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Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?

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Post by spanktheuser »

ndespres wrote: post #12
misiti3780 wrote: post #3

JIRA and a very close second is Confluence.

I administer my company's internal Confluence server and author most of the content, and I have a few complaints but overall I love using it. What do you dislike about it?

My 2¢: Confluence's primary job is to share and manage lots of written documentation. If I wanted to make such software I'd make it fast, the curation/management job lightweight and inline, and emphasize readability and promote fast comprehension of information with layout and design.

Confluence is slow, curation/management is ponderous and the design ignores hundreds of years of research / practice in visual processing of information.

Re: Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?

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Post by jakebasile »

mjolk wrote: post #58
jakebasile wrote: post #38

Slack. - It's slow on every platform I use (iOS, macOS). - I often don't get notifications at all, on either platform. - The Mac client crashes too often. - The Mac client uses more resources than it should. - Threads are useless. - Settings are split into too many different views. - I dislike the design. It's too spaced out (even with the "compact" setting). There's no dark mode. I don't like the icon. Everything is…

> so much so that even open source projects use it over IRC. Remove the small amount of technical know how to "properly" use IRC and make chats (and permissions) persistent, and I imagine you'd end up with something that looks eerily like Slack. That said, I think the Slack load-time in-browser is silly-long and I get spammed with notifications. As for threads, Zulip ( https://github.com/zulip/zulip ) does things "ri…

I've used IRCCloud before, and I thought it worked well. They have an "internal" type plan as well with a private server, but as above I can't get anyone to try it because Slack owns the mindshare.

Re: Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?

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Post by rogy »

angry-hacker wrote: post #30

Asana. I don't want to open links I get by email, because I know it takes always forever to load all the js crap. I also like to use my arm chromebook, which is perfect for tasks, but Asana literally kills it performance wise. Fuck your all fancy javascript, I can make the same app using jquery and it will fly. Unfortunately people I need to use it with wouldn't use my app.

i honestly do not understand how any text based web application can be so slow. like, WTF.

it can honestly take me upwards of a minute to load asana, locate a project and check a task as completed. It should take 10 seconds.

Re: Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?

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Post by chrismealy »

ndespres wrote: post #22

Lately for me it's the iOS Music app. Every iOS release it gets further away from the original purpose. Off the top of my head, the "Search" screen used to show the last 10+ things I searched for (artists, playlists, songs, etc). Now it only shows the last 3 things I searched for, and fills the rest of the screen up with what's trending on the iTunes store. I didn't ask for that! It also regularly refuses to play mus…

I feel like they're trying to be like Spotify, but as every change they make to Music makes it worse, they're just driving me to use Spotify more. For example, the list of albums from an artist is almost unusable now. Everything looks pretty but usability is poor.

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Post by Drdrdrq »

tradersam wrote: post #32
williadc wrote: post #27

Outlook

Outlook is incredibly powerful, but wow is it a pain to use and terribly laid out.

I always Google when I need to figure out how to change anything. The person who came up with ribbon bar should be... fired.

Re: Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?

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Post by meerita »

corobo wrote: post #55
danpalmer wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basecamp is Omakase.

I can only assume (without Googling the answer) that's that Japanese thing where someone pokes another person in the backside with their two index fingers because that's what using Basecamp feels like.

That's actually called "Kancho" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanch%C5%8D :D and it hurts.

Re: Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?

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Post by pjc50 »

Microsoft EVC4: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=166... It's wildly obsolete and only runs on XP.

Previous contenders include http://source.sierrawireless.com/resources/airprime/software... (Eclipse derivative, although really it was the SW firmware that was the pain on that project)

And Altera's Quartus (slow, huge, and I once hit a code generation bug)

What do these have in common? They're the only supported development environment for particular platforms with no good OS alternative.

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