds of http request and a bazillion ads loading on 1995 web servers. Its still one of the most popular classifieds in Canada. I'm annoyed to the point of rewriting their UI and entire app and thinking of open sourcing it.

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

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Post by nnain » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 3:34 AM UTC

JeffDClark wrote: post #953

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…

Piling on the Blackboard is horrible train, my kids school system uses Blackboard, Fairfax County, VA, FCPS. Its true awfulness was on full display when the school system tried to switch to FT remote schooling back in the Spring. Parents, students, and teachers all clamored to not use Blackboard. Administration did not listen. It did not go well. From the time schools shut down until the end of the school year it was…

> Director of IT for the FCPS took the fall, but Blackboard was at root the problem

Rightly so. The Director of IT should have known better than to push a flawed product hard on parents/teachers, for months. I'm wondering what Blackboard's sales practices are like that they can get school's IT people on their side!

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

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Post by taauji » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 10:46 AM UTC

music.youtube.com

slowest interface ever. songs are impossible to find when playing from a playlist. focus never switched to the music player. no native cast plenty other problems

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

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Post by ajeshks » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 11:06 AM UTC

I have been using this for last 6 months. Apart from all these issues, search for a chat in a conversation is not possible.

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

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Post by raymond_goo » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 3:17 PM UTC

ordu wrote: post #295

Android. Truly horrible platform where I cannot even find a clock app that just works. I mean there is one shipped with a phone, but it has inconvenient timer and I do not like how time selection is done -- a lots of movements to scroll numbers to find one I need, -- but I cannot configure it to my convenience and I cannot find another clock app that works. And all this "Google phone wants to have an access to calend…

Quote: "I want to talk about the Nokia N9 alarm clock application because it’s a really nice example of thoughtful, functional design – and because it’s only on the N9, so a lot of people won’t have seen it. There are more important things in life than getting excited about an alarm clock app, but it's nice when simple things are done well." From here: http://nition.momentstudio.co.nz/2014/08/the-nokia-n9-alarm-...

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

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Post by jpkeisala » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 11:12 AM UTC

Skype

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

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Post by cben » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 12:35 PM UTC

jerzyt wrote: post #602

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…

You are so right about Atlassian tools. I cannot stand Jira. Very often, it's easier and faster to fix a bug, then to update the status in Jira. It's clutterware.

When we were forced to start use Jira a year ago it was kinda maybe acceptable, but every week someone in the organization adds a new custom field to issues, so it's growing scarier than bugzilla...

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

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Post by calt » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 2:46 AM UTC

ajb wrote: post #578

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…

I've been looking into a few of these (need to replace keybasefs before zoom kills it) - syncthing does one thing well. However you need to be your own server admin. Which is great if you are or your company will do it for you, but I don't want to do it for my personal stuff. - syncany is exactly what I want, but it didn't get out of alpha, the team apparently didn't make money and have stopped maintaining it, and it…

Syncing doesn't even need a server if the devices you're using are online at the same time.

I just switched to it from Dropbox.