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Whats the tool that you have to use but dislike the most? Why?

2 pointsby vs2370almost 9 years ago
I felt this would be a great Q&A to identify some bad tools. To start with, really have been disliking hipchat a lot. Have to use it as a company stickiness to Altassian.

3 comments

sbierwagenalmost 9 years ago
UPS Worldship. Dog slow, (you sit there and watch it redraw each form multiple times) confirms on exit, and will refuse to exit if it&#x27;s talking to the server, since its programmers had never heard of background tasks.<p>Stamps.com is equally bad. SCAN form reprint doesn&#x27;t work, crashes randomly on return from sleep, sets the Windows default printer to whatever thermal printer it&#x27;s using at the time, has the most braindead address correction algorithm I&#x27;ve ever seen. (For one, it doesn&#x27;t like state names that are two words!) Also they haven&#x27;t updated the 13oz -&gt; 16oz cutoff for first class mail on return labels yet.<p>Madcap Flare is also some pretty miserable enterprise-ware.<p>Magento is also bad, of course, but that&#x27;s universally hated, no surprise there.
krmmalikalmost 9 years ago
StealthSeminar. Automated Webinar platform. Awful value for money, awful UI. Buggy.<p>Problem, it&#x27;s arguably the best of the bunch which just shows how bad things are.
vs2370almost 9 years ago
forgot Ask HN, can someone edit the title ?