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

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Spotify. On OSX it will occasionally (every 2 or 3 days) use 100% of my cpu (pretty powerful MacBook air). Thosands of people have complained about the issue for years, yet it still isn't fixdd. I'd like to think a company with the size of Spotify could fix an issue causing so many computers to heat up and waste resources. The desktop app also loves to say I'm offline when I'm not.

Additionally, the UI of their iPad app is so odd, with these sliding panels.

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

#115
Android 6.

Auto-downloaded on my tablet; I accidentally installed it.

Wi-Fi turns off by itself; bookmark icons don't load in the Internet app; swipe and use pattern to unlock instead of just doing the pattern on the lock screen; other annoyances.

Not a single perceptible improvement over Android 5.

Stupid, ugly colors. Dark blue indicates that a feature (screen rotation, Wi-Fi, notifications, etc) is on? WTF? It doesn't look lit up.

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

#116
I avoid to use the following, and delegate:

SAP R3 - an popular ERP (enterprise resource planning) - think of an 1980s terminal application reskinned with 1998-fancy-theme - the application is still designed for 14" CRT, and you can only open one window of the same page (aka transaction). Think of UI elements like tables where the table-borders are rendered as ASCII chars (when you copy&paste you get the border-chars too. ugly (they renamed it to mySAP and what not, it's still the same old application). screenshot: http://www.saptechnical.com/Tutorials/Smartforms/Barcode/Ind...

Windows 10 - designed by color blind designer with brutalism taste, stuffed with worst adware that sends home your keystrokes and microphone audio, etc - hostile to user privacy. I stay with Win7, it's superb, it's used by like 50% of all desktop/notebook users, Win10 is unsuccessful, Win8 is dead,mI don't care that MS does't care.

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

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post #52

My first place award goes to SAP, which I have to use for time entry. The procedure for entering vacation time is "Put in the hours and the code for PTO. Now hit enter. Yes, it'll all turn red and it'll display an error. Hit enter again. Everything else just autofilled." The procedure for changing an SAP password is to click New Password on the login screen[1]. No, not after logging in, if you accidentally did that y…

SAP timesheet "CATS" has the worst UI I ever used: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OucSQZo65RI/VPHGj4p4inI/AAAAAAAAdF...

It's designed for an 14" CRT, showing only like 10 days of 31 days months - happy scrolling in both axes with non standard scrollbars.

You have to enter the hours per day in decimal minutes (1.00 = 60min, 0.25 = 15min) instead of the more human natural 60minutes.

The table UI control is completely non-standard. The Save button doesn't work like expected, it automatically closes the page, or a popup comes up there is nothing to be save - how dare you that you even thought about clicking on the button. If you open the page, all your data is locked, and no one else can access your data.

It's an 1980s nightmare program, that got reskinned in 1998 with "fancy" UI over ASCII char based UI elements.

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

#120
WHMCS is bloated, antiquated but when starting up a small hosting company from scratch it's about all there is really in terms of full-coverage hosting billing platforms. Tried a few others, that just weren't etched out enough. Had to build a few custom plugins to get it to sync w/ my domains reseller, and more, it's a bit scrappy. I'd love to see someone create an open source whmcs clone using laravel, or django, or even phoenix framework. Even cooler would be a full cpanel clone w/ billing addon included for hosts, all built on phoenix w/ multi-threaded support (cpanel can itself be slow from time to time)
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