Before Slack was born, some people used Teamspeak but wished it would be searchable.<p>For me, I would love to control the UI of the services that I use. Just 3 months ago my bank decided to roll out a new UI. I still need time finding the click path for doing things I used to be able to do quickly and predictably. I wish that I could have just kept my old UI. Similarly to backwards compatibility for code-based APIs.<p>Anything that nags you about the software you used last week?
> Anything that nags you about the software you used last week?<p>Last week I had to log into some systems using the software from
companies convicted of criminal offences, which include monopolism,
bribery, fraud, harassment, racism, sexism, digital trespass/computer
misuse, amongst other things.<p>It nags my conscience me a little, because my use of these systems
effectively lends my support to criminals, which I do not want to do.<p>Unfortunately my choices are curtailed because these criminal
organisations have insinuated themselves into essential private and
government services, and their actions as monopolists have killed
alternatives.<p>This seems ethically wrong. I believe it's my right not to be forced
to support people who in the eyes of society have been deemed to
inflict objective and real harm upon others. So, I look forward to
laws that uphold that right to choose ethically.<p>I wonder if anyone else has ethical issues with software they need to
use?
Office 365 upgrade of Outlook. For a while now it had been bugging me with a "restart outlook to try our new look" banner, but on friday it forcibly restarted. I know ina few weeks I'll get used to it, but I hate it when right in the middle of working I have to stop, dismiss a whole bunch of stupid "got it" popups explaining how I could do things I don't want to, and come to grips with the fact that all the UI features I use have been moved or hidden.<p>Also, just realized I better go see what personal info it's back to harvesting, resetting privacy settings seems to be a big part of each upgrade.<p>Anyway, I want software that has a stable, boring UI, short of some major, noncosmetic change. Changing fonts and moving buttons around is not a valid reason to waste your users time. I'm very close to dumping Microsoft, unfortunately they have no competitors.