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Blackboard LMS They've been more worried about acquiring competitors and patent portfolios than they have about improving the software for about 10 years now.
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…
Mid last year we changed to https://www.blesta.com/ and since they are open source with a good security track-record - we hope that the issues will be over. The only drawback is that they don't have as many 3rd party integrations yet, and that customers have to get used to the new interface.
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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…
I really can't understand why Slack doesn't just go with a native app (to address performance issues on Electron). They're a big enough company to work on developing platform-specific apps which would totally improve the user experience (from a performance standpoint at least).
I recently switched to macos from linux, and this is one of the frustrating experience I have with mac. Particularly there is no easy way for me to save a file in a custom folder in the builtin save dialog. Everytime I use finder, I wonder which is worst - windows command prompt or macos finder!
Lotus Notes.
So, yeah. People hated using it for email. More than once, I built a better email client for it, and people were suddenly a lot happier with it. There wasn't as much that I could do for the calendar app, which had serious core deficiencies.
To be honest, I never understood all the hate, though. Don't get me wrong - no one knew where it was lacking better than I. And, it's been a "dead" product for many years; it would be silly to ever recommend it now. But, executives who never had to even touch the thing would enter a company, and declare that, "We MUST move from this to Microsoft products!" And, the alternatives would always be far worse. (Think Sharepoint, for example.) I'm not even sure that google's productivity products are that big of a step better.
Notes solved a lot of hard problems for large organizations, all at once. It wasn't pretty, not was it ever really that fast. But, it enabled business - particularly non-tech business - the ability to automate things in the blink of an eye, for instant improvement.
I think that we could all learn a thing or two from looking at why it was so popular in its day, and maybe keep just the good parts in what we do.
At work, it's probably JIRA. Tons of UI noise, text markup isn't what I expect it to be and nobody around here can seem to agree on what features should be used for a particular scenario. Past work, it would have been Identity Finder by a landslide. Awful UI, awful support, super intrusive, a total pain to administer, just bleh. Glad I was able to wash my hands of that. Personal stuff, iTunes. I genuinely like the in…