Honestly, gitlabs pm told are pretty got least for smaller teams. Even though it lacks the automation features of GitHub, moving stuff around is much faster and more intuitive.
Of course, I'd rather use fucking sticky notes than jira
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What's the most unintuitive piece of software that you regularly use?
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Of course, I'd rather use fucking sticky notes than jira
Yah we moved to memoQ while I was at my last joint and it was solid. I still remember the memoQ folks making a Half Life 3 joke during a trial period checkup call.. nobody in the room laughed :p
Surprisingly, steam translation server wasn't too bad to work on despite being around forever.
my fave to work on during my time in loc was Transifex.
Yea, GitLab is fine for our (performs a quick estimation in his head) eleven engineers that have to maintain code. Perfectly fine, gets the job done. A few long standing bugs but what free open source software doesn't suffer from that problem?
The last time I used Jira was for an old side-contract gig, maybe 2014 or 2015. I was glad to never have to look at it again when I deposited the last check from that job.
Normal SAS. The syntax itself is not inutitive to me. I've learnt both SAS and STATA from scratch in a similar timeframe and I've become much more efficient with STATA so I use it primarily even though SAS does have some neat features, like being able to connect to mainframes and pull data directly from them and things like the Levenshtein edit distance commands which are very useful and certain (although rare) circumstances.
We got any musicians on here?
MakeMusic Finale.
Doesn't matter which version, they're all the same. Everything about it is outdated. The audio output sucks. The rendering engine sucks. The interface REALLY sucks. It's 25 years of legacy baggage stapled together. Why is inserting measures at the end of the piece in a completely different menu than inserting measures in the middle?
But it's also powerful software and is the industry standard, so they have no reason to fix it. Sigh.
He says his best guess is it's just long contracts with big companies that have been grandfathered in for years and don't want to jump ship to something better.
MakeMusic Finale.
Doesn't matter which version, they're all the same. Everything about it is outdated. The audio output sucks. The rendering engine sucks. The interface REALLY sucks. It's 25 years of legacy baggage stapled together. Why is inserting measures at the end of the piece in a completely different menu than inserting measures in the middle?
But it's also powerful software and is the industry standard, so they have no reason to fix it. Sigh.
I have a friend who works at IBM, and he literally told me "I don't understand why anyone uses our software."
He says his best guess is it's just long contracts with big companies that have been grandfathered in for years and don't want to jump ship to something better.
I remember arguing with an adult human that you couldn't simply drag and drop songs to your iPod once and they insisted you could till they turned purple with apoplepsy. I thought maybe I had missed an update and said, "I thought you had to make a playlist and then copy the playlist to the device "
he said "yeah, you just drag and drop a playlist it's the same thing!"
like people who say using GIMP is identical to photoshop.
Lmao dude deltek is so bad i regularly forget how to delete a favorited charge code.
Was wondering what I'd post, but seeing your post made it clear for me. The android app is garbage.
Glad to see so many Jira mentions in here. Admin-side especially is atrocious, with all sorts of different ways for organizing and displaying information. Every drop-down in admin is basically flipping a coin for whether it will be sorted alphabetically.
I think my favorite screen is this:
Multiple counterintuitive ways to organize a list slapped together. And YES, other parts of admin do let you drag and drop items (but not this one of course).
Jira can definitely be a great tool once you configure it, but even at its best there will always be some head-scratchers. It's insane the amount of things you try to find a solution to only to find a thread from 3+ years ago that is continuously being bumped requesting updates from Atlassian.
I've heard good things about Clubhouse but haven't tried it yet sadly
I think my favorite screen is this:
Multiple counterintuitive ways to organize a list slapped together. And YES, other parts of admin do let you drag and drop items (but not this one of course).
Jira can definitely be a great tool once you configure it, but even at its best there will always be some head-scratchers. It's insane the amount of things you try to find a solution to only to find a thread from 3+ years ago that is continuously being bumped requesting updates from Atlassian.
I've heard good things about Clubhouse but haven't tried it yet sadly
Zune is the oldest but it's still intuitive after all these years.
Probably Sizimi Game Catalog for keeping track of my game collection. It's fiddly but I like it.
Probably Sizimi Game Catalog for keeping track of my game collection. It's fiddly but I like it.
