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Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
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#932Android. Truly horrible platform where I cannot even find a clock app that just works. I mean there is one shipped with a phone, but it has inconvenient timer and I do not like how time selection is done -- a lots of movements to scroll numbers to find one I need, -- but I cannot configure it to my convenience and I cannot find another clock app that works. And all this "Google phone wants to have an access to calend…
This comment looks very bizzare to me. The clock thing has been changed years ago, nowadays it's a timeface where you tap the hour in the first stage and the minute in the second, after that you're done setting the time. > And a lot of useless stuff I cannot delete Well yes, the os is made by a monopolistic ad company that tries to get your every last bit of sweet, sweet data through its services, but there's an extr…
> The clock thing has been changed years ago
My previous phone (ASUS ZenPhone 2) had nice UI like you described. I don't remember really, maybe it was not the stock app, but the clock from Simple Mobile Tools. My new phone (Xiaomi Redme 8) has this stupid slots machine instead of UI and the clock app from Simple Mobile Tools works unreliable.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#933Anything 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…
You are so right about Atlassian tools. I cannot stand Jira. Very often, it's easier and faster to fix a bug, then to update the status in Jira. It's clutterware.
Back when I used Jira I actually quite liked it. Not that it was the best thing out there, but honestly with a little bit of config we could set up our (mandated by law) process quite easily and follow it.
Speed isn't the best, but it was either that, use Redmine with a massive config or wrap the shop up.
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#934Microsoft Teams. I am forced to use it (work) and it is missing really basic features that messenger software had in the 1990s like Push-To-Talk, real multi-window (even with the recent "pop-out" functionality), and its UI is all the worst modern trends. You cannot extend it or fix these issues (e.g. plugins, custom CSS styles, etc). Plus it is buggy, I keep not getting calls/messages/etc, and every time my computer…
MS has adopted the release-early-and-let-user-test-it policy since years ago. I remember that Power BI was barely usable (missing a lot of basic features) until late 2018/early 2019.
They also adopted the seeming good policy to ask users to vote for future bug fix/feature requirement, which of course leads to more feature release than bug fixing. But then this is the norm of software development nowadays so I really don't think anyone can change it.
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Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#936Microsoft Teams. I am forced to use it (work) and it is missing really basic features that messenger software had in the 1990s like Push-To-Talk, real multi-window (even with the recent "pop-out" functionality), and its UI is all the worst modern trends. You cannot extend it or fix these issues (e.g. plugins, custom CSS styles, etc). Plus it is buggy, I keep not getting calls/messages/etc, and every time my computer…
Tell me about it. We moved from Slack to Teams to cut costs. Common story. Leaves a LOT to be desired. 1. The UI took the fun out of well, whatever, Slack was/is. For some of the common interest channels at work, I see less people going to them. 2. I'm in a group where we frequently need to share images (mostly plots) among the members. Sometimes they just disappear. Yes. You upload an image during a conversation, co…
Sadly the decision to switch products is usually made by the finance side and stuffed to the tech side, and tech side VPs/Directors are happy to enforce that because they don't use Slack/Teams very often.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#937Microsoft Teams. I am forced to use it (work) and it is missing really basic features that messenger software had in the 1990s like Push-To-Talk, real multi-window (even with the recent "pop-out" functionality), and its UI is all the worst modern trends. You cannot extend it or fix these issues (e.g. plugins, custom CSS styles, etc). Plus it is buggy, I keep not getting calls/messages/etc, and every time my computer…
I am going to go against the grain and say I rather like Teams. Video calls work really well. Voice calls are clear. Screen sharing occasionally doesn't work as some have noticed, but restarting the call seems to fix it. It is so much better than Webex though. I think it is still suffering from the teething troubles of trying to bring so many things under one umbrella, Sharepoint (which already had groups), Skype for…
Dunno why but whenever I see this I get a bit angry:
>The killer feature really is that it is a dream to deploy for admins who already had AD.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#938Anything 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…
Anything Atlassian is often better than anything I have tried in a corporate environment, including MSFT pile of dog poo. It might be slow as a dead dog, ugly as hell, and cumbersome to configure, but it just somehow works. I still don't like it and rate it poorly every time the feedback box comes up, but you never know how good you have it until you have to use something worse.
As for Git, try to go back to SVN ....
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#939I have to use it once a week, but since it requires filling daily slots, I think it qualifies too: NetSuite time tracking.
It's just database internal structures exposed to end user with no business logic layer whatsoever.
ADP is even worse, but I don't use it daily.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#940Windows. 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 h…
Yes.
Work: Win10 fails to manage windows - doesn't remember where they go, can't reopen a set on startup. Don't allow pinning above other windows anymore. Opening a Word doc maximises the other 4 Office windows I have open and makes me spend time shuffling Windows around. So frustrating. There are 3rd party fixes for these things but work doesn't allow that, be nice if they just weren't broken. Win10 as a window manager seems very limited.
Home: For me the sound settings are weird there's no simple way to choose two outputs (headphones and speakers). I have to use a third-party app to make the volume range over 0-100 rather than 0-1 (1 is too loud, 0 is off). Adjusting mic settings is stupidly complicated, why isn't there a slider in with the output slider in the system tray (as I'm used to in KDE, and I swear they used to have in MS Windows?). Some apps it won't let you start as admin from the Start menu, but that works fine from Explorer, urgh.