Microsoft Sharepoint has a Wiki. The Wiki can not generate a table of content.
Full price EA games with F2P-style microtransactions and ads
And this isn’t useless, but I can’t believe that to rent Photoshop for $20/mo, your creative projects are not your IP…
Windows
And that despite charging for it, they fill many versions of it with adverts, install without asking bloatware and crap paid for by other companies to shove down your throat, and also sells your personal information to (checks) at least 801 third parties.
Hey! Those 801 third parties are trusted third parties. All of them were properly vetted when they said they wouldn’t misuse our personal data.
Teams
I was legit baffled by how such a shit peace of software could become so ubiquitous – until I got to know SAP and realized that Teams isn’t even in the bottom half of enterprise software quality.
I thought SAP was shit until I worked with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, an ERP from alternate 1990s hell dimension. It has a built-in IDE that uses its own language called C/AL (syntactically similar to Pascal). The only source control is developers’ ability to lock files they are working on. And the code editor is worse than notepad. Seriously, it does not allow to select or paste multiple lines, and in general, acts as if each line is it’s own textbox. Forget about syntax highlighting or anything else other than black text on white background.
And, AFAIK, if your company needs to customize it, you are required to hire a “Microsoft-certified” NAV developer.
Allow me to regale you with a tale of Sun Identity Manager and XPRESS. A strange mangling of xml and pseudo javascript-esque pile of shit used for identity transformations for disparate systems.
On second thought, let’s just not. I’d rather let that PTSD inducing memory slowly fade away, much like SunIDM did after Larry bought them to poach their customer base.
Can concur. We have NAV at work and holy fuck it’s awful.
On the plus side it has a 16 colour palate.
That’s simultaneously horrifying and not at all surprising.
Have you tried webex? It’s like teams but on dumb-‘roids, the notifications are shot, the messages always pull your taskbar up, calls always get routed to either the wrong input or output, calls drop half the time… and the list goes on and on…
It is not great, but however with WebEx, at least it comfortably runs in the browser without consuming all the CPUs.
Yes, I have. Thanks for dumping salt into that wound.
Thanks, I hate it.
90% of b2b software. They literally charge thousands of dollars while giving the worse piece of shit software you’ve ever used.
Oof. Yes!
The proprietary cloud crap usually has worse or non-existent documentation, fewer features, and a terrible or non-existent API.
But it comes with a salesperson. So there’s that.
But people with cloud server orchestration skills are terrifyingly expensive right now, so self-hosting a better product can be a very hard sell.
The Salesperson is incredibly important. They take the person responsible for making the purchase decision out to lunch and for rounds of golf, after all!
Oh fuck yeah! So much of my research into new tools is just checking to see if they have a demo, documentation, and price.
When I’m looking for a new tool, I don’t have the time to schedule a “quick” 20 minute call to do introductions and schedule a follow-up hour long meeting followed by a quote sent over in an email days later only to find out the price is so far outside the range there is no way it’s ever going to happen!
I’m not some useless middle manager looking for any excuse to look busy; I don’t have that kind of time to waste!
In a lot of cases, you only see the final price after signing up.
You pay for the support.
And the support sucks.
At least you can shift the blame.
Sometimes. Sometimes whatever executive demanded we use this doesn’t want to hear about it and will throw you under the bus because otherwise it would be their fault.
You wouldn’t need nearly as much support if they made a decent job in the first place.
The German Dreckstool website (meaning shit tool) hosts a hitlist of shitty tools/software. I don’t think it’s that popular, but the top/high-scored of the list may be indicative of some of the worst.
I googled nr. 1 and watched their promotional video.
Sooooo many buzzwords. From their marketing material, I have literally no idea what the software even does, but I can already tell it’s utter shit.I love marketing that tells me nothing about the product or service. 🤢
What do you mean?
It bridges the gap between disparate business units and optimizes synergies across your entire product portfolio!It also has huge images and videos of happy people, so it must be great!
Not useless as such but a wallpaper app or something that expects you to pay £5.99 a month to use. Fuck all the way off with that
Didn’t MKBHD launch some wallpaper app for $12 a month? I heard about it and just figured he was another tech YouTuber who lost touch
He then follows up that face plant by getting caught going 85 MPH in a school zone. MKHB is crashing out hard.
He did actually do a really good honest apology for that, restructuring pricing and improving on the app, but then he did the thing of the commentor above me, which was worse.
How could you possibly apologize for charging $12 A MONTH for wallpapers!?
“I was trying to be the Netflix for wallpapers.” /s
Our shit setup at work, where I am now using two browsers and two email programs because our Jira and Confluence can’t be arsed to decently support web standards/Firefox and because Outlook is shit but Exchange has stuff I need Outlook for.