I use Spotify on iPhone when I want to share stuff/playlists with more people, but the app is pretty terrible.
Dunno if these essential features are locked behind Premium, but : can't modify the order of the songs in the playlist, can't modify the cover, can't modify the description. Browsing is also clunky : unless I'm missing something, you can't just look up an album and put songs directly from the album page in a playlist? Always have to look up the individual song to get the "Add to playlist" button.
I don't know how the average Spotify user uses the app, but I feel like it's not intuitive at all the second you want to do more than just listening to automated playlists.
Apple Music is just way simpler (with more options), and their front page with new releases etc... is not as messy as Spotify's.
Dunno if these essential features are locked behind Premium, but : can't modify the order of the songs in the playlist, can't modify the cover, can't modify the description. Browsing is also clunky : unless I'm missing something, you can't just look up an album and put songs directly from the album page in a playlist? Always have to look up the individual song to get the "Add to playlist" button.
I don't know how the average Spotify user uses the app, but I feel like it's not intuitive at all the second you want to do more than just listening to automated playlists.
Apple Music is just way simpler (with more options), and their front page with new releases etc... is not as messy as Spotify's.
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Jira's is okay but literally everyone fucks up configuring it because it's geared toward bureaucracy. My old company made pretty good use of it. I'd prefer that setup over Trello or Github issues which we use to get around the clusterfuck my current one has.
Service Now (ticket dispatch system that turned into run your whole company system) is by far the worst piece of shit I've ever seen. It does everything and all of it terribly. Pretty much any business software is a damn mess because once they have a contract with you they don't have to give a fuck and configurability is a UI liability.
Service Now (ticket dispatch system that turned into run your whole company system) is by far the worst piece of shit I've ever seen. It does everything and all of it terribly. Pretty much any business software is a damn mess because once they have a contract with you they don't have to give a fuck and configurability is a UI liability.
Gonna get some hate but for me it's Anki. It's free, open source and life saving. But after using it for years I still can't figure out certain things.
The Contacts management system at my job. It's all made in house by someone who does not know how to design software (the CEO)
Also if there's anybody out there that use any of our software, I'm so sorry. Most people in the company know it's shit, but the CEO just keeps dragging his feet.
Also if there's anybody out there that use any of our software, I'm so sorry. Most people in the company know it's shit, but the CEO just keeps dragging his feet.
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I was waiting for this. Once you figure out how to do what you want it works pretty damn consistently, but good luck figuring much of anything out without someone walking you through it. And as far as I can tell it's search function is essentially worthless. If I want to find vendor codes I have more luck using the city they are headquartered in as the search criteria than the actual name of the company itself.
Also I interact with like 10 different industrial HMIs at work that are all sub-Sim City in quality and clarity of information. There have been a bunch of efforts to improve them, and some legitimate success, but of course the loudest voices in the room hate any kind of change so the general perception is that the engineers/software guys are wasting their time
3Dcoat is pretty good. I found it much easier to use
It's on steam
3DCoat 4.9 on Steam
3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production.
I personally don't mind it too much, but it's the MDM I learned with (well, Airwatch, but that's a different story) so my experience with it is a little biased I would think.
I consider it extremely unintuitive because of the general lack of skill most users of it seem to have. I work for a company that does a lot of work with various MDM's, and every time I get a client with WS1 I know I'm in for a headache. Luckily I know it very well, but I find I spend more time dumping WS1 knowledge to people than I do knowledge about my own product.
To slim down the general criticisms I'd have; The interface is messy and hard to navigate. Training is non existent outside of an extremely expensive 1 week class, where they don't teach much useful knowledge at all. Support is slow and typically helpless, ESPECIALLY for on-prem customers. There are no standardized "best practices" for building out environments. There are too many ways to accomplish the same task. Every single integration done within the console is a total nightmare, and documentation is either non existent, outdated, hard to find, or difficult to follow.
Microsoft Office apps, especially Excel and Word. If you have people and universities offering dedicated courses to teach people how to use your product, you failed.
Also, Discord and Reddit are so goddamn annoying to use. Yeah I get the whole nerdporn "internet power" interface but goddamn just modernize it a bit so I don't get crazy looking for something.
