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Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?

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My bank's website. For example to get my account statement, I have to select which company I want, which account I want and what type of statement I want. Even though I have exactly one company, exactly one account for it and exactly one possible statement I can ask for.

Seconded, at least for my Chase accounts. Credit unions' websites are often much better than your average BigCo bank (ex: https://www.becu.org/).

Re: Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?

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All the banking sites I have used have highly unusable UI. The same with my mobile and broadband service provider websites.

Sometimes it is just not about the UI. I can live without the best looking websites, but if the functionality is equally broken as the UI, then it is really frustrating. One of my biggest pet peeves is the back button not working in many websites. Many systems just tell you to log in again and it just freaks me out.

Re: Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?

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HN? :-) If Reddit is "Spartan but functional", HN is positively Hittite. "We'll impale you on an iron stake and let you die slowly outside the city gates if you don't like it" user friendliness. Oh well, at least it keeps the barbarians out.

What is horrible about it? It doesn't get in your way and allows you to post quickly. This is the only place I've engaged in online conversation for years and that's because it's just so quick and simple. Compared to forums and commenting on blogs & entering captcha's it's very usable!

Re: Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?

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Craigslist. In spite of the UI, it's still the best place to locally buy/sell used stuff within the US. It has been like this for years though, so at this point I doubt they'll make any significant changes to the user interface.

They recently made changes, but I really love the simplicity of the UI. Minimalist. What is it that really makes it a poor UI, lack of gradients or lack of ajax. I think it does what its supposed to do exactly how it should be done.

Re: Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?

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Craigslist. In spite of the UI, it's still the best place to locally buy/sell used stuff within the US. It has been like this for years though, so at this point I doubt they'll make any significant changes to the user interface.

They recently made changes, but I really love the simplicity of the UI. Minimalist. What is it that really makes it a poor UI, lack of gradients or lack of ajax. I think it does what its supposed to do exactly how it should be done.

it takes too much of my time to do simple tasks

Re: Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?

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Several of the TV shows I watch put the episodes online (which is great), but the websites invariably fall short in the way they organise those videos and the rest of the site. They are definitely popular in spite of their UI, not because users "unconciously" prefer it.
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