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

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Post by SN76477 »

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…

My company wanted me and the rest of the marketing team on Jira. Immediately I was like wtf is this. We were back on Trello after just a few weeks.

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

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Post by nabaraz »

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #315

Microsoft Outlook - decade after decade the icons change but the suckage does not, its 1987 every day when you use Outlook. Microsoft Teams - drains my battery 1% every two minutes Slack - the original “let’s forget everything we’ve learned about communications and try to discover it again”. From the threads feature nobody wants to the inability to silence bots or plugins, Slack never fails to disappoint. They pitch…

On Slack, I bang my head everytime their link editor pops up. I paste a link and now want to edit it, why is it so hard?

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

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Post by jabroni_salad »

Kiro wrote: post #151
superasn wrote: post #52

Anything which requires me to use a Google captcha or hcaptcha. I generally don't get annoyed very easily but spotting fire hydrants and traffic lights just to login into a site to which you are a paying customer is plain nonsense. I've actually decided to move my entire infrastructure from Digital ocean to AWS because of this captcha before login nonsense (thankfully DO reverted it just in time)

What's the alternative? Why does DO have a captcha to begin with?

captchas make sense when you want to keep spammers out of your comment section. For logging in to an account though, the best alternative is really to just do nothing. Maybe rate limit connections that send bad logon attempts.

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

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Post by xyzzy_plugh »

1ris wrote: post #628
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 could not disagree more with Atlassian. They are among the best software i have ever used. Especially bitbucket is superb. Confluence is by far the best wiki I have ever used. Jira is 10x better than any alternative I'm aware of.

That doesn't mean the tools are not terrible, which they undoubtedly are.

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

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

1ris wrote: post #628
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 could not disagree more with Atlassian. They are among the best software i have ever used. Especially bitbucket is superb. Confluence is by far the best wiki I have ever used. Jira is 10x better than any alternative I'm aware of.

Bitbucket is an acquisition that was decent before the takeover. Jira: How hard can we make it to manage bugs? Jama: How hard can we make it to navigate the document tree?

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

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Post by 1ris »

Windows. Not windows applications, but windows itself. Completly incoherent user interface. Impossible to find anything. The wifi dialog in the systray, the new windows 10 wifi control and the old style network interfaces dialog often show conflicting information. Neither of them works. Have trouble with bluetooth (of course you have, it never works)? Windows is kind enough to hide anything bluetooth related so you have not chance to do anything about it. The Start menu. Not only full of ads, but also completely insane. Type word X. add a character. Press backspace. Get a completely different result. Entering notepad.exe works. entering notpad does not. Enter "visual", find no results. Enter "visual studio" et voilat. Ads in the explorer. And the list goes on and on. It's full of nuisances and inconsistencies.

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

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Post by jimnotgym »

OSX/MacOS

This should be popular

It seems so aimed at the consumer market, with everything set up to help with integrating with Apple services.

But what about the enterprise features? It is very common for companies to be running Active Directory networks, why do macs work so hard not to fit in? Why not have some kind of AD support for mapping print queues, network drives that kind of thing? Maybe respecting password policies? Authentication via Azure AD would be really helpful too. But the real killer is forwards/ backwards compatibility. Enterprises have long software life cycles which are respected by Windows. You can run VB6 applications from 1999 on Windows 10.

I get so many service desk issues for macs that are resolved by a reboot, and why don't they reboot?.. because they worry that the updates will take 20 minutes.

I hate MacOS. It causes me so much more aggravation than my main Windows user base. I'm currently having to work on printer deployments and MDM's (solved problems on Windows) just so marketing people can look cool in meetings.

I just gave one of them a Windows laptop to try and they noted how nice the PC Office apps are, and how fast their computer was (processor being 2 gen ahead of the current macbook pro)

We have one coder who still uses mac (he supports some old desktop apps that incidentally are all broken by Catalina), and since he mainly targets Linux nowadays he is currently looking at moving to Windows and WSL.

Great home computers, great for individuals, terrible for enterprise use.

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

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Post by anotherevan »

creativeembassy wrote: post #220

Dropbox. I've used it for a decade, but now it's slow, bloated, and takes over CPU and memory like there isn't a single other program I need to run... and I was paying $20 for the privilege. But a few weeks ago I switched to Syncthing[0], and it's the best software transition I've ever made. Opposite of everything Dropbox is now: fast, simple, and I don't even notice it running in the background. Seamless setup, and…

I tried using Syncthing to backup my two kids Windows 10 laptops C:\Users\user folders to a home machine but found, it was always chewing CPU in bursts and making the fans whir.

I tried adding ignores for parts we didn't care about so much and fiddling with various settings, but it was still quite problematic.

Although I would prefer an open source solution, I'm looking at trying Resilio Sync next.

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