Also, Discord and Reddit are so goddamn annoying to use. Yeah I get the whole nerdporn "internet power" interface but goddamn just modernize it a bit so I don't get crazy looking for something.
Pretty much all of the newer VMware clients suck. The HTML 5 vSphere is worse than the deprecated Flex, which was far worse than the old thick client. I do most of my work through PowerCLI now. Just have a bunch of saved statements and scripts I reuse. Much faster than trying to use the HTML 5 client for large amounts of operations.
The Horizon / RDS / VDI clients suck and lack the most basic functionalities - and they're dogshit slow. They also don't support a whole lot via PowerCLI / VMware snap-ins.
The in-car touchscreen interface in my 2016 Subaru Outback. It's slow, sometimes non-responsive while navigating, and has a super shiny coating over the whole panel that blinds you from the screen with even the slightest glare. On more than one occasion I've had the whole system crash while driving, and while I could still drive I needed to restart the engine to reboot it.
The very next year they transitioned to a different manufacturer with a much better touch interface with android auto compatibility. I got to use a newer model for a couple days when mine was being serviced as a rental and it was great, as if the dealership is just teasing me with functional software for my car.
The very next year they transitioned to a different manufacturer with a much better touch interface with android auto compatibility. I got to use a newer model for a couple days when mine was being serviced as a rental and it was great, as if the dealership is just teasing me with functional software for my car.
what's the comparison when it comes to word processing and spreadsheets though? I've tried the free stuff over the years, along with Word and Google Docs, and all of them seem to cover the same ground and would probably be teaching people the same kind of stuff in classes
This is the one for me. Actually fuck that. Between this and Salesforce I just want to crawl into a hole
I'm free of iTunes thank fuck. But I still use it when helping family and friends.
Every single time I use that piece of shit program I do it with the fear and anxiety of deleting content from the device accidentally.
I'm a freaking Computer Literate SUPER GEEK and I feel like everything is about to wrong every time I use that program.
At first it was ok because I was forcing old Skype then the cunts made it so none of the workarounds work.
Every single time I use that piece of shit program I do it with the fear and anxiety of deleting content from the device accidentally.
I'm a freaking Computer Literate SUPER GEEK and I feel like everything is about to wrong every time I use that program.
That fucking update that changed it from looking like a normal program to looking like some Windows 10 app/mobile app PIECE OF CRAP.
At first it was ok because I was forcing old Skype then the cunts made it so none of the workarounds work.
We use Sakai for our online classroom management and it's absolute, archaic garbage. No modern feature set, no mobile or tablet version, tiny file size allowance...ugh, it's so bad.
We're finally moving over to Teams in September so that won't be as bad. No perfect, but at least you can post a video link!
We're finally moving over to Teams in September so that won't be as bad. No perfect, but at least you can post a video link!
Let me give you a piece of advice which might help on this. Push the button which allows you to see the invisible characters on screen such as tabs etc. This will also allow you to see the paragraph marks at the end of each paragraph. The secret is that these marks actually also "hold" the formatting information on paragraph level for that particular paragraph; but now that they are visible, when you're selecting text, you can more easily see if they are included in the selection or not. Not including them while selecting text will make a lot of formatting problems which happen on copy/paste in Word simply disappear.
As for me, the most annoying piece of software has got to be Jira. I liteally do not understand how this is even possible. They keep fiddling with the UI, but they just end up moving the (numerous) problems around without ever really properly solving them. This has been going on for years (decades?) and I just don't get it. How is it not possible for them to get an UX expert in and just finally all the various usability issues that this software has had pretty much from the beginning. Like, I have to bookmark various pages because I'm not sure I'll be able to easily figure again how to get to a particular page that shows the view that I want.
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still waiting for that iTunes replacement that Apple promised like a year ago.
JIRA is baaad, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. Userware (user built hacky stuff the entire company runs on) has shaved years off my life.
3Dcoat is pretty good. I found it much easier to use
It's on steam
3DCoat 4.9 on Steam
3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production.store.steampowered.com
It's by far the most backwards software I ever used, but I'm also not looking forward to the day they make major changes forcing us to re-learn everything.
There's however nothing that really can compete right now. While handy for texturing and retopo, 3D Coat is a bit of a joke for sculpting - Blender is closing in fast but it's still Blender and just not as performant (and unintuitive too).
