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

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Post by timpark »

This was back around 2005, so I imagine the software has improved since then, but... Sonic Scenarist for DVD authoring.

The thing we hated most about it apart from the slowness (computers were slower back then too, but anyway) was that it auto-saved after every action and had no undo. If there was an option to turn this off, we couldn't find it.

It was all too easy to select a bunch of items and accidentally drag them to the wrong place, and so we ended up just making a backup copy of the project file from time to time, and before attempting any type of operation that might mess up.

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

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Post by brentis »

In summary:

Docker: crash o plenty Service now (bloated forms system on .net or slower) Teams - UI, no sizing of window, spyware (look it up) One Drive/ SharePoint (ugh - group of us said we would take pay cut to not use) Finder - anything but. (How is a file in past 30 days and not recent that I made 5 seconds ago?) Photoshop? Nobody mentioned here. Adobe anything... OSX Mail - particularly Big Sure flavor Itunes Connect SAP Concur

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

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Post by DoofusOfDeath »

sershe wrote: post #260

I thankfully don't use it everyday, but Mac and literally everything on Mac (even the terminal started crashing on resize towards the end of the time I used it every day). Over time, I started keeping a note where I put every bug, missing feature, malicious feature, performance issue, driver issue I had with my 2 different MacBooks day to day, and it's loooong. I'll probably never organize it unless I'm forced to use…

Do your feelings extend to 3rd party Mac apps? I'm not a big Mac fanboy, but I really like using iTerm2 for ssh'ing into servers.

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

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Post by mightyscouse »

caffeine wrote: post #226

Bank apps (eg. HSBC's consumer app). For the most part they are buggy, crashy, slow, lacking in features, and fail to do useful things (like support copy paste, export transactions to CSV, email transaction, etc)

HSBC app shudder, I rage quit the bank because of it, transferred everything over to Monzo. Truly infuriating and I think it's the only bad app review I've ever left.

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

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Post by stblack »

ashconnor wrote: post #367

1Password. Core of the product hasn't seen any noticeable features in a while. 1PasswordX was launched without the feature set of the desktop version. Dumb stuff that hasn't been fixed in forever like not being able to delete a single item from the trash, password formulae are rigid - words with no digits or symbols or random mess of all characters, no TouchID/FaceID, Apple Watch unlock support, can't selectively syn…

1Password supports FaceId and, before that, I used FaceId on my iPhone. But I'm using an old version. Has this changed?

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

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Post by hinkley »

npm will be the official reason I stop writing Node code at some point. It does not know what it wants to be and it disagrees violently with concepts from the tools it pretends to emulate. This whole lock file debacle makes me angry and I'm not close to the only one.

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

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Post by _august »

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…

I started using Clubhouse (https://clubhouse.io) for my personal projects and like it a lot for a light-weight alternative to Jira, yet more powerful than Trello. Not sure how it scales for big teams though.

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

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Post by doomrobo »

I hate to say it, but Signal.

Signal has consistently been a pain to use for my moderately sized (Messages sometimes don't arrive or arrive out of ordered and appear in the wrong order, scrolling up has random jumping behavior, opening the chat in iOS causes my audio to stop playing, there is explicitly no way to back up any of the chat, copying multiple messages is broken on desktop, search is super slow and search result previews have been corrupted for as long as I can remember, sharing links through the iOS share menu causes the app to behave super weird or just crash (my mom can't share links with me through Signal), you can't mute conversations on desktop (IIRC there have been two PRs implementing this feature in the last 2 years; both not pulled), mutual verification is so frustrating that I literally got yelled at when trying to explain it to my parents, I sometimes can't take pictures from within the app, when I can take pictures the viewfinder is half the resolution of the actual camera and everything looks blurry, the most recent app update causes a several second lag whenever I open the group chat, and I am throughly convinced that every issue I've mentioned is so low priority for the people running the show that they won't get fixed for a very long time. At least we have stickers now.

Seriously though I believe in what Signal is doing and will probably continue to use and suggest the app. But it will hurt every time I do it.

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

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Post by mdaniel »

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. ... apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understand just to be able to change roles

I strongly agree with the rest of your characterization of the AWS console, but that one isn't true: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_us... -- we use IAM Roles extensively at $DAYJOB and have not yet experienced anything that would require a Chrome extension to work around like you describe

Their login screen, however, continues to drive everyone crazy since the URL you visit depends greatly on which account, and at what level, you wish to authenticate to the console. With any setup containing a non-trivial number of AWS accounts, it's just "oh, what account am I logged into" waiting to happen

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

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Post by mdaniel »

doomrobo wrote: post #388

I hate to say it, but Signal. Signal has consistently been a pain to use for my moderately sized ( Messages sometimes don't arrive or arrive out of ordered and appear in the wrong order, scrolling up has random jumping behavior, opening the chat in iOS causes my audio to stop playing, there is explicitly no way to back up any of the chat, copying multiple messages is broken on desktop, search is super slow and search…

Have you reported that behavior, preferably with a debuglogs attachment in their GitHub tracker (or even the community forum)?
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