Today was the first time, after yet again something not working - issues on confluence and Jira ticket can’t be closed, endless load on Firefox - where I genuinely felt relieved that a very different website for file transfer simply worked. I could open it, click download, and download the file.
It’s absurd that I feel this way.
Atlassian is shit for forcing us into the expensive cloud for a shit product. Our Jira and Confluence have plugins, and we pay admin company to integrate more customizations, and it just makes everything worse. The “changes only happen at night” I read from Atlassian is pointless because without notice or announcement stuff breaks anyway, and I have no idea who makes changes and when and what, because nothing is being communicated. Today was the third time we weren’t able to add work time to tickets. Let’s see when the next time will be.
It’s a constant annoyance and stumbling over shit tools.
I have various CSS hacks in place to make Jira and Confluence more usable, but it’s still shit. And man their HTML DOM is absolutely horrendous with only generated classes. Most of my CSS hacks use test ID attributes.
Shit Atlassian, shit Jira and Confluence, shit customizations. Annoying Outlook and Exchange.
Man this became a long text and rant lol
Unfortunately, they’re not useless but apparently necessary. I don’t see us ever moving away from them.
Atlassian is shit for forcing us into the expensive cloud for a shit product.
I feel your pain. Or rather, I felt it once and am now freed!
We were big into Atalassian when they announced they were going cloud only. We had on-prem versions of Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket
We pretty quickly said “Fuck that”, mostly because we have an on-prem policy for IP protection.
I was pretty happy to spend some time searching for replacements, mostly because it was my job to apply upgrades to these steaming, tottering piles of badly written java horseshit. They looked pretty, but the upgrade process was convoluted and quite often failed terminally. I still think that the difficulty of upgrading the hosted versions was a driver towards cloud only, mostly because it exposed how shite the things were and how many complaints they must have got for offering an on-prem product that was so hard to maintain, despite looking pretty.
I take some pleasure that the Atlassian share price is now half what it was before they did this.
(If anyone was interested; Confluence and Jira were replaced by Youtrack. Bitbucket by Teamcity. Both by Jetbrains, both much easier to upgrade (Teamcity is web-based one-click), and our licencing costs are about half what we paid to Atlassian)
Our biggest dependency is on the jira extension for adding work time and doing monthly and yearly worker Abrechnung.
I believe the hope was to be a reasonable migration to cloud, but if course man’s issues and a lot of effort. Now we’re in the cloud with that.
We wouldn’t only need a ticketing replacement. But time, invoice, and lawful worker pay docs.
Jira breaking is a feature. Free time to do nothing
I cannot count the number of times I was able to fire off an email with a status update to the PM “JIRA is down, again, I completed XYZ, update your gantt charts, my part is done.” I know that they paid a whole team of folks to craft the interrelations of those tasks for a system that hardly ever worked.
I remember when the iPhone was new and my friend paid money for an app that simulates a mug of beer on the screen so you can pretend to drink it.
That, but the entire genre of those fucking things cuz there are assloads of them now.
I’ve never really understood the imitation app developers. Like your first little run of the novelty, sure, makes sense, minimal effort that might pay itself off or even go viral, but why do the imitations think they have the same shot?
There used to be an app that was a Dragon Ball Z scouter. You could point it at anything with a face and it would tell you a random power level. Apparently mine is 10,550 (I can barely lift a jug of milk).
Workout timer that wants a subscription
This list is too long
Near all paid apps on iPhone.
Real Debrid
Touted as necessary when it isn’t, apparently if you have it you have access to a huge cache that you can use to continue to torrent dead files
The issue is that most files nowadays are torrented anyway, so it’s essentially just a ‘do it because I told you so’ step for torrentio users.
Other torrent streaming software don’t even need real Debrid.
Isn’t it kind of a middle-man service so you don’t get narc’d on by your ISP for large amounts of p2p traffic? That way all your ISP sees is you downloading data from one source rather than lots of.p2p traffic.
Unless you use vpn obviously, that doesn’t have issues with p2p traffic or whatever.
Its really slow without it. And its like a vpn but lighter, so you don’t get caught torrenting by an isp.
Boost / Sync for Lemmy
What’s wrong with Sync, lol
huh? i use boost (and used to use it for reddit before the whole API thing) and haven’t ever seen it ask for money or anything
Same, it shows ads, but they’re pretty easy to block. I paid for it just to help support the dev, he seems pretty cool.
wait- it has ads?? i had no idea xd
gotta love network ad blonking lmao
Can you teach me how to blonk ads?
omg I’m not good at spelling T-T
in my defense n kinda looks like a rotated c? kinda?
Don’t worry, I knew what you meant! You’re right though, n is just a rotated c 🤔
