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Ask HN: What business software app do you hate the most? Why?

11 pointsmud_dauber22 comments

I don't particularly dislike PowerPoint, but I can't resolve the fact that in 30 years of development and massively increased software footprint, the presentations look the same now as they did in the 90's. The only thing differentiating the age of a presentation is the choice of default font.

OTOH I have a friend who would argue this is a sign of perfect design, and the amount of hard drive space a software package takes doesn't matter so much these days anyway. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

SharePoint. Mostly because we use it improperly (as a backend for web apps)

I've always found that approach fairly insane. The Enterprise shops where I've done Sharepoint work and consulting always followed a strategy that SharePoint is good at its built-in features, but if you even think about writing .NET code to enhance it, just walk away from SharePoint and go write an app.

I have never ever seen a good and sane system built on Sharepoint.

I am using Sharepoint as a front end development platform. I am working in a secure environment where the installation of software is forbidden. Sharepoint lists provide me a database, REST API, and forms. Yes there are extreme limitations in this approach but I have made it work for me to provide some layer of accounting and analysis and just about everything is customizable with just a little bit of JavaScript

Jira. So slow these days.

Not to mention the inconsistent interfaces. You like Markdown? Sorry, won't work in that view. But in the other one, for sure.

- WYSIWYG editors (confluence, google docs, word, etc.): never does what I want, pasting markdown or HTML always fails and at some point I get bugs with nested lists...

- MS exchange: forces you to use outlook and is buggy

- Linux: Bluetooth headsets stuck to 8bit (instead of 16bit) when using them with mic, external sound card not fully supported, encryption not coupled with user login (and using suspend to ram makes it useless)

- Windows: Backups suck (built in can silently fail, no user folder etc), pushing Edge hard, not unix

- macOS: the dock, can't switch between windows of the same app efficiently, hard on exotic keyboard layouts, bad font rendering on non-retina screens

I hate outlook, such a horrible way of navigatingand filtering email.

I managed to not use it for a while, but latest job made me use the Mac version. Why the hell do they hide the search? Is it barely visible on Windows as well?

On macOS, use ⌘~ to switch between windows in the same app. Between that shortcut and ⌘-space to open spotlight, the only use I have for the dock is to empty the trash.

thanks, just ditched macOS though and not looking back :)

Probably Workday. It takes more clicks to get where you want to go than older, less flashy software. Rendering and response times are slow too. It might just be how my company set it up.

MS Teams is pretty terrible, probably worse than SharePoint for me.

Ever tried Lync? I'd take Teams over that shit any day

Lync / Skype for Business will not exist anymore in less than 12 months. So maybe not a good idea to onboard there [1] .

[1] https://redmondmag.com/articles/2019/07/30/microsoft-ending-...

Lync for sure. Or Skype for Business as they call it these days even though it's got absolutely nothing in common with Skype. Worst communications app ever created.

Slack - horrible search

Any shipping software by DHL, FedEX or UPS. This stuff is horrible, clunky, error prone, ignores productive software conventions, transfers data at a snails pace etc

Dell KACE, what a piece of utter garbage.

Cyberark

Very slow and un-intuitive/convoluted UX.

Any CRM app.

Everybody hates typing meeting notes into predefined fields. Can you peel the onion a bit?

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